1940
June 16, 1950 is still the most important date in the new half-century. So far, we haven't heard of any one who isn't going. What about you? Got the dates marked? There's a Hanover Holiday program from June 12 to 15, Monday to Thursday, just before the Titanic Tenth. Officially, we begin Friday, starting from as early as you can get there, and, officially, winding up Sunday the 17th. The last we heard, the fifth in '46 was still going two weeks after the College dates, so come prepared for anything. There s a program (dinner, movies, ballgame, luncheon, President's reception, dance, Players' show), but the time is mostly reserved for the Party, which will be the best yet.
The reunion committee, so far; is DonRainie, chairman, Jud Lyon, Hanover contact man, Chal Carothers, movies, Les Nichols, attendance, Jack Rourke, banquet program, Stet Whitcher, moneyman. The rest of the assistants, drumbeaters and starting batteries will have to be disclosed when the somewhat forgetful chairman lets us know. He's forgetful, that is, of the fact that our monthly deadline is the fifth, or approximately one month before you get this stuff before you.
Final lineup of the nominating committee is Bud Hewitt, chairman, Jack Willson, New England, John Moore, Midwest, Ed Schechter, New York, Bu Hayden, Middle Atlantic, and Chap Wentworth, Far West. They're at work and will come up with nominations for the u-man Executive Committee who will run the Class for the next six years, to 1956, when we will have our 15th Reunion (with '41 and '42 under the Robinson Plan). The nominations of the committee will be published here in the May issue, giving ample time for further nominations, either by mail or at the meeting at Reunion. All dues-paying members are eligible to vote. Proxies will be asked of all classmates who won't be at Reunion. It is suggested that any of you who have thoughts on the membership of the Executive Committee should write to Bud— R. W. Hewitt, 400 East 52nd Street, New York 23.
The class officers will be elected by the Executive Committee, immediately following their election at Reunion. The SecretaryChairman and Treasurer will be elected by the Committee from its membership. The Class Agent will be elected by them, not necessarily from the membership of the Committee.
The latest reunion of part of the Class appears in the picture adorning these notes. That it is in the true '4O tradition can be easily seen in the beaming countenances of Bob, Creight and Jack. Comment from the scene indicated that the three should try the excavating business next, having turned over most of Pebble Beach course shortly after posing for the cameraman. Creight was in San Francisco at a hotel convention (he runs the St. Clair, Mich. Inn). Jack was selling for Arrow on the Coast. And Bob is stationed in Monterey as Public Information Officer of the Naval School.
Brad Rowlayid has returned to the states after a year and one half in Germany with the American Friends Service Committee, including participation in three work camp projects.
"It was the goal of every work camp," Brad says, "to have the director as unauthoritarian as possible. The young Germans have been too rigidly controlled to feel individual responsibility. In the camps they learned to reach decisions cooperatively."
A memo from Hanover reminds us of the practically anonymous, but so very important, work done by the alumni interviewing committees, key men in the selection of future Dartmouth classes. Chairmen of some of these are the following '4os: Phil Dostal, San Francisco, Ted Ellsworth, Dubuque, Carl James, White Plains, Hodge Jones, Omaha, JohnLillis, Wolfboro, N. H., Hal McAllister, San Antonio, Jim Moore, Indiana, Pa., ScottyRogers, Cleveland and Smock Thompson, Kansas City. There are many others who are serving on committees under these men and others from coast to coast.
The final proof that 1940 is Dartmouth's greatest support of an ancient institution lies here: the engagement of Betty Neal of Rochester, N. H. to Dwight Meader has been announced. It is categorically stated, in anticipation of argument, that this leaves only the unregenerate philanderers in the single clan, the confirmed bachelor group now being reduced to o.
Variously, we learn that: Joe Adams has gone back to Hanover, almost, having become a partner in Carr and Adams, lawyers, in Lebanon, abandoning Cambridge and Boston in time for a north country non-white Christmas; Dr. Sid McPherson has returned to the old home town and is now in general practice in Hartford; Bob Raclin has become the youngest director of World Com- merce Corporation, who recently bought his company, H. L. Raclin & Sons (one of the latter being Bob); Bob Marshall has increased the '4O population of Everett, Wash., joining banker Hank Dahl by reason of his recent employment with Weyerhauser Timber Co.; Howie Marshall is an account executive with W. H. Long Co., advertising, York, Pa.; Lt.Cmdr. Fred Ewing has been transferred to Washington in the Bureau of Ships; BobBramley is now veep in - charge of sales, Stulz-Sickles Cos., Newark, and hangs his hat in Rahway, N. J.; Bill Cleaves is selling in New York for Hayes Pump & Machinery.
The Secretary, may his mail increase, asks a little sympathy. It snowed, in good oldfashioned style, yesterday for the first time in two years. It is also tax season among struggling CPAs. Between weeks of assisting various characters in legally reducing the chip to Old Uncle, and weekends in sliding assaults on Mt. Mansfield and Mad River Glen, there ain't much left for correspondence to get the latest out of reluctant '40s. Yet the self-generating group, news of whom appears here perhaps too frequently, is small. Think back, how many months (or years) is it since last you wrote? Come on, give.
A GOLFING REUNION FOR THREE FORTUNATE '40's was held at the Pebble Beach Club, Carmel, Calif., with (I to r). Bob and Bea Hartmann, Creighton and Jean Holden, and Jack Little present. Hartfnann is Public Relations Officer for the Naval School at Monterey; Holden was attending a hotel men's convention in San Francisco; and Littie, a sales meeting of Cluett Peabody in San Francisco.
Secretary,; 203 College St., Burlington, Vt. Treasurer, W. B. Fonda Co., St. Albans, Vt. Class Agent, . 1361 Dorsch Rd., South Euclid si, Ohio
