1925

64 Bubier Road Marblehead, MA 01945

Alumni Records lists the following classmates as unheard from and would welcome any way to get in touch with them or just know where they are: WalterBecker, D.D.S.; Davis J. Clark Jr.; C.Burgess Cowell; Jay W. Hanlon; CharlesA. Robinson, M.D.

Word from Julia De Young, widow of "Russ" Russell, notes her change of address to 2665 Tallant Road, N.W. 186, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, and says how much she appreciates all the news and information she receives from Russ's class and classmates. She mentions his unbounded loyalty to Dartmouth.

Larry Leavitt, who had been in touch with Larry Bankhart frequently because of the latter's interest in Belmont Hill School, calls our attention to the statement Bankhart included in his resume in our 40th Year Report, where he wrote: "The span of life can be lengthened by mental and physical activity and broadened by doing for others."

Whitey White got a big spread in the Marblehead Messenger on his "Distinctive Vanes" business of making to order personal weather vanes which he carries on in their shop in his garage.

After getting his wife home from the hospital, your scribe took her place there for a couple of weeks. After numerous consults, x-rays, scans, biopsies, prescriptions, scopes, and enough other procedures to rival Dr. Seuss, the medicos pontifically decided to call it cervical polymy algia rheumatica, which, translated, means literally and figuratively, a pain in the neck. At this writing, it is a matter of getting together enough zip to head for that delayed relaxation on a palm-shaded beach in the Caribbean.

Schuyler "Sky" Foster asks the question, "What do you do now that you are retired?" and answers it, "Nothing, but I'm three weeks behind." Sound natural? He retired just before our 50th reunion, and since then, among other things, he has published a book, Activism ReplacesIsolationism: U.S. Public Attitudes 1940-1975, based on the work of his staff in the State Department. The book has been purchased by over 600 college libraries in America and many overseas, including in Britain, Germany, Sweden, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, and the Peoples Republic of China. This puts Sky in the company of other Dartmouth writers with an interest in American public opinion who graduated in the 1920s (e.g., Harwood Childs '21, Hadley Cantril '28, Johs S. Dickey '29).ep Haven Wemtz, writing to tell of Ben's sudden death as the result of a heart attack, also added some notes of interest. Among other items, she told of a dinner party she and Ben hosted at the Hillsboro Club in December, attended by Curt and Marion Abel and George andFran Zahm, as well as Bill Boies, who is a longtime member and currently president of the club. Haven says the men looked very handsome, healthy, and especially well-dressed in their colorful jackets, and she also thought the ladies very smartly dressed. After cocktails and dinner, the classmates enjoyed reminiscing.

Incidentally, Eddie Blake and Haven's son, David '61, currently dean at Rutgers, is among those whose names have been submitted to the search committee looking for Dartmouth's next president. Haven will make her home in a new apartment at a retirement home on the Intracoastal Waterway in Delray Beach this fall, after summering in Rumson, N.J.

Thought for the month: It takes about ten years to get to know how old you really are.