1937
It's still a mite early, but Christmas presents are now beginning to show up in the form of answers to the requests in a previous column asking for big fat pictures, two of them being 8 x 10. We are assured by the higher-paid help in Hanover that these large jobs can be used, and they are mighty happy to get pictures to work on, so many thanks to you who did send them and many thanks to you who will.
By this time we should have all received our engraved invitations from Art Ruggles (the only guy X know who would pack a bag in June and journey all the way to Boston just for the sake of feeding a few pigeons on the Boston Common). His plea in the familiar form of "Send your Slug to Rug" comes at a time when our treasury is dry. In case you don't remember, our class was one of those that voted a 100% subscription to this MAGAZINE, so if you fail to kick in your 4 bucks someone else is footing your bill, and what magazine do you know of that you can subscribe to every year without paying anything? Also, the cost of publishing this MAG has gone up considerably so that it takes almost all that 4 skins to cover a subscription these days but everyone in the class remains on the mailing list regardless, so give a thought to Rug and send along your class dues to him at 17 High Street, Greenfield, Mass., at the very first opportunity.
We have a very nice note from Eleanor Gordon, esteemed wife of most honorable HalGordon, announcing the arrival of a new backfield candidate on September 4 named Alan Robert, at the Salem Hospital, Mass. He was 10 days early and showed up with a full head of straight black hair, just like Daddy's. Congratulations are herewith extended.
There's news from Montpelier, Vt., about Walt Hard. For the past two years he's been assistant publicist and business manager of Vermont Life in the Vermont Development Commission but has now been appointed director of the new Division of Public Relations. He will handle photography and news reporting of special Vermont events for metropolitan newspapers, national magazines, and will also take charge of motion picture production, servicing and distribution, radio scripts, management of shows and displays plus other special assignments. His promotion was voted by the Development Commission on the basis of work performed in publicity and on Vermont Life. Congratulations are again in order.
Boston had a class dinner. The night before the HD game numerous classes, including ours, gathered at the University Club for a stag evening, a good dinner, much talk, and ended up with any of us who so desired being invited up to the room occupied by classes '13, '14, and '15, and they had Milt Piepul on from Hanover with football pictures. Beer, advertised in the dinner notice at 40 cents per pitcher turned out to be per bottle, which will be called for the record—a beerographical error. Those in attendance were as follows: Jack Devlin, Art Tucker, George Roewer,Walt Graf, Larry Brooks, Fred Laughton,Crawf Ferguson, Monk Amon, Les Barrett, AlBryant, Crawf Hinman, Les Hoyle and BibBankart. Some fellows were in town with their wives and could not detach themselves for a stag affair, also Bill Pettefigill was supposed to be in town but must have arrived too late. It was nice to welcome Les Hoyle whom no- one had seen for a long while, still single, and with a wandering record as long as Guyer's. Les has been on the go since graduation starting with a bicycle trip through Europe in '37 ending up in North Africa, and since then has been in every country in the world with the exception of Australia, even spending time as a Field Director for the Red Cross in Korea. He has also dabbled in the importing of wild animals business and can quote the price of a wild lion or hooded cobra at the drop of a jaw. At present, since September, he has embarked on a 3-year course in Law at Northeastern (Boston). Fred Laughton, having finished his Enginering work in Dalton, Mass., has switched companies and is now with a similar firm named Whitman & Howard and doing field work on the water supply for Framingham. At present living in Arlington. George Roewer claims news on BillTimbers, says he has left Wall St. and is now practising law in Bridgeport, Conn. El DoctorHinman, now practising obstetrics, merely added that he NEEDS BUSINESS so we'll bear it in mind. Incidentally, Hinman was late for the dinner, but Les Barrett got there just in time for the ice cream making up for it by being the last to leave.
Chief western scout Don McKinlay was in Hanover on a flying trip to attend a meeting of a special committee to study the Admissions Problem, which just happened to coincide with the Colgate game. He flew from Denver to New York and we quote:
"Had lunch at the Dartmouth Club with Mort Berkowitz, Carl Ray, and Dave Camerer (new job with advertising concern of Warwick and Legler Inc., 230 Park Ave.). In Hanover I ran into Ed Stearns on the street, yelled at HankWhitaker in the stands, reached thru an open car window to shake hands with Chuck Bassett, chewed the fat with Art and Helen Sprague, spent a delightful evening with Dr. John andJean Milne (their 4 sons all sleep and eat in red flannels, ages 6½-1, and it was suggested their next set be green). Dr. Corb Moister was unavailable but reportedly in fine shape".
As a result of his meeting it was brought out that the College can readily use the assistance of graduates of our time in spotting good high school and prep school material for Dartmouth, and further, having spotted desirable prospects, to talk Dartmouth to these men, report their names to local Club Secretaries or Admissions Chairmen. It seems that in these times some of the potential material thinks they don't have a chance to get into Dartmouth where there are so many applying and do not bother to apply, but such is not the case, every applicant is given serious consideration which means we should make every effort to steer top prospects our way. Also, we have reached an age where we can be very useful on interviewing committees and we have several classmates who are deep in such activities and who derive an intense satisfaction from it.
v Further local colour from the Denver area reports that Bill Geraghty just got a new job as salesman in the Southwest and Rocky Mt. territory for Trim-Foot Shoe Co., children's shoes. Also that Wayne Ballantyne paused a few hours en route through to Los Angeles to his new job as production manager for Time and Life. An offhand item on Big Quiet JohnMerrill from Los Angeles to the effect that John has his own business now as distributor of Dental Supplies.
You've heard the old quip about "one good turn gets most of the blanket"—it's late, move over, Kay.
FOUR BY TWO: Pete McLane '37 (left) and Bill Rotch '37 paternally try to hold on to (I. to r.) Bruce McLane, Andy McLane, Malcolm Rotch and Pete Rotch.
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