1944
It's been a relatively quiet summer for both our in-basket and copy pencil. Apparently backyard barbeques, travel offices, broccoli patches, blackflies, and suntan oil have taken precedence over postcards to '44 Hanover. Nonetheless...
Most of you know by now that Walter Burke became a Dartmouth Trustee in June, the first '44 to reach that signal honor. Walter and Connie had a triple-header going in August: they turned one Hanover trip into successive meetings of the Hopkins Center board of overseers, a Trustee retreat, and Alumni College.
Also soaking up Alumni College knowledge this summer were Don and Mary Hiltz. Don is president of A. A. Fricke Co. in Philadelphia, wholesalers of yarns, twines, and related products.
Seen on Main Street: Betty and Rog Antaya (insurance, Baltimore), mixing a bit of vacation with an hello to son Doug '78, on campus for the summer term: Chuck and Becky Richardson (real estate, Arizona), on the great circle route between home in Tucson and a cottage in Maine; Mark and Claire Peisch (dean, N.Y. Medical College), on their annual summer trek to Hanover to see Mark's parents in Norwich (this year their 59th wedding anniversary) and give the five kids another crack at the College computer ("best darn babysitter you ever did see," says Claire); and Greg and Clem Rabassa, Clem in the quiet of Baker Library editing her Ph.D. thesis, and Greg at his mother's house on Lyme Road, doing what you'd expect him to — translating another Marquez novel from Portugese into English. Installments may be expected in fall issues of The New YorkerMagazine.
In town in May for Tuck School's 75th birthday goings-on — talks, seminars, eats — were Dud Wilson, assistant comptroller for Confort & Co., commercial printers in NY City, and Merle Hagen, der professor at New England College and your friendly newsletter editor.
And Mark Peisch reports frequent sightings of Frank and Barbara Parker (Budweiser, Scarsdale), as they scrub up their boat for the annual cruise down the Inland Waterway.
Nice talk with Bob Riggs, president of Regional Surveys, Inc., in Tulsa, explorers for oil and gas. He is hoping that he and Marilyn can make it for Harvard weekend. The Riggses gave their three daughters a trip to Italy last year, Debbie after graduation from Oklahoma U (she's now in D.C. as an editor for the Automobile Accessories Association), Eileen, who is now at the University of Toronto (with a giant Afghan pooch which she acquired in Italy), and Nancy, who is a freshman at Oklahoma U.
A postcard last spring from the heart of down-town Leningrad: "This isn't Cornish Flat. Three inches of snow, 45 inches of vodka." Signed: Jack and Pris Haffenraffer and HapBush.
You don't have to be a shutter-bug to cheer the news that Kodak in Rochester has promoted Tony Frothingham from assistant vice president to vice president and from assistant general manager to general manager of the marketing division. Tony has been with Kodak since 1948 after squeaking through Dartmouth Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude.
Last spring, Dick Ettinger became the second '44 to be named to the board of overseers of the Dartmouth Medical School (the other is MonteDuVal). Dick is chairman of the board of the Wadsworth Publishing Co. in Belmont, Calif.
Also last.spring, on the silver anniversary of the Dartmouth bequest and estate planning program, lawyer Herb Wolff Jr.'s father, lawyer Herb Wolff Sr. '10, was honored "as one of six active bequest chairmen who have served College and Class continuously for 25 years in that vital position."
In Hanover that same weekend was DaleSisson's father Rufus, who is president of the Class of 1914.
In July we were reminded of Emily Dickinson's lovely and poignant poem:
The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth, —
The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity.
That's it. Blessings.
Secretary, 309 Crosby Hall Hanover, N.H. 03755
Treasurer, 815 East Schantz Ave. Dayton, Ohio 45419
