1929

Chairman Jack Gunther's September 17 meeting of the Class Gifts Committee, held at the Dartmouth Club in New York, was a great success. In attendance at dinner and throughout the evening discussions were: Jack Blair (New York City), Bing Carter (Fairfield, Conn.), Eddie Chinlund (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Johnny Clements (Winnetka, Ill.), JohnDickey (Hanover, N. H.), Harry Enders (Bronxville, N. Y.), Pinkie Flannery (New Castle, Pa.), Jack Gunther (New York City), Phil Mayher (New York), Julius Morris (New York), Inches Pierce (Portland, Me.), BobRamage (Hopewell Junction, N. Y.), SqueekRedding (Boston, Mass.), Dick Robin (Hohokus, N. J.), Nick Sandoe (Hanover, N. H.), Carl Spaeth (Palo Alto, Calif.), Gus Wieden-mayer (Newark, N. J.) and Bill Andres (Boston, Mass.). Perhaps by the time these notes are read, you will have heard directly from the Committee about our Memorial Gift Program, which now is in the last two and most active years of effort. Suffice it to say here that, within memory, there has never been a more enthusiastic and constructive meeting of any class group more determined to do a job.

Here's '29's contribution to the freshman class of 1956:

James Leonard Flynn (H. Leonard); Walter Levi Hetfield IV (Walter L. Ill); John Roger Hubbard Jr. (John R.); Porter Sawyer Kier III (Porter S.); Lawrence Wilbur Morse (Herbert O.); Richard Miller Sanders -(Richard B.); Robert Hall Schuh - (Wendell L.); George William Sherman (HaroldM.).

Larry Lougee (Lieut. Col.), who is the Legal Officer for the Territory of Alaska, reports a nice visit with his Honor Judge Jim Hodson and a fine dinner at his ranch home with his wife Hessie and two daughters. While passing through Seattle, he saw a newspaper picture of Polly Parrott's daughter Patricia, then on the .staff at Sun Valley.

When the Cleveland Alumni Club had their annual summer picnic last July, MortCroivell happened to be in town visiting his parents. The accompanying picture shows the three old Cleveland Heights' High School graduates of 1925: Morry Hartman and RedFlynn, who have stayed and prospered in Cleveland, and Mort Crowell, who has done equally well out there in Palo Alto.

Bob Monahan's review of the new book The Butcher, the story of the ascent of Yerupaja, appeared in the July 27 issue of the NewYork Times. Bob was described as the advance agent of the 1932 Washburn Expedition to the Fairweather Range, Alaska, and the author of Mount Washington Reoccupied. He could better be described as one of the best sources of news for the Class column, the author of a column in the Hanover Gazette, one of the most versatile members of the College Administration, and, unfortunately, at present an occupant of Dick's House recuperating from a double intervertebral disk operation. Bob reports that he has recently been elected Director-at-Large of the newly organized New Hampshire Publicity Bureau. Bob credits "Tex" Shugart of Fort Worth, Tex., vice president of the Southwestern Petroleum Company, with the development of Yukon transmission lubricant, whose paraffin base enables mechanized equipment to turn over even at 20-30° below.

Bill Strangward, of Messrs. Strangward,Lloyd & Cameron, boasts that although hishair is now quite gray, he has reverted to therather youthful recreative activity of flying,having acquired a Cessna 170 four-passengerairplane about two years ago, followed justrecently by a Beechcraft Bonanza which carries the same load but flies a great deal faster.Last month, he flew to Fort Nelson, BritishColumbia, to do some hunting and fishing, combined with some checking up on mineral claims he has staked out there.

Now, here's news! The Class Baby has his own baby a red head named Ralph Carroll Cavanagh, born August 14 in Hanover, 8 pounds and 14 ounces. By now this younger generation Cavanagh family is settled in Cambridge where Jim (the Class Baby) is entering upon his third year at Harvard Medical School.

Red Kennedy confesses that his last contribution to this column was in 1945 when he was in Charlotte, N. C., as a purchasing agent for Kendall's Cotton Mills Division. He now reports that since then he has had a two-year hitch in Walpole, Mass., and four years in Rockford, Ill., at a plant which Kendall bought in 1948. Now a recent transfer brings him to the New York Office of Kendall Mills down on 40 Worth St., where he deals in Kendall's basic commodity, greige cloth, as Assistant Sales Manager of the Cotton Division. But Red's proudest accomplishments are four boys: Peter (13), Bill (11), George (7) and Bruce (4), who, he says, thanks to their mother, are fine lads. Apropos of whom, Red warns us that after age 40, we should act our age. It seems he entered a sack race for daddies at a Sunday School picnic, with disastrous results—two hops and a broken hip. It was 16 months before he graduated from crutches to a cane.

