1939
You're really making it tough this month, not a single solitary letter, but fortunately I've got a tew well planted spies and inside the Main Gate at West Point too. The short story, complete on one page, is a standard fixture of almost any fiction magazine, but this is a story complete in one line and to get it we had to go to the classified ad column of Pointer View for November 10, 1950. This is the newspaper published at the United States Military Academy. Under items for sale we find, "Maternity dresses Call WP3268. Mr. Timbers." This ad was inserted the day after the birth of Bob Timbers' fourth child. I don't know whether there is any significance between the juxtaposition of Bob's ad and the one immediately above it in the same column which read, "Shotgun, Winchester pump Model 12. Call Maj. Smith." Or if you need a car you can buy a '42 Ford with a '48 motor and a '49 paint job, or if you like dogs, answer this one, "What do you get when a beautiful Cocker Spaniel mates with a terrier? We have them (8 of them) for sale 6 weeks old." So much for West Point and my short story.
Up in Montpelier, Vt., Ralph Hill has been named editorial associate to Vermont Life. Ralph has become a well-known writer on Vermont subjects, having written Winooski and Contrary Country and is now writing a history of steam navigation on Lake Champlain and adjacent waters. Last summer he was active in the campaign to save the old steamship Ticonderoga.
Harry Edmondson is the author of an article "Enclosure Premiums Win Favor" in a recent issue of Premium Practice and BusinessPromotion.
More business, and congratulations to EarleRobison elected treasurer of the New Milford (Conn.), Savings Bank. Earle is past president of the Danbury chapter of the American Institute of Banking and is a graduate of the School of Ranking at Rutgers. Over in Verona, N. J., Hank Schueler becomes the vice-president of A. G. Jacobus' & Sons Inc., paint brush manufacturers. Hank will be in charge of production. He is currently past president of the New Jersey Optometrists and a past president of the Mountain New Jersey Club and a member of the National Assn. of Cost Accountants. A fine picture of Jim Garnett and his father appeared in Winnetka Talk, together with a write-up on the three Garnett junior dept stores along Chicago's North Shore.
I may be anticipating a little bit the Alumni Fund drive, but for those of you who plan your budgets ahead I would like to mention the obvious fact that Dartmouth's financial picture may become exceedingly serious this year due to probable lower enrollments and, therefore, in earned income. The problem of the privately supported educational institution and its survival in present circumstances is something that should concern everyone. President Dickey in his speeches to the alumni and the undergraduate body has not portrayed a very cheerful picture. So far it is only a guess, but there is the distinct possibility that enrollment may drop from 25 to 50%, and as yet no additional military personnel have been assigned to Hanover which would tend to offset this decrease. So in making your plans for the coming year, remember that Dartmouth's need will be greater this year than ever before.
We have a few address changes this month. Suggest you look through them, you might find a new neighbor.
Ernest R. Ely, 1002 Alcoa Ave., Victoria, Tex.; H. Foster Clippinger Jr., 3231 Washington Blvd., Indianapolis 5, Ind.; Whitney Cushing, Terry Art Institute, Miami, Fla.; Chaplain John T. Evans Jr. U.S. U.S.A.F. 18807 a, 1603rd Air Base Gp., Wheelus Field, APO 231, c/o PM N.Y.C.; AugusleB. Ewing, 10 Wu Chang Villa, Taipeh, Taiwan (Formosa); John D. Horn, 176 Putnam Park, Greenwich, Conn.; Maj. Colby D. Howe, 17-B-7 Apt F, Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, Calif.; L. Vandegrift Lee, The Door Co., Barry Place, Stamford, Conn.; Donald P. Lieber, 2062 Graydon Ave., Monrovia, Calif.; John M. Mecklin, 9 Rockefeller Plaza, N.Y.C.; Cornwall Miller, 39 Glenbrook Road, West Hartford, Conn.; Dr. Charles E.Osgood, 803 W. Charles St., Champaign, Ill.; Dr.Howard E. Pratt, 2 Wall St., Concord, N. H.; Baxter C. Prescott, Box 911, Beckley, W. Va.; Dr.Irving F. Stein Jr., 244 E. Pearson St., Chicago 11, Ill.; Roland L. Toppan Jr., Snowville, N. H.; Eugene L. Weeks, 115 Locust Grove Rd., Rosemont, Pa.
Secretary, 79 Linden Ave., Darien, Conn.
Treasurer,: Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., 70 Broadway, N. Y. 15, N. Y.
Class Agent, American Bankers Assoc., 12 E. 36th St., New York 16, N. Y.
