1943

Foreign dispatches take priority these days, so here's a report from J. Clark Moore datelined (should be placelined) Geneva: "It is now over 25 years that we have been abroad 14 years in Paris and over 11 years in Geneva. Our movements back to the States, usually at least once a year, have not facilitated participation in any class reunions, although with retirement pending and our returning to the States for good, we hope to be able to attend a reunion in the future. We have welcomed the newsletters which permit some contact with the goings-on in our class. I was able to participate in the Dartmouth Alumni Club in Paris and was able to establish an alumni club for Switzerland in Geneva which has gatherings about three times a year, so we continue to be in touch with Hanover and even had a number of visiting professors, etc. as guest speakers. We congratulate your keeping up the good old Dartmouth spirit."

While in Chicago recently, I talked with Bill Davies, who has been president for more than 20 years of a family pipe and fittings business which recently passed the century mark in age. Bill lives in Lake Forest. Daughter Robin is married and lives in London, and daughter Pamela lives in Libertyville, Ill., is married, and recently presented Bill with a granddaughter. Daughter Barbara lives in Jackson, Wyo. Bill talked recently with Jim McNamara, who runs a plastics business in Moline and has taken up flying, having bought his own plane. Bill walked into a Lake Forest store not too long ago, wearing a Dartmouth shirt, which brought him the attention of a woman who identified herself as Bob Grimshaw's wife. Bob and family have forsaken the Northeast for the Chicago area, where he has been with the Northern Trust Company for the past four years. Bill has also recently seen Dick Kimmel, enjoying retirement, and Harry Armstrong, in the boiler distribution business (if I don't have that right, Harry, let us know). The Davies report is completed with the word that he met Geddes Carrington and wife at a party, just about the time they were moving to Florida.

And others in the class are still roaming: ArtBrockway left Phoenix, Md., for Woodstock, Vt., and Vic Schermerhorn is in New London, N.H., having left Cleveland. California gained Gail Smith, now in San Diego from Andover, while Bill Scholl left Monterey to move to Norcross, Ga. Larry Johnson moved Down East from New Canaan to Rockport, Maine, and Dick Phelps left the Cleveland homestead for Frankenmuth, Mich. Now wouldn't you think my old buddies Larry and Dick would write and tell us what's going on? Would be nice.

Now here's a group of our classmates for whom the College has no current addresses: Horace Rockwell, Tom Morgan, Fred McRae, Dave Loughlin, Paul Falck, Freeman Dodge, and Jack Behringer. If you have any news of these gentlemen, how about sending us word?

The final note is that Phil Jackson, president of Jackson Construction Company, has been elected director of the Charles River Breeding Laboratories. And I think we'll, let that one lie just where it is.

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