1939

We have just learned that Howie Stoughton Jr. succumbed in his Lakeland, Fla., home on March 6 of causes which are as yet unknown. (The obituary is in this or the next issue.)

Bob Davidson sent on a parcel of news on the eve of leaving aboard the Stella Solaris on March 7 for a 33-day trip featuring Easter in Jerusalem and concluding in Greece. The Davidsons might be our most active peripatetics. They were due back April 18, and for all I know, Bob may have the next issue of " '39 Out" written and published by the time you see this column.

Esther Prudden was surprised to learn through " '39 Out" that she had 16 grandchildren, and has set the record straight by admitting to two precious ones. She is living at 10 Morrow Avenue, Lockport, N.Y. 14094.

Report has it that Cornie Miller popped into the hospital on a Tuesday in January and came out with a pacemaker two days later. He says he is on his way to a better life with the addition, which is the way it should be.

Fred Fiigon sends along a note marking his retirement. He has purposely made no definite plans for the future, preferring to settle down for a spell in Lewistown, Pa., before contemplating added action.

Don Bridge writes: "After nine years at Redondo Beach, Elsie and I are moving 50 miles south and I will be phasing into retirement. I will miss my almost daily visits with Frank Davis, but we will keep in touch. Am feeling good again after two open heart surgeries." Don's address: 255 North Calle Aragon, Laguna Hills, Calif. 92653.

Another retirement was effected by Bill Cunningham on December 31, 1980, from Eastern Savings Bank of New York. Bill had served this institution for more than 40 years. He has kept in close touch with his roomie of four Hanover years, Armando Chardiet, who is currently doing his professional chores at Southern Connecticut University. Bill laments that retirements and other removals have broken up the old gang of Bob Dickgiesser, Duke Lyon, Hort Wainright, Hal MacGilpin, and Don Wheaton. Bill has three sons, two of whom have been graduated from Dartmouth Bill Jr. '72, now in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps, and Todd '73, who edits an atomic energy newsletter in Washington, D.C.

Bud Bodge wrote some time ago that he was operating a one-man business, Bodge Engineering, which manufactures wheels for small boats inflatables, aluminum car-tops, catamarans, etc. He says it doesn't make him a living but he enjoys wearing all the hats and it keeps him off the streets. As Bud says, "Being an entire small wheel rather than a cog in a big wheel has its points." Bud's son Andy '72 at last report was in Massachusetts writing for a computer company. Bud reports being in good health and spirits and confesses that despite his New England antecedents, he is a confirmed westerner at the moment.

Walter Gresham relays that it is very nice to be kicking and complaining in his mid-six-ties, a feeling that might be echoed by most of his classmates. Each year for many, Walter has shared a Christmas communication with the Tom Vents, and he reports a chance meeting in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif., with Bob Willheim and his wife. He says it was instant recognition and recall after some 42 years. The Greshams are becoming world travelers, having made several trips to France. And in October of 1979, they traveled to mainland China, where, after three intense weeks of rugged travel combined with a respiratory cold, Walt passed out precisely at customs, dropping all his papers at the feet of an alarmed Chinese official. One way of getting away with all his antique loot, he says.

Ev Woodman can be found summers at Ragged Mt. Club in Potter Place, N.H. (where he was brought up as a kid) and at 2400 South Ocean Drive, Ft. Pierce, Fla. 33450. Ev is doing a good bit of oil portrait-painting and keeps in touch with things academic by writing book reviews for a paperback catalogue in Newton, Mass., plus writing "an occasional blast to someone or other such as my letter to the DARTMOUTH ALUMUNI MAGAZINE for the September issue about the Dartmouth Review." The Woodmans are off for a trip to Russia this spring before returning to Potter Place in June.

Roy Middleworth ought to be just about returning to Clifton Park, N.Y., after wintering at 500 South Park Boulevard, Venice, Fla. 33595.

And as we put this piece to post, your scribe and his wife are off to visit our youngest at his beef cattle ranch in Quemado, N.M., followed by five days with John Newcombe at his tennis ranch outside of San Antonio, Tex., to get in shape for the summer season.

Tom Nast '37, center, and his wife Janet recently made a four-week trip through Peru, Ecuador,and the Galapagos Islands which is detailed in the 1937 class notes column. Among the high pointsof the trip was a visit to the peak of Machu Picchu, where Nast posed with Pat Broh '41, left, andAndy Donaldson '34, right, also on the same tour.

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