1944
First things first, I always say, and what could be firster than a report from your old society editor on the December 15 marriage in Hanover of Rod Morgan and June Bowman. June is an English lady, out of Didsbury (England, that is) and more recently Montreal, a widow with two teen-agers; and Rod is a Dartmouth-v.p. for administration, father of three, and the architecct/builder of a new house out Etna way, which is where the marriage service took place. True romantic that he is, Rod said: "1 got an income tax deduction along with a lovely wife."
Who says you can't go home again? This good-looking fellow in the picture is obviously Dr. Ted Mortimer who resigned his professorship and chairmanship at the U. of New Mexico to return to the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland where he taught for 14 years prior to 1966. Back at Case WR Ted becomes - hold your breath - first chairman of the Department of Community Health and Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Professor of Community Health and Pediatrics. And says he's glad to be back ...
Another full-turn-of-the-wheel type is HowiePrice whom you all saw in the Newsletter clip receiving the Philippine Legion of Honor. Born and raised in Maryland, Howie is now back in his native state as head of the Veterans Administration in Baltimore. He directs an office which employs about 200 persons and serves about 409,000 veterans residing in Maryland.
Boston's private barrister Jack Murphy has gone public, i.e., he's joined the feds. He's been appointed to an executive post in the HEW Bureau of Hearings and Appeals. "It's a comfortable, fair-paying job," says Jack, "with the usual government fringe benefits. The job has various titles: administrative law judge, presiding officer, hearing examiner, you name it
As you read this, Ann and Ed Roewer will be basking in the sun in Puerto Rico, an annual February trek for spots of golf, swimming, and sight-seeing. Ed is vice principal of Gloucester high and you can see why he's in such good shape: he's in charge of discipline and logs about six miles a day walking around the school. Ann has retired from teaching and says she's busier than ever with a hand in every volunteer job in town.
Can any '44 top these: Helene, William, Mary, Anne, Patricia, Edward, Joan, Shelly, Richard, John, and Kathie? They are the children of Jean and Ry Robbins, all 11 of 'em, ranging in age from 13 to 26. The Robbins' "won" the most kids award at our 25th in 1969 and I'm ready to crown them winners again at our 30th in June unless someone tells me different. Ry is treasurer and general manager of the Sunshine Art Studios in Springfield/Longmeadow, Mass., a third generation greeting card firm, with two other plants in California.
Don Hinkley, president of Emery Industries (chemicals) in Cincinnati, sounds like a man who makes good use of his time off: "Fly my own twin engine airplane on business to Mexico, Canada, West Coast, etc., and to Caribbean for vacations. Sailed bare boat in Grenadines over Christmas and did same thing in Virgins over Thanksgiving. Ski on weekends (airplane) at Boyne Mt. 450 miles north of Cincinnati, and further north than Dartmouth ... daughter Phyllis, 23, married and living in Oregon; Don, 22, working and skiing in Denver; Elizabeth, 15, in school in Baltimore."
Scholarships are what get about half the kids in the world through college and I just came across a nice scholarship item connected with Ed McGowan who was lost in the Pacific January 16, 1945. His father, Edwin McGowan '17, set up a scholarship fund in his son's name and it has now got more than $91,000 in it. And it swells to $750,000 upon the death of Ed's mother. Ed was a much-decorated Navy Air Corps pilot; four Distinguished Flying Crosses and two air medals. His Dartmouth roommate Bill Ferguson, died in Dallas in 1953.
Dartmouth has had 11 Rhodes Scholars since 1966 and this year's is Christopher Peisch '75 from Burlington, Vt. Of course the name sounds familiar. He's the nephew of Mark Peisch, New York Medical College dean; what else would you expect?
North Dakota's got just one '44 in it and he's Bill Warner, vice president, insurance sales of Warner and Company, Inc., Fargo. Bill doesn't see many '44s on Main Street: "Seems not too many travel out here to God's country (un- polluted, uncontaminated, and unpopulated), and I'm not even a member of the Sierra Club! But Warren Kimball dared to send a Christmas card." Bill's daughter Patti is a senior at Fargo high and already taking courses at N.D. State University, Fargo.
Bet you'd all like to know how many other states have only one '44 in residence: You would? Okay: Alabama - Lamar Ager. Delaware - Joe Hatch. Louisiana - Bud Troxell. And Tennessee - Hardwick Caldwell.
And just to keep you in suspense I'll wait until next month to give you the names of '44s who don't live in Alaska, Arkansas, Mississippi, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming.
That's it. Blessings.
Dr. William O. Foye '44 was installed asthe Sawyer Professor of PharmaceuticalSciences at the Mass. College of Pharmacyin a December ceremony. He became oneof the two or three such academic "chair"holders in the United States.
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