1944
Sudden thought, 38 years later: why didn't some enterprising housing officer way back in 1940 assign Don Currier and George Ives to a double room? Currier and Ives.
Anyway, it was a treat recently talking separately to those two actual roomies, George"Mike" Ives and Arthur "Bud" Pegler, Mike in breezy D.C., Bud in balmy Stuart, Fla. Stuart is a new stop for the Peglers. They sold the manse in Darien and are now sucking in sunsets in Stuart while they inspect that and other southerly sites for a permanent watering hole. They are also checking the checkbook: Bud said that a simple building lot on a little canal costs $150,000. No house, just the land. Ouch. The Peglers haven't totally deserted the north, as Bud still has the Christmas trees in Maine and an office remodeling project in Darien.
The Iveses, meanwhile, are celebrating 25 years in Washington, the last 17 in the same house. Mike is in his third term on the National Mediation Board, chairman for the second time around, working primarily in airline and railroad disputes. He and Betty travel whenever they can, and their last sojourn in August had them scampering around Scandinavia for two weeks. When home, golf comes to the fore.
I missed Bill Marion by a dog's whisker, but wife Ann filled me in. Bill stepped down from Sorg Paper Co. a few years back and is now in business for himself, consulting. Bill and Ann oversee an 85-acre farm in Oxford, half way between Cincinnati and Dayton, and are into quarter horses and Clumber Spaniels. Clumbers, for any of you dummies out there, are a rare breed of canine, imported from England in 1961. Who else but Ham Rowan, our man in the American Kennel Club, owns and shows one?
Just to disabuse you of any notion that the Marions spend all their time down on the farm, who did they see in line at the Abercrombie and Fitch auction in New York but Dave Wilson, New Jersey ship chandler? Looking for a buoy bargain, no doubt.
It wasn't easy golfing down Dale Brougher between putts at his Palm Beach retreat. He and new wife Nancy fly their own plane down from Pennsylvania seven or eight times a year. Dale is president of Brocker Inc., which consists of five fabricating and steel distribution plants in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware. Nancy is a certified public accountant, says Dale, and a great help in the business. Dale's son Peter works in the family business and daughter Anne is a newspaperwoman in the Hershey area.
Dale sees Jack Maguire frequently in Palm Beach. Jack and his partners recently sold their business, Mercury Mills, and Jack is now eyeing a travel bureau in partnership with his son John.
Bob Colwell couldn't resist buzzing into Carnegie Hall for the 40th anniversary of the famous January 1938 Benny Goodman concert, and who could blame him? Sing, sing, sing....
Speaking of jazz, Herb Storfer is still at the keyboard and you can hear him Thursday evenings on a program "Jam from the Jazz Museum" over station WBAI FM in New York City. Herb served on the board of directors of the museum for the past year prior to its closing.
In Hanover, sans skis, as chairman of a review committee to evaluate the Dartmouth music department, was Wiley Hitchcock, distinguished American musicologist and a professor of music at Brooklyn College.
In Newton, Mass., in October, was Judge Monte Basbas, as the principal speaker at the Newton-Needham Chamber of Commerce's 19th annual achievement dinner. It was full turn of the wheel: Monte himself won the award in 1966.
In Denver, in January, was Jerry Brody with his Black Angus bull, Patriot, winning yet another national award. Patriot took top honors for the second year in a row at the Western Stock Show, which is the cattle breeders' Kentucky Derby, and earlier he won at the North American Livestock Exposition in Louisville, Ky. If he wins at the All-American Breeders Futurity next summer, Patriot will have won the breeders' triple crown. Jerry is a double winner, too: he owns Gallagher's Steak House and the Grand Central Oyster Bar in New York.
In Birmingham, in December, John and IreneBird had a treat few of us still know. John's father, Francis '09, flew in from Cincinnati to celebrate his 90th birthday. "Still fit and in fine health," said John.
In S.C., Charlestown, in February, Professor John Kimmey represented Dartmouth at the inauguration of the new president of Columbia College. John teaches courses in composition and comparative literature at the University of South Carolina, but his main field of interest is 17th century literature. He gets to Europe now and then to continue his research, noting that trips to Italy are especially pleasurable.
I can't resist a few more of those Currier and Ives combinations. Rick Lewis and Jim Clark come out Lewis and Clark. Brad Long and Howie Johns are longjohns. And how about Jack Adams and Wayne Eves making plurals of that early pair in the Garden?
It's been a long winter. That's it. Blessings.
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