1926*
We now have our first bank president and the class should be passing out cigars. Clarence McDavitt is the man. Last January, and just too late for earlier publication in this column, Mac was elected president of the Somerville National Bank of Somerville, Mass. To quote from the Boston papers—"Mr. McDavitt resides in Winchester and is a familiar figure in banking circles having been associated with the Winchester National Bank, the Newton National Bank and the Chatham-Phoenix National Bank of New York before coming to Somerville National Bank in 1934. In 1936 he was elected vice president of the Somerville National Bank which position he has held until this time. He is Somerville chairman for the Greater Boston United War Fund Campaign of 1942."
Other of the boys also are forging ahead and are entitled to congratulations. Hank Merry recently was elected vice president of the B. V. D. Corporation of New York, nationally known manufacturers of underwear. Reg Hanson is now general supervisor of the PBX organization of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. and as such controls all installation and operation of internal branch phone systems. His office is in Boston. Jack Kjerner is now head man of the Fedders-New York Company which supplies the New York metropolitan area with a complete line of heating and air conditioning equipment, fans, valves, etc. Jack, who still retains his love for hockey and hunting, has offices at 415 Lexington Avenue.
Oz Fitts has been elected president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Vermont. And there are others, too. Harry Hall is president of the Melrose, Mass. Dartmouth Club. Ben Kent presides over the activities of the Dartmouth Club of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Jim Traquair is boss of the Cincinnati Association. Ben, incidentally, is running the bond department of the Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, is married and has one son, David Richard, now five. He says that he's given up golf, tennis and curling and his hobbies now are his family and the collecting of pipes.
1926 members of the Dartmouth Vocational Committees formed throughout the country by the Alumni Council include Gob Des Marais in Palo Alto, Tom Herlihy in Wilmington, Delaware, Bruce Eaken in Cleveland, Jim Traquair, Red Raisbeck in New York and Tubber Weymouth. Tubber of course is also an active member of the Alumni Council and a power in alumni matters in Rochester, N. Y.
Good news from Tom Farwell in East Ryegate, Vermont—"the Eddie Cantor of the paper industry has a third daughterSusan—born November 17th. Rene and baby are getting along fine. Had a call from Frosty Howland recently as he was going through town in connection with his new duties as supervisor of Montgomery Ward retail stores in this area. I'm damn busy making a lot of good paper during these strenuous times."
Gordon Chipman is Professor of Hotel Administration at Michigan State College. He had hoped that the Dartmouth cross country team would come out to East Lansing late last fall for the National Meet and was disappointed that Harry Hillman and the squad could not accept the Chipman hospitality.
Jule Blicke is assistant cashier of the Bucyrus City Bank. He and Mercedes have a family of three—Judy Ann is ten, Mary Lou eight and William Julliard nearly five. Their address, 416 East Renssalaer Street, Bucyrus, Ohio. I don't know if the raising of ponies is one of Jule's hobbies but it's a good picture of him.
From Ted Seely—"l'm sorry that it was out of the question for me to make the Fifteenth, but I had to appear at the University of lowa early in June for my last term of graduate work out there. After six summers of work, my long drill as a student is finally concluded and I got my Ph.D. this summer (in English). It's high time too, for I was determined to complete my formal education before my youngster Jon began his, which he did this month Just to keep you in possession of all the facts, I might add to the record that Josephine and I have spent our tenth year here at Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.), after leaving Harvard, and have produced two offspring: Jonathan age 6, and Mary age 5."
Frank Poor is operating the Howard Johnson establishment in Orlando, Florida this winter while his Seabrook, N. H. store is snowbound. Oh me, some people have all the breaks! Dick Sagendorph recently had a nasty session with the elimination of a leaky appendix but all is under control now and he's busy once more operating a model dairy and supplying large quantities of milk to the government.
One chap about whom we've heard little over recent years is Art Nathanson who finished his college work at Harvard. Art graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1929 and for years has been associated with the law firm of Otterbourg, Steindler & Houston, 200 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The Nathanson family comprises three—Art and Henrietta and young Robert, now 13 months; home address 170-25 Highland Ave., Jamaica, L. I. Art's an air-raid warden there. Among his hobbies is the collecting of plans of small houses.
Tref Trefethen (Harold, this time) reports from the autumn maneuvers—"l am writing this sitting in the woods near Candor, North Carolina. We came out here from our base camp late last evening. We are in a concealed bivouac in a small grove, sleeping on the ground. We probably do not return to our base camp until November 30th, when we pack up to go back to Camp Edwards (Mass.). The Carolina maneuvers have really been of great value to us."
And from Johnny Manser in Detroit—"l sure would have liked to get back for reunion but it just was not possible. I did get to Hanover for a couple of days in September. I saw Doug, Sid and Dean Chamberlain We have all been going pretty strong out here. (U. S. Rubber Cos. ever since graduation). The automobile industry has of course been going full tilt for the past couple of years and we who call on that trade have really been pretty well tied down to it. Maybe this year (1942) we will be looking for something to do as we certainly will not be selling much merchandise for passenger cars."
Under address of 329 South Kentucky Avenue, Lakeland, Florida, Uppy Upham last fall wrote to Bob Salinger—"Am enclosing my class dues. I may be at the above address for quite a long time and on the other hand I may have to shift my base of operations ere long. As soon as my affairs are on an even keel I can write more about myself. In the meantime I am interested in '26 events and want to do my part for the Class."
A large majority of the class are trying to be helpful in the nation's crisis. Carl Schipper and Bob Salinger are special policemen in Newton, "with nice shiny badges and night sticks as big as baseball bats." Jake Jacobus is a fire warden in Verona, N. J., as is Tom Floyd-Jones in Montclair. Don Norstrand is chief fire warden in charge of Kennedy's large building in Boston. Chuck Webster directs blackout precautions in Suffolk County, L. I. and already has staged a county-wide blackout involving 50,000 people. Courtney Brown is active in Westchester County defense preparations. But Brant Wallace had the tough job. As a member of the New Jersey State Guard, he had two weeks of guard duty on top of a bridge—with the mercury at five degrees below zero!
Paul Allen left Hanover early in Febru- ary to begin government research war work in Washington.
JULE BLICKE '26 EXHIBITS PONY FLESH
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