1935
Here we are in June, the end of another season, beginning of vacations, and a three- months' rest for the old Royal portable. The weekend these notes are being written is class officers' meeting in Hanover, a time of get-togethers, re-association with the physical aspects of Dartmouth, and an emotional stimulus to carry forward the great traditions. But your secretary is not present. On March 1 my son Kip, age 4, got mixed up with a pile of burning leaves. He was wearing a snowsuit which caught on fire and, as a result, received third degree burns from his ankles to his thighs. He will be in the hospital for several months while new skin is being grafted all over his legs. We're glad to report that, at this time, the grafting is progressing satisfactorily and he will eventually be as good as new. We're also glad to report that our good wife Babs, who was severely burned on her hands trying to put out the fire, is now back to normal. Under these conditions, however, a weekend in Hanover was out of the question.
Enough of our personal problems. We have a long bit of news about our boy on the West Coast, Dave Smith. On April 1 Dave was admitted to partnership of Willis & Christy, Investment Counselors, associates of Scudder, Stevens & Clark. He has been in the investment management field for the past 15 years except for three years during the last war when he served as district investigation chief for the War Production Board. Dave has been with Willis & Christy for the last five years as manager of the San Francisco office.
On April 2 the Berkeley Daily Gazette headlined its biggest news: "New School Board Member Here—D. P. Smith Chosen To Fill Vacancy 'til 1953 City Election" Dave writes, "I'm afraid it's going to take a lot of time but then community service was supposed to be one of those things we got from our liberal arts education at Dartmouth and with our tribe I guess I do have some obligation to the city school system. Fortunately my term as President of the Alumni Association of Northern California will terminate on April 21. Sorry not to have some news for you on others in our class but they never seem to appear at any of our numerous functions. Don Waggaman is a fairly recent arrival and I've spoken to him on the phone. He is in the insurance business."
That "tribe" Dave refers to consists of: Nancy, 13, David, 11, Robert, 6, and Seldon, 5.
Hank and Sid Diamond proudly announce the arrival of a daughter Marjorie Joan on March 26. Everyone's doing fine including Sid.
The Washington (D. C.) Times-Herald, March 30, had a picture of Lowey Haas of United Airlines. As president of the Washington Bons Vivants chapter of travel representatives he was shown presenting a scroll to the man who organized the group in 1935.
The New York Class Dinner for last April found Paul Lynch, Greg Karch, Hall Colton,Bob Richter and Sid Diamond on hand. The guy who set the date, Al Sherwood, was missing. Seems he got confused in his calendar and showed up the night before.
Plainfield, N. J.'s Republican mayor CarlCrane, now serving his fourth year as the city's chief executive, has announced that he will seek another term this year. You may remember that Carl wasn't quite 35 years old when he first became mayor of Plainfield, youngest ever to hold that office.
Got a surprise last Easter Sunday when I made my annual pilgrimage to Church and found one of the ushers to be Ed Elsenhans. He recently bought a house in a new development a few blocks away from me. Ed's with Universal Atlas Cement and is a regular commuter now to New York. Ed is a Thayer School man and has engineered his way along via the Pennsylvania Railroad, an engineering firm in Harrisburg, the Borough of Camp Hill, Pa., and Universal Atlas, where he began in Philadelphia and more recently moved to New York.
Lucky visitors to the Hanover Inn during March and April: Gus Conathan of Duxbury, Mass.; Hank Muller of East Pittsburgh, Pa., and Ken Kurson of Waban, Mass.
Here's an announcement to the effect that Dick Stern has added the word "Associates" to his public relations firm. It is now S. Richard Stern Associates, with a floor of offices at 5 East 47th St., N. Y. Dick has also added some impressive new clients and now is counsel to Dan River, Lily-Tulip Cup Corp., Sun Chemical and Minute Maid Corp.
Well, fellows, that winds it up for another year. Hope you all have a very pleasant summer. And don't forget—this is the home stretch on the Alumni Fund Drive.
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