1942
All in all it was a pretty good summer. I guess I got off to a good start by receiving several very welcome letters in June. Although they were too late for the last issue of the June ALUMNI MAGAZINE, Chick Emslie, PeteLink, John Luetters, and Dex Richards get my vote of appreciation. You saw the substance of their letters in Bob Schoonmaker's summer edition of the 1942 Class Newsletter. Having more class news than I can use is indeed a happy change from the normal state of affairs.
Another notable event was 1942's dramatic victory in the Green Derby. For the second consecutive year Dick Lippman and his co-workers won the Group V crown, topping all classes 1940-1948. The over-all results of the 40th Annual Dartmouth Alumni Fund show a record-breaking success. The full operating needs of the College were met and two more $30,000 Alumni Fund Scholarships were established.
Rollicking Richard Lippman and his 43 assistant class agents deserve a hearty vote of appreciation for a job well done. The final class record showed more contributors and more dollar volume than ever achieved before.
My stomach is beginning to balk, but it looks as though I'll have to eat some more newspaper clippings. It seems that the Bill Harris reported herein as delivering lectures on European affairs in various eastern U.S. cities last spring was not 1942's William P.Harris. Anyway Bill, who has put in four years in Europe with the U.S. Foreign Service, got a chuckle out of reading the misinformation about himself. He served with the U.S. delegation to the Geneva Conference working with the Secretariat of the delegation, last summer, and should be back in the States about now.
Brace yourselves, the next couple of items will really shake you. Because of the startling nature of the following announcement, the editors have triple checked its authenticity. Frankly, none of you can be blamed if you doubt my words when you read that DickRemsen is engaged to Ann Powell of Glen Cove, L. I., and Ralph Morrison is engaged to Geraldine Caron of Readfield, Maine. You must all agree that the two girls in question deserve our sincere congratulations for accomplishing what seasoned observers have termed the impossible. Did someone say the Pirates can't win the pennant next year?
Caroline and Bob Headley get the cradle derby prize of the month for the baby bora farthest from the College. Their daughter Hope was born in July in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Del and Paul Torian had their third daughter last April. Catherine and Pete (L.S.)Peterson report the birth of a daughter last May. Alice Mae and Charlie Sturz welcomed their third child and first daughter born in August.
Charlie, although still shaken from the grueling ordeal of fatherhood, had just enough stamina left to put out a reminder about class dues. Your $5 will be accepted gladly - the sooner the better. Save the class treasury the expense of sending out a second wave of dues notices by mailing in your fiver now.
Which reminds me - don't forget to fill out the postcard Charlie has enclosed. It's the most painless way you can find to send in news for the class notes.
Caroline and Ted Schoonbeck make up a formidable husband-and-wife golf team these days. Last summer Caroline won the women's championship of their club in Grand Rapids and Ted has done the same with the men's championship. The Schoonbecks, Torians, and Deweys spent a beautiful sunny August weekend tramping about western Michigan golf courses. Aside from an abrupt depletion of the Dewey golf ball supply, the only sad part of the program was the revelation that the years are fast catching up with P. Tewksbury Torian. Tewks, one-time sparkplug of the Northampton, New London, Boston, Skidmore and New York circuit, sometime Marine South Pacific operator, must now take his place among the great living "fast fade" specialists - a truly great crump artist.
A fast round-up of random notes finds Harry Bond promoted from instructor to assistant professor of English at the College. Natalie and Rick Godfrey and their two sons have moved to Wellesley, Mass. Dick is general sales manager for the Natick, Mass., plant of the Ford Motor Company.
Jim Thompson, who analyzes the nature of rocks and studies their formation, will become a permanent member of the Harvard University faculty as associate professor of mineralogy. He has made extensive field studies of mountain structures and done lab research into the mechanism of rock formation. Before joining the Harvard staff in 1949 he taught at M.I.T.
The new planning director for Manchester, N. H., is Bob Emerson. After studying social sciences at the University of Chicago, Bob received his Master's degree in city planning at M.I.T. He has done field work in city planning in New York, Cleveland, Fresno, and Maryland. His most recent post was resident planner in Madison, N. J.
Jack Rosenfeld received his Doctor's degree in philosophy at Harvard last June. Sam Hall has forsaken Carroll ton, Ohio, for New York City. Look out Broadway! Bill Donovan is peddling real estate in Detroit. Ted Lapres is an attorney in Atlantic City and resides with his wife and child in Margate, N. J.
Don Meads has been promoted from supervisor in the investment department to assistant vice-president of the New York Life Insurance Company.
The following '42s are officers of Dartmouth Clubs around the country: Jim Mulligan, secretary of New Britain, Conn.; Bob Atwood, secretary of St. Petersburg, Fla.; George McClintock, secretary of Minneapolis: Ed Spiegel, secretary of St. Louis, Mo.; Phil Moon, secretary of Detroit; Rollie Hummel, secretary of Long Island, N. Y.; Charlie Brown, president of North Shore, Mass.; Bill Hart, president of Buffalo, N. Y.; John Bullard, president of Glens Falls, N. Y.
Again - congratulations to Dick Lippman and all the assistant class agents for a terrific job in winning the Green Derby for the second year in a row. As an afterthought, all of you contributors deserve just a little bit of credit for making the victory possible.
Don't forget your fiver for the new father-class treasurer, Charlie Sturz. And while you're at it drop me a line. It's free!
Secretary, ) 1369 Stanley Blvd. Birmingham, Mich.
Treasurer, 385 Puritan Rd. Birmingham, Mich.
