1944
Hooray, hooray, the first of May, Outdoor, uh . . . gardening . . . starts today.
That noted, let's go quickly back to December and an item that stuck to the bottom of the maple syrup can, namely that Judge Monte Basbas had a photographic exhibit, "The Covered Bridges of New England," in the Newton, Mass., Free Library. Monte was a photo reconnaissance fighter pilot in World War 11, and he has been shooting pictures, especially around New England, ever since. He uses a Nikon F-2 and a Hasselblad and develops all his own film. And wasn't that some Wall Street Journal front page story April 1 on Clark MacGregor, and nothing April Foolish about it. Clark is United Technologies' star lobbyist in his company's struggle against General Electric for some $10 billion in military jet engine contracts. He is described as "a burly, good-natured figure," who is the company's " . . . contact man, out front for us."
Clark himself says, "I see high-ranking people at the White House, in the Congress, and at the Defense Department. I see (White House Chief of Staff) Jim Baker and his wife a lot, and I go to campaign fundraisers. I might find myself sitting next to Ursula Meese (the wife of White House Counselor Edwin Meese) at a concert at Wolf Trap. When these occasions arise, I talk about the need for competition in the industry. I talk about the money that will be saved by multi-year contracts."
A nice note from Welpro shoeman Stan Barr tells us why we missed him at Hanover football games last fall. "While you guys were standing around guzzling beer, I was busy building a 15-by-15 addition to my cabin on Lake Moxie in Maine. I must have mixed a hundred loads of cement in my wheelbarrow for the footings alone." And would you believe I just peeked at my trusty Rand McNally, and way north of Portland and quite northwest of Bangor lies Lake Moxie, surrounded by the metropoli of Moosehead, West Forks, Shirley Mills, and Blanchard. It looks to me as though you can't get there from here . . .
From Oklahoma to here comes word that Oscar Goedecke, district manager of R.C.A. Distributor and Special Products Division's Oklahoma City sales office, has been honored as the division's outstanding salesman for 1981. Osc, who has been with R.C.A. for 25 years, was singled out for the "highest overall sales achievement by a district sales manager." By winning the award, he also became president of the R.C.A. D&SPD's Excelsior Club, an exclusive group of the division's top sales personnel chosen each year on the basis of their sales performance.
Elizabeth Wang 'Bl, daughter of the late Shih-Yueh Wang, is in her second year at Harvard Law School, having graduated from Dartmouth a year early. Her sister, Hilda '82, graduates in June.
"Nuclear Energy and the Law" was the title of this year's Annual Law Day, held March 10 in Weston, Mass., in honor of Rog and Shirley Feldman's son Michael '7l, who died in 1975.
Harry Morse writes: "Retired from the Air Force in December, short of the 20 years for retirement, so am in the active reserve. Christmas in Massachusetts, our first white one in three years, and back to Destin, Fla., which is between Panama City and Pensacola. We are now at 'The Mooring,' doing over our cottage on Lake Assawompset, near Middleboro, Mass.
"Our kids: John'7o, U.S.N., is stationed at Norfolk. Mary Jane, living in Toronto, with a new baby. She returns to Cornell this summer to complete her Ph.D. in plant physiology. Christine is raising first male grandchild in Medford, Ore. Harry Robert is in the second year of nursing at Brockton Hospital, the only male in a class of 45. And Richard 78 is back at Dartmouth in pre-med after having gotten an M.A. from Yale in linguistics."
The late Fran Reilly's widow, Betty Reilly Sullivan, wrote to say that she and her husband were on a stateside vacation from their post in Norway. They had been skiing in Aspen and were heading toward Ponte Vedre, Fla., "... with an eye to purchasing a condo at this new, flourishing, and unspoiled development.
Finally, a friend in one of the older classes, Binnie Tower '43, to be exact, asks that you check the '43 notes this month on the opening of a new Dartmouth club in Brooklyn, Conn.; yup, Brooklyn, Connecticut.
That's it. Blessings.
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