1938
Since the deadline for class notes is always the fifth of the month preceding publication date, very few items of real timeliness ever ret into this space. Ever on the ball, however, the Boston moguls, headed by Stearns MacNutt, hereby give official notice that the annual Beer Picnic this year will be held at MacNutt's Mansion on June 14, weather, the international situation, and local breweries willing. From accounts of recent past performances, I should judge that this is not a gathering that many can afford to miss if at all possible to arrange baby-sitting and other attendant problems.
Headline news from the ever-watchful clipping service so thoughtfully provided your secretary by the College, includes the appointment of Marsh Land as head of the new Washington Office of Revere Copper and Brass, a good old New England firm dating from the days (supposedly) of the equestrian of the same name. Mr. Land, formerly resident of New Bedford in the sovereign Commonwealth of Massachusetts, had been in Rome, N. Y„ as assistant sales manager before being appointed to the Washington position. During WW II he served with the USNR (who, besides the secretary, didn't?), is married with two children (one of each), and will make his home in the Old Dominion.
Just to contradict the parenthetical remark above, ex Air Force Captain Bud Walls has been named assistant superintendent of agencies of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Cos. He has been with the company since his graduation from Dartmouth. A year ago, this propaganda bureau announced his appointment as manager of brokerage development; comes now another promotion.
Having just appointed William (aliasWimpy) Lyle to the New York Reunion Policy and Appointment Committee (see April notes), we find him no longer blessed with residence in the Metropolis; he has returned to the haunt of cootthern in Nashua with the Gummed and Coated Paper company with which he has been associated these many long years. New title is Assistant Sales Manager. Knowing Brother Lyle's proclivities and sentiments, I realize what a welcome change this will be from the hectic noise of New York.
Tom Chapman is now living in Greenwich, Conn., practically next door to one of my former associates at St. George's school, and is
with the Shipbuilding Division of Bethlehem Steel on Broadway in New York. It must be a thrilling spectacle to see the stately vessels sliding down the ways at 25 Broadway. Harold C. Sprague is with the Production Control Department of the New Departure Division of G.M. in Bristol, Conn., making coaster brakes for bikes and other important cogs in our industrial potential.
C. Andrew Perkins checks in from Old Greenwich, Conn., and is working for Coignet Chemical Cos. at 445 Park Avenue, N.Y.C. Dave Freeman is with the Museum of Science, Science Park, in Boston. If memory serves correctly, this is the new modern building on the Charles River Basin as you come into Beantown from Hanover. Department of cryptic information: "David Brinkmann, Cement Salesman, Littleton, N. H."
Charley O'Connor joins the legal eagles of the class with his newest address as with McManus and O'Connor in Manson, la.; I have no information as to whether this is a bright new light in the legal field or not.
The local caravanserie reports a plethora of 1938s during the past month's operations: Donovan (representing the Dartmouth Club of India), Dawkins, Reno, Herb Rathbun (from the wilds of Westerly, R. I.), Lt. Commander Jack Hull "and fam." and RoyceRandlett. I had a pleasant phone chat with Donovan, who reports no success in recruiting outstanding polo players for the College from India (too much Yale influence?), and Herb Rathbun and Mrs. dropped into the office for a very pleasant visit.
News Comes in Strange Ways, Dept.: on the bulletin board of the same hostelry, appeared the cryptic notice the other day: Mr.and Mrs. Merrill E. Cond.it '3B, first news of his desertion of the unmarried ranks. He returns to the Darrow School with wife. Another recent marriage, as reported in the local journal which some of you may fondly remember as the Hanover Gazette is the marriage in Chicago of Roy B. Chamberlin Jr. So much for Social Notes for this month.
Of sad import is the brief account you will see on other pages of the sudden passing of John H. Adams, a member of the Class for the early part of our College career. On the Political front, aside from the local maneuverings of Messrs Jones <&* Tesreau,Charley Main was elected to the Winchester (Mass.) Board of Selectmen at a recent polling of that town. Main garnered 2398 votes in the process of his landslide, defeating his next rival, who had only 1886.
As hinted in last month's screed, the Alumni Fund, of which you may have heard at one time or another, is getting under way. Honors for the first recorded contribution from our Class, according to my information, go to Brad Jenkins, of the Jenkins Transportation Cos. Morgan Marshall was number two, and Lloyd Williams number three.
You will have read of the recently announced raise in Dartmouth's fees, forecast last month and in line with other such announcements by our sister institutions. This will, of course, not in any way lessen the growing needs of the College for the support of the alumni, nor for that matter, can one anticipate in the future that such increases can go on indefinitely and ever take the Alumni Fund's place in the finances of Dartmouth. All of us can easily appreciate, from our own personal deficit economy, the problems faced by the College on a vast scale in a time of increasing costs and income not proportionately increasing at the same time. All prompt support given friend Mallory and his faithful cohorts will accordingly be that much more appreciated.
Lieutenant Commander William J. L.Parker has been assigned to the advanced training course at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., where he will prepare
for duty as a merchant marine inspection officer. Since November of 1949, Bill has served as senior controller in the Eastern Area Search and Rescue Control Center in New York, coordinating marine rescues in the North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.
After leaving Dartmouth, he received his M.A. from Columbia. As a hobby, he has become an authority on schooners and marine historical data. He is the author of The GreatCoal Schooners of New England. During the war he saw active service with assault landing craft in the Pacific at Bougainville and Guadalcanal.
Secretary, Admissions Office Parkhurst Hall, Hanover, N. H Treasurer, 4721 N. Capital Ave., Indianapolis 8, Ind. Class Agent, White Oak Shade Rd., New Canaan, Conn.
