1937

Now that so many of us have become Dartmouth parents and our "kids" for the most part grown up or gone it gives us great solace to find them joining us "elders" in various ways. To wit, we received a hand-written note this week signed by Polly Bullen Shea. She had been on her semi-annual trip to Boston buying WOOL (of all things) products from one of our good friend customers as she describes herself as a "handspinner, weaver, dyer, and otherwise 'crafty' soul." She emphasized she had been under strict pressure from her dad, Dr. HalseyBullen to establish contact with us and dutifully reported that Pop and Sally were alive and well etc., doctoring in Old Greenwich, Conn., while living the good life. We very much appreciate this sort of contact and have made arrangements with our friend here on her next trip to tie her down for ten minutes to enable us to rush up and meet the attractive young lady.

Our fall reunion tape, on re-play, provided a few items. At the game we had a conversation with Ray Dickinson who retired from the Air Force a few years back to Lisbon, N.H., where he is engaged in the insurance business. His Air Force years were mainly spent in medical administration and air evacuation. He frequently sees Phil Robertson (now a builder with his sons) and Jack Kenney whose Tamarack Lodge burned to the ground a few years ago but has since been rebuilt. (Ed. note - by Robertson??). Al Whitehill, U. of Maine's biology prof, was in the stands to observe sophomore son beat the drum in the band but unable to join our further festivities due to having had a heart attack, thus taking it easy for the time being. Since Bill andMillie Sayre stayed at the Holiday Inn the year previous they were unaware of the great Hojo's indoor pool and sauna and thus failed to bring bathing suits. Millie squared that by saying they took long swims in the shower.

We had a card from Denverites ML and BillFalion to tune in the educational TV program "Wall Street Week" 18 January as Dick Rush was to appear. We did and he did. Although the format is normally financially oriented Dick was a guest wherein he discoursed on his favorite subject - art as an investment as well as stocks requiring those interested to watch trends. He emphasized there were some ridiculous goings-on by some investors due to their lack of knowledge of art values which can border on disaster for them. Also appearing on the program was investment man Julius Westheimer '38 whose name we recognized and verified in our college directory:

Lee and Russ Stearns at this writing are in Poland for two months, having left 8 January. One of his successful ex-students working for a New York firm had recommended Russ as an authority thus contact was made and he is there to help the government set up an educational programming in their universities for students to acquire knowledge toward engineering a road system comparable to what exists here. These students will eventually go on to direct this vast endeavor but must first be exposed to a proper educational background. We look forward to his report upon return. We thought he had enough to do in Hanover watching out for 1937 class interests, teaching at Thayer, assisting as Dean, and fixing up that old house without going international.

We overlooked a news clipping awhile back to do with a Presidential "E" (for excellence) award presented to the Grove Manufacturing of Shady Grove, Pa., in recognition of this mobile crane firm's highly successful campaign to increase export sales. Accepting the award was senior vice president and president of Grove International, Bob Maynard. (We well remember Bob craning(?) our soup at Ma Smalley's famous eatery where apparently he learned the fundamentals to do with large capacities.) In his acceptance speech he mentioned that Grove is a relatively young company whose expansion into the export field commenced in 1968 but whose export growth since then has been increased threefold and dollarwise sevenfold.

Les Garvin was recently named chairman of the policy committee at First National City Bank in New York. Monk Amon was reelected to the board of trustees of Belmont Hill School (boys), Belmont, Mass., in which he has been a guiding light for many years.

We sadly report the passing of two more classmates, Red Bentley and Ted Rideout. Details appear in the back either this or next month.

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