1940
Without a doubt the most difficult part of a class secretary's life is writing a letter of sympathy to a recent widow of a classmate. In. my tenure as your representative no more heartfelt epistle was written than the one I recently wrote Ann on the sudden death of our outstanding active member Fred Porter. Fred's formal obituary appears in the obituary section at the back of this issue. Since graduation he was not only one of the more active and interested members of the Class and College, but certainly one of the more revered. If proof of this statement is needed - and I'm sure it isn't - the Class was represented at his funeral services by our president Bob MacMillen, as well as ElmerBrowne, John Burnap, Malcolm deSieyes, MickeyMiller, Art Ostrander, Gordie Wentworth, SamWilliams and Larry Durgin who assisted in the service on March 14. The Ist Congregational Church in Essex, Conn., heard Larry extol the many virtues of Fred and suffice to say he will be sorely missed by us all.
An extremely newsy and welcome letter about DeWitt Jones' retirement and movement to Florida from spouse Barb. I believe it's best to quote in part - and hope I haven't taken anything out of the context. "We moved down to Captiva in November. De was still employed by Burnett so he commuted to Chicago until Christmas when he officially pulled the plug. He'd been wined and dined and arrived "home" staggering and moved by all the compliments and kind words.
"Our son Wif joined us for 2 days. He'd done a taping of one of his films in Miami so flew over for Christmas. We all went to the Chapel-by-the-Sea on Christmas Eve and it was beautiful. Our first Christmas in Florida was memorable.
"We'd gone to Jupiter, Fla., at Thanksgiving time to get our boat from Bud and Sue Raymond. He was getting a larger one so we fell into that Incidentally, Raymo and Sue's daughter Gail delivered her second daughter on Jan. 1.
"Our son Terry was married at our house in Baunockburn last July 8 - in the woods, rather - harpsicord for music - beards and long hair - Edwardian-type dress for the male attendants
"Terry works for a travel agency in Chicago and is off shortly to Vienna, Nairobi and Johannesberg. Nice duty!
"Incidentally, if you have a chance, catch Wif's lecture on The Sierras. It'll be the opening lecture for National Geographic in November in Constitution Hall and you know who'll be there." This is truly only an extract 'cause Barb's handwritten a most interesting five page letter and enclosed photos of De whom she describes as the "resident hippie with long hair and mustache."
Ted Miller, who is vice president of Arkwright- Boston Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company, has been elected chairman of the board of Financial Executives Institute, a fact chronicled in the "Give a Rouse" column of an earlier issue of this Magazine and elaborated on briefly here. Ted has also served FEI in a number of other posts including Northeastern area vice president, chairman of the budget and finance committee, and vice chairman of the board of directors.
A very old letter from Ted lets us know that another Dartmouth man has been added to the family by virtue of his daughter's marriage to Jim Lang '64. That, plus son Donald being a member of the class of '65, makes wife Edith ready to move out of their home "cause it's getting too green." Via the grapevine I gleaned that another Clevelander was deserting that city for the East Coast, so a 'phone call to John Moore confirmed the fact that he and Kay will be moving to an apartment in N.Y.C. on May 1. John's been named vice president in charge of the N.Y. office of the Wyatt Co., an actuary consulting firm and has rented an apartment only one block from Mayor Lindsay's official residence. His better-half, Kay, who's V.P. of Prescott & Co. (stock brokers) will continue her work, as her firm also has a large office in Fun City with half a dozen watts lines with which to keep her in touch with all her Cleveland accounts.
John also told me about a trip to San Diego for a convention during the late fall at which he'd been the guest speaker. The meeting took place at the Westgate Plaza Hotel whose president and managing director is Marty Rubin. Marty had sent me a note about John's visit, but to listen to John there is no finer hotel in these whole United States. Rarely have I heard such raves! Marty, you need more press agents like John.
Staying within the Dartmouth family we've read in the Utica (N.Y.) Observer - Dispatch that Dr. Kenneth Steele (whose name's been missing from this column for years!) was elected president of the Dartmouth College Alumni Association in the area.
For the first time in this scribe's memory the Alumni Fund drive was "kicked off' without a major dinner in New York or Boston. Instead all assistant class agents have been invited to attend a local Alumni Club meeting of which 28 have been scheduled with guest speakers from Hanover. Be that as it may, Art Ostrander's stalwart band of assistants should have been in touch with each of you by this time - and if you haven't already done your bit for the college do it yesterday tomorrow!) We've won the Green Derby with a frantic finish the past two years, but our big shortcoming is the participation end where we have altogether too many non-givers. If you're one such" dig into your check book - even if only for token amount - 'cause each man equals .3% toward participation!
Johnny Crandall has joined Money of Time Inc. as national sales manager. He first joined Time as manager of the Los Angeles office in 1958, moving to New York three years later, and then becoming New York manager of Life. He became associate publisher of SportsIllustrated in 1969, a fact duly noted in this space, and was assistant publisher of Life at the time of its suspension. The Crandall home is in Bronxville.
Last, but far from least for this month, is a reminder about our fall football weekend scheduled for the Penn game the weekend of October 12-13. The Maple Leaf Motel just south of White River (eight minutes on the Interstate) is once again our sleeping headquarters-although the MacMillen home is actual Hq. — and Bob would like to know now on whom he can count. Last years turnout was one of the best ever, with a private-room dinner at the Norwich Inn post-game, so let's make October '73 better and prepare for our big 35th. Drop Bob a note!
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