1938
Although it is an admission against interest, the secretary must confess that the initial response to his questionnaire has been most satisfying and presents him with an unusual embarrassment of riches as far as news is concerned. Certainly it's one way to get news of the class, not as enjoyable as the customary semi-blackmail and threats, but productive of more reliable information.
In view of the fact that some time must necessarily elapse between the mailing of the questionnaires and the compilation of the final directory, members of the class should take special pains to inform this office of changes in the material required for publication between now and June. No directory is ever completely up to date, but we shall make every effort to achieve 90% reliability.
In the College's admirable address system available to such functionaries as the secretary, there frequently appears some terse abbreviation such as "mere." after a 1938 name, connoting nothing more than an occupation such as the proprietor of a .shoe-store, or even Fletcher of local Hanover renown. A feature article in the Asbury Park (N. J.) Press expands said term in the case of Murray Levinsohn for a full column. Levinsohn is proprietor of the Charles Levinsohn's men's store in Asbury l'ark; "My political science courses helped me tremendously in selling neckties," - the value of the Liberal Arts education.
Murray had to take over his father's business immediately upon graduation through the sudden death of Levinsohn senior and has operated the store continuously ever since except for war service. He served in the Army, rose from private to captain, participated in the African and Italian campaigns, and was hospitalized for three months in Italy from wounds. He is co-chairman of the Asbury Park Chamber of Commerce, belongs to the Rotary Club, Shore Lodge Bnai Brith and Dartmouth Alumni Association.
Political developments in that hot-spot of municipal corruption, Brattleboro, Vt., feature the unexpected and sudden candidacy for another term as selectman of Richard H. Sherwin. When the present incumbent unexpectedly ' announced he would not be a candidate for another term, a great popular movement started to draft Sherwin.
Mr. Sherwin is general manager of the Vermont Printing Co. He was elected a selectman for one year in 1947 and again in 1948, serving as clerk of the board for both terms. First president of the Brattleboro Rotary Club, he is a trustee of the Austine School.
Still on the political front, Mayor Ralph W. Crossman of I.eominster, Mass., has announced his intention to appoint WinthropMayo Jr. as a library trustee. Ben Ames Williams Jr. will head the commerce and industry division of the 1953 Cross Fund for Greater Boston; Mr. Williams is assistant vice president of the First National Bank of Bos- ton. In the turmoil of New Hampshire affairs, Assistant Attorney General John N. Nassikas is slated to move up one notch to the position of Deputy Attorney General of the State. The new deputy attorney general was a Naval Officer in World War II and has been serving as one of three assistant attorneys general at the State House since August 1950. Mr. Nassikas is married, has two children and makes his home in Manchester.
Two long feature articles, one from the New York Times, the other from the North Country's newest journal, the Valley News, highlight Warren Chivers' ski program at Vermont Academy, where he has built the squad into a leading contender for eastern prep school honors.
From the Department of the Navy, Office of the Secretary (luckily my obligations follow another line, or the return address on the letter would have given me a condition of nervous prostration before opening), comes word from George Payne, LCdr, USNR. As you probably know, I reported for duty September 1951 to the Office of Naval Material, EXOS, Washington, D. C. Officially, I am the Navy Liaison Officer to the Aluminum and Magnesium Division of the National Production Authority. I am now happy to announce that I have my orders to go on inactive status in April 1953 (in time for Reunion). Wife Peggy, son Nicky and I are then planning to take a pleasure cruise and to return to Omaha, Neb."
The Quincy (Mass.) Patriot Ledger reports in its top column the projected African hunting expedition of one Gabriel Aluisy and friend (manager of the Red Coach Grill). By the time the dogs pant into Crosby Hall with this, it is edited for illiteracy by the staff there, gets on the milk train to Dick Sherwin, and through the now Republican Post Office system, Aluisy may own five leopard skins. Perhaps he will raffle off a leopard at Reunion.
Just to conclude mundane matters for the moment, Lloyd Wurster checks in as a High School English Teacher in Williamsport, Pa.
On the social side, Lou Kraft has succumbed to the loneliness of life and is announced as the prospective of Mrs. Selma Hillman Lerner, daughter of the late Sidney Hillman. This is the second marriage for both. Mr. Kraft is an engineer with the Southern New England Telephone Co. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Hinckley of Vineyard Haven, Mass., announce the engagement of their daughter Marcia to Wayne Merriman Guyther Jr. Mr. Guyther has his own company, Wayne Guyther, Advertising, in New York. From Yonkers, N. Y., comes a nice little pink card announcing Sara Scotford on February 1.
Dr. Eben Stoddard of Marblehead has opened a new office in Lynn, Mass., for the practice of gynecology and obstetrics. A graduate of Dartmouth College (surprise!), Dr. Stoddard also received a degree from Rush Medical College in the University of Chicago. Following interneships at Salem Hospital and the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, he served three years with the Navy Medical Corps. He has done post-graduate study in gynecologic surgery, obstetrics and female diseases. He has held appointments at hospitals in Chicago, Brooklyn, Boston and Brookline. He is on the gynecological surgery and obstetrical staffs at Lynn Hospital and Mary Alley Hospital in Marblehead.
To run a brief round-up on our Pacific Coast friends, here are some thumb-nail facts about that contingent: William L. Bartlett is a salesman for Procter and Gamble Distributing Company in San Francisco. John D.Bowles Jr. is a radio announcer for NBC in San Francisco. In training work with United Airlines in the same city is Durward Brandts.Jim Briggs is Business Manager of Teekay Mines, Inc., in Tracy, - I hope gold is involved in view of the new Alumni Fund drive just beginning. Bill Clarke is a graduate student in Architecture at Stanford. Ferrien Davis is in the Advertising Department of Hills Bros. Coffee Co. in San Francisco. Ham Ferris is a salesman for Pioneer Rubber Mills in Sacramento.
Bob Kelley checks in as a cryptic "rancher" in Newman. Sales Representative for the Lunkenheimer Co. is Tom Macey of San Francisco. The advertising business claims another 1938 in John Mayer, who is with Chaffee Testing Service in San Francisco. Frank Newman teaches law at the University of California in Berkeley. Bob Pollack is a doctor in San Francisco. Art Robbins, transplanted Bostonian, is Supervisor of Planning for the Campbell Soup Co. in Sacramento, while Andy Robertson works for Sportoscope Co. in San Francisco.
Bill Simmons is in Research Administration at the Herrick Hospital in Berkeley. The ebullient Slattery, John J., that is, is in Insurance with the Royal-Liverpool Group in San Francisco. The only banker I have run across to this point is Larry Symmes, with the Bank of America in the same city. Dr. PeteTalbot is connected with the Menlo Medical Center in Menlo Park. Frank Wright is reported in Reno, but without designation of business affiliation, - cause for some speculation, no doubt.
What with the new Alumni Fund Drive starting and Reunion plans coming to fruition, this should be a busy spring for 1938. Perhaps some of you will have time, even so, to have read the long feature article in ThisWeek Magazine about the superb job being done by Bob Lang in propaganda work behind the Red Curtain. I understand the ALUMNI MAGAZINE was contemplating something along the same lines, and so have no desire to compete with a more complete account.
FOLLOW THIS TO REUNION: Randall Cooper (Dartmouth 1969?) guards one of the prize posses- sions of his father, Dick Cooper '37.
Secretary, JOHN H.EMERSON Trinity-Pawling School Pawling, N. Y.
Class Agent, WRIGHT MALLORY 12 White Oak Shade Rd., New Canaan, Conn.
