1921

Jim Smead and his wife Dorothy celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on New Years Day, and had a surprise dinner party in the Deerfield Inn in Deerfield, Mass. It was sponsored by their two daughters and their husbands. Many of their friends were there, and Jim says that is was the most beautiful party they had ever attended. He also commented on the SATC march over the old covered Ledyard Bridge over the Connecticut River during our sophomore year.

Hewitt Moore from North Pomfret, Vt„ reports that Dorothy, his wife, has been elected selectman (or more properly select-person) and keeps busy with that and everything else she does. Their son David is pretty well established in his pipe organ businesss, rejuvenating old church organs, and building new ones in a shop close to the elder Moore farm. He designed the shop and built it himself.

Rudi Blesh has had to slow up in his teaching duties at two New York colleges (five days a week for 15 lecture hours), plus magazine articles and recording sessions. His very close friend had a first and fatal heart attack last October while visiting at Rudi's vacation spot at Hillforge house in New Hampshire. This upset him to the point of depression, and put him in a series of hospital visits both in Boston and New York City. He had enough sense beaten into "the old skull" to know that he's not the drummer boy in the Spirit of '76 painting. Instead he feels like the old guy with the bandaged head, trying to blow the fife. Rudi sends greetings to all his "cherished classmates" as well as John Ledyard.

Bob Burroughs tells us about a bad fall that John Sullivan had in his Washington (D.C.) home when he tumbled down a whole flight of stairs. His wife Priscilla was in Europe at the time.

John was knocked unconscious and lay on the floor for. at least an hour or two before coming to and managing to get help. It was a very crippling injury which makes it extremely difficult for him to get around or to stand on his feet more than a few minutes at a time.

Ralph Baker reports that his family is in fairly good shape even though his wife is still convalescing from a long illness. However she plays bridge a lot and enjoys watching television. She spent some time in a convalescent home run by nuns and was only a short distance from the Baker home in West Hartford. Daughter Barbara and her father feel that they are fortunate in finding such a good place for their mother. Ralph tells us about the new civic center in Hartford seating 10,500 persons. The Whalers hockey team of the World Hockey League play their home games there. Many fans from Melrose, Mass., have followed the team both in Boston and Springfield, and now to Hartford. Melrose sent many fine hockey players to Dartmouth.

Millard Newcomb and wife Pearl are still active in the practice of law in Bay City, Mich., but they are cutting down on it. Newc says that he has a streak of ingrown laziness that has him almost immobilized. The Newcombs had a long stay at their island in Canada last summer. They now have both electricity and a telephone up there, which is quite a change from the frontier days that he remembers. He writes occasionally to Archie Peisch in Norwich who taught accounting in the Amos Tuck School when Newc and your secretary were enrolled as graduate students.

Bob Wilson writes a letter from Japan. He has been back to Dartmouth only twice since he graduated. He is planning to return sometime this year to Florida for a change in pace and scene.

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