1933
The last issue of these notes was concerned only with our 20th Reunion. Now this reporter settles down to the exacting and exciting task of attempting to fill the copious and versatile shoes of John Monagan and George Theriault in presenting the changing scene of 1933 through the next several years. For this, we need the cooperation of every member of the Class and trust that your Secretary's mailbag will be bulging after you have had a chance to learn his address. We hope each of you will constitute himself a veritable Winchell to record and report the activities of yourselves and your classmates. The MAGAZINE proposes to restrict slightly the space for class notes and, toward this end, requests the secretaries to practice the art of being informative, interesting, witty, sprightly and concise all at the same time. It will be a great day in the morning when we ever approach this ultimate, but in the meantime we shall not hold you to the same standard in your reports for this column. Anything you send in will be interesting and informative, much of it will be witty and sprightly, and verbosity we can always boil down.
The first major boner we've pulled was omitting Sam Black's name as a member of the new Executive Committee. Any omission would have been inexcusable; this one is horrible. We all know with what long hours of hard work, skill and imagination Sam has lead the Alumni Fund activities of this Class, and we know that whatever measure of success we have had in these activities is due in great part to that leadership. The job of trying to blast 1933 into the position it should occupy in the Alumni Fund is one of herculean proportions, and all honor is due to our immediate past Class Agent. So a thousand pardons, Sahib Black: your membership on the Executive Committee is hereby officially noted.
And this brings us to a quick summary of the Alumni Fund, fuller details of which will be forthcoming later. The Fund itself hit an amazing high both in participation and dollars. 16,146 loyal supporters of the College contributed $611,531.25 toward the maintenance of Dartmouth's great standards and her sure progress. This represented 82% participation and 122% of monetary objective. 1933 contributed more money than ever before, $9>733-86> or 79.7% of our quota of $12,210.00. This came from 370 loyal members of the Class and represented 73.9% participation. In comparing our percentages of achievement with those of the other 68 participating classes of the College, we stood 54th in participation and 47 in percentage of objective. It seems that we can't ever quite hit our quota or get in the magic circle of 400 contributors. Anybody who knows the secret and can accomplish the trick by any means, including individual dynamiting, please put in his application for election as the new Class Agent. His lot will be a Churchillian one of blood, sweat and tears, but he is assured of a tremendous amount of loyal support from the great majority of the Class. The satisfactions are many, and, as an added inducement, Lhere are definite signs that this Class is finally shedding its antediluvian skin of Depression Baby and is facing up to its responsibilities to the College. The prospects are bright that we shall come of age during the next six years.
Some of our brethren have made the papers recently leave us examine the reports:
William H. Lang, who has recently been elected assistant secretary-treasurer of the Harvard Business School Association, has been appointed assistant treasurer of United States Steel Corporation and will handle corporate financial matters, making his headquarters in New York. Bill received a Master in Letters degree from the University of Pittsburgh and has studied under the Advanced Management Program at Harvard. Joining the former Carnegie Steel Company in 1934, he became assistant treasurer of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation in 1946 and later of its successor, United States Steel Company. Mt. Lebanon, Pa., civic endeavors will have to find new personnel.
Carl E. Rugen was elected chairman of the Board of Field Underwriters and, in this capacity, serves as a director and member of the executive committee of the Life Underwriters Association of the City of New York. Carl joined the Travelers Insurance Cos. with the Bratton agency upon graduation and has been with that agency continuously except for service with the 83rd Division in the European Theatre during the war.
Dr. Paul C. Zamecnik, lately conducting investigations in the chemistry of cancer and other malignant growths, has been appointed to the permanent teaching and research staff of Harvard Medical School where he will be Associate Professor of Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is associate physician of the Homberg Infirmary of M.1.T., scientific consultant to the Beverly Hospital Research Foundation and has twice won the John Collins Warren Triennial Prize for outstanding medical essays.
The Montana Standard of June 28 reports that Sam Stephenson Jr., who has been a member of the legal staff of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company at Butte-Anaconda since 1945. wiH head a new division of that legal department to be known as the Western labor relations department. Sam has specialized in labor relations, first with International Smelting and Refining at Salt Lake City and, during the last seven years, with Anaconda. Sam and his wife, the former Billie Kester of Helena, Mont., have three children.
Bun Mudge acted as toastmaster at a banquet for his alma mater's (Amesbury High) hockey team. Wonder if he survived?
Republican primary voters of Illinois' Bth district pondered the qualifications for state senator of Mayor Robert E. Coulson of Waukegan, state representative Robert McLory '3O and two other guys. How did you come out, Bob?
Did you know that John H. Thompson of Quincy, Mass., has been an international vicepresident of American Newspaper Guild, C.1.0., since 1951, Boston Newspaper Guild president for three years, a member of Greater Boston C.1.0. executive board and held other high union offices?
In June Mrs. Katherine Wright and DavidCrawford Stewart were united in holy matrimony at Norwell, where they will reside. Both bride and groom are on the faculty of Derby Academy, Hingham, Mass.
In July Miss Christine O'Riordan of Kilfinnane, Limerick, Ireland, became the bride of Kent Rhodes of Katonah, N. Y., son of Mrs. Clarence Klinck of Summit, N. J. The wedding took place at Nassau, the Bahamas. Kent is production manager of The Readers Digest.
Last, but not least, three lucky visitors to the Hanover Inn during July: Karl M. Schiebe and Mr. and Mrs. Al Florin.
Secretary, 217 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, N. Y. Treasurer, Quechee, Vt.
