1944

It's not every day, not even every other, that we get a postcard from Dhahran, but we just got one from Alex McPherson. Where's Dhahran? What's the matter, dummies, don't you remember what you learned in Al Carlson's geography courses? Dhahran is on the west coast of Saudi Arabia, just north of Bahrain, that little Sultanate where oil comes out of the water taps. Alex didn't say what he was doing there, but I hope he'll bring us back a couple of barrels. "Saw Sid Bowers today at Aramco," he wrote. "He looks great. No alcohol for six days makes all old friends look great."

Happy to report a happy ending to raincoat mix-up mentioned in the December notes, it was all in the family: a couple of Illinois paper & pulp boys switched coats. Frank Ames, Dwight Brothers Paper and Boge Bogart, Perkins-Goodwin Co.

Boge wrote to Frank: "As you know, we are negotiating with your parent company to become a wholly owned subsidiary. I didn't realize that the situation was so bad (your old coat for my new one) that you had to upgrade yourselves in clothing and, if that's the case, we probably should not consider the take over!"

Down the river a way, in North Walpole, N.H., Paul Cray got his name in the papers when the town fathers and mothers voted down a proposal to build a $2 million dollar pulp mill there. Paul was apparently on the side favoring the mill coming in, but too many others weren't.

Rally Scofield, in Stamford, Conn., says he's on the road much of the time selling non-ferrous metals and coated steels for Litho-Strip. Summers are spent on his parents old 160-acre farm on Maryland's eastern shore "... working like the devil to keep ahead of the chores." Son John is working at an Inn in Vermont ski country; daughter Nancy is married and living in Stamford; and son Dick graduates from Bates College in Maine this June.

The admiral of Norwich, Vt., Harry Grieger, is heading south for four-five weeks. With their own sailboat in drydock on Lake Champlain, the Griegers will be visiting boat shows, and friends, on both the east and west coasts of Florida. Harry is one of those jogging fellows and he logs two to three miles every day, using Leverone Field House when the weather is punk.

Another long distance runner is Jerry Hodson, who dons his sweat pants for a couple of miles every morning in Alexandria, Va. Jerry retired from government service in 1972 and is now a private consultant with such clients as the American Foreign Service Association and AID. His pet project, however, is a Hillin Hills, Va., neighborhood community center which he has founded and called "Populeum." Daughter Andrea is a senior in high school and son Bill "a soccer and tennis" sophomore in high school.

If you're short of cash, call Al Barrett, The Commercial Credit Company of Baltimore (assets $4 billion) has just appointed Al sales representative in computer-based education for Commercial Credit Services, the newly created arm of Commercial Credit Co. Prior to this assignment, Al was assistant training director of American Health and Life Insurance Company, the life and health insurance subsidiary of Commercial Credit.

While Bob "Glue" Gilchrist was made senior trust officer of The Cleveland Trust Co. in 1974, he, too, has a retirement in his life, namely, from the U.S. Army active reserve program. He retired as a colonel JAGC-USAR in September 1974. Son Tom is a freshman at Bates and John and Judith are approaching college age.

Down Stamford, Conn., way, Dale and Norma Sisson continue the good life. Dale now 20 years with the Orchard Company, working out of his own house selling mostly laminated products. Norma hit the books again and got her Masters in special education and she is now a resource teacher at the middle schools in Stamford. Daughter Dale married and living in Tulsa, Okla., and the mother of the first Sisson grandchild; Roxana married and living in Phoenix, Ariz.; Rufus a senior at Dartmouth; and Abigail graduating from high school this June.

Can any '44s top the number of Sissons who have attended Dartmouth? Dale's father, six uncles, one brother, five cousins, one son, and one nephew have all been Big Greeners.

That's it. Blessings.

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