1940
The 194.7 Alumni Fund Campaign, 1940 division, is underway. No high pressure, no selling job (that was complete seven years ago)—just the usual mention that it's time to dig down, count the pennies, shrewdly calculate, and chip—to the end that Dartmouth over the years will be ever better, in the pattern that we remember and to which we owe so much, in large part made possible by the financial support o£ the alumni then. It's a lot easier now to put this down for a moment, find the checkbook and write it out. How about it? Mail to Don Fox, or just Alumni Fund, Hanover.
The Executive Committee has gone on record, in line with the expression of sentiment at the reunion last July, favoring the Robinson Plan for reunions described in the April MAGAZINE. Under the plan, '40 would be back in '5O, '56, '61, '65, '69, '74 and 'BO, for our 10th through 40th reunions, twice with '4l and '42, twice with '38 and '39, and three times ( 10th, 25th and 40th) without adjacent classes. We'll vote at the class officers' meetings this month favoring this plan.
Bob Foss, letter writer of the month, settled in Danville, Virginia, with his wife Olive and two sons (the second acquired five months ago), says of his war experience, "We were a 'part of the nth Airborne Division and went to New Guinea, Leyte (where we fought to our armpits in water in the mountains and the only airborne part was our food because we couldn't get it any other way), Mindoro, Luzon, Okinawa and Honshu—where we landed at Atsugi.as the first combat troops in Japan—wondering whether we were fools or not. I came home soon after that, thank goodness, and haven't yearned to be back since, retired, as it were, a Major:" Bob. is doing time study work for Dan River Mills, bought a house as the only way to get a place to live, and finds '4os scarce in Virginia.
Our six year effort, extolling in these columns the northern part of the sovereign state of Vermont, paid off this winter, although somewhat meagerly. Bill Bumsted, for one, has been encountered on three occasions at Mount Mansfield sliding nonchalantly down the tougher trails, usually accompanied by a maid of beauty. He always goes back to New Jersey, however, indicating the difficulty of breaking habits of long standing, even bad ones. Last week he reported the birth of Sandra Schott, weighing in at something like 6 and 4. There was some crude crack about that at the time, which we can't print, but Bill seemed pleased about it, anyway, and reported Don as busting out with pride at the event. Also regulars at our mountain have been Dr. Al Humphries and wife (since last June), Marion. Al is a fellow in the Hitchcock Clinic in orthopedics, adding greatly to the practical possible benefits of skiing with him. He told us of the birth of a son to the Jack Schleichers last December, which Jack has been reticent about, of Dr. Howie Oliver giving up general practice in Worcester to take up pathology somewhere around Boston, and of Dr. Bob Storrs slated to join the Hitchcock staff in the near future. Bill Halsey keeps breaking into print in these parts for his skiing, both coaching and competing, but we have just missed connections all around the ski belt.
Marriages, as we read by the papers, are: of Fred Bachelder and Margaret Goldhorn at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, February 15, with Jud Lyon holding the groom's right arm; of Bill Squier and Mrs. Gerald M. Sullivan Jr. (Pattie Haislip) in the Chapel of the Church of the Transfiguration, New York, February 23; and, Betty Moore became Mrs. Phil Dostal April 7 in Grace Cathedral, San Francisco.
The reports from Hanover, added to a little research and some conjecture, yield the following: Ralph Palmer is one of Harvard Law's latest and has a new address at something Fifth Avenue, New York, which we assume means employment there; Jack O'Brien, last reported holding the Navy's postal service together, is evidently out and back in Boston as a civilian; and Ned Jacoby has forsaken the rigors of a California winter for the pleasures of a Cleveland spring, we assume en famille.
TWO MEMBERS OF THE 1940 FAMILY EMPLOY THE FINGER-DIP TECHNIQUE. Bud Hewitt '40 and Swift Carothers, son of Chal and Jo Carothers '40, share the same glass at the Carothers home in Westfield, N. J., Bud employing the orthodox technique and Swift using an inventive finger-siphoning method shown above.
Secretary, „ 16 Elm St., Montpelier, Vt. Treasurer, 42 Congress St., St. Albans, Vt.
