1944
That annual spring rite, Class Officers Weekend, brought a number of the faithful to Hanover: Ezz Hale, class president; Ross Higier, head agent, with Dorene; Merle Hagen, newsletter editor, with a guest, Gini Lawson; Ben Jones, class campaign coordinator, with Betty; Tom Miner, 35th reunion chairman, with Mary El; and F. Hier, secretary, with a pencil.
And we rolled in some local flavor for a Friday lunch at the Inn and they garnished up as Harry and Ginny Grieger, Jim and Lu Browning, Dave and Patti Eckels, and Bob and AnnMcLaughry.
In a word, '44 had the place surrounded.
As for Ben Jones, we learned that he's a four-mile-a-day jogger who just received his karate black belt after seven years of taking it on the chin and giving it in the groin; and HarryGrieger told us that he has totally licked his angina pectoris problem via a stiff three-year regimen of running every day and diet (Ginny runs right alongside). "Three years ago," Harry said, "I couldn't lift a pencil or climb the stairs. Today I can heft a telephone pole and run up Mt. Washington."
Also in town two weeks earlier for Freshman Parents Weekend were Dave and Phyllis Little and Joe and Sonja Goldstein. Joe is a professor of law at Yale, with Daniel an 'Bl. Dave has been regional sales manager for West Publishing Co., publishers of law books in Bloomington, Ind., since 1964, and is active in the local Lions Club, First Presbyterian Church, and Boy Scouts. Daughter Kristen graduated from lowa State University and son Peter is the '81.
Ed Crawford Hills pulled us up for committing a geographical atrocity: we had Fran and him living in Vero Beach; son-of-a-beach, wrong beach, it's Delray.
Insuranceman Warren Kimball, newly of Hartford, Conn., recently attended a business forum at the Hartford Sheraton, and up there on the dais with a sheaf of notes was ClarkMacGregor, vice president of United Technologies Corporation in D.C. Clark held forth on "The Impact of Current Government Policies on Connecticut Business."
His honor, Judge Monte Basbas, has been named second ceremonial master of the Aleppo Shrine, a 14,000 member temple embracing the Greater Boston area, Cape Cod, and Massachusetts west to Worcester. Monte said his first duty will be to serve the Newton court as presiding officer, but his second will be to do what he can to help the potentate of Aleppo Temple. Incidentally, Monte's father, George Basbas, lives in Hampton, N.H., and is moving up on his 100th birthday.
We jingled through to Lou Schott, real estate and development in Cincinnati, and found him busy with plans for an office building and a condominium. He and Jinny got to Greece last summer for a look at the Parthenon and other things Doric, and this summer Hawaii is on the agenda. "Jinny's been trying to get us to Hawaii for 30 years," Lou said, "and we're finally getting around to it. What we haven't done yet is get back to Hanover since the war and we hope to do that soon." The Schott's son Ried is a real estate appraiser for a bank in Chicago, where Lou says he sees Charlie Fox now and then.
On the migration front, Mickey and BettySmith polished up the Conestoga last fall and trekked the family belongings nine miles north, from White Plains to Chappaqua. But Mickey still rides the Norfolk & Western every day into N.Y. City, where he presides over General American Investors Co., Inc., a firm he has headed since 1961. "Beyond general investment counsel," he says, "we're doing more and more in pension fund and non-profit organization fields." The Smiths are art history buffs and have toured almost every country in Europe, plus Russia. Egypt is on the docket for this fall. Son Eric is at Yale Law (where he sees Professsor Joe Goldstein - see above); son Daniel is Dartmouth '81.
Out there in Bloomfield, Mich., Bob o'Keefe holds forth as executive vice president of the Dura Corporation, subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc. He and golfing wife Elsie hole out as often as possible on local links (no word on their handicaps), and they slip away winters to their pad on Marco Island in Florida for more of the same. Four daughters: three attended Pine Manor Junior College; youngest graduated from Boston College in May; two grandchildren.
Last chance for the Alumni Fund; don't let it slip away - get your slip in.
That's it. Blessings.
Robert Edwin Field '43 was honored with a Dartmouth Alumni Award April 28 in recognition of his "outstanding contributions to the community, nation and College." Field has worked as a district enrollment director and as an active member and officer of fund-raising committees. He has also served as head agent and on the class executive committee.
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