1943

A picture may be worth etc., but if it's in color we usually aren't able to handle it here, so the following few words must suffice instead of the photo which Patricia Garlick sent to us from the Stella Maris in the Aegean Sea on a Dartmouth Alumni College trip. There, can you see, are the smiling faces of Gail Grant,Henry Garlick, George Graham, and JimGilbert, on a trip with their families on the way to or from the Greek Islands, Sicily, and Turkey, accompanied by two Dartmouth professors. Summary report "a marvelous experience." (The trip was for the G's in the class; apparently the rest of us are eligible in alphabetical order.)

Jim Doucette has started the new year as a principal in a new company, Newell-Doucette and Associates, executive search consultants, located in New York City. Jim is most enthusiastic about the new venture.

Earl Harris, president of the Rodney Hunt Company, has been named a director of Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Earl's impressive academic credits, in addition to Dartmouth, include Polytechnic Institute, Babson Institute of Business Administration, Lowell Textile Institute, and the University of West Virginia. Now that's an education.

Had a good reunion with Peter Heggie over a theater district lunch, after visiting him in his office where, in his serene fashion, he guides the destiny of the Authors Guild/Authors League. Pete proudly showed off his Christmas gift from his sister and brother-in-law - a Dartmouth chair. Peter has had upstate gettogethers with Ed Bock in Syracuse and John Hutchinson. If you catch the Mark Russell comedy programs on PBS, note Hutch's credit line as executive producer.

To quote Pat and Don Crance from Georgia, "The Year of the Child has looked kindly upon us, as we hope it has upon you." By way of proof, their Wendy is married with three children and that family is house-building; ditto with daughter Debbie and husband (the house, not the kids); son Pete is in the Navy; and daughter Stephanie, with husband and three children, lives in Michigan. As to Pat and Don; "We each earned a coveted tennis trophy, proving we're keeping fit. . . . All this the result of a chance meeting on the porch of Theta Delta Chi, April 19, 1941."

A holiday trip to Clearwater gave me the chance to talk by telephone to some of the Florida contingent. You may at first be startled to learn that Herb Harrigan is an editorial writer for the Herald-Tribune, but perhaps less so when you learn it is the Sarasota H-T, not the N.Y. or Paris edition. Herb, with wife Peggy, has been assuming his green eyeshade daily in Sarasota for the past eight years, and (like most of us these days) has achieving children all over the darn place - Carole in Worcester, Mass., with the American Antiquarian Society (she studies things, not people like us); Barbara, married to a physicist inLong Island, with two children; and Bruce, with the FAA in Honolulu. Peggy and Herb had just returned from a Caribbean cruise, which showp just how far they have removed themselves from Herb's former Philadelphia existence.

Stan and Grace Calder were married last April and moved into a new home in Pompano Beach on Thanksgiving Day, not long after a family visit to New Jersey. Stan is a stock analyst, still the avid golfer, and, according to Grace, has recently won "two or three nice trophies." Stan Jr. works for a paper mill in Eugene, Ore.

Dick and Maggie Longacre live in Key Biscayne and also recently moved into a new home. Dick is a Paine Webber vice president. In the tradition of children being at least many hundreds of miles away, daughter Deanne is living in Princeton, married, and working on Wall Street; Larraine, in Shreveport, La., has threeyear-old twin girls; and Sandy is in Dayton and is married with two daughters. All are expected to converge on Key Biscayne in the spring.

Next month: Report from Chicago.

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