1941

Way back last fall, just before the Yale game, Jupe Lewis phoned on business relating to said game, which explains how I happened to find out 1) that the mayor of Stamford, Conn., made Jupe head of that city's United Nations Day Committee last October and 2) that daughter Nicole, Dartmouth '77, works as a paralegal with a New York City law firm and is about to commit matrimony.

Not too long afterward, at the annual meeting of the Old Saybrook Camping Association (maybe I can explain O.S.C.A. sometime, but not now), Barbara and I encountered Rog and Pat Epply. Roger was chiefly occupied at the time with work on a commissioned painting of a Norwich, Conn., church. And Pat was in the process of moving her shop, the Bear Tree, from Saybrook to Essex in time for the Christmas shopping season. The Bear Tree, with which both are involved, sells teddy bears and other stuffed animals in a variety of sizes, personalities, and prices that boggles the mind and draws customers from long distances.

A business operated by another '41 wife was written up recently in the Christian Science Monitor. Bob Lawrence sent a reprint of the article about the Pillowry on Manhattan's East Side, founded and run by his wife Marjorie. Its specialty: decorator pillows made from fragments of old Oriental carpets. She invented them and has designed and made them for about ten years, and the Monitor says, "Her enterprising idea has since been copied by others, but she remains the stable bellwether of the lot, selling to customers off the street, to interior designers, sometimes to other shops."

As for himself, Bob reports that for a second year he has taken on the presidency of the West Point Society of New York.

From Bethesda, Md., Pete Scott sends a photo taken by Helen Bye at Occom Pond during reunion and comments: "Not often you get seven '41s to stand still long enough for a picture." Sure enough, there stand Lee Bye, Don Hanks, and Jim Rogers, plus the Bob Lempkes, Paul Mahoneys, Pete Scotts, and Les Davises. You'd be inspecting it for yourself on this page except for one problem. It's in color and the ALUMNI MAG can use only black and white.

And that provides an excuse to bring up a matter I've been wanting for quite a while to toss at you. We could sure use some pictures to run with this column from time to time. Nothing is guaranteed, of course, but if you take or acquire a photo that might delight or instruct your classmates, send it to me and I will do my best to get it in.

Be warned that the editors have a few rules. As noted above, black and white only. No wedding pix. No baby pix. And they're not too enthusiastic about shots of a couple guys holding drinks and staring at the camera, unless the occasion is most noteworthy. But let's see what we can come up with. Anybody, for instance, take any B&Ws at reunion?

Harry Maxwell missed the 40th, it turns out, because he was in hospital for the second summer in a row - this time for intestinalpolyp surgery. He seems to have made a good recovery, judging by this note written in November: "Enjoying lawn bowling with the Claremont, Calif., senior-citizen crowd and will resume golf soon. Beulah and I wrote and directed an original musical comedy for the Claremont University Club. Had an enthusiastic audience of 800-plus last week. Lots of work but fun."

In September, Doug Atwood mailed his class dues and a note from New Delhi: "Still keep up six months' activity coaching high school Softball team, including two sons, in local fast-pitch league. Keeps me young! Remain in charge of CARE's India program, its largest."

And a couple of retirement notes. From Larry Tennant, Ft. Smith, Ark.: "Been retired for 13 months and haven't had a dull moment. From Lloyd Fishman, Manchester, N.H.: "Retired eight years ago but busier than ever. We winter in St. Lucia, Fla., and welcome all Dartmouth visitors."

The class of '42 was well represented at the commemoration of Daniel Webster's 200th birthday onCapitol Hill in January. From left to right are Bill Lowenthal; Keith Prouty; Merrill McLanLane;Marion Mitchell, an applicant for the class of 1986 and a guest of Bud Dutton; and Dutton.

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