1925

At the council dinner during the Alumni Council meeting in Hanover early in the winter. Bob McKennan received one of the Alumni Awards. Pleased and proud classmates on hand were Frank Kennedy, Herb Talbot, Larry Leavitt, and Ford Whelden. Art Allen '32 was also honored with an award. Details of these honors appear in last month's issue.

Ford and Gertie Whelden were in Asheville, N.C., over New Year's weekend to celebrate Ford's 75th birthday on January 2 with four daughters, four sons-in-law, 11 grandchildren, Ford's 82-year-old brother and 80-year-old sister-in-law, plus a lot of Gertie's Southern relatives.

Perk Fitch, another '25 resident of the Hanover area, reports enjoying Hopkins Center and the hockey team during the winter months. He says Bob McKennan continues to handle the timing at the hockey games and Larry Leavitt and Ford Whelden are ardent team supporters.

Betty Crawford writes from Pittsford, N.Y., that the first Henry Baker Crawford Memorial lecture was delivered at the Rochester General Hospital December 1 by Dr. Donald Nagel, professor and head of the division of orthopaedic surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine. Henry was former chief at the Rochester General Hospital and professor of clinical orthopaedic surgery at the Rochester School of Medicine. A fund was established in his memory by friends and former patients to provide annual teaching lectureships by prominent orthopaedic surgeons.

Two communications from Margaret Johnson emphasize how much Dartmouth can mean to a husband and wife. After Rog died last March following an illness of some length, she chose a granite stone to surround the marker under which his ashes were placed because it symbolized Dartmouth and New Hampshire, where he was born. They attended our 50th reunion together and their older son graduated in 1951. Margaret also writes: "In addition to all the great things Dartmouth does for her men, she produces the finest of husbands. I can verify that with all my heart, because Rog and I had a wonderfully happy marriage for nearly 49 years. He loved New Hampshire, where the old family homestead has been since 1812. But he especially loved Dartmouth, as his father ('97) did before him and his son ('51) after. (I might add, his wife also, from the time of her first Carnival!) He was beloved here in the community by his friends in the 'Richmond First Club,' in the Dartmouth Club of Virginia, the Richmond Public Forum, and the church, as well as by his associates in the telephone company. He was always ready to help those with problems, especially financial. His training at Tuck School served him well. I am fortunate indeed to have a twin sister, and I spend summers at her home in Massachusetts and winters here near my children, who have been a bulwark of strength over the last 18 months."

Miriam Howe of Hartsdale, N.Y., visited her son and his family in England last year. Her grandson Jim was at the Cathedral School in Bristol and has applied to Dartmouth for this fall. His sister is at Skidmore.

Conny and Lane Goss were also in England, but late in the year. Lane did some traveling on the Continent while Conny was kept home because of the Moffatt Ladd House garden in Portsmouth and an upcoming 50th reunion at Vassar, but she joined him in London for a week of theater, window-shopping, and seeing friends. They especially enjoyed the new National Theatre, "where you can't buy a bum seat or see a poor actor."

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