1957

Bob Shirley sent a wonderful letter. Excerpts follow: "I spent a week with Bob Creasy. Bob is a very famous author and professor in ob-gyn and for the last ten years has fished the Lake Taupo region of North Island, New Zealand, whenever he can. (Two sabbaticals) He ties hundreds of his own flies. Can cast as well as the guides and loves the Tongarriro River and the town of Turangi. Under his guidance I learned to fish that area and caught 18 rainbow averaging five pounds while he caught about SO. My biggest three were six pounds but he caught seven-eight-, nine-pound fish. He and Judy were wonderful to me.

"Tom Hall has retired from practice and plans to fish four months in Montana and four months in South Island each year. He was almost killed last year by a damn dam operator who opened the gates for some rafters or kayakers without checking the river. Tom was suddenly trapped in the middle of a big river, hung onto a tree for one hour and then swam to shore in his waders.

"Larry Guild's wife, Ginny, lost her valiant battle against pancreatic cancer this summer after 2 1/2 years. She outlived her prognosis by two years. Cal Perry, Charlie Sellman,Bob Rex, Al Akeson '58, and I were honored to be bearers at her lovely service in Laconia. We've been beating the golf ball with DanGoggin, Bob Loverud, Peter Thompson, and Al Akeson this summer but not as successfully as last year. Althea and I just returned from our camp at Shin Pond, Me. We spot- ted both osprey and bald eagles at the lake along with the loons, heron, ducks, etc."

Fred Bacon '59 wrote: "With sadness, I must report to you the death of my brother, Richard Bacon '57, on August 1. Dick loved Dartmout. In fact, he kept a complete file of all the writings and speeches of John Sloan Dicjtey which is intact in his home in Potomac, Md. Dick was tax counsel for the R.T.C. in Washington."

Charles W. Maschal has been named executive director of the Foundation for Medical Care of Santa Clara County and lives in Los Altos.

Ed Bessey of New Canaan, Conn., vice chairman of Pfizer Inc. and president of the U.S. Pharmaceuticals Group, is retiring. The CEO said, "Few could even come close to the distinguished career Ed Bessey has had with Pfizer. He is not only an outstanding businessman, but also a first-class gentleman. I will miss his counsel." Ed joined Pfizer in 1964 as a marketing assistant in the Pfizer laboratories division.

Yankee magazine honored HappyGriffiths as one of 60 special New England people in its 60th Anniversary Issue. Happy, past president of the New Hampshire Herb Society, college lecturer on herb culture, designer, and guiding spirit of the 11,000-square-foot herb garden at Lower Shaker Village in Enfield, spends mornings at the village directing the work of 20 eager volunteers, then rushes home to spend afternoons among her own beloved herbs. She says, "I got interested in herbs because I loved their fragrance when I brushed against them in the garden."

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The light of love in the eyes of Brud Leiter restored, in this old cynic, the belief that there can be happiness in marriage. RICHARD F. PERKINS '57