1930
Before getting to the notes gathered during these summer months (hope you were fortunate enough to get your vacation—ours continues to be a vague hope which may be materialized some time before New Year's), official thanks from the Class is certainly owing to Jack Rich and his assistant class agents for the grand job done, and 1930's performance, in the 1947 Alumni Fund. Jack, who incidentally was recently elected a Trustee of New England Gas & Electric Association, modestly attributes the fine results to the individual members of the Class and his assistants, but all of us know and appreciate the time-consuming work done by him without which the results would have been impossible.
An item of double interest to those in the Class of 1930 appeared in the newspapers in July with the announcement that Bob Kimball had been appointed headmaster of Cardigan Mountain School at Canaan, New Hampshire. This appointment culminates seventeen years of teaching on Bob's part; he has taught continuously since leaving Hanover in 1930 at Woodstock, Connecticut, Academy, Monson Academy, Canterbury School, Haverhill, Massachusetts, High School and at St. Mark's, where he has been for the last five years. Bob's wife, Virginia, will be in charge of Dietetics at Cardigan Mountain School, and with this "in," the probabilities are more than even that 1930 may be able to use its time-honored picnic spot when our next reunion in 1949 rolls around.
On August 15, Pat Weaver who, as Advertising Age said in a feature article, is "better known to no one as Sylvester," was named Vice President in charge of radio and television for Young & Rubicam. The article referred to comments that Pat
"got into radio when broadcasting was one continuous party. Radio, as a rule, is more dignified these days. And so is Mr. Weaver, although he still is most comfortable in a Hollywoodian pose with his feet on his desk. You might say Pat and radio have—in a manner of speaking—grown up together It certainly is no coincidence that the agency, which had been gloomy over its radio business, turned to a man who headed that department when Y & R was an easy leader in the field. Obviously, great things are expected of him."
New York gained and Boston lost on August 1 when Si Chandler left Boston and "Hunting and Fishing Magazine" to assume personnel work for International Basic Economy Corporation in New York, at Rockefeller Plaza. With the lack of fuss and feathers but accompanying effectiveness which has been characteristic of his chairmanship of our reunions, Si, within a period of a week, sold his house in Needham and bought a house just outside of Norwalk, Connecticut.
Carl Buhler and his family were vacationing in Canaan this summer but Carl took a day to show his 13-year-old son the Dartmouth sights and check up on the local '30 men in Hanover Hank Birge, Hank Embree, and Danny Loeser all managed, but at different times, to visit the Hanover scene this past summer Ed Weinstein, and his bride, Helen Emerson Strong, of Hempstead, Long Island, also visited Hanover this summer, we suspect on their honeymoon.
A second son, Robert Laurence Hayes, arrived at the home of Art Hayes, on April 24. .... On August 8, Billie and Fran Horn celebrated the arrival of Elizabeth Marie (Betty) as the third of their family,—the others being "Mike," age 6, and Barbara, age 4. Fran sold his house in New Haven and has moved to Baltimore where he is now living at 25 Cedar Avenue in a suburb of Towson. This move was occasioned by his appointment as Dean of McCoy College, of Johns Hopkins University. McCoy College is a new unit of the University, combining all extension activities, and last year there were about four thousand students in the program, which indicates that Fran will be more than busy this fall and this next year.
George Geiger, an assistant controller of Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc. (Chicago steel) recently bought a new home near Deerfield, surrounded by several acres of land. In addition to their young son, George, age 13, who wears shoes larger than his dad's, there is Dana, age 8 months, to keep the Geigers busy.
AI McGrath recently changed business connections, but is still in the Empire State Building and in the export-import business, with Service Export and Import Corporation Tex Stigall has recently opened his own law offices, for general civil practice of law, on the Seventeenth Floor of the Gulf States Building in Dallas Kirk Kirkpatrick, the proud father of three children who lives in Elgin, Illinois, is engaged in public relations work with Howard G. Mayer Bob Geisinger is now located in Chicago as a budget analyst with Montgomery Ward and Company Don Mcßirney, who is now President of National Bank of Commerce of Tulsa, Oklahoma. recently was in Chicago on business and checked up with the boys there GeorgeClare is now with Fisher Plastics Corporation in Newton, Massachusetts Fred Schmidt is now a partner in the law firm of McDonald & Richmond, specializing in tax law, in Chicago Anyone looking for housing in or around Chicago should surely get in touch with George Stone, who is busily engaged in several substantial building projects in suburban Winnetka and Highland Park At long last we are able to report on Bert Gross, whose address is 2371 Oahu Avenue, Honolulu. In 1944 Bert was commissioned in the Public Health Service and sent to Hawaii on Dengue Control. In 1945 Bert was sent to the island of Kauai as acting health officer. His first child, Nancy, was born on Kauai in December, 1945. In April, 1946, Bert got his discharge from the Public Health Service, but was so enamored with Hawaii, that he stayed on there to become Director of Rodent Control of the territory Dick Hood was elected President of the Los Angeles Dartmouth Alumni Club Bob Kohti, in addition to his furniture business, is busily engaged with his duties as Vice President of the Denver University Board of Trustees, to which he was elected some time ago.
1930 CLASS LEADERS: Among the alumni officers in Hanover last spring for the annual get-together were (left to right) Alex McFarland, class secretary; Bud French, memorial fund chairman; Nelson Ranney, secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Cleveland; and Charlie Raymond, class treasurer.
Secretary, Herrick, Smith, Donald, Farley & Ketchum 1 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass. Treasurer, 24 Jennys Lane, Barrington, R. I.
