1925

Conny and Lane Goss left New Hampshire right after our fall meeting in Hanover, spent a month in London and several weeks in Athens. Lane reported that after the stay in Britain he felt much better about the situation there, "as everyone realizes there is a serious problem and is being given much good information in the press."

Bob Hardy writes from Sarasota that the '25 "regulars" — Ken Nugent, Ed Burns, Don Hunt, and Don Moore — are there again and that this winter they have been joined by Gair Tourtellot and Eddie Griffin. Although it was cold in Florida early in the season, Bob and Hilda escaped for a few weeks to beautiful weather in Puerto Rico.

Speaking of Don Hunt, those who stayed in New England could see and hear his personable son-in-law, Johnny Pierson, in the telecasts of the Boston Bruins' hockey games. He does as well in this role as he did as a player for those same Bruins a few years ago.

Bob Hardy enclosed with his letter a copy of an United Press release on Ted Geisel. There have been many of these well-deserved articles in recent years in various newspapers around the country, and most of them cover similar ground about the illustrious career of "Dr. Suess." This particular one, however, emphasizes Ted's concern about the decline of reading activity and reading ability in children today. He is president of the Beginner Books Division of Random House, and much of his work is aimed at teaching children to read and to learn to use their imaginations.

One of the young who not only can read but is willing to write once in a while is Bernard Drury '78, who has been a 1925 Scholar. On a Christmas card picturing Dartmouth Hall, he wrote to one of our class officers, "I'll take advantage of the Christmas season to thank you for all that you and your class have done for me. Dartmouth has been the best thing that's crossed my path, and I shall always be proud of my association with it and with such fine men as those of the Class of 1925 who have helped me so much. May I wish you the very best at Christmas this season."

Even younger is Tom Cheney, grandson of Dot and Larry Leavitt, and a senior in preparatory school in the nation's capital. He was an usher at the Inaugural Ball in the Armory, shook hands with President and Mrs. Carter, and got a beer for Brother Billy.

Barrett and Janet Lyons continue to make their home in Lansing, Mich. He is bothered by poor eyesight, and she is not well, so their traveling is limited. Over the holidays they visited their family in Elk Rapids, some distance to the north of them.

An institution allied to the College which serves a worthy purpose and yet receives little publicity is the Dartmouth Educational Association, with offices in Boston. It is a nonprofit corporation organized in 1896 to assist needy students by providing loans. Over 50 members of 1925 belong to this group, and half a dozen of these are life members.

Larry Welch '25 (left) and "Cap" Palmer'23 wining before dining at a recent Dartmouth Club of Southern California party.

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