1911
The first request the secretary makes is a repetition o£ that announcement at reunion; namely, that he would greatly appreciate any snapshots of classmates at reunion either in Whitefield or in Hanover, as well as any other photographs showing members of the Class, particularly when classmates are in small groups.
Harold Dykeman was greatly disappointed not to attend reunion, which he was counting on, but his plans were nullified by illness just prior to reunion. As you all may know, he has returned to Worcester, Mass., from Chicago, where he is president of the H. A. Austin Cos., manufacturers of apparel for the ladies, his address being Union Street, Worcester. His home address is 1 Cedar Street.
A clipping from the Des Moines Register indicates that District Judge John Schaupp, presiding at a trial, sustained a motion for a new trial in the case of a boy who had been fatally injured in an automobile accident on the grounds that the damages awarded were inadequate.
As we go to press, an invitation has been received from Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth F. Clark to attend the marriage of their daughter Margaret Amanda to Mr. Malcolm Stevens MacGruer, Greenwich, Conn., on October 13.
Various insurance journals in November last carried pictures of Professor RalphBlanchard of Columbia University, together with a story of his record there since 1917, with the statement that he had built up a national reputation in turning out more able insurance men than almost any other individual.
He was an Instructor at the Wharton School until 1917, following graduation from College. He joined the Columbia faculty in 1917 and attained the rank of full professor in 1927. He served as Educational Director of the Insurance Institute of Hartford in 1917-18; as consultant to the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association in 1926; as insurance adviser to the Commission to Study Compensation for Auto Accidents in 1929-31; as vice president in charge of the Insurance Division of the American Management Association in 1939-40, as director from 1940 to 1943, and from 1946 to 1949; as adviser to the Committee on Fire Insurance Rates in 1939-42; and as a member of the Reunion Internacional de Tecnicos Aseguradores in Spain in 1947.
He is at present a member of the Administrative Board of the S. S. Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education; a Fellow and past President of the Casualty Actuarial Society; a Fellow of the Insurance Institute of America; a member and past President of the American Association of University Teachers of Insurance, a director and chairman of the General Educational Committe of the Insurance Society of New York, as well as a member of the Insurance Library Association and the Fire Underwriters Association of the Pacific.
He has contributed numerous articles and reviews on insurance, and in 1949, prepared a Dictionary of Insurance Terms for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. At the present time, he is editor of the McGraw-Hill Insurance Series.
The following poem (the anonymous author of which is Biff Thompson, who wrote it for Amos Crooks) is good enough to be made available to all the Class, so here goes ...
A Reminiscence of Reunion "The peace of twilight had descended over Mountain View Haze—a soft grey web—over distant Jefferson. Washington—a mere outline wrapped in misty shadowThe birds had gone to bed. One by one the soft lights in upper rooms Twinkled and then were out. In twos and threes, the class of Dartmouth—1911, Filed in to dine. An air of quiet dignity prevailed. Withall—befitting, after two score years. The riotous exuberance of youth—its boisterousness dimmed. —a nostalgic thought. Other guests—sedately seated and relaxed. Soft voiced waitresses in yellow smocks. Roast beef ? Rare ? or will you have the lobster ? The atmosphere—a British Club—no less. Decorous conversation thus. What of your grandchildren ? Where is so-and-so? The so-and-so. What of the Swede? A reminiscence, here and there. The past, the future and the war. Of H the Haberdasher and that b A. But wait—whence this air of static tension? Feotsteps—down the carpeted hall. Then the HOLOCAUST. —first near the door—then throughout the room. Booming! Names. Cities—dates—Exploding! —like demolition bombs. Necks craned—shoulders hunched. Breaths held. My gosh—the atomic bomb! Could this be it! No. For if you were there you know—neither Hydrogen nor "A." He had arrived. The guy that age nor time will ever change. That great guy with the open face and big heart. Our own 1911 contribution to NUCLEAR FISSIONAMOS CROOKS of Malone, N. Y.
The secretary was pleased to receive a letter from Bill Pearse, principal of the Beacon, N. Y., High School, who, although he is in a neck of the woods where he sees Dartmouth alumni only occasionally, wants to make up for this by seeing a football game or two and becoming a reader of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. If any one ever gets near Beacon, I am sure Bill will be delighted to have you look him UP.
Fred Harris retains his Lightning fleet crown. At Lake Spofford, N. H., each year is conducted a boat race, in which this year Fred won the final of a five-race series. This gives him the second leg on the Sheldon-Nichols Memorial Trophy.
The Harold Moseleys have again headed west and like other classmates have found Troy Parker's Palmer Gulch Lodge a most attractive spot. From personal experience and observation, this is highly recommended to the 1911 travelers.
Gabe Farrell, although retired from Perkins, still continues to keep in the public eye. He has taken an administration position at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge but has been released for eight months to become convention manager for the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the U. S. A. which will be held in Boston September 8-19, 1952.
Carl Hoar's family has scattered across the country. His daughter Rachel, now Mrs. Cole, mother of three children, lives in Silver Springs, Md., her husband being in the Naval Ordnance Laboratory. Carl Jr. is assistant resident in surgery in Boston, is married and has one son. George A. is a graduate in history at Michigan University. He is married but without child. In the same situation is Richard M„ who is a Teaching Fellow in Zoology at Dartmouth.
Stickey Pendleton still continues as manager of the Officers' Mess, at the Goose Bay Air Base in Newfoundland. His address is Goose Bay Air Base Officers' Mess, A. P. O. 677, New York, N. Y.
A few changes in addresses and new discoveries are:
Harold S. Card, 107 Cottage St., Meriden, Conn.; John Marks, 1515 South Boulder Ave., Tulsa 14, Okla.; John O. Norris, 1661 Fenimore Rd., Hewlett, L. I., N. Y.; Thomas C. Plant, 605 Hall, Manchester, N. H.; Harold A. Wampler, 1790 Clavey Rd., Highland Park, III.
Secretary, i Webster Terrace, Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, Howland Dry Goods Cos., Bridgeport 2, Conn.
