1925

This month our notes cover events and communications stretching back through the current year, some fairly recent and others going back to early in 1980.

Ted Geisel received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for longstanding contributions to children's literature, an award given every three years by the Association for Library Services to Children. In his acceptance poem Dr. Seuss honored a Miss Bodanker, the town librarian who influenced him while he was growing up in Springfield, Mass. The poem read in part:

In the name of Miss Bodanker, I thank you for this award. If that librarian hadn't launched me I would never have been aboard.

The Andrew Warren Edson Memorial Award for outstanding work in introductory courses in government was won during the spring term by Walter M. Foster '83 of Waltham, Mass. This award was established in 1959 through the gift of Jean Slater Edson of Washington, D.C.

Oliver Westfall of Bronxville, N.Y., was honored early in the year by receiving a Paul Harris Memorial Fellowship from the Mount Vernon Rotary Club. This fellowship is named for Rotary's founder and sends money in his name to needy areas of the world and for scholarship use. OUie has been a member of the Mount Vernon Rotary Club since 1946 and has served as president.

Dick Colton of Clearwater, Fla., and another Dartmouth graduate were witnesses when Doug Storer '21 of Bellair signed a new will leaving his ownership of "Amazing But True" and his half interest in "Renfrew of the Mounted" to the Dartmouth Medical School upon his death. His wife would continue to receive the income during her lifetime, the source being revenue from books, radio programs, television, and other uses of Storer's material.

A visitor to Phoenix, Ariz., in the spring saw George and Helen Stevens, who live there, and reported that "George is his same old self, cheerful and outgoing."

Congratulations to Hawley Taft, who this summer shot his age on the golf course for the first time. He had a 78 at the Linville (N.C.) Golf Club, where par is 72. He says most of his scores are in the low 80's. That's not bad.

The Abels and the Zahms the alpha and omega of 1925 and close friends and neighbors in Delray Beach, Fla., in the winter were scheduled to attend a Horizons program at the College in late September. Then, following a visit at Curt and Marian's place in Greensboro, Vt., both couples planned to head south for the winter.

Harry Clarke was in Venezuela in August. Pretty close to the equator for that time of year, but maybe he was looking for oil. Les andClaudia Frenkel were leaving New York City about the same time for their annual visit to Europe. High prices and strikes there have not discouraged them, but they plan to be back in this country in time to hlep the Republicans in November.

Writing in the June issue of Club Living magazine, our wine expert Bob Misch says that there are cocktails named after various Ivy League institutions and other colleges but since he did not find one called "The Dartmouth" he invented the following libation; one quarter gin or aquavit, one quarter green cr'eme de menthe, one half dry white wine, and fresh mint if available. Wah! Hoo! Wah!

Wilkinsons all, and Dartmouth, too: (from right) Bob '24, his grand-daughter Amy '78, his son Bob Jr. '50, and his grandson Monty '83.

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