1933

We are going to take you on a sort of Cook's tour this month. Before we get through we will have touched on unexplored mountain ranges in western China, the possible grafting of Communist shoots ('scuse, please) on that hardy perennial, the South American revolution, the jungles of Venezuela, and intermediate points.

Taking a quick glance around our point of embarkation, first, Hanover offers us a number of items of interest to you. Before he took off for a brief vacation in Florida, Reunion Gauleiter Bill Dewey spurred and drove his local collaborators to agreement on the major outlines of the reunion program, our Three Day Plan, we call it, got committees down to real work on the details, and with the services of that old hand at writing Newsletters, Ripley, got the word out to you. If you have not yet returned the postcard enclosed with the letter, do so promptly so that our well-oiled machine can move into the later stages of preparations for this celebrated event.

Also in the realm of more or less official business is the Alumni Fund, off to a good start as we write but bound to be rolling under a full head of steam by the time you read these notes. Give Sam Black and his team the advantages that an early contribution means in pushing this campaign through to a successful conclusion.

Unofficially, Hanover in mid-April has pulled the almost unprecedented trick of making the shift from winter to spring overnight. The duckboards went down one week and were taken up the next. No mud. The shift from vice to virtue was not complete and unblemished, however. While one member of the community has already played golf a dozen times this spring, we looked out upon a wintry landscape and two inches of snow when we got up this morning. There are other topsy-turvy developments. It has seemed strange, against .a background of war talk, to hear undergraduates saying, as they did in '40 and '41, "Better get out the old uniform." and "What's the use of cracking the books?" So much like pre-war days it hurts. This hysteria has quieted down a little now. Not so topsy-turvy, but regrettable nonetheless, was our having missed seeing Les Legrow and frau and Walter Watson and frau when they visited Hanover some weeks ago.

Sid Hay-ward has just returned from a jaunt to alumni groups in the Southwest and the West Coast and has dropped a couple of '33 items in our hopper. He brought the good news that the Justin Stanleys have recently been blessed with twin boys, whom they have named Justin and Harlan. Justin told Sid they'd wanted a boy and had been more than mildly surprised to find they'd been twice blessed. Justin hopes to make the Alumni Council meeting this June, if Isham, Lincoln & Beale, the law firm with which he is associated in Chicago, gives him the green light. Down in Dallas, Sid was the guest of BobThornton, who is secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Dallas. Sid reports that in addition to being "a fine host," Bob is doing a wonderful job for Dartmouth. Bob is vice-president of the Mercantile National Bank there. Sid also brought us word that Chan Hagenburger has settled in Phoenix and is chairman of the Hopkins Center Committee there.

We shall be looking forward to a firsthand report from Dick Goldthwait on the Reynolds China expedition. You will recall some months ago our report that Dick was to be one of the scientists to accompany the pen manufacturer and world traveller and William P. Odom, holder of the round-the-worldflight record, on an expedition to study some of the largely unknown mountains in the interior of China. Recent news of the embroglio Reynolds got into with Chinese scientists has left us wondering whether Dick is in Peiping with other American scientists reported stranded there, teaching geology as usual at Ohio State, or what.

Another '33 who may have had a brush with recent developments in the world's news is Drew Dudley. According to our intelligence, Drew was scheduled to be in Bogota early in April, in connection with his work as Director of Public Relations for the World Bank. This was to be only one stop on an itinerary that was to take him to almost every country in Latin America with President John J. McCloy of the Bank. We've been scanning reports from the Canal Zone for a mention of Drew, but it looks as if we'll have to wait his return sometime in May.

Bill King, according to an item in a trade paper, was recently appointed legal counsel for the Industrial Insurers Conference, with headquarters in New York. Bill has been with the law firm of McGuire, Eggleston, Bocock & Woods in Richmond, Va., doing corporate work.

Don Phinney writes from the jungles of Venezuela that his stint there as engineer with Creole Petroleum will be over early in June and that he plans to head straight for Hanover and our Fifteenth, where he expects to have a tough time trying to make himself understood in English after talking practically nothing but Spanish for a couple of years.

Les Huntley is with Lockheed Aircraft Corp. in Burbank, in the financial end of things. His address is 1919 N. Argyle, Hollywood.

Secretary, 20 Valley Rd., Hanover, N. H. Treasurer, 2812 Grant Bldg., Pittsburgh 19, Pa. Class Agent, The Stanley Works, New Britain, Conn.