1921
When marveling at fashionably dressed men in magazines, most of us recall with pleasure Larry Nardi, the 1921 conservative fashion plate, a graduate of. De Pinna and Saks Fifth Avenue. For beautifully dressed women he also has a keen eye, because he was once business manager of Bas-Isle of New York, specialists in women's suits. With his stimulating New York orientation and his felicitous home life in Mt. Vernon, why should he and Alice choose to settle in Maryland? Because Annapolis is absolutely delightful with its boats, crabs, and oysters, salubrious environment, and Watergate Village - an apartment complex with lovely lawns and trees separating buildings. Lively and cheerful retired persons from all over the United State challenge the Nardis.
Bob Burroughs hardly raises an eyebrow when on his Canterbury farmland 500 automobiles arrive, each with four occupants (total 2,000 persons, 4,000 hands, and 20,000 fingers) to pick his apples. Children shinny up trees and toss down apples. But there are too many for so few fingers, and Bob must recruit workers not only from New Hampshire, but also as far away as Maine, Tennessee, and even Jamaica.
Marshall Exnicios has tested Florida but prefers Europe. He spent a couple of winters at the Royal Hibernian Hotel in Dublin and hunted in Meath and Kildare. London is even more rewarding because of the Connaught Hotel, Claridge's, the Berkeley, and the Savoy. A member of Brooks Club, he frequently lunched there. During several winters he convinced himself that food and wines were best at the Connaught. Marshall recalls what a thrill it was to take an early train from Waterloo three times a week to go down country to hunt. In boots and Melton coat, his hunting whip and top hat in a box, he was met by a groom in a horse-drawn box and driven to the meet, the Hampshire Hunt. But Marshall is no mere Anglophile. Though very British, he also feels at home in Florence and Venice.
Harold Geilich can certainly wow correspondents about their ancestors, who, as the year 2000 moves in so devastatingly and quickly, are likely to be lost. A specialist in acquisitions and mergers, Hal received recently a letter from Bob Bakst, a man building a con- glomerate. Bob was almost bowled over when Hal telephoned him to sketch in Bob's ancestors - who, where, and what. Bob's great-grandmother, a stepdaughter of Hal's father, lived in Hal's father's house in Vilna, once a Polish city and now capital of the Lithuanian U.S.S.R. She raised a daughter who was the mother of Walter Winchell.
How fast does Dartmouth history fade? How much do Ralph Baker, Al Catterall, Ort Hicks,Frank Ross, and Chick Stiles remember about the founders of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, established in 1901? Marsh Whelden boasts of a nose for history. His brother, Perley Eaton ("Prexy") Whelden '03, was one of the founders; and another brother, Dick '11, helped engineer the purchase of the first house in 1909 or 1910 from Mrs. Stimson. The great-grandfather of Marsh's wife Priscilla, Samuel West of Boston, rode horseback to Dartmouth in 1795 to receive an honorary doctor of divinity degree. The round trip required four days.
O. J. Auger thrives on four months in New Bedford and eight in Fort Lauderdale, giving daily tennis clinics to some 50 pupils in each place. Shunning money games, Loretta has earned enough black points in duplicate bridge to be a life master. Everything about the Auger daughters is "fantastic": their aggressive and public-oriented life style, tennis prowess, children. Pauline has seven and Nancy three, all of them jacks and jills of all trades: tennis,skiing, sailing, drama, music, swimming, gymnastics, and travel.
And talk of daughters and grandchildren reminds one of Walter and Mary Lundegren, proud of their Kay (Mrs. William D. Duryea II). As a sophomore, she quit college to marry her Marine. Three children and 25 years later she decided to complete her major in sociology. An honors A.B. student at Northeastern, she is now at Tufts graduate school. But Kay's daughter informed her parents that four years of college would only waste their money and her time. From the age of eight she has devoted herself to horses, establishing her career by qualifying for the Harrisburg show and also for the Madison Square Garden, surviving cuts, and reaching the finals. She works ten to twelve hours a day, six days a week at a Byfield stable at only $60 a week plus lessons from a pro, but she teaches beginners for money. She also shows and jumps horses for owners paying her handsomely. What price college? Well, $25,000.
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