1916

The Class has lost one of its members who contributed his athletic skill to our Dartmouth basketball and track teams, G. Vergil Rector. As his health problems increased he left La Jolla, Calif., and returned to his home town, Omaha. He died December 11, 1973. A complete obituary appears in this issue of the Alumni Magazine. His wife Mary is making her home in Omaha near her daughter and her many friends of previous years. Her address is 10222 Pacific St. Apt. 204. Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

Florida has the affectionate name "snow birds" for its adopted sons and daughters who arrive each winter and whom it welcomes with open arms and shares its warm and salubrious winter weather. This year's Florida "snow birds" include: Hollis and Carol Nickerson at Jacksonville Beach and Alex Jardine at Boca Raton, all from Cape Cod; Ralph and RuthGeorge and Emery and Ruth Lapierre at Longboat and Jim and Clara Shanahan at Lake Worth, all from New Hampshire; Honie andConnie Abraham from Vermont; Ed and ReneDoyle at HUlsboro from New Jersey; ChesterDrury at Mt. Dora from Ohio; Hiram andLaura McLellan at Mt. Dora from Texas; and Irene Linehan at West Palm Beach from New York.

One certain way to learn about any part of this country of ours is to ask a 1916er who lives there. A letter to Jack Little asking about Boulder, Colo., brought this: "We are about 30 miles from the Continental Divide and the same distance south of the Rocky Mountain National Park. The scenery is pretty good, strangers coming to Boulder on the freeway come up over a hill a few miles from town and take in a view of peaks stretching from north to south and the city spread out below them and say "WOW!!!."

When Cliff Herold was asked what Grand Rapids had besides being the home town of Vice President Ford and the home of the Sunday morning radio revival program by the Rev. DeHoan, he replied in part: "Grand Rapids, Michigan, has earned a world wide reputation as a manufacturing center of quality furniture. This reputation has attracted skilled woodworkers from all over the world, among them the Dutch who brought with them and added to the city those intangible qualities of thrift and religious fervor. A descendant of one of these Dutch, the late Senator Arthur Vandenburg, was one of the originators of what you and I receive the third of each month - those highly prized Social Security Checks... The country around Grand Rapids is beautiful, much like Hanover with its firs and pines - even the temperature can match Hanover's 12 below."

A letter from Larry Davidson to ParkerHayden "We live a very quiet life but do enjoy living in San Francisco except that we do spend two months each winter in Palm Springs enjoying the desert weather which is good for the 'Old Folks' and their ailments."

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