1926
SPRING AND THE FUND IN APRIL!
For those who have not already read Budd Schulberg's ('36) very fine article on Dartmouth in the February issue of Holiday, we recommend that it is well worth a trip to your nearest library where it can be found in the periodical room. He writes in part. "Next to his College, a Dartmouth man loves his wife best... . One reason our wives feel that they are seeing Dartmouth men, like spots before their eyes wherever we may roam, is that Dartmouth selects its student body with an eye to geographical spread; they come from 48 states and more than 400 schools."
Budd's accurate report tells the story of why it is difficult for us secretaries to gather news it the boys do not write. However, on a recent trip in behalf of the New York Central the situation did have its compensations.
In Columbus, O., over a mid-morning cup of coffee, Rus Webster, Division Manager and Representative Extraordinaire of Toledo Scale Co. for Central Ohio, related news of several members in his territory long unheard from.
Rus reports that a recent article in the Columbus Dispatch mentioned the election of Chester H. Cook as President of the Sunday Creek Coal Cos. succeeding his father whom he lost last fall. Chet spent a year in our class before transferring to Denison University. He started his career in the business working at coal mines during summers when in school and joined his present concern in 1930 as an industrial coal salesman. The Company has extensive coal land holdings in southeastern Ohio and serves as exclusive sales agent for mining companies in Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia.
Another in Rus' territory is Juilliard H.Blicke, Director of the Bucyrus City Bank. Juil is one of the leading citizens of Bucyrus, married to Evalyn Quay of Gallon, 0., and has two daughters, Judy Ann, 20, and Mary Lou, 18, and a son William Juilliard, 15. As CharlieBishop covers the State of Ohio for the Hanover Bank of New York, Juil should be in his territory too.
In Boston a telephone talk with TreasurerNorstrand revealed that Kennedy's was having a year-end inventory at that moment which excluded any evening revelry before getting the night train for Chicago. Don reports that the dues are still coming in, but with inflation upon us and the cost of our ALUMNI MAGAZINE, more participation is needed for a 100% showing.
At 84 State St., Boston, Carl F. Schipper Jr. has been admitted to partnership in Goodwin, Procter and Hoar, where he joins Dick Nichols and Frank Wallis '25 as partners. Carl has been associated with this law firm for several years. In addition to news of this honor, the Hanover Inn reports that he was one of their guests in December.
In Chicago, Tom Murdough, our famed Hospital Supply man, gave a glowing description of the masterful job done by TubberWeymouth, President of the Chicago Alumni Association, as master of ceremonies at the Hanover Holiday banquet. His introduction of President Dickey was particularly outstanding. In addition to Tubber and Mary Weymouth, the other 1926 representatives were Ross and Mary Welsh, Horace and Ruth Moderwell, Bob and Virginia May, Tom andGrace Murdough and Warren Fellingham.
The old standbys Al Louer and Carle Blunt were obliged to miss Tubber's banquet. Al and Ellen were away on a winter vacation at Montego Bay, Jamaica, which Al has covered in a recent letter.
"Flew non-stop to Miami and found Bob Borwell '25 and wife on same plane heading for Cuba. Stayed overnight in Miami and flew on to Montego Bay the next day in three hours, making one stop in Cuba.
"Comparing Jamaica with Bermuda, one of my favorite spots which I visked first during spring vacation of senior year in College, I found the climate and ocean swimming better in Jamaica. Had plenty of sunshine all but one day and swimming in clean salt water alongside a white sand coral beach. My tan has produced many compliments!
"Attended criminal court trials, where the going rate for support of illegitimate children is six shillings per week (84c), and an adult education class at the local secondary school on Jamaica customs and folk-lore. We were the only 'foreigners' in attendance. The sad part of Jamaica is the extreme poverty among most of the natives. Begging goes on unmolested."
Carle was at the time a guest of the Secretary of Defense aboard the Aircraft Carrier U.S.S. Midway with six other Chicago businessmen. This trip is of such universal interest that it will be covered more in detail next month when space will do justice to it.
Back in Cleveland, the Alumni Council held its annual midyear meeting in February which classmates Sid Hayward, Nate Parker,Carle Blunt and Jim Traquair attended. Our other Council member, Jim Oberlander, was unable to be on hand.
