1940
The fall feature of 1940 activities, our campaign to get in a little dough, was doing very nicely at the last report, which will be six weeks old by the time this is printed. The somewhat boastful optimism of the early figures a year ago held up for the whole drive, so there's good reason to believe the class will come through again. When this reaches you the campaign will be near the end, so, you few who haven't mailed your four to Jack, get busy. So you won't need any equipment but the check, envelope, a writing tool and the inclination, here's Jack's address: John F. Willson, W. B. Fonda Co., St. Albans, Vt. Incident to your payment you might tell Jack if the address used in the dues mailings is incorrect.
News gleaned from the dues letters: Creight and Jean Holden are parents of a son born in September, making it a boy and a girl; DannySullivan is District Manager for Community Oil in Portland, Me.; John Moore in the actuarial department for Metropolitan Life in New York; Roy Merchant a new entrepreneur in popcorn vending machines around Boston; Ken Arwe has moved his law practice to Nashua, N. H.; Dick Funkhouser in Hagerstown, Md., in business with his father; EdFritz is teaching at Wesleyan this year; JoeO'Hare is in Shanghai, with his family scheduled to join him there in November; and BillWalk is still in the Army and taking a course in meteorology at M. I. T. or Harvard.
The group around New York continues to be the only really active class bunch this fall, although assurances from Boston and hopes for Cleveland and Los Angeles may change that. The Dartmouth Night dinner scheduled by Bud Hewitt, found the following bending a few together: Dick Bowman, Bob Brooks,Bob Bunker, John Burnap, Bill Coulson, BillDaniels, Ray Dau, Don Fox, Bill Hutchinson,George Johnson, Dave Leake, Jack Little, JohnManley, Tex Meyer, Harvey Noll, CharliePower, Cal Sterling and Bill Webster. Bud plans occasional dinner meetings for the balance of the year at the Dartmouth Club if enough interest is shown. The luncheon gatherings continue every Wednesday, meeting in the Club bar at 12:15 to 12:30. Bud can be reached at 37 West 39th St. (business, telephone Chelsea 2-0039) or 400 East 52nd St. (home, telephone Eldorado 5-1932).
So far as I know at the moment, the following are the football peeraders this fall: PennBill Rearden, Bill Coulson, Chal Carothers, EdSchechter, Bud Hewitt, Kel Doyle; Columbia Jack Willson, Oscar Acer and the secretary; Yale Fred Eaton, Les Nichols, Ed Schechter,Cal Sterling, Bob Brooks, Red Hofmeister,George Johnson, Walt Kelley, Al Eiseman, LeeBrekke, Hugh McDowell, Charlie Power,Johnny Newman, Bob Clark, Fred Bachelder,Bill Mercer, Bill Bumsted, and Bud Hewitt; Harvard Howie Stockwell, George Kimball,Gordon Wentworth, Bill Squiers, Mickey Miller, Ted Miller, Ron Woodberry, Danny Sullivan and the secretary.
From the mailbag: Bill Webster is up from section manager to a special research job with a long title at Lord and Taylor; Bob Blodgett stopped in at Monrovia, Calif., on the way back from overseas and has stayed there with Sherwin-Williams; Bob is engaged to an Englisti girl from New Delhi, who will join him this fall or winter; Jack Mac Donald is Personnel Manager at E. E. Fairchild Corp., Rochester, N. Y., lithographers and playing card manufacturers; Jack Rourke is running the monthly luncheon program for the Dartmouth Club in Los Angeles, and story-telling for a new radio program "Fact and Fable" out of L.A.; Chet Berry, Ph. D.'d by Cornell in physics in September, is working for Eastman Kodak "probing the secrets of atomic structure using X-ray and electron diffraction"; he's proud of a new son, born July 30. Kim Flint is back with Tennessee Eastman at Kingsport; Joe Burnett is studying at Rochester for his Ph.D. in physics; Al McKernan, married in October to Phyllis LaValley of Lebanon, is working for the VA out of Brattleboro, Vt.; Les Nichols is director of a newly organized Public Relations Bureau at CCNY; Kirn Atkins has been awarded a newly established administrative interneship at the Rhode Island Hospital, Providence. During the war Kim was an officer in the Army Medical Administrative Corps, and Brownie is out of the Navy and back at Harvard Business for eight months to finish the course he started before the war.
According to recent changes of address forwarded from Hanover: Bill Daniels is selling for Monsanto out of New York; Bob Dibble is studying at Harvard Business; Al Eiseman is an editorial assistant with Pantheon Books in New York; Dave Fish is a meteorologist with American Airlines in Chicago; Bill Lucking is at Michigan studying law; Jud Lyon is teaching English at Rutgers; Welles Seller is in production with Storms Drop Forging Co., Springfteld, Mass.; Lindsley Baldwin is a section manager with Abraham & Straus, New York; and Don McCaffrey is teaching high school in East Jaffrey, N. H.
New and prospective members of the class, division of affiliates, are: an eight pound, as of September 14, right half, named WilliamBenedict Rearden 3rd; a nameless lass in New York who promised Harvey Noll; Esta Leonard of Greensboro, N. C., who married BobDraper; Charles Chester Berry, somebody Campbell, son, since early September, of Bud and Betty; Larry Keeler's first son, who joins his two sisters; and Roberta Kamins of West Hartford, engaged to Dan Feldman.
And an important message from Hewitt to the effect that the class has misunderstood his real achievements in life in calling him the "Corset King." He denies it. But, were any to say "Monarch of the Garter," he could not, being the modest and unassuming lad he is, but lower his eyes and admit it.
Secretary, 16 Elm St., Montpelier, Vt.
Treasurer, 42 Congress St., St. Albans, Vt.
