1941
Next month your secretary will be off to Hanover for another of the annual Secretaries Conferences. This trip is one of the things a class secretary looks forward to most anxiously. Just about the time you are reading these notes there will be a meeting going on among Bud Martin, our class agent, Stew Steffey, our treasurer, and yours truly. Both Stew and Bud will ask me to be sure and include something about the Alumni Fund in the class notes. This year I'm beating them to the punch. So here goes the official announcement:
Remember the Alumni Fund. Get your contributions in early. We had 25 contributors as of April 6 don't wait till the last minute. That takes care of the commercial, and now for the class news.
Not many headlines to report this month but the few that I do have are quite choice. Item One concerns that former flash of the Davis Rink, Fred Maloon. Fred is now Director of General Sales of the Boston Woven Hose Company. We were delighted to hear about this since Freddy spent many years as a hard-toiling salesman in the downtown New York area where we were able to observe his activities from time to time. Now Fred is back in his home state enjoying the fruits of his labor.
The second item concerns the forthcoming wedding in New Mexico between Linda Elizabeth Mitchell and our own Les Davis who lives in Cimarron, N. M. Les will leave the dwindling list of '41 bachelors on June 14 in Santa Fe.
Basil L. Winslow '20 of Orinda, Calif., sends me a new brochure of Dartmouth men in the Northern California-Nevada district. It's a fine example of what can be done by local alumni groups to promote interest in their territories. It lists the names of the men in the region with vital statistics on each. Listed in this particular folder are 18 members of '41 including: Bruce Brown, Nick Carter, OwenChamberlain, Art Chimiklis, Bill Danforth,Bill Dignam, Holden Higbee, Tom Lawley,Bob Hamilton, Jack Mathys, Bill Miller, DeanPaterson, Myron Pollack, Don Ross, BudSands, John Tate, Bob White and FrankWoodward.
Bill Lee writes from Amarillo, Texas: "Life in Amarillo is fine if the Army would let me live it. After 16 months in the States, Japan and Korea I was finally released last June. Now I'm commencing to build what I had to close up completely. I operate what I call a mechanized bookkeeping service for small to medium businesses and find myself drifting more and more into the management consultant field."
Doug Wheale is a sales engineer for the Singer Sewing Machine Company and lives up in Fairfield, Conn. Doug's house is never a dull place with two boys and two girls there to liven things up.
From way down yonder in New Orleans comes news of Jim Keating who is Treasurer of the C. Horton Smith Co. Jim is a great fisherman and he's got his hands full teaching his three sons how to bait those hooks. The Business Manager of the Delaware State Hospital at Farnhurst, Del., is none other than Alex Tarumianz. Bill Blanchard is a salesman for Monsanto Chemical Co. and lives in Fairfield, Conn. Lee Bye and his wife and two sons live in Haddonfield, N. J. Lee is Traffic Superintendent for the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. In Wilkes-Barre, Pa., CharlieFrantz is a vice president of Motor Twins (Ford Agency). Bob Rock lives in Chillicothe, Ohio, and is on the Industrial Relations staff of The Mead Corporation. Bob's got a family of three lovely gals but no Dartmouth prospects yet. Jerry Blumberg is an M.D. in Forest Hills, N. Y. a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology. Jerry reports that Joe Wilkes is teaching architecture at the University of Florida. (Ed. Note: How do people get those wonderful jobs?)
Bill Banford is at Niagara Falls as a Supervisor with E. I. DuPont. Here's a lawyer in our midst he's George Flather of Washington, D. C. George has his office at the Union Trust Bldg. George Aliddendorf, a Long Islander from way back, now resides in Flushing, N. Y., and represents Harper & Brothers. Harry Maxwell writes: "I'm with Sun Oil Co. doing personnel work in the home office. Play very little golf anymore but keep busy with my family which consists of wife, son (age 6), two dogs, one cat, a lovebird, a duck, and a Mina bird who is learning to talk. We're now living in Sharon Hill, Pa., at 750 Bonsall Ave."
In the field of education, two more people to report. First Sam Pratt who is Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at Ohio Wesleyan and lives in Delaware, Ohio. Then there's Pete Keir who is a Professor of Economics at Amherst. Pete and his wife have a girl almost 3 and a son 6 months old.
I've got a lot of people to report on but your secretary has just come to the end of a page and is going to close up shop for another month. Next month I'll be writing my notes from Dartmouth at the old typewriter in Robinson Hall. I hope they'll let me in.
Secretary, 47 Hook Lane, Levittown, N. Y. Class Agent, 438 St. Louis St., Springfield, Mo.
