1937

Last spring we sent out seven letters for news and batted 1.000. Tried seven again last month and got just one! Bless Walter Johnson for saving our day. We were inquiring about address changes, now so common with retirements, and he was vacillating between Hawaii and Michigan. We quote: "I retire from University of Hawaii at Manoa (Honolulu) June 30. Since I want to continue doing some teaching we will move to Bass Lake, Pentwater, Mich., where I will continue to direct the Adlai Stevenson Seminar at the Grand Valley State Colleges, as I did last summer and hope to ad infinitum." Walter was a long-time friend of Stevenson's and has published many articles and books about him. Walt was a professor of history at the University of Chicago for 25 years. They will spend summers in Michigan and winters in Hawaii. He pointed out how disastrously expensive it is to live on the islands as an unsubsidized professor. The final volume of his Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson was published last September by Little Brown with an excellent review in the New York Times which was widely syndicated.

Back in "our day" Red Bentley, Dick Wood, and Dex Smith were a triumvirate. Some time after college Red had acquired an unusual double decanter for whiskey something one would find in the formal dining room of an old English manor, complete with lock and key to keep the help honest. At some time before Red died he gave it to Dex, who kept it for years as an ornamental curiosity. Last spring he decided to put it up for auction (maybe 35 bucks?) and was flabbergasted to get a check for $140! He sent it along to the Alumni Fund in Red's name as a memorial gift. We see Dick Wood around Boston often, and he was intrigued to hear this story, as he remembered the item.

Tom Mclntyre sent a note from his new legal connection in Washington, D.C. (Sullivan and Worcestor), saying that he and Myrtle would be spending some time in Naples, Fla., plus a week in Santo Domingo. They bought a lot in Rye Beach, N.H., and hope to build there soon and get "back home." We note Tom is one of 40 candidates running for election to the governing board of Common Cause.

TV Week, the throw-away guide with the Sunday Globe, had an article last November on Bill Leonard, complete with picture. It covered his comments on how CBS News was planning to expend $25 to $30 million on the 1980 presidential election. Bill said that all three networks would be spending a similar sum twice what was spent in the last election because of inflation.

Katie and your sec recently switched church affiliation to a very old and active country-like (white of course) church in Sudbury, called the Trinitarian Congregational. The minister, Don Ewing, is the drawing card and is heard all over the country every Sunday on radio. The church is sponsoring the Francis A. Schaeffer Film Series, in five parts, on "Whatever Happened to the Human Race" by Schaeffer and Dr. Chick Koop. We have heard a lot about this series and hope to see all five. (There was a nice picture of Chick on the bulletin board.)

We were much impressed to see Dick Rush appear on TV's Wall Street Week program as a guest to discuss art and how it can fit into people's financial programs. This was last December.

Our class continues to play an ongoing part in the fortunes of the Medical School. Sid Lansburgh will chair the board of overseers for a two-year term, replacing Colin MacCarty, and Bob Marschalk was appointed to the board of overseers with Sid. Sey Ochsner is the representative for the Med School on the Alumni Council, and Ken Stearns serves on the executive committee for the Medical School Alumni Fund.

Further kudos are due to Bob Marschalk, one of three members in senior management of major corporations (Richardson-Merrell) to be elected to the board of directors of World Wildlife Fund, U.S. This non-profit private conservation group is the principal organization in the United States engaged in protecting endangered animals, plants, and habitats around the world.

Harold Putnam sent me a picture of himself with Alan Bryant, which unfortunately couldn't be reproduced here. Harold and Marlene had stopped off, en route home to Stoneham, Mass., from an art trip to southeast Florida, to visit with Alan and Sherry in their lovely retirement home in Whispering Pines, N.C.

It was hardly much of a pause, but the Boddhi Politic tells us it is Alumni Fund time again, and Gene Jones is back in his green saddle flicking his 3,000-mile whip. We mention this just so you won't be surprised when you see the mail.

Warren Chivers '38, for 40 years the dominant force in skiing at Vermont Academy, was honored at the school's recent winter sports award dinner with the presentation of new skis-his first in 20 years according to his wife Jean. Following the trail of their Olympian father are sons Ted and Chris, who placed second and third in this year's Vermont Academy alumni ski jump.

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