1929
Squeek Redding is still active in his Boston law practice but suffered an arthritis attack in the fall that interfered with his golf and curling games. He is now taking treatments which we all hope will prove effective. He and Loretta visited Bill and Marion Dodge at the new house which they recently built on a hill in New London, N.H.
Chuck Darling's widow Dorothea of Dennis, Mass., wrote a letter to Jack Hubbard that included some information that should be shared: "Although my husband was not a very active alumnus, he did journey back to Hanover occasionally on the wings of memory to relive those golden days when he lived in Hitchcock with his roommate, John Kemble.
"Shortly before Ed Cogswell died we spent a very pleasant evening with him and Lois, and not too many months ago John Brown Cook stopped by.
"Unfortunately our daughter Nancy Hard died in May with similar suddeness. Perhaps one of her three sons will repeat the Dartmouth experience."
Jack's reply spoke for all of us: "I think that tragedy has hit you enough and let's hope that at least one and perhaps all of your three grandsons will repeat the Dartmouth experience and enjoy it. In 15 or 16 years from now I am looking forward to a possible brother-sister enrollment as a fourth generation for my two grandchildren."
As class treasurer, Jack does a fine job in writing to the widows of our classmates to assure them that they are still a part of '29 and will continue to receive the Alumni Magazine and other college publications.
Jack Gunther is still pursuing his goal of encouraging private land conservation trusts. He is in touch with Federal authorities in the hope of persuading them to follow on a national scale the pattern he has proved to be so effective in Connecticut. (In his town of New Canaan the local trust has received gifts of land in 21 locations with a value of $2 million). As he states, "The private approach to the acquisition of open space land is more important than ever in the face of the lack of public funds." Best of luck in your important program, Jack.
More about Charlie Dudley, "Man of Many Hats, Many Tongues," as the Valley News headlined him in a recent issue. The fourcolumn story traced Charlie's skiing career from 1911, when he first tried the boards at the age of four, to his recent cross-country ski trips. As he said, "I don't think someone who will be 68 next week should be out schuss-booming." In the course of his skiing career he taught skiing at Dartmouth and then ran the second ski school in the U.S. at Pinkham Notch. Most of his business career was in the field of ski equipment and clothing. He is the author of three skiing best-sellers: "Sixty Centuries of Skiing," "It'sEasy to Ski," and "When We Ski."
As to his "many hats," Charlie is the new dean of Lebanon College and also takes an active part in SCORE (Senior Corps of Retired Executives), the United Way, and the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Region. The "many tongues" of the headline refer to his statement that "Languages have become a hobby of mine and I can make myself understood in all the Romance, Germanic, Nordic, and Anglo-Saxon tongues. I found out that from the Dutch and German I could pick up Afrikaans. And from the Norwegian and Swedish I could pick up Icelandic."
Our Class has been hard hit in recent weeks by the loss of Dick Exton, Russ Holbrook, and Tom Stokes. Our deep sympathy goes to their survivors.
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