It was particularly good to see Jim Traquair looking so well for, as you may have heard, Jim suffered a heart attack in Cincinnati only a month after our 25th reunion. This required a two-week stay in the hospital and a very quiet and restricted program for the remainder of the summer. After a rest at Charlevoix, Mich., for the month of September Jim finally got back to his office on a parttime basis in October, gradually working up to his normal activities.
The Cleveland Alumni Association climaxed the Council's two-day meetings with its annual banquet at which President John Dickey spoke. The 1926 table consisted of Carle Blunt, Jim Traquair, Nate Parker, HubHarwood and Bruce Eaken, with Sid Hayward at the head table.
Our more avid readers will recall mention in the January issue of Bruce Eaken's handling of justice in the case of Dartmouth 1926 vs Yale 1926 in Life Magazine's story of the latter's Alumni Fund contribution. Bruce's legal abilities were recognized by Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis, Cleveland's leading law firm when he was made a partner on January 1.
Turning for the moment from the national to the international scene, we have the following from Monty Colladay:
"I am leaving Washington in a few weeks for Valencia, Spain, where I shall have my own office (Consul General) again and be preparing the ground for whatever may come from our present negotiations with Spain on economic and military matters. I have had my assignment for the past month and have been studying Spanish in every spare minute.
'"We sail on the S.S. Independence (American Export Line) for Gibraltar on Jan. 16th. We are taking our car with us and will drive from Gibraltar to Valencia via Malaga and Granada. Needless to say we are thrilled about going to Spain. It is a fascinating country and Nina, especially, has always wanted to go back there. Diana naturally is taking a very dim view of the move as she is having such a marvelous time in junior high school being a teen-ager."
Monty as a member of the Foreign Service well represents the Dartmouth alumnus in the line of that great song, "O'er the girdled earth they roam." Here is his record since appointment as a Foreign Service officer November 12, 1929.
Washington, D. C., to assignment in Embassy at Warsaw, May, 1930. Three and a half years in Warsaw. Consulate in Basel, Switzerland November, 1933, to May 1938. Consul and Secretary, Embassy, Tallinn, June, 1938, to April, 1940. Here the Russians marched in! Consul at Winnipeg, Fort William and Port Arthur, August, 1940, to August, 1942. Thence to London as Second Secretary to the following Governments in exile: Greece, February to June, 1943 Yugoslavia, February to December, 1943 Belgium, Norway, the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia, February, 1943, to February, 1944
Second Secretary and promoted to First Secretary, Dublin, February, 1945, to July, 1946. Consul at Sao Paulo, January, 1947. Consul General at Port-of-Spain, November, 1947, to April, 1949. Washington, D. C,, Department of State, November, 1949, to January, 19.52. Consul General, Valencia, Spain, January 22, 1952-
Ed Hanlon reports that he and Mary spent New Year's Eve with Winfred Nickerson and his family at their home in Great Neck. Shortly thereafter the Nickersons left for Houston, Tex. where Nick is Credit Manager for the Federated Metals Division of American Smelting and Refining Co.
It is with deep regret that we must inform the class of the deaths within two weeks of each other, of Dorothy Cummings Van Duyn, wife of H. Norton Van Duyn on January 17 and Harriette Marie Feeley Dooley, wife of Edwin B. Dooley, on January 31. To both Van and Ed, our class extends its heartfelt sympathies in their loss.
Although April is the first evidence of the Alumni Fund Campaign, much work has already been done by Class Agent Okie O'Connor. On February 9 we received the following letter from Okie:
"The weekend of January 17 to 20 I spent in Hanover attending the Class Agents' clinic. The purpose is to teach and acquaint the new agents with their duties, especially in regard to the coming Alumni Fund Campaign. It was truly an inspiring meeting.... The organization is fast taking form for all sections of the Country."
Okie now opens the 1952 Compaign with the need to the College greater than ever before. Let us give him the same support that has always gone to all 1926 Class Agents!
Many thanks to Herb Darling, HarryFisher, Skipper Smith and Snipe Esquerre for the photographs of the 25th reunion. Any others?
NOW AND THEN: Monty Colladay '26 is shown in Hanover with his wife Nina, just before leaving for his new post as Consul General in Valencia, Spain; and (in the inset) when he was a wellknown trackman during undergraduate days.
Secretary, 500 Terminal Tower, Cleveland 13, 0, Treasurer, Kennedy's, Inc., 32 Summer St., Boston, Mass. Class Agent, 81 Fairview Ave., West Orange, N. J.
