1944

Don't expect to find John Mulliken logging any hammock time down there in Florida's Hobe Sound, to which he retired a couple of years back. As reported earlier, he was elected chairman of the town commission a year ago. But that was just the tip of the palm tree: Last April he was elected mayor of Hobe Sound; he is president of the Martin County Taxpayers Association; he is president of the South End Improvement Group; he is vice president and director of the Jupiter Island Association (a homeowners group); and he is a member of the local library's board of directors. Ho-hum. In his working days, John was only military correspondent for Life and Time magazines. From a hammock, of course.

We sure wish we hadn't been out the day Buzz Beattie and his son dropped in at the office, all the way from Seattle where Buzz is president of the F. B. Beattie and Company insurance agency. Son Jim was looking at Dartmouth as a college and apparently he liked what he saw.

There may have been a couple of dozen of you seafarers who tillered into Newport waters to watch the Aussies wrest the America's Cup from the Americans, but I only spoke to two. Dick Ostberg said he and wife Proc spent the better part of a week sailing from home port in Ipswich down to Newport, watching a couple of races, and then tacking home again.

Skipper banker Harry Carey and Pat, next door to Newport in Seekonk, didn't have so far to sail. They berth their O'Day 37 sailboat in West port, whence they cruised around the racing area on a daily basis. The boat sleeps six, and so they got their four kids and various spouses and friends out to view the goings-on.

Harry said he spotted Roger Feldman's wife Shirley in Martha's Vineyard this summer. Roger was nowhere in sight, and for a good reason. He was in Europe looking for a new boat for the Feldmans!

A no frills one liner from the New YorkTimes: "Perkins-Goodwin Co. has appointed Homer G. Bogart executive vice president and chief operating officer." So there.

From Dick Paul: "Since retirement from teaching, we have maintained our home in Culver, Ind., and have managed several 'escapes' to Florida for the winter. We spent an enjoyable 14 days last winter on the MV Cunard Princess, which took us to Caracas, Grena da, Barbados, St. Lucia, Tortola, St. Thoma s, and back to San Juan. Now we're looking forward to our 40th next June in Hanover." P.S. And a good thing, too, that Dick got to Grenada before Ronnie did.

And from Al Winkler: "The Ledyard Canoe Club made its annual trek to the sea and our local Dartmouth Club turned out in force to welcome them. Tom Miner's daughter Julie '76 was one she is with the architectural firm of Moore Grover Harper in nearby Essex, Conn.; and another was Dick Allenby's son Kent '76. He is a Navy doctor stationed at the Submarine Base in Groton. Jean and I celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary June 12."

One of the Connecticut club members who was not there to greet the paddlers was the club's treasurer, George Bruce, who had just suffered a mild heart attack. George was home from the hospital in a matter of weeks and taking it easy, but not easy enough. He slipped cleaning leaves off his pool and broke his hip. More hospital. Happily, the whole summer is behind him and he'll be in Handover for at least one football game.

Then, shive my timbers, who walks in the office almost 40 years to the day after I saw him last, but George Dyke and his new wife Gladys (his first wife died three years ago). George and I knew each other as kids in neighboring Briarcliff and Pleasantville, N.Y., and both wound up at Dartmouth. George disappeared below the Mason-Dixon after the war, working with and founding engineering firms in Greenville, S.C., and Atlanta. He retired in Atlanta in 1981 and moved back to Greenville after his remarriage. George gets up to Lakeville, Conn., twice a year to visit his parents, George Sr. '15 and Madeline. He and Gladys do a lot of camping around the country and expect to make reunion in June.

Speaking of parents, Don Dunbar's father, Victor '13, died early this summer at the age of 93, as did Ab Davis's, and Larry Flower's, Ludlow '18. Larry, who only spent a year in Hanover, is still busy as a consulting engineer and gentleman farmer in Glendale, Calif. He says he sees Tony Antonides occasionally, but he didn't say where.

Then, Howie Pennington, also out California way, sent us an obituary on Elena R. Long, the widow of Dr. Brad Long, who died of cancer in 1959. Elena's father was Robert D. Rossi, the founder of the Italian Swiss Colony winery.

And finally, another sad passing. Lawyer Carl Eldridge died in his sleep September 4 while vacationing in St. Croix. He had had some heart and diabetes problems for the past six months. Our sympathies to his wife Christina and two children, George '85 and Anne '87. Incidentally, Anne was the only '44 youngster in this year's freshman class and was on her way to Hanover for the freshman trip when her father died. That's rough.

And that's it, except for the usual reunion reminder: '44's Evergreen 40th, June 11-14, 1984. Blessings.

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