1923

Bill Kimball's family continues to grow: 17 grandchildren and now, by the latest census, 12 great-grandchildren. This year Bill completes 18 years as president of Sanibel Island Inn and plans to retire. Last winter was the coldest on record, but vacationers continue to arrive in ever larger numbers. The island's "reverse osmosis" community water plant is a lifesaver. It converts seawater to potable liquid and pumps the salt back into the Gulf, as do the Israel, Key West, and Guantanamo Bay operations. Dorothy's brother has recently donated an exercise pool to the Kimballs and plans to build a home on the island for his own family, which includes two adopted Chinese daughters.

George Mason is still practicing in Worcester, Mass., specializing in the field of labor law. He is a member of our Phi Beta Kappa and Harvard Law School delegations. Both of his sons are Dartmouth graduates. George himself plays a lot of golf and says he is in excellent health. His wife passed away some three years ago.

Roy Temple, another of our practicing attorneys, had a year of bad health in 1980 and spent three sessions in the Marlboro Hospital. He has been closely associated with this particular hospital for many years, first as president of the board of trustees and now as chairman. This year he is back to normal, and goes every day to the office, where he is fortunate still to have the same able secretary he has had for the past 30 years. Roy chairs the board of Northboro National Bank, is a director of California Products Corporation (a paint and paving company in Cambridge, Mass.), and is a trustee and former chairman of the board of trustees of Wilbraham Academy, where he prepared for College.

George Coaker retired seven years ago and is now living in Milton, Mass. For several years he was in the meat industry (where he did business with classmate George Morrell). George and wife Margaret were married when he was an officer in the Air Force. They have one son, an engineer in Richmond, Va., who is married and has two sons. Margaret, who has been generally in good health, attended her 50th reunion last year at Longwood College in Farmville, Va.

Harold Ballou has lived in Barrington, R. 1., for the past 32 years and seen the town grow from 9,000 to 22,000 in that time. He closed his large and prosperous shoe store in Providence when the building was sold and opened a smaller one in Barrington in 1953, which he sold in 1970 when he retired. Both he and wife Emeline are in good health. Harold's residence at Dartmouth was interesting. He expected to enter with the rest of us in the fall of 1919 but could not make it until the second semester of freshman year. Craven Laycock told him it was unorthodox to enter at that time. Harold then appealed to "Hoppy," who said he could which he did. At the end of sophomore year he transferred to Brown University, where he graduated. He assures me, however, that his "heart is still with Dartmouth."

And what may be another first for JulesRippel! Last spring he was commissioned a Kentucky Colonel by the governor of that state. Jules is wondering if he will be given the mint julep detail.

This is the last issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE until the fall. I cannot close this report without special mention of Bob McMillan, who died on April 20. His career was active and very successful and included service in the military. He was ever alert to and interested in the welfare of the College and the lives of his classmates. He was our class treasurer from 1938 to 1943 and a class director at the time of his death. We shall miss him greatly. To Natalie and Faith goes our deepest sympathy.

Ted Geisel '25, right, discussed pedagogy in La Jolla, Calif.,last March withGeisel Third Century Professor Jon Appleton of Dartmouth's Music Department.

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