1940
Having finished up the skiing for this season a short week ago, and lived through Vermont's last blizzard of the year since then, it is hard to realize that this will be before you in mid-June, that it is the end of another year of MAGAZINE columning, and that you won't hear from here again until October and football are back again. So, before the summer lull puts 1940 in the darker recesses it would be appreciated if you'd give some thought, resulting, we always hope, in some action, on a couple of class items.
Soon, if they're to amount to anything, we'll be thinking about football parties, of which two or three would be damned good times. If a few of you will express some opinions, we'll know better whether cocktails after the game, picnics before, dinners the night before, or whatever, are how you'd like to do it.
The Executive Committee is in process of considering the angles of the Class' participation in the Hopkins' Center and the Hopkins' Scholarships as memorials to our war dead. This is the year to get our plans made, our objectives set, and the machinery rolling. Let's hear from you.
Boston, taking advantage of Larry Herman's flourishing business as purveyor to highclass thirsts, had, at last reports, planned a get-together after Dartmouth's Pops night for a little bending in good company. At last, at last, the conservative Bostonians have raised themselves from the customary position which, we were afraid, had become permanent. More of this, we think, in our next.
Having but the meagerest o£ meager supplies of news for this month, we last week sent off a hurry call for help to one R. W.Hewitt, editor, business manager, reporter and factotem of a very exclusive scandal sheet, with top results. Any of the following named letter-writers, therefore, expecting well-written accounts in the green sheet, but finding this instead, have only the generosity of the above-named to blame. Our grateful thanks to him, with humble acknowledgements.
Letter Department: Bill Duncan is operating out of Erie, Pa., in his prewar job for Pickands Mather & Co. selling pig iron and coke in northern and central New York and northern Pennsylvania, getting back to Cleveland weekends for whatever bachelors do in Cleveland at such times, including the garnering of some news. He reports that: JohnnyKnutsen chairmanned the Glee Club concert and dance for the Cleveland Alumni Club; Ned and Barb Jacoby, with four-year-old Dickie, have set up again with Cleveland Twist Drill after finding the climate, or something, in California somewhat undesirable; Jack Ingersoll is finishing up at UCLA law and planning on a return to Cleveland in June; Keith Benson is finishing his law course at Western Reserve; and Karl Bruch is joint owner of a new Ercoupe, keeping him happy with a lot of flying to do.
Dr. Gordie Stokes is in his second year on a fellowship in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic including work on another degree (M.S. in Medicine) at the University of Minnesota. Gordie expresses great admiration for the clinical type of operation, for its efficiency and its desirable set-up from the doctor's point of view. He hopes to become associated with one somewhere in the East after finishing at Mayo next January.
Whit Miller, settled down in Minneapolis, is vice president and secretary of Toro Manufacturing Corporation, makers of power mowers, a very Dartmouth outfit, with Bob Gibson and Dave Lilly '39 as v.p. in charge of sales and general manager respectively. Whit left the Air Corps a major, has "some way during the last seven years acquired four children," one of whom is a candidate for the 196- team, and finds himself up to the hair roots in work concerned with labor relations, industrial relations and safety for Toro.
Jack Rourke says, "Life is sunny in California," where he, spark-plugging Jack Rourke Productions to the top of radio, Fred Fuld, in accounting for Price-Waterhouse, FrankReeves, store managing for Rexall, and DocA ulmann, since a deserter to Des Moines, have played golf several times in what is known as the "Forty Foursome," offering stiff competition to the average members of the sixty-five year old group on Los Angeles links. Jack, who runs the shindigs, has seen the following at the monthly Dartmouth luncheons in Hollywood: Chap Wentworth, Tiger Klein, Bill Huffman, Dee Jones, Chap Cranmer, Steve Valensi, John Bonter, Dave Boyle, Emory Eldredge, Ned Jacoby, Clay Macdonald, Steve Robinson and Bob Skinner. "We have quite a nucleus here and expect it to grow continuously through the years," writes Jack. "In fact, we'd be happy to take a reservation for you." It might be well, though, to have a talk with ex's Jacoby, Aulmann, Ingersoll and Skinner before signing up.
Gordon Wentworth had Sid McPherson, newly transferring to Children's Hospital in Boston, staying with them in Needham. Sid is scheduled for a residency at Massachusetts General after a year there. Gordon also reports a party the newlywed Bill Squiers threw for Bill and Mea Daniels, including Roy and Cathy Merchant among those present.
Affiliates of the month are: Roba Molstad of Brewster, Cape Cod, who joined the group through marriage to Don Hause; another Lee Bassett, newest son of Lee and Martha; and Betsy Lamson, another daughter in the Pete Lamson household.
Don't forget Alumni Fund before June 30!
Secretary, 16 Elm St., Montpelier, Vt. Treasurer, 42 Congress St., St. Albans, Vt.
