1941
Well, that time of the year is here again when the smell of football is in the air, the pea-green freshmen start burning the midnight oil at Baker, and the Class Secretary dusts off the old portable for another series of class notes. Ever since I took over this job, the first issue was easy for me with lots of correspondence coming my way during the summer months. This summer, however, the pickings were lean and the mailbag was empty most of the time. Yes, everything is different this year. Even the Yankees are in second place (Editor's Note: At this writing). All of which reminds me of Cleveland and Cleveland makes me think of Bee Bishop, from whom I did get a piece of mail this summer.
Bee is with the Archer-Daniels-Midland Company in Cleveland and head of the household out in Cleveland Heights. And he's got three daughters, ages 8, 6, and 6 months and that's about par for the course. We're rooting for your Indians, Bee, until World Series time.
I guess the first job of the Class Secretary after the summer hiatus is to give out with the news gleaned from press clippings throughout the country. (Somebody must have oiled this portable - it's working beautifully.) Here's an item saved from The NewYork Times of last May. Ed Gage of Bronxville married the gorgeous Margaret Clark of Bronxville (and I use the word gorgeous advisedly, since there's a photo of the now Mrs. Gage included in the write-up). And Stu May married the former Patricia Tennant last April. Stu is working hard as president of the May Manufacturing Company which makes the best eye-glass frames extant. His bride's picture appeared in The New York HeraldTribune and I must say that you '41s are doing fine. One more wedding to report. BillPaddock was married to Miss Corinne Cunningham of Des Moines, lowa, during the month of June. That winds up the Louella Parsons section of this month's notes.
The Minneapolis paper carries a story that John Kelley, star left end, is the new president of the Dartmouth Northwest Alumni Association. Best wishes for good luck in your new office, John, and here's hoping you can stir up a few tackles and guards from the North woods. Colorado Springs is the stamping grounds of Mort McGinley who has joined the law firm of Higby and Renwick. Mort got his Bachelor of Law degree at the University of Denver. Mort at one time worked in engineering for Bethlehem Steel in Maryland and for Winston Brothers in heavy construction in Minneapolis. But it must have been his love of the outdoors and ski trails that made him settle in Denver.
Dave Chamberlain, for six years special agent for the Providence Washington insurance Company, is now co-owner of the Cholerton Insurance Agency in Bridgewater, Mass. Dave and his wife have four children, David Jr., Martha, Bruce and Thomas.
And speaking of the insurance business, Jack Ryan, a supervisor in the claims department of a large company in Massachusetts and operator of his own agency in Plymouth, Mass., has announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Representative from the first Plymouth District. John graduated from Boston University Law School.
Dartmouth students this year are going to get a real good break as far as seeing football games goes, in case you haven't noticed the '54 schedule. Four home games with Holy Cross, Navy, Colgate and Columbia. I can remember when our bill-of-fare included William and Mary, Dickinson, Franklin and Marshall (ouch!), St. Lawrence, etc. Nowadays, every game is strictly big league stuff. Not that some of those former opponents don't come up with cracker-jack teams occasionally, but the general calibre of the opposition this year is better from week to week. By the time you read this you'll probably know the results of the first three games. But I'll give you a "mouse-eye's view" of the Holy Cross game in next month's notes. I'll be in New England that week and will make a point of making Snuffy Smith find me two on the fifty-yard line.
I haven't heard from Stew Steffey as yet this year but I assume he'll be after us again soon for the annual $5 dues which keeps the class organization going and keeps the ALUMNI MAG rolling your way. There's a lot of work involved in collecting class dues - a lot of letter writing, bookkeeping, etc., and we can all make it easier for Stew by answering his first request. As I say, he hasn't written to me yet but I'm beating him to the punch this fall by getting this in October's notes. I know he's going to ask me to do it anyway.
Len Tobias is living in New Haven, Conn., and working as a mechanical engineer in Danbury. He graduated from University of Connecticut in June 1952 with BS in mechanical engineering, and has been in the aviation industry since that time.
Visitors to Hanover this summer included Bill and Ruth Galbraith of Sea Cliff, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hadley of Lancaster, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Bob Koenig of Glen Ridge, N. J.; and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Krolik of New York City.
That's all for now, but get your Yale stub in on time and let's have a big crowd up in the '41 section at the Bowl on October 30!
IN TRINIDAD Leo F. Caproni Jr. '42 andhis wife Jean have taken over management ofthe Pan American Guest House at Port ofSpain. Leo was formerly with the HanoverInn and McAllister Hotel, Miami.
Secretary, 131 Cedar St., New York 6, N. Y.
Treasurer, 1140 Wightman St., Pittsburgh 17, Pa.
