1940
As this goes off to you one month before the big date on June 16, Don writes that there are 229 reservations in and 56 more hoping to be there for the big Tenth. The plans are all complete now, due entirely to the arduous labors of Don Rainie, to whom all credit, and the grateful thanks of the class. Prof. Joe McDonald will speak at the class banquet Saturday night, which will be guided by Scotty as to the oratorical doings. If you've overlooked sending Don your card, please, oh please! take care of it.
The important item of class business at reunion will be the election of our new Executive Committee. One additional nomination has been received so that the election will be 11 from the following list of 12: Elmer Browne,Bill Bumsted, Fred Fuld, 800 Hayden, LarryHerman, Jud Lyon, Jack Moody, CharliePower, Don Rainie, Bud Raymond, ScottyRogers and Gordon W'entworth. Why don't those of you who will not be able to be at reunion exercise your franchise? Send ballots to 203 College Street, Burlington, Vt., to arrive before June 15.
The Executive Committee after its election will choose from its membership the new class secretary and class treasurer. The Committee will also function to select other class officers.
This being the Moody swan song as class secretary, perhaps more accurately titled chief beaver, some of the valuable space should be used for grateful acknowledgments to the many assistant beavers who have made the job an easy one. The list is impressive, and too long for inclusion here. Without them, however, there would be no class as we know it, and all of us would be the worse for it. To the beavers, then, our personal toast, the best that is Dartmouth and 1940.
The New York Alumni dinner in April found the following '40's around: Jack Little,Tom Ballantyne, Bud Hewitt, Jim Thomas,Bill Hutchinson, Lee Brekke, Sid Harrington,Bill Marson, Bud Johnson, Bill Martin, LesNichols, Dick Bowman, Ed Schecter, Bill Bumsted,Rick Davidson, Bill Wrightson, Don Fox,Johnny Allen, Fred Eaton, Jay Weinberg, HalSommers (in from Chicago) and Charlie Power.
"The dinner was pretty successful. It was handled well and broke up early so the commuters could make their trains. Most of our group adjourned to the Commodore bar and kept going for some time."
A good letter from Bob Kinsman, who says, "I haven't been in touch with a member of the class of '40 for a long time. Indeed, the last time I saw any Dartmouth man, other than Dusty Rodes '4l, was early last fall when I spent an evening with two former room-mates, Harry Koch and Herb Porter. Harry, until recently chief resident of Children's Hospital in L. A., has established himself as a pediatrician in Temple City, Calif. Herb, still tall and gaunt, is with the San Francisco importing-exporting firm of Otis McAllister and Company. Herb, if I am not mistaken, is in charge of their Central American desk. Now if only old Dan To art, he of the bony hips and bottle butt, would wander out this way, 109 Crosby could again present a united front.
"The celery patch down here is getting a bit crowded for us. Sarah, our second daughter, is now six months of age and demanding her share of our small apartment—that is that share that Susan (4½ yrs.) hasn't already staked out as her own. Old Bob, trying to hoe out a row of articles, huddles pathetically in a forgotten corner and tries to translate John Shelton's Latin verse. I have, incidentally, four articles and a book review accepted, all of them to appear in June or July of this year in various learned journals." Bob had a good analysis of the problems of a California professor in the recent controversy on the non-Communist oath, which Scotty will find room for in the Drum.
The second by-liner is Janie Graham, wife of Bob, who writes,
"At the moment of writing, Bob is in Paris, from where he is taking a three weeks' trip through Belgium, Holland, Germany and Austria. Primary motivation is a series of articles on 'Europe Visited Five Years After VE Day' for the BostonHerald. He plans to follow the route the 20th Armored took during the war. Another reason is to find out, if he can, what the little people of Europe really think about Americans, the Marshall Plan, what effect Communism has had, and to try to sell a little good will on his own. He has been taking courses in German and French at Berlitz for over two years now.
"He deeply and sincerely feels that until there is real understanding between the people of Europe and the people of this country, there can be no real peace. He hopes to find an outlet for at least one magazine article when he returns. As a newspaper man he thinks there have been too many 'think pieces' and not enough probing into what the common man of Europe really thinks and feels.
"His takeoff on the huge luxury liner last Sun- day is typical of Graham. They trundled out the carts of glamorous luggage, and began to slide it into the belly of the plane. Suddenly there was a hitch in the proceedings and flunkies ran to untangle it. Suddenly there rose into view Bob's old gray rucksack. After a few buckings it too rose proudly into the recess of the plane and the procedure went on smoothly again. So you can picture him, I am sure, hiking over Europe for the next month, pack on his back."
Jottings of the month include the following: Joe Dunford has been promoted to the post of general production manager of Transfilm, Inc.; Herb Landsman has transferred to Federated Department Stores, Inc., Cincinnati, working under the vice president in charge of operations. The story of the Toro Manufacturing Corp. of Minneapolis got a big spread in Fortune and also in Printer's Ink. Among other Dartmouth men running the show is WhitMiller, vice president in charge of production. Hugh Schwarz is chief engineer for Minute Maid Corporation, the firm which originated concentrated frozen orange juice.
The 1940 section of the Alumni Fund was buzzing along at the time of writing at the top of our Green Derby section. That isn't to say that the job is done, far from it, since at that time only 30% of you had sent the all important check to Hanover. It is to say that Scotty is doing an outstanding job and that you should take a minute to check back and send yours in well before the June 30 deadline.
Secretary, 203 College St., Burlington, Vt. Treasurer, W. B. Fonda Cos., St. Albans, Vt. Class Agent, 1361 Dorsch Rd., South Euclid 21, Ohio
