1939

Since our last we have lost three classmates. Ralph Wright, of New Britain, Conn., died on December 29, Jack Maffett of Pelham Manor, N.Y., died on December 10, and Bud Goodrich passed away on the day before Christmas. Not a very happy Christmas season. (Obituaries are in this or later editions.)

But talking about Christmas, we had a good fill-in on Bill and Carol Russell via their greeting card and one-pager delineating their comings and goings for the year 1983. Bill began his second term as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in January of 1983, at which time he was made assistant majority whip and a member of the Republican Policy Committee of the House. All that plus his regular committee and county government assignments keep him well occupied. He says with 400 members of the House you don't get lonely and can always find good company for lunch. What spare time is left finds Bill and Carol attending New England auctions, both watching and, on occasion, bidding.

A note from Duke Lyon suggests that he feels fortunate to remain in close contact with many '39ers, both through the Dartmouth action on Gape Cod, where he lives and sees Ted and Betty Wolfe and Lou and BettyBradley regularly (and with whom they celebrated the turn of the year), and through Boband Mary Dickgiesser, whom they visit a few times a year at the Dickgiessers' mountaintop chalet in White River Junction.

Paul Winship, another Cape Codder in the summer, reports that he is "semi" retired, which condition, he hopes, will spring him for a mini-reunion next fall.

Jim Corner keeps in touch with WymanVaughan via the U.S. mails and says that Wyman's two off-spring have sprung some distance away from Storrs, Conn., where Wyman holds forth as the head of the chemistry department at the University of Connecticut; that keeps the Vaughans busy in the visiting. Jim looks toward a quick visit on his way north this May to the Class Officers Weekend in Hanover. Jim also reports that his old roomie, Bob Schill, has recently retired from Vermont Power in favor of teaching business administration at Castleton State in nearby Rutland, Vt. He has been a part-time teacher for many years, but apparently is "on campus" more or less full time at this juncture.

Don Andrews retired from American Cyanamid almost four years ago and finds it no problem to keep busy with golf, fishing, some fall hunting, and playing in a tenor banjo group, plus keeping up with household chores, lawn work, etc. He says that he has to admit that some projects he used to do in his spare time seem to stretch out a bit longer, but maybe, he says, they are done better now.

We heard from Bob Jacobson, who reports that he now counts six grandchildren in school and a seventh (a Rollins grad) living in Boston where she is into journalism.

After his second retirement (as a French professor at St. Lawrence University), Harriman Jones took a short trip to France, both ways on the QEII. He says if all goes well he will be back at the same route in 1985. When not in France, or en route, Harriman can still be found in Canton, N.Y., where he must have been "enjoying" a cold, cold winter.

It always seems strange to us, but very agreeable, that we hear about Freddy Upton through the good offices of Dick Storrs. Strange, we say, because Dick holds forth in California, as a radiologist in Los Angeles, and Freddy practices his law in New Hampshire. Dick is properly envious of Fred and admires his youthful looks as pictured in the reports of Mary Hitchcock Hospital on whose board Fred sits as secretary. We must admit, having seen Fred in the flesh fairly recently, that he looks about one and a half years older than he did when he ran the Memorial Field track in 1939.

And talking about track, Bill Webster and your scribe met George Neiley at the track of the Leverone Field House to view the Dartmouth Relays early in January. We also managed to fit in two swimming meets, a basketball game, a hockey game, and a gymnastic contest all in the same weekend. What's more, we stayed at the Inn in style, where we dined with Bob and Evie Kaiser. Just like the old days . . .

A final note: Dusty and Happy Rohde have been spending the winter in their lovely new home at 157 South Beach Road, Hobe Sound, FL 33455. Dusty has been working with President McLaughlin's committee on the improvement of athletic facilities at Dartmouth.

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