1933
Lest the old tradishuns fail, here we are agin up against—in fact a little beyond—the deadline and good wife and Charlie Widmayer are screaming. Sounds exactly the same as it did last spring, an atonal kind of music very hard on the ear, but apparently as ineffective as ever. If we must be quite original about it, you can't teach an old dog new tricks when he's lived in the doghouse so long.
It's been a busy summer and a happy one with the Ph.D. incubus off our minds, but we have not been blessed with that abundance of class news that led the editor to warn us not to shoot in one big wad in October, only to be left holding the usual empty bag next month. We do, however, have a few gleanings.
First off a brief comment on the outcome of the Alumni Fund drive. Your committee, from Sam Black down to the lowliest private, were and are abjectly miserable about our showing participation-wise. After several years of contributors hovering around the four hundred figure, hitherto our strong point in Fund campaigns, we fell down to 370. We'd like to know why! On the brighter side there was an appreciable lifting of sights in regard to size of gift that led to our doing better than ever before, $8839.74, but our cheers for that achievement are faint in view of the fact that all the neighboring classes, from 1928 through 1935, left us wallowing in last place on all counts! All we want to say about this now is this: The back of our hand to all those who did not pull as much weight as they could have. They let down a lot of guys who made a very special effort in this campaign with gifts ranging up as high as $400, and which, in the middle range especially, represented very real personal sacrifices in many, many cases. The needs of the College require no more than a fair and equitable acceptance of responsibility on the part of all members of a class. Next year we must have that acceptance.
Turning to another phase of our relations as a class to the Dartmouth family, the biggest and best news '33 has had this summer was that of the election of Jus Stanley as President of the Alumni Council at the June meeting; A short cheer, Jus is in order. For several years Jus has made an outstanding contribution to the work of the Council as a member, both as a participant at meetings and, particularly, in the many time-consuming responsibilities he has undertaken in the work of alumni in the Middle West. How he has managed to do so much so well, in addition to the heavy demands of his law practice and community responsibilities, eludes us. Now he steps into the big job and we have every confidence that his tenure of office will give the Council the effective leadership its highly important work for the College requires. We plan to eavesdrop at the next Council meeting. It would be no surprise to us to find Jus introducing fractured French to the Council with as devastating results as followed his introduction of that unique language to Bedlam Manor a year ago. For example, we can hear Jus saying C'est dommage, then waiting expectantly with that quizzical smile for some bright boy on the Council to come up with the right answer, "The Yankees win again." That will be something to look forward to this coming year to enliven the routine of lectures, hour exams and quizzes.
We've been out of town a good deal this summer so we've missed most of the '33s who have passed through or stayed over on Hanover Plain for a few days. One way or another, however, we have compiled quite a list of visiting firemen and here it is, with our apologies to those we may have missed: In June, and again in August, Jus Stanley. Late in June Sam and Jean Black. In July Charlie Schell and frau. In August George and Elsie Werrenrath. We were here when George and Elsie blew in and they came down for lunch one day. They were winding up a month's vacation that they had spent, for the most part, in the Adirondacks. Marty Kerwin, on from Missouri, was here in mid-August, and a few days later Paul Burtis and his wife spent a couple of days looking over the auld school.
Carl Shineman received a nice promotion in July when he was appointed head of the estimating department at Eastman Kodak's big new distribution center in Rochester, N. Y. Carl has been with Eastman since 1933 and has held several posts in the company. Prior to his promotion he was assistant chief of Kodak's statistical department.
We are indebted to C. T. Maynard '04 of Rumford, Me., for news of John Reed. John is taking a leave of absence from his duties as Associate Professor of Botany at the University of Wyoming to spend a year in the Belgian Congo as consultant ecologist to the Astrida agricultural experiment station, Astrida Ruandawundi. The last time we'd heard of John he was Dean of Men at Baldwin-Wallace College, but for the past five years he has been teaching at Laramie. He must be one of those rare men who have managed somehow to recover from being a dean. Delighted to learn that he's working at the grass roots again, but watch out for that jungle grass and the 'gators, Doc.
Reuben Frodin, with us briefly freshman year before he slipped down to the University of Chicago, and who went on to become administrative assistant to President Hutchins and assistant dean of the college, was recently appointed executive dean for the four-year and professional colleges of the University of New York. Reuben is also a lawyer and taught constitutional and administrative law at the University of Chicago, in addition to serving as editor of the Journal of General Education. With his new appointment he is probably well past redemption. We doubt very much that he will ever go to the Congo, like John, and that seems too bad. In his new job "he will be," to quote a news report, "over two liberal arts colleges and seven professional colleges." Any man who is "over" that much is over the dam and has nothing to look forward to but endless administrative snarls and red tape. He will never know the joy of the European professor in a French university who, asked by a visitor for directions to the administration, replied, "Pour I'administration, monsieur, addressez-vous a la concierge." (Barzun, The Teacher in America.)
In somewhat different fields of effort, BillLewis became an assistant vice-president of the Manufacturers Trust Co., of New York. Bill has been with the bank since 1933. BobFairbank left Firestone last spring to become sales manager of Towmotor Corporation in Cleveland. Whit Kimball resigned this summer as principal of Story High School in Manchester, Mass., where he has taught math and coached football for 17 years, to become principal of the North Brookfield (Mass.) High School. In July Cliff Johnson succeeded his father, E. C. Johnson Sr., as president of H. A. Johnson Co., wholesale food concern. Since 1948 Cliff has been in charge of the New York office. He will now return to Boston where the main office is located. John M.Peters became eastern TV sales manager of Free & Peters several months ago, with headquarters in New York. John has been in broadcasting for over ten years with ABC and for the past two and a half years with F&P.
We still have a wedding once in a while. This time, in July, it was that of Jesse J.Michaelson to the former Miss Ruth Lee of Brooklyn. Jesse is a staff member of the Meadowbrook and Beth Israel hospitals and is a specialist in ophthalmology.
Well, surprisingly enough, we have not yet scraped the bottom of the barrel. More next month. Until then leave us enjoy the rare pleasure of being cramped for space. Adios.
Secretary and Acting Memorial FundChairman, 20 Valley Rd., Hanover, N. H. Treasurer, 2812 Grant Bldg., Pittsburgh 19, Pa,
