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We're in an academic mood this monthfull of news of the schools and colleges. So let's begin with honorary and Honorable classmate, Ernest Martin Hopkins, who has accepted election as president of the National Life Insurance Co., Montpelier, Vt. Query: Will he go to Vermont to live? In that case he'll sure enough be elected to the United States Senate, because that's where Vermont sends all its good men sooner or later.
Bob Miner went out to Miami University, a fine institution of learning located in Oxford, Ohio, way back in the fall of 1946. There he serves as Director of Student Affairs, with an assistant and a staff of 40, most of whom act as heads of dormitories and keep things in order generally. Bob took his Ed.D. degree from Columbia's Teachers College in 1942.
Time was when Washington & Jefferson College ranked higher with the pigskin than the thesaurus. That may or may not be true to this day; but Almus Russell found insufficient inspiration as head of English at W. & J., and moved on this past September to the State Teachers College in Bloomsburg, Penna.
Charlie Stevens, class expert in Spanish, has finished out his wartime stint in Mexico and come back to his old post at Rutgers as Professor of Romance Languages Paul Bowerman, another who has seesawed between foreign service and the halls of learning, stays happily on at Caltech, with an address comfortably near the Rose Bowl at 1201 E. California St. in Pasadena Charlie McKenzie, dean at Westminster College out in Missouri, represented Dartmouth at the inauguration of the new President of Lindenwood College.
Remember how inseparable Bud Weymouth and El Cheney were in undergraduate days? Both have been close-mouthed about themselves ever since, but it's Bud who sends in the welcome word that El has been elected president of the Physics Club of the Lehigh Valley. As Professor of Physics at Lehigh, El is a contributor now and then to the learned journals, his latest being an item entitled "Demonstration of the Dialectric Constant of Air" in the November-December AmericanJournal of Physics.
Bud, as Clark School instructor, belongs among what the Aegis used to call fratres inurbe. A quick roundup of some of the others brings in these tidbits: Brother John Amsden never breathed it aloud, but he published with McGraw Hill in 1946 Physical Chemistry forPremedical Students, reported by the BookReview Digest to be "based on Prof. Amsden's lecture notes used in Dartmouth during the past 12 years." Brother Al Frey is Staff Editor of, and contributing editor to, the MarketingHandbook recently published by Ronald Press. Brother Paul Sample was one of 14 American artists who "painted the portrait of Philadelphia" under the sponsorship of Gimbel Brothers and under the direction of the Associated American Artists of New York. Paul's painting of Logan Circle was reproduced in the Christian Science Monitor last November 11.
A second-generation member of the Hanovet delegation has a name that we've all been watching on the sports pages these last two weeks. She is Elmer Stewart's daughter Ruth Marie, and she's a worthy member of the U. S. Winter Olympic Team. Among her accomplishments at St. Moritz she was the third American girl to finish (20th in 2:42:0) in the women's two-mile downhill ski race, and was also third of the Americans (12 th in 2:16:4) in the slalom part of the women's Alpine combined ski test.
Time marches on, and another four years might well see some Olympic track and field winners among the sons of '2O. There ought to be a Tommy Thomson, Laddie Myers, JakeGorton or Zack Jordan in the lot somewhere. Jake himself, incidentally, (he's a Pentagon worker) is pausing for breath in his endless relay race, at 1210 N. Veitch, Arlington, Va. And Zack has quit the Coast for his old love, Denver, where he's attached to the Advertising Dept. of one of the world's most famous newspapers, the Denver Post.
The Class remains active in the part it plays in Dartmouth's Selective Process. When the Greater Boston dinner was held last fall for the chairmen of interviewing committees, there were more on hand from Twenty than from any other class—notably, Al Cate, TudorBradley, Rog Pope and Dick Welch. Dick ought to know how to pick them; his boy, Junior, was just elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Hanover. Roger's son John is at Kimball Union on what might turn out to be the road to Dartmouth. Al, who is interviewing chairman for the Needham-Dedham-West Roxbury area, has another chairman's job with his local hospital board.
A Westchester selective processor is PaulKay, who keeps busy in a multitude of other ways. Paul lives in Harrison and carries on his insurance business in Port Chester. Among the honors that have recently come his way are the presidency of the Westchester Life Underwriters, the vice-presidency of the Port Chester Rotary Club, and the vice-presidency of the Harrison Men's Club.
From two out-of-the-way corners of the map come welcome communications. Stan Antrim's Christmas card shows a large collie dog and three kids with plenty of devilment in their handsome features. The collie presumably helps to keep the sheep in order on Stan's Stevensville, Montana, ranch. The two girls, Priscilla and Jacquelyn, must be getting on in high school, but it will be a year or two yet before son John is ready for his secondary education. Al Steinbrecher of Tucson, Arizona, is the other correspondent from way out yonder. Al wrote on November 12:
Working hard at "ranching," growing citrus and asparagus. Beans this year 6"-9"-12" (Fellow- horticulturists please interpret—; Ed.) Weather this summer very warm, but quite nice now—about 80 in the daytime, down to 40 at night. Have been taking up ham radio and expect to get my license by Christmas. Are there any other amateur operators in the Class? Do they have stations? You should see the turkeys we raise out here, bigger than ever.
As lovely a picture as this critic ever hopes to see appeared in the Manchester (N. H.) Union for December 31. It was a Bradford Bachrach portrait of Sherm Adams' daughter Marian, whose engagement was announced to William S. Freese of Pittsfield, N. H„ Army Engineer veteran of service in the South Pacific and member of the Dartmouth class graduating in January. It is a relief to have the distaff side of the Adams family pictured in the papers, and it's a pleasure to elect Mrs. Sherm (Rachel) Adams our Hostess of the Month. She will always make you feel happy and comfortable in their Lincoln, N. H., home. Rachel gets in the news ordinarily when she puts on one of her puppet shows, as she did for the Ashland Girl Scouts early in December. But Sherm himself can't keep out of the news. Through the latter months of 1947 they had him (1) posing with one Thomas Dewey, who was aiming to help along the campaign for a N. H. hospital for crippled children; (2) crowned king (and escorting a ravishing queen) at the Lancaster Winter Carnival; and (3) togged out in some sort o£ dunce cap, telling the N. H. Fairs' Association that it darned well better mend its ways.
THREE HOTCHKISS SONS IN '50: Having three boys at Dartmouth is quite a record for any alumnus, but Gene Hotchkiss '22, Alumni Councillor from Chicago, tops that by having three sons enrolled as classmates. Left to right are the twins, Eugene 3rd and James, and their brother Frank, originally entered as a '47 but delayed by service in the Army. In addition to reasons apparent above, father Gene has cause for pride in their College achievements.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y. Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass. Class Agent, Box 315, Hanover, N. H.
