1923

In answer to a query from Bob MacMillan, Charlie Zimmerman has offered some very wise and timely comments on the election of College Trustees. Charlie will share his thoughts with any of you who are interested.

You will be pleased to learn that Babe Miner reports 89 per cent of our active members paid their class dues last year. As you already know, Alumni Fund participation was 100 per cent. To some degree at least this continuing loyalty to the College and the class is due to the news brought us regularly by "Skiddoo" and the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. The MAGAZINE is now being sent to 197 classmates and 138 widows at an annual cost to the class of about $1,800. "Skiddoo" is sent free to all of us.

My apologies to Louise Howe for the goof that mispelled her name in the March issue.

Again, in an effort to update the news about some of you, I resorted to the telephone. There were several "don't answers" that I enviously attributed to absence in Florida and similar climes. I did, however, find Henry and AnnHudson at home in Duxbury, Mass. To bring you up to date on the Hudson clan: there is son Henry III '55, who has four children, and daughter Joan who is married to a physician, also lives in Duxbury, and has three daughters all "pretty and smart." One is trying to decide between law school and Taiwan; a second, a Yale graduate, is on the way to a Ph.D. at Cornell; and a third is at Middlebury College. Son Henry's four include a graduate of Pennsylvania State, one each at the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell, and a daughter married to a physician just starting his residency. This latter couple has recently presented the senior Hudsons with their first great-grandchild.

Henry says that he and Ann have traveled a great deal in the past but they now lead a quiet and bucolic life with only moderate restrictions. I hope I have accurately relayed the doings of their interesting and accomplished family.

I also talked with Lee Young's wife Helen in Amsterdam, N.Y. Lee was in the hospital at the time, "making excellent progress and looking forward to coming home soon." Helen proudly told me that their granddaughter Mollie Sauereisen '84 is a Dartmouth freshman who expects to spend the fall semester in Spain together with some 25 other Dartmouth students. There is also a second granddaughter who hopes to join her sister at Dartmouth in another year or so. The Youngs's son Herbert is class of 1957 and Tuck School '58. Lee served 1923 as head agent from 1948 to 1954.

Stu Summers wrote Cap Palmer from Lemon Grove, Calif., to report a few aches and pains but said he is getting along all right. His citrus trees suffered a bit in 1980 and the outlook for 1981 is not good. Also from Tommy Chambers in Escondido, Calif., comes word that he and Gert expect to move soon to Montgomery, Ala., to be near their family. The Chambers have just acquired a great-granddaughter.

As of this writing, Olive and Ted Caswell are still in Naples, Fla. Ted has been in the pool a lot and is looking forward to going to the up-coming Fort Myers-Naples Dartmouth Club dinner.

In a letter to Ike Phillips, Monk Keith tells the sad news of the sudden and unexpected death on January 10 of his wife Ana. Also we have just learned of the death on March 17 of Art Little's wife Edith. She had been in poor health for a long time. On behalf of the class we extend to both men and their families our deepest sympathy.

Louise Howe is shown here before thecommemorative plaque in a Nassau, N. Y.,hospital laboratory recently dedicated tothe memory of her late husband, WallisE. Howe Jr. 23, "Friend & Journalist."

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