1926
For those of us in the Northern climes who are not fortunate enough to escape the bleak weather to visit Don Church or Gordon Chipman (we hear he is moving North) in their Florida winter havens, March is a month of sitting by the fireside reminiscing on past glories. In speculating about the last football season, and trying to work up hopes for next fall (only seven months away), one interesting aftermath has come to light.
Bob Monahan '29, the College Forester, has sent us a fascinating newspaper story entitled "Upper Valley Sports Figure." That sports figure turns out to be none other than our Sas Savage, now known as Dr. Harry William Savage, of Lebanon, N. H. Dac Savage is credited in the article as being largely responsible behind the scenes for the great Success of the Lebanon High School football team this past fall. Seven years ago when he was discharged from the United States Navy after World War II and was unable to continue his profession because of service-connected disabilities, he accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Assistant to the Dean of the Dartmouth Medical School. That same fall, Sas began his extra-curricular activities as team physician for the Lebanon High School teams. Apparently he has become a legendary figure in wading through a succession of charley horses, bruised muscles and bloody noses. He has been father confessor and confidant of the boys. He has taught them many things by his own fine example of unselfishness and the sacrifice of his time and energy for the good of the teams.
To bring you up-to-date on Dr. Savage, he spent two years at the Medical School in Hanover after our graduation and then went to the Medical School at the University of Pennsylvania where he received his M.D. in 1929. While in Philadelphia he met and married Miss Ella F. Lackenbacker. After his internship he opened his practice in Lebanon in 1930 and for 12 years was highly regarded in his profession by the community. In 1942 he volunteered for the Navy and saw four years of service before being discharged in 1946.
Also going back to last tall, there was the news of Harold P. Trefethen's appointment as Vice President of National Shawmut Bank of Boston. It seems only yesterday that we were trying to separate the long-standing confusion of the Trefethen twins in our February 1952 issue when the announcement of Harold's elevation to Assistant Vice President came through a year ago. He must have achieved real fame, for Don Norstrand reports that our normally reserved Bostonians all stood enmasse to welcome him at the 1926 weekly Boston luncheon after the appointment was announced.
With his usual reticence, John St. Clair failed to tell us of his election as President of the Adcraft Club of Detroit until he had served a full year, and we happened to run across one of the organization letter heads. Perk continues with Life Magazine-Time Incorporated at Detroit and is responsible for obtaining all those glamorous automobile ads you see in Henry Luce's publications. He and Sally and son Paul live in suburban Birmingham, Mich. Correspondence with his old Phi Psi friend Chuck Hornburg has revealed that Chuck has gone from business manager of the Daily Dartmouth in 1926 to Advertising Manager of Look Magazine to West Coast distributor of the Jaguar automobile in 25 years. We assume that Chuck is so busy supplying the movie trade with those fancy English autos that he has not had time yet to give us a report on the Southern California delegation requested a year ago (Chuck, see DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE, March 1952 issue, 1926 class notes).
Sid Hayward wrote to report the fall visitors in Hanover. It appears that Del Worthington emerged from his shroud of silence occasioned by those California trips of which we received no report and his warm weather activities on the golf course, to take a combined vacation and business trip East with wife Billie. They enjoyed a pleasant reunion with Red andEmmie Merrill just then returned from a summer in France. Also in Hanover was Charlie Munson, prominent surgeon of Wilmington, Del., who reports seeing Judge TomHerlihy, ex-mayor of Wilmington, frequently, and Frank Knowles, head of the vast DuPont dye works. Charlie and his wife Florence enthusiastically share the hobby of fishing which takes them to Maine and way stations on vacation trips. Their daughter Suzanne is attending the University of Delaware and son Charlie Jr. is in High School.
Another migratory member is Bob Salinger who with Dot stopped at Chicago on their return from California in the late summer and provided the occasion for a party by Tubberand Mary Weymouth which included the Blunts, Gunthorps and Louers.
