1944

It was a treat to have everyone's favorite headmaster, Art Kiendl, head man at the Cranbrook Educational Community in Michigan, mosey into our Hanover office in late November for a splendid hour's chat. He and Jean were in town visiting friends, talking to Eddie Chamberlain, and dreaming of the day six years hence when they could retire to a house they bought in Castine, Maine.

All the more of an unbelievable shock, then, when late word came that Jean had suffered a stroke January 25 and died three days later. My well of sympathy for Art and his two children runneth over.

Another surprise dropper-inner was JoeGarry, everyone's favorite Lake George, N.Y., ranch and tennis resort proprietor, just out for a Sunday ride in the old Caddy. His place, Roaring Brook, has more trails, tennis courts, swimming pools, restaurants and saunas than you can count, and you can count on a winning vacation there.

You won't be surprised to hear that Dr. JohnWheeler was elected president of the New England section of the American Urological Association in November, shortly after a little sojourn that included a week in Majorca and a bus tour of Italy — Rome, Assissi, Siena, Florence, Milan, and a flood in Venice, among other stops. Back in the U.S. the Wheelers headed north from home in Sherborn, Mass., to their condominium in Quechee, Vt., to preside at the wedding of their second daughter Judi. "Three kids married, three to go," says Jack.

Si, si, Senor Dick Paul is still teaching Spanish at Culver Military Academy in Culver, Ind., and Culver is south of South Bend and Burr Oak and west of Tippecanoe and Maxinkuckee Lake too for you dummies who don't know where Culver is. The Pauls were ironing out goose pimples after two freezing weeks on the Florida Keys when I talked to them January 4, their second successive lousy-weather Florida vacation in two years. Culver went coed in 1971 and now has 200 girls along with its 600 males, but school for the distaffs is decidely non-military according to wife Barbara, who works in the dean's office.

Miles Krohn has a desk in academe, too, and has grown a fancy beard, but as an administrator not a teacher. He is purchasing agent for the Binghamton campus of the State University of N.Y., and shares household chores with wife Annette who is the public relations director for a local Lourdes hospital. Their two youngsters are still in high school and all four log a lot of ski time each winter at Greek Peak, which is new in our lexicon of ski resorts.

Banker Fred Kennedy says he's into his 30th year with the National Shawmut Bank of Boston, where he holds forth as vice president, operations. "Same bank," he says, "same wife, same home in nearby Bedford, same interests in golf and swimming." He has gotten a little wild -in his old age, however, and is into making odd bits of furniture in a shop in the basement.

Down Darien, Conn., way, Bud Pegler and Pegler Enterprises keep humming along — tree products, insecticides, real estate, etc., — and the renovation of a new. office building in Darien. Bud used to be in spices, too, but has dropped them in favor of a wine line, which seems to me a worthy switch. Wife Nancy is making eyes at land in Florida now that owning digs in the Caribbean is such a chancy business. Three oldest sons are married (four grandchildren) and two girls and a boy still in school.

Another Dartmouth board assignment for a '44: Howard Gilman, chairman of the board of the Gilman Paper Co. in New York, has been named to the board of overseers of Hopkins Center.

You want a class statistic or two? There are 641 of us these days, 466 of whom are graduates, 175 non-grads. In those totals are 16 men who have said they are "not interested" in Dartmouth matters, and three who are classified as "lost" — Murray Mondschein, Frank West, and Richard B. Wilson — no idea of their whereabouts.

That's it. Blessings.

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