Mace Ingram, Assistant Comptroller of the College, keeps pretty busy in Room 1 of the Ad building "much to the dismay of my charming wife Helen and our two lovely daughters, Nancy (14) and Marcia (8), who prefer the Cape any day to Mascoma Lake, but then there is always the hope of a week of real skiing during the Christmas vacation. I might add that a few extra-curricular activities take up my spare moments, such as Treasurer of the Outing Club, Assistant Treasurer of the Hanover Budget Committee, and member of the Naval Reserve Unit." Mace also reports:

"Maury Mandelbaum spent the summer at the University of Michigan where he conducted the major course of the summer session, an integrated graduate seminar on "Modern Views of Man and Society.' He also reports that he hopes to finish his new book, Ethical Theory within two weeks and in his usual modest manner expressed the hope that some house would find it worthwhile to publish! Shep Stone, whom you recall returned from Germany not too long ago, attended in Hanover the recent meeting of the Brookings Institute as an observer for the Ford Foundation. Karl Michael was another Hanover summer absentee, directing the Junior Activities of the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club at Port Washington, L. 1., and also found time to act as a member of the Olympic Swimming Committee in determining the personnel of the Olympic Swimming Team. Joe D'Esopo reports a very busy summer with his Travel Bureau and his automobile agency. Bob and Olive Carr toured Europe during the summer, including France, Italy, Switzerland and England, but hurried home to catch the first Hanover High School football game, the reason son Norrie is the star halfback! In his spare time, Bob has been working on his latest book Un-American Activities which he reports should be on the stands this fall."

Dr. Jack Knight recommends water skiing as a lot of fun and not too hard for us of the lost generation. To counter this frivolity, he is now deep in the Newton PTA as President of the Newton Center Group.

Don Jeffery reports that one score and three years after graduating as an English major, he has acquired one wife, two sons and one daughter and has progressed to the higher echelons of the Whitney Screw Corporation (he is President), manufacturers of what the name says, in Nashua, N. H. Jeff lives two houses away from Henry Sharpe, who has a couple of textile stores, one in Nashua and one in Manchester. Henry's son played on the winning team in the City Baseball League. Last June Jeff took his oldest son to Hanover to register him for entrance in 1953.

"The J. Fred Ingrams continue to reside in Beaver Falls, Pa. The plural sense includes Jane and our three children, Mary Lou, 15, Henry, 13, and Tom, 6. Porcelain enameled steel products continues to be my curriculum, with some armor plate manufacturing added for defense measures. Not too many Big Green Indians in this truly Indian country, but I do see frequently our Roman Senator Chinlund. Also saw lleriretta this past summer. Had a chance during the summer to play golf with Fred Campbell, whom I had not seen since Hanover days. And speaking of Hanover, Jane and I like to talk about going to Hanover for the 25th reunion, because we are optimistic enough to think we will enjoy the event as much as we did the 20th."

Bobby (Laflin C.) Jones, director of in- surance service research for Northwestern Mutual Life, has been promoted to a newly- created position of executive assistant to Robert E. Dineen, vice-president, in coordinating the work of the various insurance departments of the company and in major studies of company operations in the underwriting field. Mr. Jones will continue research projects and editorial work with which he has been associated in his present duties the past 14 months. Bob joined the agency department of Northwestern Mutual in 1929. While in charge of educational activities, he had a large share in writing the company's educational courses. He is a CLU and has instructed life insurance groups and classes at business schools. He formerly was editor of Field Notes, agent publication, and The Pillar, home office employe magazine. His life insurance plays and skits have been presented at company meetings, state and national life association conventions. He was appointed an officer of the company in 1941 as assistant director of agencies, and made director of insurance service research April 1, 1951.

And a word from Art Bergeron at Berlin, N. H.:

"I'm practically all by myself in this northern county. I do see Bob Monahan occasionally when he comes through on the way to the College Grant and I have been up with him a few times. I attended the recent dedication of the Management Center on the Grant and the whole group had lunch with President Dickey, Dud Orr and a number of trustees. I attended the last session of our Legislature as the Legislative Counsel of the local paper company and I did see Dud Orr on a number of occasions as he was engaged in the same activity for various clients. I have also seen Judge Frank Kennison a few times around the State Capitol... . I'm practising law in this town by myself. There's been no change in the family for a long time. We still have only a son and a daughter, aged 15 and 14, respectively."

The approaching Golden Wedding Anniversary of Morton Jaquith's parents emphasizes Jake's long Dartmouth line. His mother had an uncle in the class o£ '64, two cousins in '97, brothers in '00 and '04, a son in '29, a nephew in '30 and a son in '33. No wonder the Judge is such a good man! Jake's older daughter Mary is in her second year at Pembroke, with a leaning toward becoming a teacher. Son Peter entered the Upper Middle class at Andover this fall. This leaves young Susan pretty much in charge of the household and the Bth grade. Susan, by the way, split with her father supporting Senator Taft, somewhat to the Judge's embarrassment as local leader of the Eisenhower forces. Jake has been busy riding circuit in the District Courts, sitting in Ayer, Marlboro, Worcester and Clinton, covering more courts than any other District Court Judge in the County on some days sitting in two different courts. Among his extra curricular activities was the chairmanship of the Centennial Volume Committee, which published a history of Clinton (yet to make the best-seller list, says Jake).

NATIVE SON: Welcomed back to Cleveland, Mort Crowell "19 (r) joined his high school and college classmates, Morry Hartman (I) and Red Flynn at the annual picnic of the Cleveland Alumni Club last July. Crowell, who lives in Palo Alto, was visiting his parents.

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