1930
Now that the summer (which I trust was a good one for all of you) is over, we are entering on our 25th reunion year. Our class activities this year will be many, and I am sure that each of you will want to join in them to the fullest extent.
The summer months have provided a good bit of news of your classmates. Si Chandler was appointed in late July as executive manager of the Connecticut Bankers Association, this appointment being effective on September 1. This Association is composed of over 100 state and national banks in Connecticut and has its offices at 36 Pearl Street in Hartford. In order to accept this new appointment, Si resigned from International Basic Economy Corporation in New York City, with whom he has been associated for seven years. Margo and Si sold, their home in Rowayton and have purchased a new home at 1970 Asylum Ave., in West Hartford. . . . In May Lehman Brothers announced that Paul S.Clarke had become associated with that firm in its public utilities department. Upon graduation Paul became associated with the Chase National Bank in New York, was initially assigned to its personnel department, but was transferred to the public utilities department of that bank in 1935. In 1950 he was elected a second vice president, and thereafter vice president of Chase National Bank, being connected with its public utilities department. Paul says that he lives only two blocks away from Bob Chittim in Short Hills, N. J., but like most commuters, even those who take the same train. Bob is more apt to be in the front end and Paul in the back of the smoker. Paul indicates that come June of next year, the Clarke family may suddenly be rent asunder, since that will also be his wife's 25th reunion at Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio. By then Paul's daughter Diane will have completed a year of junior high school, and his son Peter will have completed his second year at Albright, if Uncle Sam has not requested him to join the army.
Congratulations are due to several Thirty-men who have received promotions in their fields. Effective on August 1, Pete Callaway was named advertising director of Fortune magazine. Pete's record in the advertising field is an enviable one. He joined the advertising sales staff of Time in 1937 and became Advertising Manager of Time International in 1943. He was a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve from 1943 to 1945 and was with the War Production Board from 1945 to 1946. In the latter year he was made sales vice president of Bryant Paper Co., a Time subsidiary. In 1947 he was transferred to Fortune's advertising staff as automotive manager in Detroit. He went to New York City four years ago as advertising manager of Fortune.
The New York papers carried the report in May that Alan Bolte had been appointed advertising director of This Week magazine. . . . On July 5, Dud Faust took over his new duties as network sales manager for CBS Radio. Dud went into the radio business in Chicago in 1937 where he was a member of the local sales staff of WBBM. In 1941 he joined the CBS staff in Chicago and after serving with the Marine Corps Aviation during World War II, he became assistant western network sales manager with offices in Chicago in 1945. In 1950 he was transferred to New York as an account executive with CBS and in 1952 he was named eastern sales manager. . . . Art Behal, who recently resigned as vice president of J. R. Kennedy & Co. has purchased a membership in the American Stock Exchange, and as an independent broker with offices at Newborg & Co. he will operate in special situations, arbitrage and general brokerage. . . . Announcement was made in May that Wes Wilkinson had been appointed general attorney, with headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio, of the New York Central System.
The Class of '30 had, it proved, a sizable delegation present at the festivities marking the Hebron Sesquicentennial on May 22. The group included Win Durgin, and his wife, Veronica; Dave Latham, and his wife Kathleen, who were visiting their boy Dick, in attendance at the Academy; Celie and BudFrench, who were there with Wayne, a prospective Hebronite of this fall: Sara and deneMagenau, who were visiting their son, Roger, in attendance at the Academy, Al Dickerson who was the official representative of Dartmouth College on the occasion, and your Secretary, and his son, Bruce, who is attending Hebron for the first time this fall.
Class names have appeared frequently elsewhere in the field of education. Henry Hillson left his position at the Mid wood High School in Brooklyn, where he has been teaching for the past several years, to become principal of the George Washington High School in New York, a school having a staff of 125 and a student body of over 3,000. JimClark, who was superintendent of schools of Coventry, R. I., was named superintendent of schools of Agawam, Mass., and Jim has moved with his new address at 28 Read St., Agawam. . . . Nelson Blake was appointed chairman of the history department at Syracuse University for the next three years. Nelson has been teaching at Syracuse since 1936. . . . SnubPoehler resigned as superintendent of the Wilton, Conn., public schools in order to accept a position as co-ordinator of elementary education in the schools of Lexington, Mass. . . . Win Hatch, associate dean of the College of Sciences and Arts at State College of Washington, was named as a nominee for membership on the executive committee of the Association for Higher Education. (Unfortunately we do not know the results of the elections, but nomination itself is a high honor). . . . Al Dickerson has been named to the editorial committee of the New England AssociationReview, the official publication of the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. . . . Runny Hobbs, vice president of Rinehart and Co. and director of the College Department was elected chairman of the college section of the American Text Book Publishers Institute for 1954-1955. In this new post he will direct a group of committees which survey and report on problems of common interest to the publishing industry and college education in America.
Do you remember our tenth Reunion Year Book, Where Oh Where, of which Hank Odbert was editor? Some few remaining copies of this wonderful 1930 Book remain on hand and will be forwarded to any of you, on a first come, first served basis, at a charge of 50 cents to cover forwarding costs. Those of you who are interested, please contact your Secretary before the end of this calendar year.
To keep you up-to-date on news of 1930's family: Brad Carnell's daughter Olinda was married on September 4 in St. Peters Protestant Episcopal Church in Albany to Lawrence L. Hlavacek, a graduate of Wesleyan University in 1944, who is now on the Faculty of Lawrenceville School. . . . Hank Embree's daughter Suzanne was married on September 8 to Lt. Stuart H. Sinclair Jr., U.S. Air Force, in the Winnetka, Ill., Congregational Church. . . . The Class of 1930 certainly makes it a small world. Dick Bowlen's daughter Chris is attending Middlebury College this fall and whom should she "draw" as a roommate but Hank Stein's daughter, Mary Helen, who is coming all the distance from Colorado to attend Middlebury.
Did you know? . . . that Harry Casler's address is now American Embassy, Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama? . . . that Van Van Derbeck's new residence address is P. O. Box 173, Waverly, Pa., and that his present office address is Prudential Insurance Company, Scranton, Pa.? . . . that Hank Eckstrom is president of the New Hampshire Golf Association? . . . that Red Alcorn was chairman of the public relations committee of the pre-Campaign "workshop" conference of the Republican National Committee, which met in Cincinnati the end of August? . . . that Dr. Bill Putnam of Lyme is president of the Board of Trustees of the New Hampshire Congregational Conference? . . . that Don Hight was elected president of the Worcester County Dartmouth Club and that Sam Butler was elected vice president? . . . that Dick Tilt, a partner in Arthur Young & Co., a well-known accounting firm in New York City, was elected a trustee of the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants?
WELL UNDERWAY with his new job asPrincipal of Hanover High School, William E.Bragner '30 came from Metuchen, N.J., wherehe was superintendent of schools.
BOB OELMAN '31 (with field, glasses), president of the Dartmouth Alumni Council this year,shown in Seti's tomb in Egypt while on a tour of Africa for the National Cash Register Co., ofwhich he is executive vice president.
Secretary, 294 Washington St., Boston, Mass.
Treasurer, 56 Jennys Lane, Barrington, R. I.
Combined Fund Chairmen, 11 E. Hubbard St., Chicago 11, Ill.; EDWARD R. SCHUSTER, 905 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn 21, N. Y.
