1941

No sooner had the bell rung on our final column of the season last spring than all sorts of '41 news began arriving. So we open the fall festivities by playing catch-up.

First of all, 1 trust you all noticed that the first woman to serve on the Dartmouth board of trustees is Priscilla Frechette, Hank's widow. Sally was elected last spring and took office in September. She has ties, through children and cousins, to half a dozen College classes, but '41 herewith claims her.

A phone conversation with Lou Young revealed that his vacation to Hawaii in April had a hairy ending. Lou suffered a heart attack while there, and he was eventually shipped back to a California hospital for a five-way bypass operation. He reports a splendid recovery. "Biggest problem is getting bills from California hospitals and doctors."

Lou said the final total for class dues payment was 350, which figures out to about 65 per cent of the class, not bad but improvable. He was scheduled to send out first notices for this year's dues in mid-September, so you should have them in hand now or shortly. The quicker they come back, the quicker we can get into print with all the updates you'll be writing on the back. Hugh and Miggie Kenworthy, Lou added, have sold their home and acreage in Chester Springs, Pa., and are building a smaller place about three miles from the old site.

We got word over the summer of the loss of two Ohio classmates. Hal Neale died suddenly in June. And the news arrived of BillMcKelvey's death last December in Youngstown after a year's illness. Details will be in the obituary section.

We can tell you that George Canfield was running for the Republican nomination for first selectman of Bridgewater, Conn., in June. Unfortunately, we can't tell you how he made out. George and family have been in Bridgewater since 1962; he's an independent agent there for life insurance, estate planning, and retirement programs.

John Tate writes "to advise that I am taking early retirement effective August 1 and am moving to Bend, Ore. My address there is 65575 Tweed Road, 97701." Until he split, John was assistant treasurer of Standard Oil of California in San Francisco.

San Francisco is also losing John Doriss, associate advertising director there for Fortune. John, too, went the early retirement route in July after 28 years with the magazine. He's resettled at 7071 Valley Greens Circle, Carmel, Calif., 93923. "I'll be doing some work for Fortune as a consultant, and I'm also involved with a new magazine in nearby Monterey called Monterey Life. First issue to be published in the fall."

A note from Shirley Coombs shortly after Pete's death last spring closed with this: "We've been in touch with Karl de Schweinitz, of course — he visited us a year ago and it was great to pick up where we had left off so many years before. Also hear from Don Hagen from time to time, and Tom Jardine is our legal eagle, for the business and also personal affairs. So with all that, and three Dartmouth sons, we won't ever get too far removed from the College."

A clipping from the Newburyport, Mass., Daily News begins: "Leon J. Cone Jr. of Rowley was recently ordained into the ministry at the First Baptist Church on Green Street." The rest of the story indicates that we're coming in at the end of one chapter and the beginning of the next. Briefly, Lee had a post-war sales job in Illinois, joined the Moody Bible Church staff in Chicago, then came East in 1958 and enrolled at Gordon Divinity School. That good Tuck training led to an administrative position at Gordon. Lee held that post until 1976, in the meantime acquiring a master's of divinity degree in 1966. For the past three years, he's been financial advisor to Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and since last December has also been interim pastor of Central Congregational Church in Derry, N.H. And the Daily News story concludes: "The Cones have been members of the First Baptist Church of Newburyport for the past eight "years. Mr. Cone's desire to seek ordination was unanimously approved by the board of deacons of First Baptist ... A reception for Mr. and Mrs. Cone was held at the church following the services."

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