1945

The month of May is a distracting one, with outdoor activities well underway and plans for the summer gathering momentum. Unfortunately it appears to be a time when news of classmates begins to dry up and your class secretary is hard put to fill up his column.

Harry Hampton reports the same discouraging lack of news for our newsletter, but kindly passed along the following news from Dick andAnne Conklin who were in Guatemala City when the massive earthquake struck on the morning of February 4. They were on their way to Costa Rica but stopped at Guatemala City enroute because Dick had spent the summer of 1941 there as an exchange student with the Experiment in International Living exchange program and wanted to visit friends he had gotten to know there. They said that they never expected to "shake up" a country like this, but added that they were lucky to escape unhurt.

Binney Tower '43 wrote of some of his recent activities and in a postscript suggested that if I ever get hard up for news, I might give the Barley Neck Inn a plug in my column. It seems that his son-in-law opened the Inn last July, which is located in East Orleans on Cape Cod, making him a silent partner (which means he keeps his mouth shut and co-signs the notes). He says that when he retires he'll probably end up making Bloody Marys for the Sunday Brunch and invites all Dartmouth men to stop by.

In the March issue I mentioned hearing from Renfrew Poindexter III. It appears that he is in charge of quality control of a company that manufactures widgets. I had heard of them but never knew that they actually existed. I naively assumed that they were hypothetical example used in textbooks illustrating various economic principles. As it turns out, widgets are rather in. genious products quite adaptable for the various uses they are intended for. Renfrew gave me a rather long technical explanation of the methods he used in applying quality control to their manufacture, which I will not attempt to reproduce here. If anyone is interested in hearing from him, he lives at 3664 Paramount Ridge Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45239 and will be glad to give you all the information on widgets that you desire.

Finally, it was nice to hear that Dick Southwick of Beverly, Mass. was an academic delegate for the College at the Inauguration of Richard Frederick Grass as President of Gordon College on April 23rd in Wenham, Massachusetts.

Don't forget John Leggat and this year's Alumni Fund!

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