1943
Although we tried to hold down our wordage last month, the editor had to omit a number of items for lack of space. To make sure that they are not edged out a second time, we are starting off the column with them:
News from the academic front reveals that three '43ers have just received important appointments. Bud Kast, who has been assistant headmaster at the Short Hills (N. J.) Country Day School since he forsook the CBI and the OSS three years ago, became headmaster July 1. He replaces Albert E. Banning who had served as headmaster for 24 years. In addition to his Dartmouth bachelor's degree, Bud has an M.A. in school administration and supervision from New York University.
Relly Huffman of Barbary Coast fame has accepted a position on the faculty of Missouri State Teachers College at Springfield, where he will teach music theory and direct the college orchestra. Relly received his M.A. in music in June from Teachers College at Columbia, where he won an annual music composition contest. His entry, "Sketch for Small Orchestra," was performed May 13 by the teachers college symphony orchestra.
After picking up a master's degree in economics at Clark University May 29, DaveWhite joined the faculty of the University of Vermont as assistant professor in the dismal science. While at Clark, Dave was a teaching fellow in both the economics and sociology departments.
IN A FEW WORDS
Here are a few brief items: Harry Hopper is with the Near East African Division of the State Department in Washington. Pete Southwick has been doing graduate work at M.I.T. Bud Hall, former veterans adviser at lowa State College, is now doing advertising research for Young & Rubicam in Chicago. DonJones is working for the Boy Scouts of America in Alamosa, Colo. Jim McNamara is an engineer with the Detroit Transmission Division of General Motors. Dick Pierce is working for American Express in Paris. George Schaefer is a development engineer for Erie (Pa.) Registor.
A few address changes find Don Clark moving from Brooklyn to Windsor, Conn.; DickProctor from St. Petersburg, Fla. to Florence, S. C.; Jim Olsen from Chicago to Pittsburgh; Dick Aishton from Winnetka, Ill. to Janesville, Wis.; and Dale Ruedig from Evanston, Ill. to Indianapolis.
FINISHING THE STORY
And now to turn to two items of unfinished October business, namely the Coningswood and Kane weddings of which we were able to give only fragmentary accounts last month. Roy was married Aug. 6 in the Upper Ridgewood (N. J.) Community Church to Mrs. Nevada linscott Sprague, a graduate of her husband's secondary school alma mater, Ridgewood High, and also of Larson Junior College. They are making their home on Spring Avenue, Ridgewood, while Roy continues with the New York accounting firm of Haskins and Sells. Martin "Killer" Kane took Marie Naphen as his bride in a ceremony performed Sept. 3 in St. John's Roman Catholic Church, Darien, Conn. Following their wedding trip to Nantucket, they are making their home at 66 East 83rd St., New York, where Killer is with the advertising firm of Ruthrauff & Ryan, Inc.
STOP PRESS NEWS: Marjorie and HarryGustafson announced the birth of twin boys, William Otis and Robert Derby, on Aug. 27. With an older brother, the Gustafsons should be well represented at Dartmouth about 1965. A quick flip through our card file discloses the not-necessarily reliable information that Harry is the fifth proud papa of twins in our class. The others are Sid Hazelton (one twin died in infancy), Alex Nagle, Bob Pelren, and EllieSweet. Please correct us if we're wrong. Returning to the Gustafsons, Harry is still with Procter & Gamble in Northern New Jersey and living in Metuchen.
COME IN CLEVELAND
Word from Cleveland says that Dave Bortz, formerly with Mitchell & Klaus, has joined the local office of the Architectural Record. He is also a member of the board of managers of the Lakewood Y.M.C.A.
The body of Fred Carey, one of the 23 members of our class who died during World War II service, was brought back to this country for burial last July 12 in Long Island National Cemetery, Farmingdale. He was buried beside his younger brother, James, who was co-pilot of the same B-25 bomber that crashed in Indo-China in June, 1945. Walt Howe, one of our class representatives in the foreign service, has been transferred to Meshed, Iran (known' as Persia, we believe, whenever one is conferring with representatives of Whitehall). Walt is a vice consul, the same position he held previously in Batavia.
