1945
By the time this issue reaches you, Dartmouth's football team will just about have finished its season. Pre-season forecasts were not overly optimistic, and by now we'll know whether or not they were accurate. But, win or lose, don't let the football team be your only tangible contact with Dartmouth. A good college should not be judged solely by its athletic prowess, for when it reaches that stage, it is in a sorry state indeed. Dartmouth's strength lies, as we all know, in her alumni. And as a team, Dartmouth's alumni stand at the top of every poll. Football victories are fleeting. Alumni contacts are lasting. Don't let a false set of values center your interest on the athletic field alone. Enjoy your Dartmouth relations in every way possible and you will find continuing pleasure and satisfaction for a lifetime. You can't play for the football team, but you can play ball with your alumni.
And now that I've cleared my chest, the news. The reason Rex Felton didn't make reunion was a boy named Rex Herrick, who finally appeared in this world on June 28, weighing 6 lbs. 15 oz. Rex explains that his first son Jim arrived two weeks early, and Papa was at a convention. This time Dad decided to stay home and sure enough the baby was two weeks late, forcing Rex to miss reunion. Start planning for '55 now, Rex, and don't let it happen again. You and Phyl have got to be there.
His classmates will be extremely interested to know that Lou Mills is a candidate for mayor in Middletown, N. Y. By the circular I received, he seems to have the endorsement of everybody in town, besides the New York Republican State Committee. Good luck, Lou.
Sumner Dorfman, whom I see occasionally, reports the birth of a son, Douglas Earl, on March 22. And Art Pounds, better known as "Pounder," proudly acknowledges patership of David McClement, 8 lbs. 4 oz„ born June 9. Congratulations, boys, and send them to Middlesex School.
If anyone goes to Hanover looking for RogBrown, they're wasting their time. Rog regretfully gave up his job as Assistant to the Secretary of the College to take a year's training in Switzerland for hotel management. He was seen leaving Hanover with his wife Barbie and sundry pairs of skiis. Some say that the mild winters New Hampshire has been suffering were just too much for Rog. But he assured me that he was going to study, although he might find time for a little skiing. Have fun, Browns, and get back by '55.
Weddings: Al Lott (where does that guy keep himself?) was admitted to the state of matrimony on June 16 when he married Miss Jean Lois Morgan in Westport, N. Y. As your first official act as a Dartmouth wife, Jean, I want you to sit your husband down and make him send me an account of his doings since I last saw him in March of 1949. 0.K.? By United Fruit liner comes word that Bob Cate was married to Miss Katherine Knight Royal in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, on September 4. On August 20, Miss Constance Birk became the bride of Burt Manton in Hackensack, N. J. Welcome to the class, Connie. And EarlGallup moved out of bachelor quarters on August 18 when he married Miss Sarah Wharton Cheney in Southbridge, Mass. Frank Wilcox, usher deluxe, helped hold Earl up.
Seen in Hanover during the last few months were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brown, Lee Kriendler,Mr. and Mrs. Warren Smith and Mr. and Mrs.Elliot Goodman. I can't think of a better place to spend a vacation.
Special 1945 ovations to the following for the following: Jim T>oole for his Ed.M. from Harvard; Harold Breen, Master of Landscape Architecture, also at Harvard; Joe Guattery, now a doctor, for his M.D. from Harvard; Dunbar Van Derveer for receiving his Ed.M. in Teacher Education from Springfield College; Floyd H. Farrant for his M.D. from Cornell; and Maurice Baruth for passing the Pennsylvania State Board Bar Examinations.
Coming up in the world are Fred Williamson, named department manager of phonograph records, musical instruments and pianos at Macy's, New York; Nick Sandoe, elected Executive Secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund; Cliff Jordan, appointed Dartmouth Sports Publicity Director; Ronnie Egan, named Executive Representative of Western Union Telegraph Cos. in Europe; and FrankHutchins, who became President and Treasurer of the Hutchins Advertising Agency, Inc.
That's about all the news that I have now. If you don't send me some, I'll continue to exercise my somewhat dubious literary talents, and I'm sure you won't like that. Keep me, or the Alumni Records Office, posted on changes of address, engagements, marriages, additions, events of importance (and those of no importance), promotions, degrees, inductions, vacations and such. And in order to insure that I hear from you, I am now commencing a special monthly feature. I am going to pick at random about a dozen classmates whom I want to hear from. If you're on this list, you'd better sit right down and tell me what you've been doing, where you are, whom you've seen, and such pertinent information. A short note is all that's needed. Here's November's list: Jim Andrews, Bill Ashley, Larry Bellows, Hank Blansfield, John Bressler, Ed Bundy, Fred Byers, Russ Chase, Al Gluek, Howie Hoots, Harry Judge and Al Conn. Sit down now!
Don't forget, only three years and seven months 'til 1945's Tenth reunion.
Secretary, Middlesex School, Concord, Mass.
Treasurer, 2049-A Mather Way, Lynnewood Gardens, Elkins Park, Pa.
