1944
There's no way I can get out of starting this column on a personal note. Our old roommate and fraternity brother, Bill McElnea, and wife Barbara, invited me and a very nice lady and Bob and Ann McLaughry for a ten-day cruise of the Greek Islands on the company (Caesar's World) yacht, the end ofjune, into july, and we just managed to shake ourselves free and be accommodating. We flew Boston-Athens-Rhodes to join the McElneas on the Eagle, 88 shining, gorgeous feet of her, and off we went through that most lovely Aegean geography of islands and blue, blue water and blue, blue skies Kos, Patmos, Kucadasis (Turkey), Samos, Mikanos, Hydra, and into Athens. The Acropolis, a trip to Delphi, and then home.
Well, one couldn't have dreamed up a more magnificent vacation boat ride magnificent to the »th power. Six great friends, five splendid crew members, and ten glorious days at sea sunning, beaching, touring, lazing, water-skiing, reading with four-star food and drink. The kind of thing that happens once in a lifetime, and which should happen to everyone, somehow.
Back to earth. McElnea, incidentally, ha resigned from Caesar's World and will do som relaxing for a change and some consulting.
At this summer's Alumni College, four '44 contingents were listening and note-taking: Boband Helen Purnell (second time around),'on from Arcadia, Calif.; Bill and Irving Benoist, out of Winnetka, 111.; Ruth Frost (Penn ;was mostly playing golf), Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J.; Caroline Tenney, also a repeater (Marsh recovering nicely from a heart attack), from Hanover.
Other summer drop-by-ers included Don Pfeifle, playing hooky from his Concord, N.H., bookshop to check out the Hanover climate and his cabin in Maine, 40 miles from the Sugarloaf ski resort he and Maryann ran for a number of years. Don brought us up-to-date on Bud Cannon, still in the insurance business and living in Orlando, Fla. Bud's wife Betty is Maryann's sister.
Moving along, we suggest you mosey right over to your nearest bookstore to pick up a copy of John Kimmey's paperback, Mussolini'sGold, a novel based on John's own OWI experience in Italy during World War 11. John is a professor of English at the University of South Carolina.
Thoughtful A1 Hormel, a commercial artist living in Westport, Conn., kindly sent along a clipping from the Bridgeport Post on Steve Tate, with the comment: "He continues to look like an undergraduate, while all of us go to seed (a point I, as a matter of fact, think I already passed some years ago)." Lawyer Tate's newspaper notoriety involved his leading a tax revolt movement to repeal a proposed business tax against unincorporated businesses and small corporations in Connecticut. A picture of Steve's smiling face, as it appeared in the Post, accompanies this column.
A troika of Yellow Pages items: (1) Chairman John Berry has been named a trustee of Ohio State University; (2) Bud Welch, executive vice president, National Yellow Pages Service, was featured in a recent edition of the company house organ; and (3) Bill Craig, vice chairman, has been in and out of Hanover, with wife Liz, as they've broken ground for their retirement home in the outskirts.
Nice note from NYC consultant EdFitzgerald, saying that he'd been out of touch with Dartmouth and '44 too long and wanted to make amends. He was going to start by hustling up to visit George Cummings, manager of the Mt. Washington Hotel, in late August, and then popping in for a day or two in Hanover.
Ed Knight's widow Whickey sent along a copy of a resolution passed by the West Virginia College of Graduate Studies Foundation, honoring Ed for his outstanding service to the Graduate College. It established an Award for Outstanding Service in Ed's memory, to be given annually.
An east coast of Florida clipping carried a photo and a long interview with the new commissioner of Jupiter Island, just north of Hobe - none other than John Mulliken. John was with Life and Time magazines for 25 years and he also served as Nelson Rockefeller's press secretary. "I'm just as busy now in Hobe Sound as I was before," he is quoted as saying, "and now I have a much greater effect on events than before. Here it matters, because I can shape directions and actually participate in decisionmaking. Before I was only an observer."
Lawyer Art Peabody in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, has a secretary talented not only with a typewriter, but a needle as well. Her first crossstitch rendition of Dartmouth Row was so good that Art requisitioned it for his office wall. She then completed a second version which won a top local prize as well as the regional finals in Hartford, Conn. When last heard from, her winning entry was on the way to New Orleans and the national championship.
Three deaths to report this month: Waliy Benjamin died of a heart attack in Rockport, Tex., June 3; Malcolm McLoud passed away in his sleep June 28 in Terrace Park, Ohio; and Bill "Whizzer" White was killed in an airplane crash June 29 in .Muskegon, Mich. Sad, sad, sad. Our hugs and tugs to their survivors.
That's it. Blessings.
Steve Tate '44 is behind a tax revolt that'sbrewing up down in Connecticut. As headof Citizens for Fair Taxation, which hasadopted the Boston Tea Party as its symbol,he's been making headlines and getting hispicture in the paper (this one's from theBridgeport Post). The group is seekingrepeal of a tax against small businesses.
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