1944

1 nave access to a top-secret cache of information whereby I can tell you who your freshman year roommates were - if you had one, or more. It occurs to me that we might have some fun with a do-you-know-where-your-old-roomie-is-today? service and I'll play around with that from time to time. Like right now

A nice newsPaper item out of Pasadena indicating that Dr. Dave Merrill, who was born in the Huntington Memorial Hospital, has been appointed president of its medical and dental staff. Dave's freshman roommates were also doctors: Frank Reilly, a neurosurgeon in Greenwich, died in 1969; and Charlie Secor, who is an orthopedic surgeon in Kentfield, Calif., across the bay from San Francisco. Would you believe that Charlie's youngest daughter Wendy was accepted at Dartmouth last year, but chose Stanford instead. Where? Stanford, it says; I never heard of it....

Lawyer Buck Mansfield's not so dumb: when the oil man didn't come around in Philly, he just shut down the house and took wife Isabel off to Puerto Rico for ten days in the sand and sun. Buck's roommate was Bob Miller, the Arizona Miller, also a lawyer, in Tucson.

You can't keep Sherm Davis (no roommate) down on the farm, or even out in the warehouse. He's just been elected vice president Building Product Sales by the board of directors of Globe Industries, Inc., in Chicago. If you need a new roof or wall, call Sherm: Globe is one of the nation's leading manufacturers of sound control materials for the automotive, commercial and industrial building fields, exterior residential sidewall material and asphalt roofing. So there....

In this day and age, Pittsburgh Cadillac salesman Bill Hufstader must be something. When I called he was on the way out the door, en route to three free days in Tampa as winner of a Master Dealers' sales contest. Bill says he's a hockey nut with a season's ticket to every Penguin game, and last year he was appointed to the advisory council of the Pittsburgh school system.

" Bill's roomie was Bob Eshbaugh, v.p. engineering of the Florida Telephone Company, living in Leesburg, in the middle of the state. He says it's the fastest growing area in the country, and with everyone wanting a phone he's never been busier. He sold his private plane and mountain retreat in Tennessee, but he and Kitty get off weekends to a cottage on the coast.

Well, Bill Davies has a new job in an old problem area: director of United Way Relations for the American Social Health Assoc. in NY City. ASH A was organized in 1912 to control VD, prostitution, and drug abuse. Hmmm. Bill's roommate was Alan Rose, who has been Litton Industries general patent attorney since 1960 and who lives in that me-Jane city of Tarzana, Calif.

Brand Beacham (no roommate) called to say that he and wife Bess would be coming to Alumni College in Hanover this summer. We also learned that they have bought a couple of lots at the Eastman Pond development just south of Hanover ("We just love it there"), and that Brand's real estate development business keeps him in Bronxville, N.Y., from May to October each year, with the other six months spent in their house at Key Biscayne (Where? Never heard of it...). Upcoming is a move to Vero Beach, where Brand will be able to keep his golf and tennis games going. The Beachams have two married daughters and a high school senior son looking at colleges.

"Haven't had so much fun in years," says Henry "Chev" Hyde, who gave up sales engineering in 1971 to go into the real estate business. He's with the Rex Doane Realtors in Londonderry, Vt., right in the heart of one of New England's great ski areas - Big Bromley, Stratton, Magic Mountain, Okemo, the schmeer. Oldest daughter Leigh is a ski instructor in Stratton; Henry Jr., a recent U. of Vt. grad, and Anne, also at UVM, winding up a year of work-study in Guatamala. Chev's roommate was Ted Mortimer, doc and prof at the U. of N.M. Medical School.

Charles Frieman writes: "After 25 years in the construction business in N.Y., we decided to pack it up and move to Florida. We bought a condominium on Singer Island, Riviera Beach, and I am working as a salesman for a home builder supplier. It's semi-retirement and this is the life: peaceful, serene and easy going. No one rushes here and it's as though everyone was on tranquilizers - me included." The Friemans have a married son living in N.Y. and a daughter. 23, in California. Charles roomed freshman year with his brother John '42.

Dartmouth v.p. and dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Leonard Rieser (no roommate), concluded his year as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and gave the keynote address to 5,000 members at the 140th annual meeting in San Francisco on February 27. His subject was "The Role of Science in the Orwellian Decade: Is There Intelligent Life on Earth?"

Ad man Dave Nutt and wife Grace in Hanover in February for a bit of skiing, movie-going, hockey-gaming, and mostly visiting son Ty 74 and daughters Eva, a sophomore at Mt. Holyoke, and Amy, a freshman at Smith. Dave's roommate was Ed Anderson who died in 1949.

Speaking of undergraduate offspring, DickHowe's son Dave became Ivy League high bar co-champion, tying with a Cornellian in the Ivy Gymnastic finals. Dick's roommate was JohnSanders, plastic manufacturer in Ossipee, N.H. And John Shapleigh's son John '71 has been elected to the George Washington University Law School Student Bar Assoc. John's roommate was Rolf deLeuw, assistant to the president and member of the board of managers of the International Shoe Co. in St. Louis, Mo.

That's it for this month, roommies, rummies, or whatever. Blessings.

1944 won the attendance record at a Springfield, Mass., awards presentation: Out-numbering Mayor William Sullivan were Ben Jones, left, president of Monarch Life Insurance, insurance, and Massachusetts State Senator Stanley Zarod.

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