1946
This week the foliage in the Upper Valley has been superb. Some say it is a week early, but the important thing is that it seems to be holding at peak because we have been spared the heavy winds and rain that can bring it all to an end so quickly. The leaf peepers are here in large numbers and are not being disappointed. The Harvard game is next week and those 110 classmates and family members who plan to make it back to Hanover for the game will share the treat.I cannot recall that it has ever been any better than it is right now.It also appears that we will have some 55. classmates and spouses attending the cookout at Bob and Jackie Kimball's following the game. Bob and Jackie take off the following day for Paris and several weeks of touring the French countryside.
Jack Tyler of Lewiston, N.Y.,has taken early retirement after 18 years of teaching high school business courses and is planning to retire to North Carolina, now that all five children have completed college and two have master's degrees.
Bill and Patti White write that while they cannot make it back to Hanover for the minireunion this fall, they do plan to attend our 40th in June of 1986. Son Bill '8O has just been married to Susan Thomas; the event absorbed most of their attention this summer. Bill also is completing his 29th year with Consolidated Foods in Chicago. They are the first to write of their reunion intentions, but it is not too early to start thinking about that big event.In fact, Jim Lynch has the reunion on his agenda for discussion this fall and will be looking for assistance from all quarters to help make it our best reunion ever. He also will be seeking a slate of candidates for new class officers, who will carry on following the reunion.
I had a nice visit with old roommate Charlie French in Wolfeboro, N.H., last week in his office at Home's Ford. He looks just great and happier than he has seemed in a long time. He is glad that he has sold his oil and appliance businesses and now has more time for the important things, like going salmon fishing with son Charlie on the Rangeley Lakes and trout fishing in the Dartmouth College Grant. He has retained his Ford agency and service station businesses which he really enjoys.
Art Sharr has just started his 16th year of teaching at Oxford, England, which he describes as "a beautiful university city," only 54 miles from London, to which he journeys every Saturday to see two plays and a film. He says that the students haven't gotten to him yet, but he looks forward to retirement. He still directs two plays a year, one of which is usually a musical, and performs in two musical productions in Oxford. This past summer he made a "grand tour" of the States, including a two week course in the humanities at the Kennedy Center in Washington, followed by a stop in New York "to see six shows," family visits in Rockport, San Francisco, Pacific Grove, Ft. Lauderdale, and Los Angeles, including the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
Bill and Yummy Graulty called from Hartford the other day to say that he could not make it to the class executive committee meeting. What a time the Graultys have been having! Bill has had congestive heart failure and then was discovered to have arrhythmia and has been immobilized in the hospital for three months. Upon returning home, he popped his shoulder out and continues to be immobile. Yummy has just broken her arm in an accident on the golf course. Who needs that kind of grief! Things can only go up from here!
Dale Armstrong writes that following his retirement as senior vice president of U.S. Steel in April 1983, and a great summer of travel, golf, and getting to know wife Gloria again, he came out of retirement to become vice president of sales and marketing of Rouge Steel, a subsidiary of Ford, and has relocated to Bloomfield Hills, Mich. The Armstrongs have four sons (three in Durango,Colo.) and six grandchildren. Dale says that Gloria is as beautiful and wonderful as ever and that they share golf and skiing interests, with a family trip to Vail each Christmas and an R&R repeat trip each March.
Frank Ettari reports the passing of RobertElliott Leslie of Winter Park, Fla., on August 4.Bob graduated from Columbia University after World War II and spent his entire career dealing with utility companies as an invest ment banker and vice president with Blyth and Company. Our deepest sympathies go out to his surviving sons, Robert of Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., and Donald of Cardiff, Calif., and daughter Judith (Mrs.Jonathan Wallick) of Old Greenwich, Conn.
Kenneth E. Nicholson '45 was presented an Alumni Award in November. He was cited for "remarkable recruiting efforts" which "helped put women's basketball (and women's sports in general) on the map and in the headlines." He has served as a member of the Alumni Council, as president and treasurer of the Springfield, Mass., Dartmouth Club, and as district and state enrollment director. He is a member of local, state, and national dental societies; past chairman and deacon of local churches; an active Shriner, Mason, Jester, and legionnaire; a former Rotarian, Lion, and Exchange Clubber; a golfer, hunter, and cross country skier; and with his wife, Ruth, the parent of five children. He was cited by the governor of Massachusetts for civic work and in 1981 received the Award of Excellence from the Valley Dental Society.
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