1941
Well, what do you know! For the first time in history, if memory serves, the Class of 1941 did not finish last in the Green Derby. We scrambled all the way up to next to last. In fact, with a couple dozen more classmates contributing, we might even have made our quota. Who knows what glories may lie ahead if we can just keep the momentum going.
Don Taber either has a new business or a new way of having fun or both. A business card has come into my possession: "Halfast Supply Inc., Ark Plaza, 2049 South Tamiami Trail, Venice, Fla. 33595. Don Taber, Head Plunger. Plumbing and electrical supplies for the do-it-yourselfer."
YOU may have noticed a postscript to the August newsletter in which the Alumni Records Office asked for information on the whereabouts of William Monroe Hanavan. They got it. Turns out that Bill died of a heart attack at his home in Buffalo, N.Y., on March 13, 1972. He came to Dartmouth from that same city and yas a member of Phi Kappa Psi and freshman basketball manager. He served in the Navy during World War II and the last we heard was working as a cost estimator with Bell Aircraft. Bill left a daughter, two sons, and his wife Gretchen, who is now Mrs. Earle W. Beck Jr., 1290 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, N.Y. 14209.
Speaking of the newsletter, Steve Winship last spring merged his publishing company and New England Guide with New HampshireProfiles magazine in Concord. The result is "a hew magazine and book publishing company with four magazines, a line of paperback books, and such allied activities as a calendar and sundry publishing services, I have not the slightest wish to retire, and this deal includes a host of new challenges. I look forward to spending more time on editorial and less in the counting rooms."
Judging by later advices, Steve's first new challenge, actually, was spending more time on the Maine coast over the summer: "We have seen the Bob Rainies and Frank Simpsons, who are fine, and chatted with Stace Hill, who hopes to be in these parts for a game this fall."
ft was a pleasant summer in Maine for Chuck Bolte, too. He rang the bell three times, with articles on the Maine Senate race in TheNew Republic, on Governor Baxter and the Baxter State Park in American Heritage, and (in collaboration with Mary) on "L. L. Bean's great store" in Quest.
Dusty Rodes passes on a copy of a letter received from Dr. George Simpson in Asheville, N.C.: "Having 'retired' from New Jersey, I now find myself involved as an occupational medicine specialist serving several industrial plants in this area. Jim Takaro is our only classmate here. He's chief surgeon at the V.A. hospital and is fine."
A while back I reported that John Hodel had moved out to the state Of Washington and surmised that this signaled his retirement from newspaper editing. Now John fills in the details: "Never say retire. Horrors! Say I resigned." Seems he and his brothers sold the family newspaper business in West Virginia, and "our two sons are settled in the Seattle area, which accounts for us having gone to that neck of the woods. We have taken a place on San Juan Island, which is about as far northwest as one can get in the lower 48. It has been a difficult transition, but I think we are about over the hump.
"As far as I can discover there are no fellow alumni on the islands. I did discover that (Dr.) Tom Lawley was living in Tacoma, and we got together at his place a couple of times before we got into serious househunting."
Ed McMillan forwards a clipping from the Boston Globe, which says: "The World Affairs Council broke tradition yesterday and presented the Christian A. Herter Memorial Award to two Boston businessmen, Gerhard D. Bleicken and Richard D. Hill. Previous recipients have been diplomats and politicians, including former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and Senator Edward M. Kennedy." Dick's acceptance speech criticized President Carter's handling of the human rights issue, according to the Globe, which quoted him as saying: "We can contribute more toward the accomplishment of our moral goals through interchange and dialogue . . . than by adding to an atmosphere of polarization, abandonment, and confrontation."
A couple of address changes will be saved 'till next month, but I'll give you one - my own, which you'll find at the top of this column. It's just a move of a mile or so down the road into quarters better scaled to two adults and a cat, but I mention it in hopes that some of you will be inspired to use it. With class-notes season here again, I'd admire to hear from you, and so would a lot of other guys.
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