1923
My records show that since the reunion directory was issued 21 of us have changed their permanent address. Following is the list as I have it: Joe Baldwin, Ray Barber, Vic Barney, Herb Behan, Ken Blake, Robert Brown, Bill Fine, Ed Furey, Roy Hayes, Roland Jefferson, Bill Kimball, Sol Levine, George McLaughlin, Henry Moore, Stan Murphy, John Myers, Lief Norstand, Ken Quencer, Jus Slate, Ralph Snider, and Len Truesdale. If you want to get in touch with any of these men let'me know. Meanwhile I am suggesting that Ike include these changes in the next Skiddoo.
You may have noticed that when I'm a bit low on news I revert to statistics and so to bring you up to date: There is now a grand total of 375 of us, 12 of whom however are "lost." We're gravitating more and more to warmer climates; 35 now live permanently in Florida and 22 in California with many more heading south in the winter months. Heard yesterday from TrumanMetzel in Scottsdale, Ariz., saying the gas situation there is very bad - can't explore the desert and the mountains the way he used to and feels a bit housebound.
A good letter from Howard Bartlett with whom I recently reminisced about our year of living together in Newton, Mass. We paid $10 a week each for room and board - about - about the price of a tank of gas today — if yOU know a kindly dealer.
Les Richwagen says he's busy as a member of the N.H.-Vermont Blue Cross Board and Executive Committee. He is also giving some time to SCORE, Carl Reed is now completely retired, playing golf, fishing, and spending the winter where it's warm. Carl's grandson Jeffrey is in the class of '76 (that's a numeral to conjure with) and Carl says he's still living with the boy's grandmother.
Dud Pope and Jinny are now in Winter Park, Fla., after a three-month visit in Glencoe, Ill., their former home town. Dud writes that they are both well and he continues to play tennis. The Popes made their annual trip to Europe last summer, spent three weeks traveling in Russia and "as usual ended up in France."
Doug Manson writes: "My brother and I and our wives saw the Penn game this year. Thanks to Joe Millar we stayed at Lake Morey Inn and enjoyed delightful accommodations. I'm still performing as paymaster for the Combs Animal Hospital in Shrewsbury. As usual won my bet with my boss who is a Cornell man."
From Henry Perkins comes the sad news of the death of Jim Young's wife Flora on November 6, 1973. Very active for many years in Barre, Vt., community affairs, she had been teacher in the Springfield and Barre high schools. Our deepest sympathy to Jim.
Thanks to John McGrath for several Xerox copies of a Boston Herald illustrated article of past greats of Dartmouth-Harvard games. John still carries on as a realtor, appraiser, and auctioneer at 99 State St., Boston.
Jim Taylor sent Babe a copy of U.S. News report of an editorial titled "People Still Remember" by Canadian author and T.V. commentator Gordon Sinclair. I believe Ike may reproduce it for you in its entirity. It's the most gratifying and worthwhile reading I've come across in these internationally troubled times.
I have recently learned of the death on December 11, 1973 of Laurence Morse Curtis and on December 22 of George Sherman Windsor. The deepest sympathy of the Class is extended to the families of these two classmate.
In these days of ballpoint pens one seldom sees an old fashioned blotter any more. Many years ago the Alumni Fund distributed some very beautiful ones with a reproduction of Paul Sample's painting of a campus scene. I've cherished several of them ever since. I now find that in 1957 the Fund also distributed a similar blotter with a fine color picture of Reed Hall. Still further back - in 1928 to be exact - a fine color map of the campus was given gratis to prospective contributors. I saw a framed copy of it in the Inn recently. I had supposed that this kind of aid to giving is passe and was both surprised and pleased to receive the 1974 college calendar.
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