1926
The news that Sid Hayward has relinquished his post as Editor of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE is hard to accept. For years we have thought of the MAGAZINE as Sid and of Sid as the MAGAZINE.
He has had many other and important responsibilities in the executive branch of the College family, however, and under the present circumstances his decision is a wise one. Apart from Sid's jobs as Secretary of the Alumni Council, Secretary- Treasurer of the Secretaries Association, etc.,—all of which mean important alumni relations work—he has been liason officer for the College in its service to the Navy. Dartmouth is the largest unit in the Naval training program and from personal observation I know that Sid's duties are many and heavy—and without limitation as to time. He has been carrying a load too big for any one man.
Under Sid's leadership the MAGAZINE has shown tremendous strides. Not only does it now reach almost every Dartmouth man but with unfailing regularity it cops top honors among all alumni magazines for uniform excellence. All of this has occurred during Sid's regime and will be maintained, I'm sure, by Charlie Widmayer, the new editor. So we all can say,
"Thanks, Sid, for a job well done, and may you have continued and well-deserved success in your further efforts in behalf of the College."
From Bruce Eaken, in Cleveland,
"For almost fourteen years, after reading a current issue of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE, I have firmly resolved to write a short note to let you and your predecessors know how very much the class news is appreciated. However, nothing that was occurring out here seemed of much interest and'the letter was never written. Until a year ago, I was conducting a small, fairly successful, and completely uneventful law practice. At that time I was offered a position in the Legal Department of the Office of Price Administration, and -since then things have really popped. Until November, 1942, I was stationed in Indianapolis as Chief Rationing Attorney for the State of Indiana. My family remained in Cleveland and I was transferred back here about two weeks before the birth of our second child, a girl this time, whom we have named Janet. The other child is a boy, Bruce Jr., who is now five years old. I am now Regional Rationing Attorney in the Cleveland Regional Office of the Office of Price Administration, which covers Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. The work is interesting and hectic.
"I meet very few '26ers out this way, but ran into John Manser in the Union Depot in Indianapolis last November. He is living in Detroit and working for the United States Rubber Co. We rode together as far as Muncie, Ind., where he stopped off to call on an account. He looked about the same as in college, except more prosperously heavy. .Stewart Anthony is still making a name for himself at the Cleveland Trust Co., and Dick Randall with the National City Bank of Cleveland. I also ran into Jack Altizer who was, until recently, Chief Enforcement Attorney of the Charleston, West Va., OPA Office."
Maurice O'Leary has just accepted the position of assistant principal of the Springfield, Vt., high school. For the last ten years he taught and coached in Rochester, N. H., where he made a name for himself as head of the physical education department.
From the National Broadcasting Co. comes word that Art Forrest has become manager of its Public Service Promotion Division. For some years now, Art has been active in radio—research director for Mutual and promotion manager for station WBT in Charlotte.
Tiny Marsans has been elected principal of one of Maine's oldest and most distinguished preparatory schools—Monmouth Academy. We all knew that Tiny was a versatile fellow, that he coached football at Hanover for a number of years, ran a successful eating club on the side, and directed a fine boy's camp, "Cobbossee," at East Monmouth, Maine. In addition, however, Tiny was a member of Maine's House of Representatives last year and served on the publicity and education committees.
News from Chicago comes from Al Louer who is a busy member of the Civil Air Patrol. He says he recently saw Dick Mandel, on leave from his Waco, Texas, post with the Army; Ted Parker now an executive with Douglas Aircraft, "working his pants off and thriving on it," and Capt. Jack Cannon, "looking lean, fit and hungry."
In the June issue of the New England Quarterly appeared an article by Howard Rice, "Cotton Mather Speaks to France," the story of American propaganda in the age of Louis XIV.
The August meeting in Hanover of the 1936 officers, executive committee, and friends was as enjoyable as ever. It helps to get together once in a while. Present were the following—the Weymouth's, Heavenrich's, Courtney Brown's, Venneman's' Red Merrill's, Hayward's, Drury's, Morrison's, Dot Cannon, Bob Salinger, Don Norstrand, Ritchie Smith and Bob Cleary. We all were delighted to see Dan Drury, and to know that he has pretty well licked the serious illness that has had him down for months. Danny now looks his old robust self.
In writing from California to explain that he couldn't attend the Hanover gathering, Gob Des Marais says—"Hope one day to attend one of the delightful summer executive committee meetings in Hanover. The idea is excellent and the splendid showing of our class in Dartmouth activities is due to the constructive policy which originates at these meetings. I may be back East in October with the prospects of the opportunity to attend the Alumni Council Meeting. I hope Hanover is the spot."
Under the system of rotating chairmen for the Class Memorial Fund (25th Reunion Gift) Russ Newcomb has been succeeded by Carle Blunt. Russ has done a splendid job. During his regime ten more gifts were received, with an aggregate maturity value well in excess of a thousand dollars. With only eight more years to our 25th reunion, however, there is still plenty of work ahead for Carle and for all of us.
Secretary, Welsh Farms, Inc., Long Valley, N. J. Treasurer, United Shoe Machinery Corp. 140 Federal St., Boston, Mass.
