1953

By the time you read this, the great '53 Winter Carnival in Hanover will be history. Put Blodgett, Bill Chamberlain, and Don Goss have put in a great deal of time on this. Put and I were at Bill's 60th birthday celebration at their house near Lake Sunapee in December. Put is keeping in shape clearing brush and preparing roads on his 200-acre tract in Lyme near the Skiway. He and Marion plan to start building next spring.

New U.S. Postal policy was set in Chicago recently, with Tony Frank doing (polite?) battle with catalog king Ted Spiegel and Barry Schoeder of the big printer/mailer R. R.Donnelly. Sock Senne was at this gathering acting as impartial referee. We don't know who licked who.

Connie Clery was inducted into the Dames of Malta, a sister organization of the Knights of Malta, in a ceremony at St. Patrick's Cathedral in N.Y.C. with Cardinal O'Connor presiding. She was cited for her and Howard's crusade in fighting crime on campus. At the Waldorf the next day, the Clerys hosted a lunch attended by Fred Whittemore, his son, Ted '90 (Marion Whittemore was busy packing for her and Fred's trip to Kuala Lumpur and other Far East points the next day), the GusAliens, Ron Lazars, Ed Boyle, Hilti Rosen,Burt Dorsetts, Bob Callenders, KentRobinson, the Dick Cahns, and others, including families of crime victims helped by the Clerys. Last year Marrilyn Paganucci was also installed as a Dame of Malta.

These big 60 birthdays are coming fast. Last one we heard about was Jim West's in Philadelphia, with Callenders, Simpsons, and Tim Thomases there. Cal tells me he saw the Simpsons in N.Y.C. in January. All six Simpsons were in town and Bob and Anne, our leading opera buffs, got over to a show.

John Corcoran tells of Fred Whittemore's 60th, put on by his sons. John is doing investment management while Sue pursues her career in psychological counseling and an additional degree. During the winter they can often be found skiing at Windham Mt, Vt., and Elena Kingsland was with them there in January. Two daughters are going to college next fall, and Dartmouth may have a shot at one of them, which we sorely need to replace our declining '53 offspring ranks.

And from the West, Brad Edgerton in Everett, Wash., reports that he's still in the insurance business with New England Life, and says he has to convince clients there's no connection with the Bank of New England. He went west to escape the crowded East. Five years ago dogs slept in the street, but he's now surrounded by 3,000 new homes built in the last three years largely on what was once an indian reservation. Deer and bears once prevalent in his front yard were driven out, but the bears have started to come back. Betsy gets a great deal of satisfaction in tutoring Indians, resettled Laotians, Vietnamese, and even some Pentecostal Russians.

Brad sees Bill and Jo Borman across the border in Abbotsville, B.C., about 35 miles southeast of Vancouver. Bill has a highly successful realty firm which has prospered with an influx of Japanese, Chinese, and others.

Fted Carleton, K-Ross, P.O. Box 436, Lebanon, NH 03766