1944

Early returns on the Alumni Fund Drive show the Class of 1944 off to a spectacular start. We might pull a Dark Star in our particular Derby which includes the classes of 1939 through 1947.

The men on our Alumni Fund committee have been doing a great job and deserve a 100% vote of confidence. The big trick, of course, is to get the non-regulars to contribute . .. and toward this end we have made substantial progress this year.

I receive an interim statement from the Alumni Fund every week... a statement which lists the names of those chaps whose contributions have just been received. And although it is a deadly reminder of how remiss I have been in getting news about some of them, it is always pleasant to pick up one of these sheets and see names like BuckyBrandt, Rog Feldman, Mark Peisch, WaltEricson, Don Hiltz, Warren Leopold, StanZarod, Al Storrs, Ed Dubanks, etc., etc. Then the next week I get another list of 50 or 60 names, with the likes of Whitey Vosler, ClintGardner, Lefty Bowman, Howard Brundage,John Cordell, Dave Eckels, Jim Carter, HalCannon, Mel Freiberg, Whizzer White, EdBailey, etc., etc. As I write this, it is only early May and already there are hundreds of contributions in. If all of us do our share, we'll have an outstanding record this year.

The Wright-Hibbard Industrial Electric Truck Co. of Phelps, N. Y., brought in a new management several weeks ago with DickMayberry as Vice President in charge of sales. Dick had specialized in market research for Kodak before taking this position. The company will continue to manufacture three lines of industrial trucks. They will include a new line of battery powered fork lift trucks, together with the present low-lift platform and high lift or tiering platform models.

And speaking of sales directors, Herb Storfer is heading up sales for Parfums Corday Inc. in New York. Herb has been with the company for seven years. He was appointed to the O.P.S. Advisory Committee for the Cosmetic and Toiletries Industry in 1951 and has served on numerous industry committees.

John P. Brown was ordained to the priesthood at the Grace Church early in March. John's father, you will recall, is Prof. Bancroft Brown of the Math Dept. John started out in the same field and during the war worked with the Air Technical Service Command at Wright Field on the mathematical theory of supersonic flight. In 1949, however, he entered the General Theological Seminary from which he was graduated last year with an S.T.B. degree. He was ordained a deacon a few weeks later. He will continue his duties as senior curate at Grace Church in Newark, N. J.

Don A. Campbell won a Barr Fellowship Award which he will use to complete his studies for a Doctor's degree at the Yale Graduate School. Don took his Master's degree from Harvard, and taught English for a year at the University of Michigan. He is now teaching American literature at Middlebury College.

Within recent weeks, the following chaps got back to Hanover: Don Currin, Perry Banghart, Art Saul, Malcolm McLoud, and JohnEaton.

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