1930
It looks as if Boston might suffer loss of one more Thirtyman. As of March l - BobJordan was appointed assistant district manager for the Providence, Rhode Island, District of Gulf Oil. This is a substantial promotion for Bob and means that, during business hours at least, he will not be around Boston but Bob has not yet made up his mind about moving his family from Waban to Providence.
On April 1, Johnny Coppock was elected assistant treasurer of Granite Trust Company of Quincy, Massachusetts, and will have charge of the bank's consumer credit and installment financing work. During the last two years Johnny has been manager of the bank's Loan Department and is well known to automobile and appliance dealers throughout the South Shore area of Massachusetts. Johnny is a past president of the Kiwanis Club of Middleboro where he will continue to live Hank Embree was chairman of a Dartmouth Alumni gathering in Chicago, on April 3, which included cocktails at the Chicago University Club, a concert by the Dartmouth College Glee Club and a supper dance at the Bal Tabarin of the Hotel Sherman. What with Bob McClory acting as secretary of the Chicago Alumni Association, it certainly is a fact that Thirtymen are really in charge of alumni affairs out in Chicago Word from Bill Fieldcamp gives us the news that he has moved from Santa Monica to a new home at 2435 Daines Drive, Temple City, California. After moving, and in the process of settlement, Bill was delighted to find how small a world it is upon learning that his next-door neighbor was a Dartmouth man of the Class of 1940.
Indicative of his success as a reunion chairman (which, all of us would readily admit but probably take too much for granted) is the fact that Si Chandler was one of a committee of five to prepare a manual for class reunion committees of the College. Anyone familiar with 1930's successful reunions will certainly discover the "hand of Chandler" in many of the paragraphs of this publication which will certainly be a big help to those classes who are less fortunate than we in having Si, who assumes the manifold problems of a reunion and the headaches caused by procrastinating classmates without the least ruffle and always produces a better reunion than the last Recent visitors at the Inn have included Laurie MacKenzie, Mr. andMrs. Rollie Booma, Mr. and Mrs. Hal Booma,Mr. and Mrs. Ed Butterworth and KirtMeyer.
The fact that my news file for this month has been emptied after the foregoing jottings is my only excuse for indulging in a personal reference, but your Secretary considers it one of the most newsworthy events of his nonnewswcrthy career. Last fall, much to the delight of Eddie Jeremiah when he heard about it (as a matter of fact he was not the least bit hesitant in laughing out loud when he learned of the fact), the McFarlands took up figure skating. For one such as your Secretary who never, even in his youthful days, could negotiate ice on a pair of skates, it was certainly an extreme attempt to regain lost youth. During the first of April, the Skating Club of Boston put on four performances at the Boston Arena of an ice show which, from the standpoint of an enthusiastic and unskilled member such as myself, was fair rival to even the Ice Follies. During rehearsals for the show, in which my nine-year old son and seven-year old daughter were participants, I nursed the fond hope that perhaps some year they might find a small-bit spot for me. can imagine my feeling of pride and accomplishment when, during the last week of rehearsals of the show, which featured world and Olympic champion Dick Button and four national champions, your Secretary was asked by the Director to participate in the opening number. To be sure, it was a "mob scene' and anyone attempting to locate me would have had to look in exactly the right spot during the approximate 40 seconds of my appearance, but I can tell you that it was with a feeling that I had really "arrived." Eddie would never believe it, but I negotiated both my entrance and exit on the skates.
Remember the Alumni Fund and your per- sonal help to Jack Rich and his Class Agents. It is an altogether too familiar refrain, which your Secretary chanted for many years, but it is certainly a fact that the early gifts are an extra big help.
Secretary, Herrick, Smith, Donald, Farley & Ketchum 1 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass. Treasurer, 24 Jennys Lane, Barrington, R. I. Class Agent, xo Post Office Sq., Boston 9, Mass.
