1944
There is only one possible way to lead off this month and that is to announce to the world, yea to the heavens, that Andy and Kitty McDowell's first production Andrew Jr. arrived on St. Patty's Day, March 17, and if that's not a nice, if late, start I don't know what is. Far as I know, that.makes them the "youngest" '44 parents around, the penultimate being Dick and Sharon Ettinger, whose Matthew was born last October.
Dick, by the way, is gathering butterflies in his stomach as he prepares for the July 4 Transpac race from California to Hawaii, a bi-annual affair for sailboats from 35 to 75 feet long. His 39-footer "Mistress" will carry a crew of seven for the two week, 2,500-mile journey. Some 70 boats vie for first place and first prize.
Jumping from progeny and boating to housing, we find that Washington attorney Max Edwards, after years of cliff dwelling in a highrise apartment, has bought a house in Georgetown, 2905 "P" St., to be exact. Zip 20007. Max says he'll make this fall's '44 reunion in Hanover "for sure."
Further on the real estate front, Dan and ArlineDonovan (investment banking on Wall St.) have made their trips from Long Island to Hanover a whole lot easier by buying a second digs, a town house condominium, in fact, in the Quechee Lakes, Vt., development. They spend as many weekends there as possible and with daughter Mary Ellen '76 nearby at Dartmouth, it's that much cozier.
And then Hank and Liz Marshall have given up New Jersey and commuting for Vermont and moteling. They bought and now manage the Iron Kettle Motel in Shaftsbury, Vt., just five miles north of Bennington on Rt. 7, and are open year-round. "Jazzing up our ski business next winter is our first goal," says Hank. "We're only 30 to 45 minutes from 12 ski centers." Not that he'll be idle in the summer with a seven-acre lawn to mow.
Toledo insuranceman Don Warner left Mutual Benefit a year ago to form his own company, and reports a highly successful first year with his new company affiliation. Manufacturers Life & Toronto Canada. Thoreau has also, come into his and Marge's life and they have bought 30 acres of "throw away land" in Michigan, 45 miles west of where they live. They are planting trees, have put in a pond, and will eventually build there for retirement. "We call the place Bug Bottom because there are no facilities and when nature calls you have to move fast."
Another far from the madding crowd candidate is Mike Costa who left Grand Union in NYC nine years ago for Cape Elizabeth, Me. "Not a regret in the world," he says, "it's just great up here." Son Michael, 23, is out of the Navy and at the U. of Maine at Portland, as is Bob, 19. Jane, 21, is at a California junior college and Dave, 12, is still at home. The Costas got together with the DonPfeifles on April 14 at their Sugarloaf condominium mainly because Don's birthday and Mike's wife's were both on that date. "A great party," said Mike, "we did it up brown."
One of Mike's roommates after the war was Jack Downs and in 1969 Jack went the other way - rural to urban. Continental Insurance moved him from Milton, Mass., to NYC and Jack now commutes an hour and 40 minutes each way, from portal to portal, from Middletown, N.J., to Maiden Lane. "'lt's a grind," he says. Not so grindy is Jack's second go-round with Cub Scouts, with young sons Bill, 9, and Dave, 5; or Jack's new hobby making wine in the cellar. "Only 75 gallons a year," he says, "well below the federal limit. Great fun."
With kids moving along, Al Faber (investments) and his wife decided to give up mowing lawns in Pelham for a New York apartment on Central Park West, and they decided to do that after wrangling a sabbatical for a year and traveling the globe. Their schedule now calls for a business trip to England and Scotland about every three months and they top that off with a breather in a newly acquired apartment in the south of Spain. How's that for a life style!
Talked to Marsh Clark at the end of April and he was chafing to get his 41-foot power fishing boat out of its Stamford dry dock and onto the high seas. He says his wife Vallory is the real angler and he just does the steering. "Our ad agency went public two years ago," he said, "and since then I've been pretty well tied to a desk. Thus, the deck of the boat looks mighty sweet every spring." Children: Dick, back from Vietnam, doing graduate work at Columbia; Kathy at George Washington; Frank at the U. of Colorado; and Nate in high school.
Also chatted with barrister Jim Carter over Albany way. Jim heads his own law firm - "mostly trial stuff" - with eight younger lawyers working with him. On the home front Jim is surrounded by five females, wife Nancy and four daughters. The oldest, Ann, graduates from Skidmore this spring; Sue went to Pine Manor and is now teaching; and the other two are in high school. Jim says Nancy lets him play golf once a week and that he sees fellow-lawyer Carl Eldridge in New York at least once a year.
Out in Tucson, Chuck Richardson's Green Valley Development Company was acquired by Fairfield Communities Land Co., based in Little Rock, Ark., and Chuck has been elected a director. Several Dartmouth '53s are also with Fairfield.
Other miscellany: Bill "Waffle" Duffy reports that he is now selling major home appliances for W. T. Grant Co. out of Hamden, Conn. In Milwaukee, investment banker Ernie Rice has been the driving force on a committee to bring to that city the ABC Program (A Better Chance), which aims at boosting the educational opportunities for talented minority and disadvantaged youth. Bob Colwell (insurance and real estate in New Rochelle) reports running into Charlie and Pat Martus (grocery chain, also New Rochelle) in a restaurant, adding that "Charlie looks great, apparently as a result of Pat's guidance, for she headed the 'Keep Fit' program at the YMCA for a number of years." Yes, thats what Bob said, the YMCA.
In the grandfather division, Becket Jones (business manager of the Cambridge Chronicle), his first, Peter Andrew Jones, born in January; and Don Pfeifle "expecting" his second this spring.
Two Deborahs down the aisle: Deborah daughter of Fred and Trudy Daley, married May 26; and Deborah daughter of Tom and Barbara Streeter in June.
Saved till last is a report on that nonpareil 1944 Class Secretary, the legendary "Twitch" Miller, that man of talent in seemingly everything: boxing, track, skating, C & G, Green Key, Palaeopitus, Jacko, Aegis, humor, drawing, Pfc., Tuck School and for the last 50 years as v-p of J. H. Day Co., makers of bakery machinery, sealants and other things. Twitch and Sheila went to Ireland last fall. What for? To play golf, of course, and a different course every day. They are also champs in Cincinnati and Hilton Head, S.C., where they have a vacation home. And as though golf weren't enough, they are also paddle tennis champions.
Twitch said he sees Ed Hills now and again and apparently that is often enough to have sold him a new sealant machine for a new plant Ed opened in Fort Worth. So there.
Last call: remember Dartmouth, Ezz Hale and the Alumni Fund ... a nice trio.
That's it for the summer. Blessings.
Secretary, 309 Crosby Hall Hanover, N.H. 03755
Class Agent, Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co. Aqueduct Bldg., Rochester, N.Y. 14603
