1952

Here it is almost the first of March and I still haven't seen the sidewalks in front of my house since before New Year's Day. But it is slightly above freezing these days so I'm looking for the concrete to show itself any week now. Don't you all wish you could live in beautiful Chicago?

Certainly Bob Curtis doesn't. He's too busy with his new position as executive director of the North Shore Economic Council. (That's the North Shore of Massachusetts; above Boston, that is.) Bob has been town manager of Danvers, Mass., for the past 16 years. And one of the reasons Bob took this new job was because he feels the North Shore has much to offer prospective businesses - in particular, "liability." Bob is obviously a great booster and salesman for the area: In his 16 years as town manager of Danvers the town's valuation has more than doubled.

Joe Baute wants to stay in Keene, N.H., too. A recent issue of New Englander Magazine carried a fine article all about Joe and the way he runs Markem Corporation as its president. The opening line of the article states quite clearly ... "New England is a splendid place to work ..." and goes on to tell how it's one of the few places a president of a large international company can "stop his car by the side of a road to watch a porcupine gnaw at a young tree, or a great blue heron flap sedately out of a swamp ..." on his way to the office. It also tells us that Joe travels widely in his work, that he has spent 11 years on the local school board, and that everyone in the community knows him simply as "Joe." Ah, for the good life.

Seems most of the news is from New England this month. From Swampscott, Mass., comes news that Deke Emmons has been named general manager for company operations in Vermont by New England Telephone, and further that he'll make his headquarters in Burlington. Deke had been division manager in the commercial department for Metropolitan Boston since 1976.

Now that's all I know for sure, but the rumor has come to me that Vince Jones recently took time off from his California law practice to invent a new card game with the unusual name of "Rummy For Teetotalers To Be Played In Coach Cabins of Trans-Continental Air Carriers." The game is said to feature a miniature playing board and cards measuring less than two square inches. Can anyone verify this story for me? If so, write, please.

On a solemn note, Jack Hart died in February. Sad news to all of us who knew "The Sarge" and spent so many happy times with him. Either in this, issue or the next there will be a full obituary, but I wanted you to know that a Jack Hart Memorial Fund has been set up in Flanover, with proceeds going to Dartmouth. Contact Cliff Jordan '45 at the College if you want to contribute or know more.

For now, that's it. Wish there could've been more happy news.

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