1925

Announcement was made this winter of the Alexander Laing Memorial Writing Awards, an annual competition in two categories. The awards are made possible by a gift from Stephen Geller '62 in honor of his "friend and mentor," the late Professor Laing. Each prize is $175, one for the best original screenplay by an undergraduate in the College and the other for the best manuscript of original poems by an undergraduate.

Peter W. Sullivan '81 has been awarded the College's Edson prize for outstanding work in introductory courses in government. This award is in the form of books and is made possible by a gift from Jean Slater Edson in memory of her late husband Andy.

Rad and Velma Tanzer left Hanover in time for a New Year's weekend at Williamsburg on the way to Melrose, Fla., where they have spent part of each of the last few winters with Rad working with the Medical School at the University of Florida in nearby Gainesville and doing some research in connection with a writing project on plastic surgery. Heading north in March, they were scheduled to leave late that month for several weeks in England.

Your secretary and perhaps a few others in the Class find that remembering things is not quite as easy as it used to be. Therefore it is comforting to learn from a letter to the editor of the Boston Herald that Bill Sleigh left his briefcase on the train when alighting at Swampscott on his way home from Boston to Marblehead in one of the winter's storms. The letter was a public note of thanks to the B. and M. employee who found the case and called Bill at his home within an hour after his return there.

The roster of the Norwich sixth-grade team in the Hanover Rec Basketball League includes the name of Ford Rozycki, grandson of Fordand Gertie Whelden.

Eleanor Graham Warner, widow of El Warner, married Philip Walter Marks on January 2 at St. Francis de Sales Church in Fort Thomas, Ky. The announcement was made by her daughter, Linda Warner Mullen, and after a wedding trip to Bermuda the couple returned home to Manchester Road in Newton Highlands, Mass. Phil Marks was formerly in the advertising business and is a professional portrait painter and artist.

The December issue of the magazine Architectural Digest carried an interesting story on Ted Geisel and color photos of the exterior of his LaJolla, Calif., home.

Tom and Betty Carpenter had a novel Happy New Year card - a picture of the two of them and three of their grandchildren riding on an elephant, taken at Lion Safari in California last summer. After Christmas with their son's family in Madison and New Year's with a daughter's family in Boulder, Colo., they got caught in one of Chicago's, blizzards for three extra days on the way home. Tom says, "A normal Hanover snow is a disaster in Chicago."

Larry Welch of Huntington Beach, Calif., is active in the Orange County Dartmouth Club and on the golf course, covering it on foot except when he has to share a cart with a friend in the eighties.

Ralph Tucker found himself putting on some extra weight last fall and after a month in the hospital returned home thirty pounds lighter and feeling fine. Home is still in Tryon, N.C.

After a trip east from New York across the Atlantic last year, Les and Claudia Frenkel went in the other direction this winter, heading part way across the Pacific to Hawaii for a few weeks.

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