1949
I guess this is my last issue before a long and (I hope), dry, summer vacation. Have you ever seen such rain?!!!? But I again want to remind you New Yorkers, and vicinity, that I'm expecting you at our Friday, June 12, dinner at the Dartmouth Club in the big city. Make it a big affair and show up....
Into my news of the month. Fir.st engagements. Lou Clarke of New Haven, Conn., is engaged to Miss Patricia Ann Foster of Meriden, Conn. Lou is at present associated with the A. C. Gilbert Company, but will soon be a G.I. (my article says)... Tom Bright is engaged to be married May 23 to Miss Mary Del Keighley of Germaritown, Pa. Tom's out of Rome, N. Y Lt. Burgess Stanley of Weliesley Hills, Mass. (now a G.I.) is engaged to Miss Caroline Joyes Dabney of Louisville, Ky.... Don Streich of Buffalo, N. Y., is engaged and will be married this spring to Miss Kathleen D. Rixe of LaGrande, 0re.... KingBall of Portland, Me., is engaged to Miss Joanne Haskell of Springfield, Mass. King is at present the Chicago representative for the North America Insurance Co. Joanne is at present right here in Providence at our Rhode Island School of Design, so if he wants some one to entertain her while he's way off in Chi town, I might work something out for the proper remuneration....
News of weddings ... Ken Soule of Wethersfield, Conn., was married March 7 to Miss Martha Ann Hoerle of Plainville, Conn. I see that Bob Parsons was one of Luke's ushers too. Ken is at present a field supervisor for the Travelers Insurance Co. The Soules will live in Wethersfield.... Don Scully (at present an aviation technician in the U.S. Navy) of Orchard Park, N. Y., was married to Miss Alma F. Coleman of Flushing. After his navy term is up, Don will live with the Mrs. in Buffalo, N. Y....Art Wallace of Milton, Mass., is to be married Saturday, May 9, to Miss Betty McCormack. Us Zeisers plan to attend along with weekend guest Bill Ballard who's to be driven here by John and JoanSweetland from New York the day before. All of us will meet at the wedding, presumably with many other classmates there, and only to kiss the bride. The hell with Arthur!!!!! I've given up my annual trek to Hanover that weekend to the Alumni Officers' Meeting, so that kiss looms as a whopper!
Two letters from Capt. Dave Vogels, our Class Treasurer, who's a navigator out of Japan. Dave reports, besides his recent promotion which he waited eight years for, that his wife Mimi has recently joined him in Nippon, which makes his term of office much easier to swallow. Dave has bumped into Dick Raybold with wife and son, who are stationed at the same base. Dick is one of the lucky ones who was expecting separation that month. (That word "separation" certainly has a dual effect -at College we dreaded it.) Dave reports that in Tokyo there is quite an active Dartmouth alumni group, but no other '49ers. Needless to say, he too will not be at next week's Hanover meeting. ...
Back to Art Wallace ... besides reporting the shortness of his nails as the ominous clay approaches, Art reports that he has seen Billand Nomi Ballard, John and Joan Sweetland,Tom and Ann Swartz, Ray King and Ed Grant on several of his travels while selling for his Dad's Rug Manufacturing Co....
Card from Bill Knight out of Chicago where he's a lawyer associated with his father, also a Dartmouth man. Bill graduated from Northwestern Law School last year. He's bumped into Bob Priester and Ken Riley in Chicago.
Notes from Dolores and Lew Geer announces the birth of Carol louise Geer on April 5, at a dainty 6 lbs., 15 ounces.
Letter from Nellie Abrahamson out of Columbus, 0., where he's in his last quarter of Optometry School at Ohio State University. Xellie reports that Ens. Al Sullivan is flying helicopters in Korea. Also Quent Kopp (our sensational pitcher on the championship '49ers softball team) passed through Nellie's hometown of Cleveland on way to Sacramento where he takes up duties as a Lt. in the Air CorPs.
A letter from Class Agent I ail Haak reports some findings of some of his A.C.A.'s ... PaulBjorklund is an F.B.I, man in Austin, Tex. Jack Martin works for Morrison-Knudsen Contractors as an engineer in Boise, Idaho. T xritn
...Al Wagner is an Investor in Boston with Coffin & Burr Inc. ... George Day in lumber in Superior, Neb., with Day & Frees.. . . Jack Mudie is working for his Ph.D. at University of Texas, after spending four years in Mexico
City Doug Thomson is the training director at the Naugatuck, Conn., plant of U.S. Rubber Sew Weber is working for the City of Greensboro, N. C., in the Dept. of City Planning. Vail, himself, travels all over the Southeast coast for Liberty Mutual Insurance Co....
Into the miscellaneous news ... some of this is repeat stuff, but it helps fill the empty spaces. ... John Schaaf, a Hudson, Mass., attorney, is seeking election to the school committee in his hometown. ... Ens. Sam Kilner received the "Wings of Gold" of a Navy Aviator at Pensacola, Fla., and then reported to Corpus Christi, Tex. for further training before reporting for duty with the Atlantic Fleet.... Jim Huntington was named Assistant Treasurer in the insurance office in New Rochelle, N. Y., where he works. Jim's dad, also Dartmouth, is the Agency's Prexy.... Dick McFalls received his Bachelor of Arts Degree CumLaude at the April 10 meeting of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees.... Rog Atwood who works for the New York Times has been switched from the Philadelphia to New York office.... Bob C. Smith has been promoted to First Lt. while serving in Korea with the 7th Infantry Division which has been fighting continuously in Korea since landing in the fall of 1950 and has battled in every sector of the peninsula. Bob, aide-de-camp to Brig. Gen. Andrew P. O'Mara, arrived in the Far East last Aug....
That seems to be it for this year. Now you all have several months' relief from my dribble, but you also have much time to write me with suggestions, criticisms, etc. Anyway, WRITE. Have a good summer, and remember, you New Yorkers, I want to see you June 12.
Secretary, 230 Arlington Ave., Providence, R. I.
Class Agent, Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. 828 W. Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga.