Like Dr. Ernie Stebbins, M.D., Director of Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Dr. Courtney Brown, Ph.D., Assistant to Chairman of the Board, Standard Oil Co. of N. J., continues to appear regularly in the public press. In the turmoil of getting daughter Joanne married last December, Courtney also spoke before the Great Issues course in Hanover on "How Permanent is Prosperity?" It is our understanding that he kept the seniors awake by informing them that any security other than that which they attain by individual effort is surely false security. However unpopular that philosophy may be these days it does seem like good advice for those who are going to face that cold, cruel world this June. The Daily Dartmouth had this historical sketch of Courtney.
"Brown has held many business, government and teaching jobs in the field of economics. Since the end of World War II Brown has been with Standard Oil, starting as head of the petroleum economics division. From 1948 to his promotion in 1951 he was assistant to the head of the coordination economics department.
"After graduating from Dartmouth, Brown spent 10 years on Wall Street, beginning as a clerk for a stock exchange firm. From 1927 to 1930 he worked as an investment analyst and for the next five years held a similar position in the Bankers Trust Company.
"Brown then received his Ph.D. from Columbia University where he also was an instructor and lecturer. In 1941 he worked as associate director of research for the Chase National Bank.
"When the war started Brown became assistant chief of the Department of State's division of defense materials. In 1942 he served as vice president of the Commodity Credit Corporation of the Department of Agriculture. Brown was the Department director of the Equipment Bureau for the War Production Board from 1943 to 1944.
"Until the end of the war he worked as the Department of State's chief of the Division of War Supply and Resources. In 1946 he was appointed by President Truman as a member and later elected vice chairman of the Famine Emergency Commission."
Arlene and Fritz Lawson spent a recent weekend with Herb and Bert Darling at their Zoar Valley Camp (isn't that in Pennsylvania somewhere?) where Herb and Fritz spent some time hunting partridge. Bert, the angel, reports that the Lawsons have a new house in Rochester, and that their son John and daughter Jean are going to the University of Rochester. Fritz is manager of the Corrugated Division of the Rochester Folding Box Co. Also Virginia, Herb and Bert joined the Lawsons for the Cornell game in Ithaca where they met Herb Jr., on the Dartmouth soccer team. They saw our famous class secretary Paul Venneman there. After such a complete report we are going to correspond with the wives henceforth!
It is assumed that all of you have read in the December issue of the great work that Herb Darling is doing for the College as chairman of the hockey rink project to raise the necessary amount to provide artificial ice for the Davis Hockey rink.
Professor Dick Husband, of Industrial Psychology at lowa State College, writes thefollowing interesting news of himself.
"I am competing with Jack Benny, Dagmar, Dorothy Kilgallen and others, beginning January 7, by giving the General Psychology course over Television, thru lowa State's College WOI-TV. This is the only TV owned by a college in the world, and provides educational as well as entertainment features.
"I am going to broadcast from a simulated classroom in the studio, with the class right there with me. A second class will see a kinescope (movie) film taken from the broadcast, and I am going to teach a third in the usual flesh-and-blood classroom fashion. All three will take the same exams, and results compared. It will be an interesting experience, and a lot of work mixed in.
"And by the way, I am not getting the $2,000 a week or so the 'low-gown' set do, since as the station director told me, "You only have hair on your chest."
From Prof. Dick Haywood's account of his appearance last summer on television and radio, looks as though the future training for the teachers will consist of a few courses in acting, make-up and gag writing. Ed Sullivan, look to your laurels with our Ph.D.'s on the loose!
On the medical front, at about the same time as Hub Harwood emerged from St. Luke's Hospital (Cleveland) in January after a hernia operation, Paul Allen was finally released from New York Hospital and immediately left for Winter Park, Fla., for a month of recuperation in the sun. Unfortunately, Paul had to take his leg cast along with him as there is still another operation due later in the year. Brant Wallace shed his hip, leg and body cast the first of the year and should be home now after nearly five months' confinement in the Morristown Memorial Hospital following that automobile accident on September 21.
Good luck to the rest of you with your spring colds!
NO CHANGE! Charlie Starrett '26, Columbia Pictures' famous "Durango Kid," is shown when he was a student, and 25 years later, in the same spot in Hanover.
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