The Hamilton Alumni Review gave Al Phillips, a faculty member there, quite a write-up in a recent issue. We quote in part:
"Shortly after his graduation (from Dartmouth), the Army called and Phillips started out on a typical service journey through Stateside training camps. Sent overseas to England in September, 1943, he spent 18 months in that country and six months in France, working up to an assignment as a group sergeant-major in an air depot group attached to the Troop Carrier Command. In England, he met Miss Patricia Whitley, who at the time was working in the Ministry of Food. They were married in London shortly after V-E day.
"Back in the States after the war, the couple worked briefly in New York—Phillips as a translator in the Manufacturers' Trust Company main office and his wife as a secretary—and then migrated to Mexico. Phillips, who previously had taken two summer trips there as a Dartmouth student for travel and study, enrolled for graduate study at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma and the couple began an enjoyable year-and-a-half of life, Hispanic style.
"Phillips, who regards Mexican climate, language, and customs so highly he'd like to make frequent trips there, was particularly impressed by the European style of education in the Universidad. 'They don't have textbooks and the more formalized procedures we know in this country,' he says, 'but when you sit down with a professor and he requests an oral outline for almost an hour, you have to have some study behind you.'
"In Mexico, Mrs. Phillips too gained fluency in Spanish, and their daughter, Kathleen, born during their stay, is now, at the age of two, picking up enough English to become reasonably bi-lingual after hearing Spanish at home for most of her young life."
Further news from Hamilton reveals that Al is planning to do graduate work in Spanish at the University of Michigan this year.
A brief dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, informs us that it is now Dr. Theodore H. Haskell. It seems that Ted received a Ph.D. at Ohio State University at its summer quarter convocation Sept. 2. As Ted's address has been at the biochemistry department there, we assume his advanced degree is in that field.
Bob McQueen has joined the staff of Union Central Life Insurance Co. in Cincinnati as an assistant actuary. He joined the Equitable Life Assurance Society in 1945 and has held the position of mathematician. It looks as if another veteran of Prof. Brown's Math 3-4 class has found his niche.
ENGAGEMENT TRADE SLOW
Our one engagement to report this month is that of Tom Swick to Mary Bartlett of East Orange, N. J. Tom's fiancee is an alumna of Washington College, Chestertown, Md.
Dacy Stevens visited Hanover in mid-September. Although (inasmuch as we reported his engagement last February) he may have been on more than a casual visit, we can't confirm it.
Bob Varney, press agent for Col. Teague's famed Mt. Washington cog railroad, was host to Beantown Herald columnist Rudolph Elie a couple of months or so ago. It seems that Elie had mischievously speculated about the weather atop New England's highest peak and Bob wanted to set him straight. Accordingly, Bob and the Colonel's railway got a nice bit of publicity in Elie's "The Roving Eye" column.
Our keeper of the class bank book, StanPriddy, has given us the low-down of his and Emil Mosbacher's junket to Europe last summer in quest of a few yachting trophies and a couple other things. What were those other things? Well, inasmuch as we have not only exhausted our word quota but also have a desire to test reader interest in our monthly offerings, we are borrowing a soap-opera technique. Don't forget to be with us again next month and find out.
We shouldn't close, however, without one comment on the Hanover scene. The Dartmouth has just reported that the freshmansophomore football rush has been dropped, possibly to be superseded by a tug-of-war. The reason given is that the old style rush is too dangerous. We wonder what our old infantry sergeant would have to say about this postwar generation.
Don't choke on that Thanksgiving turkey drumstick!
HENRY J. COLEMAN '42 was named advertising manager of Standard Oil of Ohio in September.
A DARTMOUTH SENDOFF was given Bill Sweeney '43 and his bride at their wedding reception May 7 at the Women's Club in Englewood, N. J. All the men are Bill's classmates except Clayt Gray '41. From left to right, Gray, Liz Toomey, John and Betty Hyde, Bill and Jean Sweeney, Nancy and Fritz Geller, Jean and Fuzzy Fosdick and Howie Thomas. For details of the affair, see the October notes.
Secretary, 101 Crosby Hall, Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, 48 Salisbury Rd., Brookline, Mass.
