1925

John Packard of Vero Beach, Fla., is serving as an area chair for the Leadership Gifts portion of the Campaign for Dartmouth.

Fred Hooven, professor of engineering at the Thayer School and one of 1925's cherished faculty members, was one of 99 engineers in the country recently elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering. He was cited for the development of the first heart-lung machine, the first electronic typesetting, the first controlled system for unmanned flight, and an improved automotive front-wheel drive system. He has been at Dartmouth since 1967, and for ten years prior to that he was director of research planning for the Ford Motor Company.

Margaret (Mrs. Roger) Johnson writes from Richmond that her twin sister, Katherine Clifford, who had been with her all during Rog's illness and since, died in December. Margaret plans to go with children to the old family home in Boscawen, N.H., during the summer.

Pete and Ginie Haffenreffer visited the campus this spring to participate in a "Horizons" program and got together with most of the local '25 delegation for a dinner.

Jim Winn was also in Hanover this spring, for a checkup following his accident of more than a year ago. He is doing well, and he and Alice stayed at the Inn for a couple of extra days in order to celebrate their 50th anniversary with their son's and daughter's families.

Bud and Isabelle Brown move in the spring from Scottsdale, Ariz., to their ranch in Prescott, and this year they were also planning a trip to Louisville, Ky., for a five-day meeting of the Carriage Club of America and the American Driving Society. And we will quote Bud: "My 72-year-old wife is busy conditioning herself and a new horse she recently bought for the famous Tevis Cup ride in California next August: one rider, one horse, 100 measured miles from Tahoe to Auburn over the old Pony Express trail in one day. It hurts my back just to think of it, but she has already done it twice — the oldest person entered each time. Of the 200 who start, less than half finish, either the horse or the rider proving not tough enough." Before you receive the next issue of this MAGAZINE, the annual fall Hanover gathering of the Class of 1925 will be history. It comes early this year — the weekend of September 22, date of the Princeton football game. Reservations now are recommended.

During this past winter we lost eight good friends and classmates: Don Lawson, PaulDeisroth, Chuck Dodd, Fred Dold, Joe Murphy, Reynolds Smith, Pudge Wheeler, and Johnnie Garrod. We will miss them, and our sympathy goes to the widows and others in the families.

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