1940

Did you fill in that reservation card for the big Tenth and send it to Don Rainie? He wants to know, you know, and it will make his job easier if you do it now.

Reunion jottings.... it's suggested that you call the other '40s in your area and get together on rides and plans.... the class identification will be crew hats and shirts, with a large convention button to wear prominently, just to reduce the embarrassment o£ calling fraternity brother Joe Doakes, 8i11.... Ken Arwe and Manny Mansfield are organizing two super teams for a Softball go, the purpose of which is to demonstrate how much athletic skill a Dartmouth man retains (or loses) in 10 years ... .This will also be the tryout game for the fifteenth reunion team, so it is said .... Regional additions to the reunion committee are Johnny Knutsen and Bob MacMillen (Cleveland), and GreekMahoney (Indianapolis).... Herbie will be there .... how about you?

Chal Carothers has really taken over in the movie department, and will coordinate his films with those of the College and other classmates for a showing at reunion. Any of you who have any shots of the class or any of its parties, please get in touch with Chal at Howlett Street, Topsfield, Mass. Any loaned film will be handled with extreme care. If there is enough, either color or black and white, we'll have a master copy made for use at future class functions.

Of possibly limited interest to a group at reunion, but vitally important to the class in the next six years, is the election of our Executive Committee. The Nominating Committee, consisting of Bud Hewitt, chairman. Jack Willson, John Moore, 800 Hayden and Ed Schechter, has come up with the following 11 men: Elmer Browne (Conn.), BillBumsted (N. J.), Fred Fuld (Los Angeles), 800 Hayden (Washington), Jud Lyon (Hanover), jack Moody (Vt), Charley Power (N. Y.), Don Rainie (N. H.), Bud Raymond (Chicago), Scotty Rogers (Cleveland) and Gordon Wentworth (Boston).

Nominations are now open from the class. Send them along, any two of you, to 203 College Street, Burlington, Vt., to arrive by May 1. The foregoing, with further nominations, will be published in the June MAGAZINE. All classmates who will not be able to be at reunion will be asked to vote by mail.

The new Executive Committee, at reunion or shortly after, will elect from its membership the class officers of secretary and treasurer. Other important class officials, notably the Class Agent, will also be selected by the Committee, not necessarily from its own membership.

Uninformed accountants should leave their fettered minds that way, as witness the following from one Dollie Wiener, a connection of the Cherry Street, Winnetka, DinkWieners,

"I must refute your assumption (you call it an 'impression' in the MAGAZINE) that 'family increases have noticeably declined.' I just want you to know that there are at least three members of the class of '40 who are doing their best to help populate the midwest, and we all live on the same street in the same village.

"The Hal Sommers began it by adding a second son to their household last August, a few weeks later Bud and Sue Raymond welcomed a new daughter, Nancy, and what seemed like years later the Wieners added a small male papoose to their menage

"The Dartmouth talk here centers on Reunion. Many of us are determined to be there, most of us are planning and a few are still in the hoping stage. It's sure to be a wingding and no one wants to miss it."

We stick with the trend: in spite of the concentration of recent activity our only other addition under 20 this month is the third child, first daughter, of Jack and JuneO'Shea, over in the haven of silence, Laconia, N. H. The bachelor ranks continue to take the decimation of their ranks philosophically, as Tex Meyer (engagement with Rosalyn Kram of Chappaqua, N. Y.) and PaulJohnson (ditto Margaret Perham, Worcester, Mass.) sign up to join the great majority. The 1940 Bachelors Marching and Chowder Society, whose infamous career began at fifth reunion, should consider turning in its charter at the tenth. They're dead, though they may not yet have realized it.

Skiing this winter, punk as it has been, has brought only Chet Brett, encountered last weekend at Mad River Glen, to our far north sliding grounds. Bill Halsey gets into the news now and again, with his National Ski Association committee work. He was major domo, and a very successful one, in the transfer of the FIS World cross country championships from Lake Placid to Rumford, Me., on short notice. Don Hause dropped in on a Vermont trip recently, but the rest of you must have been reading the late temperature reports.

Banker Harry Midgeley keeps in practice, having recently been one of the judges of a giveaway contest down in Worcester. WaltKelly has been selected for support by the Citizens League of Cleveland for appoint- ment as executive secretary of the County Charter Commission. Smilin' Jack Rourke continues his hit career as Dmitri O'Rourke, Gorgeous Jack, Louella Parsnips and other characters on the Wheeler and Rourke Show nightly over KTTV, Los Angeles. Les Nichols will publish his nation-wide findings on student morals in an article to be published this spring in Coronet. He has also had recent articles published in College and University Business, College Public RelationsQuarterly and the CCNY Alumnus. TomBraden has left the Museum of Modern Art to take over as executive director of the American Committee on United Europe, "a group of private American citizens who believe that the economic and political unity of democratic Europe is possible now." Hal Sommer is now a partner and general manager of Wolf Management Engineering Company, Chicago. He was also elected to the Board of Directors of the Denton Sleeping Garment Mills, Inc. (Doctor Denton's) about the first of the year. 1940 attendance at the Boston Association dinner in late February included: Stet Whitcher, Gordie Wentworth, ChetBrett, Don Rainie, Bob Clarke, John MacDonald, and Maury Williamson among the faithful. Howie Stockwell, the newly elected secretary of the Boston Association, was also there, in his capacity as one of the organizers of the annual affair. Word from Hartford is that Drs. Sid McPherson and Ken Steele are associated in some of their work through Symington General Hospital. The Boston bunch will have held their annual 1940 gathering, annually the most successful class party, on March 29, through the planning of Gordie Wentworth and Howie Stockwell, and the hospitality of Larry Herman, whose Eliot Lounge always gets a good workout for this one.

That seems to be the collection this time around. Don't forget that little card to Don on your personal Reunion plans. And give that Executive Committee thing a little thought.

Secretary, 203 College St., Burlington, Vt. Treasurer, W. B. Fonda Co., St. Albans, Vt. Class Agent, 1361 Dorsch Rd., South Euclid 21, Ohio

1940 SEE YOU IN HANOVER JUNE 16-18