1925

Frank Shea claims to have no news to report, but his letterhead suggests that he is still practicing law in Washington, D.C., and is the senior partner in the firm of Shea and Gardner, with some 46 partners and associates.

Gam Rogers claims to be retired after a 60year career in architecture in Winter Park, Fla., but notes that he still spends the time "fiddling with a small citrus grove" which is recovering from last year's bad freeze, and he has plenty of other activities. He was the recipient recently of Rollins College's Hamilton Holt Medallion, among others- previously-bestowed. One of his two sons is chief executive officer of their architecture/engineering firm, and the other is in music. Three of his four grandchildren are in college, unfortunately none at Dartmouth.

I wish I could get a word like the above from more of you. You may not believe it, but there are a lot of your classmates who would like to know what you have been doing and what you are now up to. Along this line, Mark Emerson suggests that we collect your favorite anecdotes about your days in Hanover or, as he says, our "anecdotage." Why not? Your most interesting, exciting, amusing, significant, humorous episodes that you recall from our college days. Let's have them. .

Incidentally, Mark notes that he finally gave up skiing when he reached 80 and doesn't climb mountains over 2,000 feet (which he classifies as just a "hill"). His exc use for all this slowdown is a creaky knee that sometimes not only creaks but screams. He has just finished his tenth summer of conducting a "Gardener Hotline" for their county Agricultural Extension Service, after being retired from full teaching 13 years ago because he was "overage."

Incidentally, Whitey White is still downhill skiing, from their winter lodge in Conway, N.H.

Larry Leavitt notes that Irv Gutterman's son Dan was D'52 and his grandson Alex is D'B6, another of the Dartmouth family traditions. Also he tells us that Ken Hill's daughter, Polly, lives in Norwich with her husband, Dr. Jackson Forcier, associate professor at the medical school, also practicing at the Hitchcock Clinic.

Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss) has graciously given permission to the environmentalist group Global Tomorrow to use the Lorax as its symbol and to distribute versions of the Lorax book in Portuguese, Swahili, Hindu, Arabic, and Chinese, to reinforce its message internationally. If you have read the Lorax story to your children (or grandchildren), you may remember the Lorax as an oldish, shortish, brownish, and mossy critter with a walrus mustache, who opposed the "oneslers" who chopped down the trees to make "thneed" to sell so they could make money, until all the trees were gone and there was no more "thneed." The Lorax in a voice that was "sharpish and bossy" said "with a sawdusty sneeze: I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues."

Thought for the day: Earl Wilson suggests: If you look like your passport photo, you probably need the journey.

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