1941
Last month I promised the 1953 baseball prognostications would appear in the April notes, so here goes. First, the National League, our first love.
BROOKLYN - First, because Pee Wee Reese, of Louisville, Ky., is still the shortstop. Another well-known Louisville resident is Downey Gray whose Tuck School background has been utilized by the General Box Company. Downey is assistant manager of the Corrugated Box Division. His youngster, Downey III, is just 18 months old.
PHILADELPHIA Picked for second place without consulting Dr. Frank Brooks. Yes, Portsmouth, N. H.'s gift to the class of 1941 is now an associate in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. Frank has time to get in a little tennis even though he's got three youngsters.
NEW YORK - Don Brown is an assistant treasurer of the J. Henry Schroeder Banking Corporation in New York City. Fred Wieting is doing public relations, radio, TV and motion picture work in New York. The Giants? Third.
ST. LOUIS - Jack Naylor is a radio-TV man with the Gardner Advertising Agency in St. Louis and lives out in Webster Groves. He's got two boys but they're not playing on the Cardinals. Until they do, fourth.
CHICAGO Bud Rothermel is a director and vice president of Moore, Case, Lyman and Hubbard, which I imagine is an insurance brokerage house. Bud's still playing a good game of golf and has a family of three kids. But if the Cubs want pennant insurance, they won't get it from Bud.
BOSTON Charley Putnam is assistant manager of the Investment Analysis Section of the Old Colony Trust Co. in Boston. His son was born on Thanksgiving Day, 1952. Back in college days, Charley was in the band but we don't expect the Braves to make beautiful music this time.
CINCINNATI Frank Simpson is a husky guy and I don't want to tangle with him over this selection. Frank's in the production department of Multi-Color Type Company in Cincinnati. He and his wife, Shirley, have two boys which we hope will some day be Dartmouth-bound.
PITTSBURGH - The Pirates couldn't get enough money to part with Ralph Kiner but I'm hoping that plenty of cash went down to Pittsburgh to Stew Steffey for class dues in 1952. I'll find out when I see Stew at the annual Secretaries Conference in Hanover next month.
Now for the American League: CHICAGO - Stacy Hill is an investment analyst with The Northern Trust Company in Chicago and would probably be more conservative in selecting securities than I am in picking the Go Sox. However, Stacy ended his tenure as a bachelor by marrying Kay Reynolds last September and we figure that maybe the Yanks will end their tenure this year.
NEW YORK - Bill Steel announces that he is now in the insurance agency business in Hempstead, L. I. You fellows around the New York area can give your business to Bill. And you visiting American League teams give the business to the Yankees.
CLEVELAND - Harvey Dxvorken who once upon a time worked on The Dartmouth is a struggling young physician who has just started practice in Shaker Heights. He sees Bill Lowry from time to time but we can't see the Indians.
PHILADELPHIA - Whenever I think of Philadephia I think of Lou Young and I think how nice it will be for the Dartmouth line when Lou's two youngsters are of college age. He's also got a little girl and possibly a fourth by this time. Lou is a salesman for the Cunneen Company in Wilmington, Del.
BOSTON Another standout guard in college days was Dan Dacey. Dan's living in Brighton, Mass., and is a plant engineer with New England Tel & Tel. Dan and BobO'Brien, another Boston resident, may disagree with me on putting the Red Sox fifth.
WASHINGTON - I had contemplated putting the Senators first so I could get right into this bit of news. My old roomie, BobHarvey, and his wife Barbara announce the birth of Sara, their third child (second daughter). They are one Washington couple who survived the change in administrations. But the change won't go so far as to change the fortune of the Senators - not this year.
DETROIT - Bill Hammond, a New Englander now living in Grosse Pointe, Mich., is district sales manager of the Metal Hose Division of American Brass Co. in Detroit. Bill reports that he's playing a lot of golf and sees Bill Broer and Johnny Bowers occasionally.
ST. LOUIS - This is a good note to wind up on since St. Louis is traditionally in Missouri and traditionally in last place. An important guy to '41 in Missouri is Bud Martin of Springfield who is our Class Agent. Bud has handed over the job of doing "Dope from the Duckboards" to Don Hagen and those of you who read the first issue under Don's guidance know we're in for a real treat this year. Keep the letters coming in to me and put Don on your list too. It's quite a task gathering material for DFTD and I know Don will appreciate correspondence addressed to him at 164 Hillside Ave., Chatham, N. J.
P.S. Did you notice our scoop on the fall of Stalin? If not, check back and read the notes in the February issue of this MAGAZINE. NOW which one of you guys did it?
QUEBEC FAMILY: Robert ("Soup") Campbell '4l, of Rawdon, Que., is shown with his wife Barbara and (I to r) Robert Jr., 4; Susan, 1; Sara, 5; and Dusty, 9. He is Vice President of Rogers Plastic Corp.
Secretary, 47 Hook Lane, Levittown, N. Y.
Class Agent, 438 St. Louis St., Springfield, Mo.
