1941

Unofficial but reliable sources report that the government of Iceland has just made Fritz Cluthe a Knight of the Order of the Falcon, the decoration bestowed in recognition for advisory services rendered to Iceland by Fritz. He's an importer, so presumably his consulting was in the trade area.

Bob Thome's annual travel report comes in from Claremont, Calif.: "Just got back from a couple of weeks in Sweden and Copenhagen. Gave about six lectures to the Swedes and Danes, attended a symposium in Uppsala in honor of their three great botanists, and much enjoyed the red carpet treatment from the Scandinavians."

A long and newsy Christmas letter from Boband Barbara Thomas gets us up to date on what's happening in Falmouth, Maine. Bob is management consultant and "chief cook and bottlewasher for a security-guard firm" and spends the rest of his time swimming, sailing, cross-country skiing, vegetable gardening, and a lot of other stuff. Barbara plays the piano at a nursery school (" 'Grey Squirrel' - she shakes her own 'bushy tail' - is the show-stopper") and at a nursing home, works at the Falmouth library, and is the new class president of Wellesley '42. Son Rob is an architect-engineer in Pittsburgh; daughter Beth is office manager for a medical clinic in Monterey, Calif., where her husband is an Air Force language specialist.

Other Christmas-card gleanings: Out in Mercer Island, Wash., Spieder and Betsy Paul spent last year designing and watching construction of a new second home at Whiskey Creek Beach on the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Sue Hall writes that Frank Jr. was married in September, and is working for the Treasury Department while getting his M.B.A. at Adelphi. Mary, our 25th reunion baby, carries on Mouse's musical traditions - sang at the Rockefeller Center tree-lighting ceremony.

Tom Trump journeyed down to New Orleans in December for the annual convention of the National Food Brokers Association and came away as its newly-elected national chairman. Tom has his own food-brokerage firm, Tom Trump Company Inc., in Milwaukee and has been active in NFBA affairs for many years.

"Now have over 30 years of federal service, mostly at Fort Monmouth," writes GeorgeMcCallum from Atlantic Highlands, N.J. "Currently am director of procurement and product control, U.S. Army Communications Systems Agency. We live in an oldish house looking north over lower New York Bay - sail and fish on same and plan no moves."

Tim Takaro is trying to collect news for the Dartmouth Medical Alumni Magazine and finding it rough going. Anybody got any? "We are all well and continue to enjoy living in Asheville, N.C., near the Great Smokies. Our four are scattered: Tom in Texas, a Ph.D. candidate in musical composition; Martha in Oregon in law school; Tim, a pre-med at Yale; Mark just starting at Berkeley. Marilyn and I at separate jobs, she in nursing and I with the Veterans Administration in surgical research, teaching, and administration."

Paul Mahoney's Dartmouth son Rick is on a year's sabbatical from Exeter getting his master's at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. "Moved the whole family down there and everyone is having a great time," says Paul. "Ah, youth!"

Ah, youth, my foot. You take somebody like Lew Johnstone; he's on a perennial sabatical and he ain't nowhere near a youth. "Beanie and I really enjoying St. Petersburg. Still get back to Cincinnati a few times each year, but mostly here. We are in the directory."

And a few final quickies from dues-notice graffiti: Jim Morgan, Bob Rainie, Bill Clark, and Chuck Frantz send helloes but no news not previously published ... Chuck and Mary Bolte acquired a second grandchild in October and Chuck was due in Hanover that same month for a World Affairs Council meeting and the Yale game ... From Green Valley, Ariz., (the Tucson area, I believe), Dick Locke confesses, I play tennis, pool and bridge - not very good, but it's satsifying."

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