Class Note 1950
Issue
I don’t remember anyone named Granville Austin being in our class. I very well recall a fellow named “Red” Austin. The March 13 issue of the Valley News observes that, although folks still call him Red, Granville’s hair has changed color and that the White River Press has published his book, titled Retrieving Times. Having lived, among other places, in Norway, Vietnam, England, Lebanon and India, he chose his growing up years in what was then the bucolic town of Norwich, Vermont, as his subject.
Dolph Cramer’s Model T Ford, with Dolph at the wheel, joined 52 of the 54 “Ts” that left Manhattan on June 12 and arrived in Seattle on July 15. Four thousand or so miles! Remember, this guy is our age. He made it despite having to replace the engine (with outside help) in West Point, New York, after the first day. Dolph’s comment on the last night out of Seattle, “Our scotch is almost gone.” Bless you, my lad.
Speaking of cross-country trips, the Cramer adventure reminded Clift Whiteman of the summer of 1950. He and roommate Lew “Bud” Veghte drove a Model A Ford from New York State to Fairbanks, Alaska. Attempting to allow for contingencies, they strapped seven spare tires to the roof—an unnecessary precaution. The tires that left New York rolled, intact, into Fairbanks. Having failed to get the gold mining jobs that had lured them north, they accepted an offer of $2.75 an hour from a logging company, which then attempted to cheat them out of their wages. These intrepid Tuck School executives contacted the appropriate local official, who got them their money and, by the way, became the first congressman from Alaska when it achieved statehood. They sold the Ford in Fairbanks for twice what they had paid for it.
Norman Fiering ’56, director and librarian emeritus of the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island, is a founder of the Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Society of North America. If you wish to learn more about this organization, Mr. Fiering can be reached at (401) 487-8008.
—Nev Chamberlain, 1835 N. Garden Grove, Vero Beach, FL 32962; (772) 569-2893; ranevero03@aol.com
Nov - Dec 2009
I don’t remember anyone named Granville Austin being in our class. I very well recall a fellow named “Red” Austin. The March 13 issue of the Valley News observes that, although folks still call him Red, Granville’s hair has changed color and that the White River Press has published his book, titled Retrieving Times. Having lived, among other places, in Norway, Vietnam, England, Lebanon and India, he chose his growing up years in what was then the bucolic town of Norwich, Vermont, as his subject.
Dolph Cramer’s Model T Ford, with Dolph at the wheel, joined 52 of the 54 “Ts” that left Manhattan on June 12 and arrived in Seattle on July 15. Four thousand or so miles! Remember, this guy is our age. He made it despite having to replace the engine (with outside help) in West Point, New York, after the first day. Dolph’s comment on the last night out of Seattle, “Our scotch is almost gone.” Bless you, my lad.
Speaking of cross-country trips, the Cramer adventure reminded Clift Whiteman of the summer of 1950. He and roommate Lew “Bud” Veghte drove a Model A Ford from New York State to Fairbanks, Alaska. Attempting to allow for contingencies, they strapped seven spare tires to the roof—an unnecessary precaution. The tires that left New York rolled, intact, into Fairbanks. Having failed to get the gold mining jobs that had lured them north, they accepted an offer of $2.75 an hour from a logging company, which then attempted to cheat them out of their wages. These intrepid Tuck School executives contacted the appropriate local official, who got them their money and, by the way, became the first congressman from Alaska when it achieved statehood. They sold the Ford in Fairbanks for twice what they had paid for it.
Norman Fiering ’56, director and librarian emeritus of the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island, is a founder of the Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Society of North America. If you wish to learn more about this organization, Mr. Fiering can be reached at (401) 487-8008.
—Nev Chamberlain, 1835 N. Garden Grove, Vero Beach, FL 32962; (772) 569-2893; ranevero03@aol.com