1938
Perhaps many of you didn't realize the double-barreled purpose of the questionnaire sent out last spring for the publicized project of a directory. At any rate, the secretary knows from bitter experience that after the first flush of summer news, comes a long hiatus when no letters come this way, and the college clipping service has little if anything to relate.
Starting now, therefore, we shall dip from time to time into the box of questionnaires and extract news of hitherto neglected brethren for your edification and enlightenment.
To clear up various and sundry matters before embarking on said project, Frank Doane of the Bailey Insurance Agency in Raharhampton, Mass., was qualified in August for membership in the White Mountain Club, an honor which entitled him to an all-expense stay at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods. Frank has been associated with the agency since 1950. He is a member of the Northampton Lions Club, director of the Northampton YMCA and a trustee of the Methodist Church. He resides in Florence with his wife and two children.
Still in the Commonweath of Massachusetts, Jim Cuffe is a candidate for councillor-at-large in Lynn in the fall elections. Jim was chairman of a Lynn Citizens' Committee for Federal Housing in 1949. He also served as chairman of the Citizens' Housing Committee of Lynn and of the Committee for Relief of the Bruce School Families.
Just to keep it all Massachusetts, ParkerBrownell is now a resident of Old Greenwich, Conn., having departed Marblehead and the Boston & Maine for greener pastures in the Metropolis as a vice president and general counsel for Seatrains, Inc., some sort of operation where they load railroad trains on boats and paddle around the sea coast with them. Quite obviously it won't work, but Brownell will answer all law suits.
Reilly, of the Westboro, Mass., Reillys, is now a resident of the Windy City of Chicago with Wilson & Co. The usually not reticent Francis volunteers little else than the bare facts.
Frank Wright takes us out of New England to San Francisco, where he has been named West Coast manager of the Glass Containers Manufacturers Institute. Mr. Wright has been a sales executive with Trans World Airlines.
Don Badger, who used to be associated with a certain silver manufacturing outfit near Providence, R. 1., is now a market analyst with the Boston Gear Works in Quincy, Mass. Marsh Land is asst. sales manager for Revere Copper and Brass in Rome, N. Y. Howie vanRiper is with the Northwestern Mutual Life in Baltimore, Md. Dr. John B. Harmon is now at the Duke University Hospital.
Dr. William I. Dennen has been named head of First Aid for the Wellesley (Mass.) Red Cross in addition to the usual medical duties of the practicing physician. He went to the University of Rochester School of Medicine, served in the Air Force for three years, and has practiced medicine five years in Wellesley. He is a Town Meeting representative, a member of the Exchange Club, and president of the board of directors of Camp O-At-Ka in Maine.
William W. Stuart finds himself in the Pacific paradise of Hawaii in the Personnel Department of the Kahuku Plantation Co., on the beautiful island of Oahu. The company is in the sugar business, surprisingly enough.
Now that the tennis championships of the United States and most of the world have been settled, it behooves this department to grant unqualified recognition to Fred Pickering, new Men's Singles Champion of Rye (New York) City. Fred defeated his final opponent in one of the closest and most exciting matches in the history of the men's singles event. The champion won 10-8 and 6-4 in action-packed sets.
The Okies now claim William H. James Jr., who is a petroleum geologist in Tulsa; no further information forthcoming. HaroldSprague lists himself as a production controller with New Departure in Bristol, Conn. EdMeservey is on the griddle for his final Ph.D. exams at Columbia in physics; he is employed by the Atomic Energy Commission and has spent some time this summer in Hanover studying for the exam.
To delve now into the stack of mimeographed material, we come to the questionnaire of one Morrow Peyton. Morrow has been in the banking business with the Northwestern Bancoporation almost since graduation from Dartmouth. The association comprises seventy banks throughout the Middle West.
Morrow is a member of the Executive Council of the Minneapolis Area Boy Scouts, active in Community Chest, Red Cross, and Civil Defense. For a brief period he worked for the Liquidation Department of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 1938 and 1940. He has two boys, John W. and Jay M., both entered for Dartmouth.
Dobelbower falls out of the hat next. Starting out with the Burroughs Adding Machine Co. after graduation, he served as an Air Statistical Officer in the Air Corps for four years during the war. He is now with the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York.
Wife Gina, Seton Hall '49, was his secretary at the Newark Army Air Base. The job he would like most would be free-lance management consultant.
Turning now to Paul Urion, he received his law degree from Virginia, in the interim working summers for law firms as a clerk, O'Connor & Farber in New York, and Snow and Peyser in Rochester, N. H., joining the latter firm upon receipt of his degree.
Paul's war service was in the Judge Advocate division of the Air Corps in the United States and Pacific areas. Pet gripe was "poor selection of personnel," how true! Upon release from duty, he served as sec.-treas. of the Cove Creek Industries, in Covesville, Va., a firm engaged in the manufacture of clay products. He is now practicing law in Rochester, N. H.
Paul is active in Kiwanis, Chamber of Commerce, Red Cross, Boy Scouts, Crippled Children, and polio drives. On the political side he has been city solicitor of Rochester and Republican City Chairman. His chief hobby is model trains, which, he claims, is a good cure for insomnia. He claims that Dartmouth's greatest need is for an increase in professors' salaries, hear! hear!
From Surburban New Jersey, GrahamWhite checks in as having gone to work in "internal auditing" with Potomac Electric Power Co. upon receipt of his MBA from Harvard, and is now manager of a public accounting firm in "The City." Graham feels that Dartmouth's greatest need is "fewer students"; he feels the College is too big, a tendency many have feared for some time. As for jobs, he would like most to have his present one.
Being a guide in the Alps is the ambition of Art Koeppel, rather than being office manager and underwriter with Thoms, Merrill & Co. in Newark, N. J. After getting his MCS from Tuck, Art was an accounting clerk with the Marine Midland Trust Co., audit clerk with the Federal Reserve Bank, and after the war, secretary-treasurer of E. J. Habrich Co., general insurance. During the war he served in Army Finance in Africa, Italy, and so forth. Pet gripe was "rank-happy officers."
He belongs to the Elks and the American Legion and is still an avid AMC mountaineer, as the opening statement would indicate. He is another model train enthusiast, whose favorite U. S. city is Hanover. He writes no letters, as the secretary can attest.
Chip Robertston, now vice president of the Ericksen Textile Co. in Momense, III., joined the Texas Oil Co. as an accountant in 1940 in Shanghai, China; was a Merchant Marine officer during the war; and has put in a tough period until recently with persistent sickness, although he does not mention it, presumably from war injuries.
So much for this month from the questionnaire box; let's have some more up-to-the-minute news.
HALE AND WELL MET: Aboard the "USS Hale," Comdr. Vining Sherman '38, USN, welcomes Ensign Ralph Tozier Jr. '53 for duty. Comdr. Sherman's father is Nathaniel Sherman '10.
Secretary, Trinity-Pawling School Pawling, N. Y. Treasurer, 406 Peck Rd., Geneva, III.
