1933
Before the meeting gets out of hand as we proceed to chronicle the news according to Tallyho's Rules of Disorder, there are a couple o£ items of business. First, and this will come as no news to many of you who will already have felt the hot breath of one of Sam Black's green-shirted men on your necks, the Alumni Fund campaign is in full swing. Yes, we expect you to contribute as generously as you can, and we know you will, on the basis of our record these past few years, eventually. That last word is the joker. If more men contributed early in the campaign the class' performance would be better in the end. Not only would you be spared the ministrations and attentions of the committee, but its efforts would be spared to be applied where they would do the most good. If we get behind Sam early in this campaign we will help in several ways to put it over. Let's do it! Where's that checkbook? I've almost talked myself into something.
The other item of business is the proposed new plan for reunions that was published in the April issue. When the postwar reunions were held last year all classes were sounded out to see how strong sentiment was for reunions with classes that were together in college. Under the present plan we never see them again in Hanover. Enough interest was shown to encourage advancing a plan for a new reunion schedule. The new plan, by moving some of the reunions a class would hold either ahead or back one year, would make it possible to meet with adjacent classes at those reunions. In our case, under the new plan, our twentieth would be moved ahead one year and our forty-fifth back one year. Otherwise we would reune as under the old plan. We would like to know how you feel about this. The matter is coming up for a vote at the meetings of Class Officers in May and we would like to have some expression of opinion from the class at that time.
And so to the news. We must have made too much of our joy last month at having so much news to peddle because we seem to have nipped a promising trend in the bud. It's scarce again. But the Public Relations Division of the U. S. Conference of Mayors advised us that the Hon. John S. Monagan of Waterbury, Conn., had recently been elevated to membership on its Advisory Committee. Damned if we'd have John advise us about anything but with the Mayors of the United States, maybe, it's different.
Here not so long ago we heard that JohnMeek had settled down, after several years of travelling around for the Navy, to a quiet law practice in Washington, and yesterday we got a card from him from Iceland, mailed from Reykjavik on 39 March. Before our eleven year old made off with the card and Iceland stamps we gleaned from it that John was up there on a two weeks' trip on business for American Overseas Airlines.
Richard H. Keys was recently promoted to associate general agent in the J. S. Drewry Agency at Cincinnati of Mutual Benefit Life. A certified public accountant, Dick, before joining the Drewry Agency in 1946; was associated with the accounting firm of Lybrand, Ross Brothers and Montgomery in Cincinnati. In his new job he will supervise the induction, training and supervision of new agents.
Robert M. Estes was married on March 2, to Miss Priscilla A. Nelson of Manchester, N. H.
Our biography-of-the-month, taken from Arnie Salisbury's Delta Upsilon newsletter, has Jack Hunley as subject and author. He wrote of his doings: "After accepting all the blessings that Dartmouth could bestow on my onery hide I went to work for a Cleveland construction concern for a couple of years, and thereby saw a multitude of people, landscape, and very little money..... In 1935 (late) I went to work for a plastic manufacturing concern in Cincinnati. That was enjoyable for a while, especially as I was going around with one of the owner's daughters. Maybe that's why I never got any place there. Well, along came the spring of 1936 and I, wishing a change for the better, accepted a job with Republic Steel in Buffalo. For the next five years I became a budding young steel maggot, managing to keep myself single (which must not have been much trouble at that) and at the same time educating myself to drink 'shots and beers,' like all self-respecting Industrial Engineers.
"Well, along came a definite change after those five short years. About a week after I had told my favorite girl that I couldn't possibly serve in the Army due to my advanced age, and also due to my working in the steel industry,, Pres. Roosevelt told all my neighbors that I should represent them in the Armed Forces of the United States. (Ed's note: After basic training and OCS Jack went into North Africa with the 'Texas' Infantry Division. Later, as a first lieut. Exec. Off. he led an assault wave at Salerno. In Italy, he was in the thick of things at Naples, Rapido River Crossing, the battle of Cassino, the Anzio beachhead. Promoted to Captain he participated in the Southern France Invasion, and the fight up the Rhone Valley and the Vosges mountains. By the time he reached the Siegfried Line Jack was a Major. The Rhine, south Germany and Austria wind up the story.) From March, 1945, to the present, back at work again at Republic Steel, more from homesickness than good judgment "
Secretary, 20 Valley Rd., Hanover, N. H. Treasurer, 2812 Grant Bldg., Pittsburgh 19, Pa.
