1936

Here it is .... a hot summer over Labor Day upon us .... and another fall in the offing. It's good to be back at the old stand, and we hope all of you have fared well.

When we last reported to you, we were getting ready for our official trip to Hanover. The visit, always a tonic, was particularly so this year, since it constituted our only vacation. But, like we've always said, a week-end in Hanover is worth twice that time many other places. The '36 contingent, graced by the wives, was a rollicking group: Ruth and JackoMorrison, Eloise and Al Gibney, Katrina andBob Paterson, Mim and Bill Macurda (representing the Providence Dartmouth Club) and Pic and Norb Hofman. Maybe you never realized what year-round representation you have on the Hanover Plain. We didn't—until the natives joined the visiting firemen: Ellyand Ed Chamberlain, Dorcas and Bob Chaffee,Phyllis and Dr. Will McLaughlin and JimClark. Thanks to the kind hospitality and wonderful planning of Jim and his family, the whole gang spent a glorious Saturday afternoon up at E.K. Farms, in Orford. Beer, baseball and banter made it a small-scale reunion—a taste of what's in store for all of us next June.

Time did not permit our looking up DexterMartin who, you may recall, started in with us in 1932, but left after a year or two. After all these years, Dexter came back to Hanover, with wife and family, and got the sheepskin in June. Let's have the in-between details, D.M.I

The only other large-scale get-together that's on the summer records is the now annual fiesta at the Ed Brooks place in Old Greenwich, Conn. July 9, from about 5 on, saw a pee-rade along the highways that brought together a '36 bunch whose capacity for beer is not as large, after all these years, as it is for song. Look at the line-up: Anneand Don Robbins, Gerry and Frank Kappler,Jerri and Ray Builter, Lucia and Don Ballantyne, Cathie and Paul Lynch, Theo and BobPrentice, Leah and George Conklin, Yumi andJack Smith, Evelyn and Dick Coffin, Joe Davis,Dodie and Dick Taylor, Bob Warren and (as he signed the book) "chicken, fried" and the Hofmans. This occasion marked one of the first '36 appearances of Bob Warren in many a year. The guy's been knocking out tunes, and tried out some of them—selections from a revue slated for a Broadway production. Where are you angels hiding?

Members of the Seattle Casualty Adjusters Association elected Lee McGonagbp, assistant claims adjuster for the American Automobile Group, as their new president. Lee, hailing originally from Duluth, started with the Travelers in Seattle in 1942 and worked there and in Yakima before joining American Automobile.

Art Atkinson was named advertising director and assistant to the publisher of Coronet magazine in May. Since his discharge from service, he had been with the business office of the New York Herald Tribune.

Finally, word from Dick Crosby—date line: American Consulate, Haifa, Israel, Quote: "There's little or no Dartmouth news to be gathered here. In the present turmoil (written 27th June) of the Middle East, there seems to be little inducement for Dartmouth men to come to this part of the world. I did manage to see Bill Eddy when I was in Beirut some months ago. He was on business for the ARAMCO Oil Companyquite a different sort of job from the one he had when he lectured to us on Jonathan Swift—Life in Israel is interesting and absorbing. I have been here since before the new state was established, and it has been an education in itself to see a new country come into being and to notice the way in which it meets the problems and challenges involved in such a situation I hope to be able to visit the U.S. before long—and perhaps I shall be able to make it at our next reunion, provided I don't find myself posted to a part of the world that is too inaccessible to America."

And here's someone else who'll cross the seas Bill Hart will attend the American Graduate School in Denmark for the coming academic year. He holds a Fred Johnson Fellowship from the American - Scandinavian Foundation, as does his wife Dorothy. Bill has an M.A. in sociology from Harvard and will do research on the Danish cooperative system towards a Ph.D. from Harvard. From 1939 to 1945, he was an instructor of English, American history and European history at the American School in Rio de Janeiro; during the last three years, he was head of the department. During the past academic year, Bill taught English and was a special tutor at Deerfield. From 1945 to 1948, he taught in the Aphasia Department of Cushing Hospital, Framingham, Mass.

Remember that old bachelor Dang Scherman? He's no bachelor no more. On June 11 Rosemarie Redlich became Mrs. S., in New York City And on July 30, in Westport, Conn., Mary Ellen Hogewoning and JohnBenjamin Hill became Mr. and Mrs Very vital statistics: Herb Beskind became a daddy again, when Joanne was born on July 20.

Henry Newell has been named a vice-president of Schwerin Research Corp., New York. .... Rodd Ladd is now sales manager with the Dominion Color Corp., in New Toronto, Canada. Mail can reach him at 94 The Kingsway, Toronto, Ont From the wandering John Parish: "For the past four and one-half years, we have enjoyed the advantages of the great state of California and, in particular, San Francisco, where I have been assistant to the Resident Vice President of the St. Paul Insurance Companies, Pacific Department. Our pleasant sojourn in California is about to end this September when we return to St. Paul, Minn., to our old home at 834 Goodrich Avenue."

Paul Zens joins the faculty of Marlboro (Vt.) College this fall. He'll teach an Introduction to America course (required) and in addition will conduct courses in cultural anthropology. Paul is currently working towards his Ph.D. at Yale.

With Mr. Zens, we've come to the end of the alphabet. We'll start in all over again next month. So, please let's know what's new.

JUNIOR COLLEGE DEAN: Wendell O. Harding '36 became Dean of Men, Director of Guidance, and Instructor in Psychology at Vermont Junior College on July 1 after serving as Principal of Stowe High School, Stowe, Vt.

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