1911
Does the picture of one of the recent gatherings at Whitefield make you want to join the group next month? It's about time to be writing either to Mary (Mrs. Thomas W. Silk) at 116 Stewart Ave., Ithaca, N. Y„ or to Schuyler Dodge in Whitefield to let them know how many of us will be on hand. Please note that the opening day is different this year, it being Tuesday instead of Friday or Saturday. June 15 is the opening date, and most of the Class will presumably follow the previous practice of being there when the hotel opens. However, there are usually a few who come in at a later date as there will still be classmates there for approximately a week. It will be a help to the management to know when you plan to arrive and the length of your stay so that they can fit you into the best rooms available according to the schedule of reservations for the regular guests. Let's try to make it a large group this year in anticipation of our 45th reunion a year from this June!
Word from Wee Kimball says that he is going to take it a little easier this summer and start pushing work off onto his two sons, Warren Jr. and Dave, who are with him in his business. Wee has built up a splendid business in insurance as an insurance broker handling independently fire insurance for some of the largest department stores in the country. Els and Wee will be spending the summer at their summer home in Contoocook, N. H. Those of us who will be driving through the state this summer will surely be welcome. He is located on the main highway between Warner and Concord about halfway between Concord and Hopkinton Village.
The age of retirement has caught up with another 191ier, Ed Chamberlain by name, who has been associated with the Burroughs Adding Machine Company for nearly forty years. He and Grace will continue to live at 16 Pine St., Winchester, Mass., but undoubtedly they will be visiting various parts of the country in the near future.
Fred Harris and his wife were Hanover visitors during the winter. Fred is always a special guest here at the time of Winter Carnival. At the present time he is more concerned with the lack of good football material than with good skiers. However, his complaint of the skiers is that they are so good that they are elected to compete abroad just when they might be needed in Dartmouth competition here. Fred is now engaged in developing a subdivision known as "Bradley Terraces" in Brattleboro. The following list of activities will indicate that he is not leading what might be called a narrow existence: honorary president, Dartmouth Outing Club; member board of governors, Brattleboro Outing Club, Inc.; honorary director with vote, U. S. Eastern Amateur Ski Assn.; Certified ski jumping judge, U.S.E.A.S.A.; Brattleboro 70-meter Ski Jumping Hill dedicated "Fred H. Harris Hill" at time of Ski Jumping Championship of the U. S., February, 1951; Dartmouth Outing Club cabin on Moose Mt. dedicated "Fred Harris Cabin" in May, 1951; past director, Brattleboro Kiwanis Club; organizer and past commodore, SpofFord Lake (N. H.) Yacht Club; organizer and past fleet captain, Spofford Lake Lightning Fleet, No. 145; fleet champion 1949, '50 and '51.
Helen Russell, Newt's widow, has announced the marriage of her daughter Roberta on January 30 in Las Vegas, Nev., to Mr. Horace Dean Manderville, of the United States Air Force.
Bob I jar si on pops into the news again. He has just returned from South America, where for seven weeks he visited American Union churches in a dozen Latin American countries bordering on the Caribbean, from Mexico through Central America, Colombia, Venezuela and several islands of the West Indies. He was able to touch all the capital cities and many of the lesser towns. Queen Elizabeth was visiting the Panama Canal Zone during the week that Bob was in that area. He comments that in general he found political and economic conditions reasonably quiet and stable. The new regime in Colombia seems to have the situation well in hand, he says. The people in Guatemala with whom he talked felt that some persons in the United States were unduly alarmed over Communistic influences there. In all these Latin American countries the political life is more temperamental than with us; there is not the solid body of educated citizenry to keep things steady even through changes.
The last issue reported that "Grandma" Ruth Hastings had ten grandchildren. Make it eleven - Lydia's latest daughter, her sixth child, being the reason for this statement. Ruth has written of the great pleasure she had from receiving Christmas cards from so many of Rollie's classmates.
Slim Eaton has become so naturalized to Virginia that he and Sibyl are now referred to as "reconstructed Yankees." He writes that they expect to be in New England this summer and will try to make it in time to get to Mountain View in June, if the visits of the grandchildren don't foul up his schedule. His report of how a retired man keeps busy is of interest:
"I find myself reasonably busy sawing wood, pruning shrubbery and manicuring about one acre of lawn. Several times a week I also dig divots on an excellent, near-by golf course - employing my well-known one-legged technique. Am involved in Civil Defense, Rotary, Red Cross, Boy Scouts and other activities, and once a week we drive back to the Midwest to take inventory of our grandchildren. I think I have reported that there are now ten, including five grandsons of which at least three are good Dartmouth prospects."
Word from the bell-ringing Troy Parker says that he has no regrets at the passing years even though "they do go by apace, the old bones do creak a little more, and the wind is a little shorter in the hayfield, but there is still joy in being alive!" He recommends Brownsville, Texas, where he and Janet spend part of the winter in the following terms:... and now a month in warm Brownsville, and when you want a nice quiet spot to recuperate in, do let me recommend the Belair Court in Brownsville. Tropical fruit in the yard, cool breezes, good accommodations, and when you get tired of housekeeping, several eating places. And of course, right across the river, Matamoros, with true Mexican flavor — and lots of cheap licker. Good Bacardi that would appeal, I am sure."
Cap Caproni writes, "Maybe I will see you in June," meaning that he and Hazel will probably be at Whitefield.
These retired lads in our Class surely do find ways of keeping busy. Here's Larry Odlin, who is the general program chairman for 1954 of the Kiwanis Club of San Marino, Calif., where he has made a reputation for arranging programs of unusual merit. Larry, like Brother Harris, is in the real estate business, and is developing a subdivision in West Corina, near San Marino, which according to the local chamber of commerce is the fastest growing city in the world. In part of the remainder of his spare time, Larry is organizing and preparing for the national convention of the Kiwanis Club to be held in San Marino next September. His daughter is a freshman at Scripps College. When he wrote, he was looking forward to a visit from Eben and DorisHolden, who were on their way to California, perhaps to become residents there.
Further word from Mac Rollins tells of what a lift he gets out of hearing from the classmates. He, himself, isn't able to write, but would enjoy hearing from any of his old friends. So if you can drop a line to him at 1 Cherry Lane, Berwyn, Pa., you will be responsible for making one more day a happy one for him.
RETIRING BANKER: Harold P. Jackson '10 (l), retiring president of the Bankers Indemnity Insurance Co., receives the best wishes of B. C. Vitt (r), president of the American Insurance Co., and Dr. H. J. Stack, at a luncheon given in Jackson's honor at the Essex Club in Newark.
Secretary, 1 Webster Terrace, Hanover, N. H.
Class Agent, 84 State St., Boston 9, Mass.
