1930

From the looks of the news file for this month, September must have been the time when Thirtymen were returning reluctantly from vacation and settling down to the usual chores of the fall and winter but with no special activity for which they felt they should account to your Secretary. As a result, the news file for this month is unusually slim.

It is real news when we can report another marriage in the Class of 1930. On August 24, Dick Blun was married in New Rochelle, N. Y., to Miss Rosalind Gene Blumenthal. Dick's bride studied at Cornell University and Olivet College. Following a wedding trip to Bermuda, the bride and groom planned to return to Mt. Vernon, N. Y., where they will establish their home and Dick will continue his work as an executive with the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. ... During the latter part of September Charlie Ranch made one of his altogether too infrequent visits to Boston and we were thus able to catch up somewhat with Charlie's many activities. Apparently Charlie continues with his hobby of organic gardening but the novelty has somewhat worn off at least to the extent where he and Mildred left Farmington and spent about three weeks in the Adirondacks.

In none other than Bennett Cerf's column in the Saturday Review of Literature of Septemper 1 appeared the following which of course refers to our esteemed classmate: "In Pittsburgh, Fred Boxves Jr. of PitneyBowes regaled a U. S. Chamber of Commerce meeting with these illuminating definitions: Socialism: You have two cows and give one to your neighbor.

Fascism: You have two cows; the Government takes both and lets you buy back some of the milk (skimmed).

Communism: You have two cows; the Government takes both and shoots you.

Capitalism: You have two cows; you sell one and buy a bull.

Capitalism under a certain administration: You have two cows; the Government takes both, shoots one, milks the other—and throws the milk away."

From Pensions to Harvard

Herb Chase has foregone his actuarial work in connection with pension plans and is now on the payroll of Harvard University. Herb is acting as the business consultant and manager for the very new and interesting Harvard Solar Research Laboratory which is being constructed at Sacramento Peaks, N. M. This is a project of the Harvard College Obervatory, aided by the Air Force, which will be concerned strictly with a study of the sun. Herb assures us that there is absolutely no "star gazing" involved. Heretofore, for the most part., the study of the sun has been limited to the brief periods of an eclipse. However, the new project under Herb's care will have as its principal tangible item of property the largest solar telescope yet constructed, which will be so adapted that it may be used in the study of the sun at all times,it provides its own eclipse "effect." Herb is spending most of his time in the offices of the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge but does find it necessary to make a flying trip to New Mexico about once every month. Thirtymen should not be concerned that this new business association of Herb's may indicate even the slightest alienation of his collegiate affection. If any proof were needed, a review of the football games which Herb and Marge intend to see this fall would leave no doubt but that Dartmouth is the "one and only."

On October 1, Dick Bowlen left Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Company in Providence, R. I., and assumed a new position in Springfield, Vt., with the well-known machine tool company, Bryant Chucking Grinder Company. Dick was most enthusiastic about his new work and also by reason of the opportunity it gave him to live in the North Country, which he so greatly enjoys. At the time of "this writing," Dick had not yet located a new home in Springfield, but he and Gwen were looking forward to establishing their new home within a short time. As further evidence of the attractiveness of his new position and location, Dick remarked, "You know, we are less than an hour and a half from Hanover."

Gets Higher Education Post

Fran Horn is another who has found a new position. On October 15, Fran was leaving Johns Hopkins University and the office of Dean of McCoy College, which he has held for some time, to return to Washington, D. C., to act as the Executive Secretary of the Department of Higher Education of the National Education Association. Fran was very much looking forward to returning to Washington where he had so many Dartmouth friends and reported that his new job should take him about the country a good bit which would offer him the opportunity of seeing more of his 1930 classmates than heretofore.

Although Hugh Gibbons has furnished a new address of 2012 N. Inglewood Street, Arlington 5, Va„ Fran Horn advised us that Hugh was in Boston in September recovering from another operation on his leg which was broken in an automobile accident in October, 1950. Although Hugh's leg has been in a cast since the accident, and it appears that he may have several more months of that, it was indi: cated that he is showing very definite progress. We had hoped to obtain from Fran the hospital or other address of Hugh while he was in Boston.

The deadline for getting these monthly Class Notes to Editor Charlie Widmayer in Hanover is such that your Secretary may be unable in the next month's notes to report on the 1930 Executive Committee meeting which is scheduled to be held in New York City on November 1-3. Although the agenda for that meeting does not indicate a lengthy business session, it should be most reassuring to all Thirtymen to know of the very real and continued interest of the members of the Executive Committee in their Class, as is evidenced by the number of men who arrange business plans and personal matters so that they may attend these meetings, often from a great distance. On the other hand, and needless to say, the members of the Executive Committee and their wives look forward with great anticipation to these 1930 get-togethers.

AT SCHOOL AGAIN: Three Dartmouth men attend- ing the summer institute for insurance men held at the University of Connecticut. They are (I to r): Doug Gorton '25, Art Koeppel Jr. '3B and Bill Smith Jr. '3O.

Secretary, Herrick, Smith, Donald, Farley & Ketchum 1 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass.

Treasurer, 56 Jennys Lane, Barrington, R. I.

Memorial Fund Chairman, 42 Wall St., New York 5, N. Y.