1938
One classmate with whom the secretary has lost touch, probably through lack of proximity as much as any other reason, has been Dick Durrance. Now comes word through the Valley News, local White River-Lebanon-Hanover journal, of the showing in Hanover of "Olympic Wimbu," a full-color ski epic created by Dick.
This allows us to catch up a little bit with the elder Durrance:
"Upon graduation from Dartmouth Durrance joined the Alta, Utah, ski school and Sun Valley, Idaho, was the scene of his first movie the following year. During the war he was employed as a test flight photographer by Boeing Aircraft in Seattle. After the war the Dartmouth ski ace went back to Aspen where in 1950 he photographed the FIS World's Championships of that year. Since that time he has been furthering his photographic pursuits at Garmisch-Partenkirchen."
Speaking of skiers of our generation (a phrase usually used by the most ancient and implying superiority over the present "younger generation"), we had a most pleasant luncheon not so long ago in the Flanoyer Inn Coffee Shop with the Hunters, working like mad all hours of the day and night over the drawing boards. Their national reputation secure, they are having a hard time keepins: up with their work.
Mystery of the month is a Christmas card from the' Charley Hitchcocks, mailed in Port Washington, with a return address in Franco's, capital city of Madrid. The secretary presumes this means a pleasant sojourn in blizzard-swept Europe sometime during the Holiday Season. Seems to my memory that Charles was also slightly peripatetic anyway in his profession, including the lush American tropics among the many places of call.
"Leixhton B. Tuck, son of Mr. and Mrs Louis B. Tuck of 138 Forest Hill Ave., Lynnneld Centre (Mass.), was recently promoted to assistant secretary of California Bank, Los Angeles," so starts a news item from the Wakefield, Mass., Independent.
"Mr. Tuck entered the employ of California Bank in 1945 upon his return from three years service with the Twentieth Air Force during World War II From 1938 to 1942 he was with the East Cambridge, Mass., Savings Bank. At California Bank, Mr. Tuck is assigned to the real estate loan department at the bank's head office in Los Angeles. He resides with his wife and son Stephen, at 3216 George Circle, Pasadena."
A nice carbon of a letter written by Dr.John W. Smillie, formerly of Wayzata, Minn., brings to mind that it isn't much work when you write someone about your doings to slip a little carbon in and mail a copy to the secretary. Some day I'm going to put out a little booklet, if Bob Harvey will pay for the printing, entitled, "How to Keep Your Secretary Happy." This will be one of the suggestions. Smillie writes,
"I have accepted the invitation of Dr. F. Bruce Fralick, chairman of the Department of Ophthalmic Surgery, University of Michigan, to go to Ann Arbor as Chief, Section on Ophthalmology, in the newly opened 500-bed general Veterans Hospital there.
"The last three very pleasant years have been here in Minneapolis with the Division of Ophthalmology, University of Minnesota Medical School and Hospitals. In addition to having received a graduate degree in ophthalmology (after a while I'll be able to type that word easily), I have recently been made a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology. This latter body is the nationally recognized medical group which certifies as to the competence of physicians specializing in diseases and surgery of the eye (now you know the meaning of the word too!)."
The inimitable Herb West, in the course of some travelling in the interests of the College, managed to hear of the Dan Mars halls in some big state down on the Mexican border. The secretary is in possession of a picture of Dan's grown-up family and is delighted to report its augmentation, longer ago than I should like to admit from the news-gathering standpoint, by twin sons - two for the price of one, in anxiety and care, at any rate.
Bill Lyle has moved up now with the Nashua Corp. of the city of the same name, from assistant sales manager to sales manager, but still resides on North River Road, Milford, where, presumably, he is busy installing the pine-panelling he bought at the auction during reunion.
Dan Quilty is now vice president and sales manager of Pennwoven, Inc., and lives in the balmy (?) state of Florida. Your guess is as good as mine as to what he makes, but it must be exceedingly pleasant to make it in Florida.
A cryptic note, "Sales," describes CalvinTroutner's job with Eastman Kodak, a firm which makes all sorts of things, I understand. He lives in Westport, Conn., and works in the City, one of the myriad commuters who make the long trek each day to the metropolis. Larry Hull, if I haven't reported it earlier, has found a place to live in Garden City, on his beloved Long Island, 17 Heath Place, to be exact, if anyone wants to look him up.
Another firm with which I am not well acquainted is Permacol Tape Corp., the manager of whose Safety Department is Charley Newman. According to my information this has more than a little to do with some sort of specialized tape. Charley was formerly with the Industrial Tape Corp., as director of Safety and Medical Departments.
Al Boerker comes now from the questionnaire grab-bag, as a teacher of chemistry and physics in the high school in Litchfield, Conn. After graduation, Al taught two years, 1938- 1940, in the Amherst High School, "about six different subjects." He served during the war in the Air Corps, making his way from pvt. to 1st lt. From 1945 until 1947 he taught biology in the Lebanon High School, and before moving to Litchfield, spent five years at Kent Hill Prep School, instructing in biology and psychology. As your Directory will tell you, Al is married and has one daughter.
Bob Frese, now in the sales promotion division of Johnson and Johnson, started out as a clerk with American Cyanamid upon graduation from college. He put in the time from 1939 until 1941 as a photographer for the publicity department of Industrial News Features, and then spent a considerable amount of time with the Bearded Uncle, going from private to major in the Army. Upon return to this country he was a salesman from 1946 to 1951 with Haroy Plastics and Chemical Co. He has been with Johnson and Johnson since that time.
One of the interesting careers of the class is that of Van Denburg, who started out as a reporter for the Miami Herald, was editor of the Fort Lauderdale Daily News, moved on to the Washington Star, and has since been with the McGraw-Hill International Publishing Co. At one time he was Magazine News Editor, then foreign correspondent successively in India and Brazil, before becoming editor of their Foreign News Service. He holds a Master's in journalism from Columbia.
Now that the holiday season is successfully over and only March 15 rears its ugly head, it's time to start laying aside the little tokens of Uncle Sam's legal tender for when the bite comes from Scotford. The College's need does not decrease any bit at all as the years go by, and until such time as the need for support slackens, if it ever does, Dartmouth cannot actually exist without the maximum of aid from her alumni. Certainly little if any progress can be made without an increase of funds which only increased giving by every class will produce.
Secretary, Trinity-Pawling School Pawling, N. Y.
Treasurer, 406 Peck Rd., Geneva, Ill.
