1918

About 50 years ago two youngsters came out to Springfield and went to work for the State of Illinois. They were Gene Clark and Bill Dutelle. Last month we heard from Gene and now we have news from Bill. He is working every day for a firm of consulting engineers. Bill and Gene were professionals in the best sense of the word, who went on through administration after administration, seeing that the work of their departments was turned out in a highly professional manner. A clipping from the Paris (III.) Daily Beacon-News tells of a meeting of the Trail Blazers Club, District Five, Illinois Division of Highways where William M. Dutelle, was elected president. We congratulate him and wish him a most successful term.

A card came in from Ed Healey via StumpBarr: "Luke and I are both well . . . working about the farm, doing the chores . . . Have lunch every day at the Notre Dame Club in South Bend . . . See very few Dartmouth men in these parts."

Neil Sheldon checks in from Schenectady: "Am enjoying my retirement more and more. Our health is about as usual. Our younger son Roger '49 was just elected first vice president of Cornell University Medical School New York City Hospital Complex. We are quite happy about him." That sounds like the understatement of the year. You have our congratulations.

Pups Colie has a few thoughts, "To receive a bill for five years dues seems to be pressing optimism to the extreme. Sorry my health kept me from the 55th . . . Hear it was great. I hear now and then from Ed Booth, Spud Richmond, and Bob Fish but have no other 1918 contacts."

Howie Park wrote to Stump Barr: "Today's mail brought your meaningful chit with its terse little message which says, 'Please remit'. After crossing my fingers and placating fate here's a cheque for class dues paid through seventyeight. Till the next time you bill me in seventynine, I hope we stay healthy and both feeling fine."

Irv Rand clear out in Baker, Ore., says, "Will have my seventy-seventh birthday on October 27 but am too far away to expect to attend the cocktail party and Harvard game. Am naturally all for D. although having a degree from both contenders. I expect (God Willing) to have dinner with our daughter Mary Ballantyne and her five children in Boise. My good wife Helen Biggs Rand is author of a book just published, "One Hundred Years of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church" and I will send a copy to Baker Library. I am still practising law and am city attorney in our delightful little western city."

Last year in September John Lawler left for a two months round-the-world tour from Tokyo via Russia. This September his 19-year-old grandson left for Italy and points east and west for a six months tour as a sailor on a Norwegian lumber carrier.

Russ Howard writes, "For any '18ers coming to Florida, our address is 405 N. Ocean Blvd., Apartment 824, Pompano Beach."

Les Granger is the subject of the Whatever Happened to . . . section of Ebony Magazine, the August issue. His notable and far reaching services to mankind and the world are recounted. Les has had a long and distinguished career leading to the executive directorship of the Urban League.

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