1939

By the time this column leaves the press the iggo football season will be about over, but yesterday's a 1-21 tie with Holy Cross sounds like that early season game of our sophomore year when the same squad won the game, but marked the beginning of some high-class Dartmouth football climaxed by the great team of 1939. Gus Zitrides is starting his first year as head coach of football at Brown. Those of us living in the East have had lots to read about Gus, as the sportswriters have seemingly filled the sports pages with accounts of the prospects for Brown this year and background on their coach. X haven't read this in print but did learn that last year when it became known that Rip Engel was to leave, the Brown tootball squad petitioned the president of the college that Gus should become the head coach. A fine tribute, and since Brown is not on schedule this fall we can wish Gus and his team a successful season.

After ten years with Panagra in South America, Hank and Mary Merrill have settied down on a lovely dairy farm in Greensboro, Vt. Hank has extended an invitation to all '3gers to stop in anytime, especially during haying season, or maple sugaring time in the spring. Two days of our vacation were spent with the Merrills during haying this year and, take it from one who knows, you can t stand around in your city clothes for very long. And if you survive a day in the fields, Hank is only too glad to finish off the day with a jeep ride over, under, and through the woods, pasture and sugar groves that make up his 600 acres of property. It is a strenuous, rugged but seemingly rewarding way of life, and sometimes after a day of the battle of New York I think Hank has the right idea.

Over ln New Hampshire the Republican voters in the gth district had a chance to vote for Stanley M. Brown of Bradford for state senator. Although Stan doesn't seem to be asking for them I presume any Democratic votes would also be acceptable. His qualifications are long and impressive, with probably one of the most important being his argument against the New Hampshire Reorganization Bill before the Supreme Court at the Governor's request.

Some of you who are affiliated with ski clubs in your local communities will be interested in the new Dick Durrance movie, Ski Champs. The film will feature world champions Zeno Cole and Dagmar Rom. Ski clubs and sports groups will be asked to sponsor the film which will not only add to their own treasuries but also keep the National Ski Patrol in operation. Dick covered the World Ski Championships at Aspen with a battery o£ six cameras. In addition he flew to Italy to film in detail the racing technique o£ Zeno Cole, and to Austria for background pictures of lovely Dagmar Rom, winner of the women's world slalom crown.

In the business world, Walt Magee has been appointed sales manager for the Alfred D. McKelvy Cos. in New York, makers, of Seaforth Toiletries for men. Walt joined the McKelvy organization last August as assistant to the president. Bob Van Slambrouck has been named retail service manager of the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, Inc. Prior to his new appointment Van was an instructor and assistant professor of advertising in the Dept. of Journalism at Penn State College. Out in Decatur, Ill., Jack Field has been named general foieman for the Plastics Division of General Electric.

At the University o£ New Hampshire, in the College of Liberal Arts, Dave Long was promoted from assistant professor to associate professor of history effective July 1.

On Broadway Mike Ellis is co-producer of The Play's the Thing.

Bob Catharine sat down beside me on a late train from New York last week. Haven't seen him since we graduated. Said he was in the sales dept. of Todd Shipyards, now working in New York after being their Washington representative. He is living in Harrison, but plans to move presently to a new house they have just bought in Pelham, as their family of two boys is starting to outgrow their present residence.

Some of us got back to Hanover this summer. The lucky ones: Dr. and Mrs. Hadley, Rye, N. Y.; Dr. and Mrs. Jack Kulke, Smithtown Branch, N. Y.; Dr. and Mrs. HowardStoughton Jr., Newington, Conn.; Dick Jackson, Louisville, Ky.; Dr. and Mrs. Colby Cogswell, Evanston, Ill.; Haven Falconer, N. Y. C.; Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Barr, Boston, Mass., and Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Smith, Oakland, R. I. Looks like the doctors of the class had a reunion all by themselves.

HANK MERRILL '39, who left Pan American-Grace Airways to take up farming in Greensboro, Vt., displays his prize Guernsey bull, "Lucky Peer."

Secretary, 76 Linden Ave., Darien, Conn. Treasurer, Rye Colony Apts., Apt. 19-A, Rye, N. Y.