1934

I'll drive these notes to the post office. Last time I walked them down Main Street I was stopped for a street-side interview. My photo, plus comments on President Reagan's first year, appeared later in the week - but the budget got presented in between and outdated my pearls of wisdom. That suggests that where there's a publication lead time it's probably better to be timeless than current - so herewith my timeless notes.

Roily Wilson responded to my early plea for news with a postcard of a thatched-hut-over-water scene from Tahiti on a westbound run through such exotic places as Pago Pago, Tonga, Naumea, Melbourne and the outback country of Australia, and Saudi Arabia - the kind of places we used to say in '34 bull sessions we'd run to if life after college got too rough.

Ralph Brabbee, an old housemate back in the summer of 1941 (actually a pea-green cottage at Point Lookout that we shared with RayHulsart and Marty Dwyer), gave a brief rundown of his schedule now that Kimberly-Clark has let him retire. He and Jackie spent three summer months on their boat berthed on Washington Island at the tip of Wisconsin. Then there was a wedding of youngest son Kurt in Chicago and a visit to surgeon son Rick and the grandchildren in N.Y.C., followed by a couple months of Texas sunshine at Padre Island before returning to their mainland home base at Neenah.

Speaking of Point Lookout, Van and Irene Thorne camped for that summer in a cottage nearby they had set up housekeeping in the city four years earlier. Van has retired now from public relations work for G.M.A.C. and he and Irene still use Plandome, L.I., as headquarters, near his long-time favorite activities of sailing and swimming.

While Sanibel, Fla., is their base, Dick andHelen Campen checked in at their old Chagrin Falls, Ohio, stamping grounds before the holidays and "after a very enriching experience visiting Egypt and Sicily." We understand that Dick is now in the process of giving his extensive architectural slide collection to the College - to be housed with the art collection in Carpenter Hall and known as the "Richard N Campen Architectural Slide Collection." We salute you, Dick, for making such a valuable and personal contribution to the College.

We mentioned several issues back that I. M. Sulzbacher was one of the few in '34 to come from the Deep South. Now we learn he's been doing enough community work to make up for ten of us. A Saturday "profile" from the Jacksonville Times-Union and Journal tells us how the forces who had lost the earlier rounds against consolidating city and county governments tried to recoup by staging a recall movement. According to the article, "they picked a soft-spoken insurance man with a quick smile as their recall target and the choice was wrong." Susie was singled out because he had become the central figure in the consolidated government. As finance chairman, "he devastated opponents by quoting from memory ever)1 detail of the budget." Susie is no longer on the city council but over the years he has served on the boards of more than 30 civic and charitable organizations, and he held firm against the political darts.

Ed Marceau provided an interesting sidelight on the newsletter reference to his daughter Michelle, who graduated from Dartmouth in 1981. In addition to winning academic honors, she was president of the riding club and much appreciated the generous gift of a farm (complete with stables and riding ring) to the College by Bill Morton '32, brother of our late classmate, Roald Morton. Now Ed has another daughter, Marcy, class of '85, infecting him with her enthusiasm for the Dartmouth life. No wonder Ed is still active, an orthodontist in Burlington, Vt.

Here's a test to see how well you read the MAGAZINE. What two '34 classmates had books recently published, and what were they about? Answer: (1) Elmer Fulton offered a collection of poems he wrote during World War II while serving as a Navy gunnery officer aboard merchant ships; the review says the poems, which are not about events but about emotions evoked by events, will bring back long-dormant memories. (2) Bob Rodman completed the third volume in his series designed to help Massachusetts attorneys in their practice, whether it is real estate transactions, probate administration, or business organizations. (See December issue, page 14. Aren't you sorry now you didn't save that issue?)

Happenstance brought these four Big Greeners together on Antigua recently, but it wasplanning that the meeting was recordedfor posterity. Pictured are, from left to right, Adolph\ elJr. '35, Herbert F. Roth '52, R. Hugh Uhlmann '37, and Samuel C. Williams Jr. '40.

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