1938
It is always a pleasure to appoint someone else to do a job and then to sit back and watch progress proceed at a rapid pace. By now you will have been given the plans which WhiteyMays and his committee have so well under way for the reunion in June (the 19th and following, in case it has slipped your mind).
If there is any sense at all to Class activities, and hence any sense at all to having notes in this MAGAZINE, then certainly reunion makes sense. It's all very well and good to have items about distant classmates printed in this space so that you can keep up, at least vicariously, with those you knew best in Hanover some 15 years ago, but the opportunity to meet them again and exchange news is infinitely more worthwhile. It has always been my feeling that over-planning of activities ruins a good get-together, the chief purpose of which should be the chance to sit down with friends and talk. Your Reunion Committee has come up with a plan, or schedule, which allows plenty of time for that. There will be plenty to do, but there will also be an ample amount of time for the kind of long talk you and I welcome during a hectic year of rushing from place to place in the same narrow circle of acquaintances.
I could go on at great length about the nostalgic beauty of Hanover in June, which we all remember adequately, I am sure, but the chief purpose of our get-together should be the names and faces somewhat dimly remembered and those well-remembered but missed for the last five years. As a help to the committee and so that those who want to see you can count on your presence, get your name in early to Whitey Mays. I have conscientiously attempted with whatever means at my disposal, to print any and all news of classmates which I receive, without regard for Major, Fraternity or previous condition of sobriety, but there are lots whom I have missed who will lie there, and here's your chance to see them in whatever added flesh they now possess.
Lt. Cdr. Charles Walkley, USN, was recently graduated from the Navy's General Line School in Monterey, Calif., where he took a nine-months course in engineering, math, ordnance, tactics, administration, leadership, etc., etc. His next assignment will be for duty as Public Information Officer at the Fifth Naval District, Norfolk, Va„ - certainly within striking distance of Hanover in June.
Phoenix Mutual Insurance Company today announced the following promotion on the home office staff: Robert M. MacGregor to assistant manager o£ publications. Mr. MacGregor graduated from Dartmouth College (surprise!) and became associated with Phoenix Mutual in 1939 on the office staff of the company's New York Lincoln Agency. He served in the U. S. Army from 1942 to 1945 returning to the company at the home office in the agency department. He was made assistant editor of Field magazine in June 1949, and advanced to supervisor, advertising division, in February 1951. He is vice-president of the Dartmouth Club of Hartford and active in committee work for the Life Insurance Advertisers Association.
J. A. Carpenter, who recently joined the Root & Boyd local agency (Chicago, Ill.) of Waterbury, Conn., graduated from (guess what?) in 1938. He was then trained for special agency work by National Fire and traveled West Virginia (oh horrible fate!) under D. S. Butler, who was then state agent and who later became insurance commissioner of West Virginia. He served with the ski troops in Italy during the war and in 1946 went with Aetna Fire as special agent in Connecticut. He remained in that position until joining Root & Boyd agency.
A super-spread of a periodical I read regularly when not reading Time and Life, the Library Journal, depicts our own local citizen, Bill Lansberg, in connection with an article he wrote for that publication on the Annual New England College Librarians Meeting. The author, looking even more studious than when in Tauzis' buying the family groceries, is poised about to pounce upon some valuable acquisition Baker is contemplating snatching from under the watchful eyes of the Howe Library.
Brownell, whose health is constantly being impaired by "good living" in the wilds of Marblehead, reports a current rumor to the effect that 1938's peripatetic cow-herd, Wiggin, is due for a stretch at the Littauer Center of Cambridge's august Harvard after he completes educating the Haitians in all things Wiggin and American.
Just to complete the insurance roster of the Class tor the moment, Sid Francis, the local tycoon of New Bedford, now checks in at a new address in South Dartmouth. After a very pleasant correspondence, in re renting a cottage last summer for a week, I had lost track of friend Francis, and am glad that the shock of not renting me a cottage has not caused him to join Wiggin in Haiti.
In case you don't have it in writing, ClemSandresky is at Salem College in Winston- Salem, N. C., probably not far from Vic Cutter, who is at something cryptic called W.C.U.N.C. at Greensboro, in the same state.
It's probably not in the same vein as thinking about the pleasures that Reunion can bring, but pretty soon that other functionary of 1938, Mallory, will be after you in regard to this year's Alumni Fund drive. A part of the Reunion plans of each individual should be some attempt to become better acquainted with the present-day Dartmouth, not the least of whose problems is that of survival in an intensely competitive academic market. All sorts of thought is going on in Hanover as to how to meet the financial emergency in a time of inflationary disturbance, but all such thinking is based on the assumption of the usual, and better, contribution of each class to the Fund. Even if you think the New Administration (in Washington, that is) is going to straighten everything out, give Ike a few years at least, and in the meantime meet the challenge to the College until such time as the Brave New World is really here.
Again, as every year, let me urge you to get your check in early so as to avoid the administrative cost and effort of chasing you. If you are going into hiding until the drive is over, let your sub-agent know so that he won't bother to write to you. But don't go into hiding and then show up at Reunion, unless you want the Bite really put on you.
As a special feature of the Reunion, incidentally, we have arranged to have legal counsel available at all times, through the auspices of the County Solicitor of Grafton County. Cases of Torts, Contracts and Criminal Actions promptly and efficiently handled without fuss or flurry, Charles Tesreau (advt.).
REMINDER FOR REUNIONERS: Two pictures of the good old freshman days enjoyed by 1937. Above, '37ers on a geology field trip in Ihe fall of 1933. Recognizable (I to r) are Tom Mclntyre, Frank Danzig, Cortlandt Heyniger, Bill Bell, Loring Stinson and Wesley Wallenius. Below, behold Dick, Hank, Mac and Jacques as photographed by Dr. John Herman.
Secretary, Trinity-Pawling School Pawling, N. Y. Treasurer, 4721 N. Capitol Ave., Indianapolis 8, Ind.
