1941
I guess spring comes earlier for the Secretary than for anyone else in the Class. Along about the first of March I have to sit down and pound out the notes for this April issue and it begins to feel like spring. Even now the Grapefruit League is in session and by the time you get to reading this column, the Major League season will be in full swing. In fact it takes spring and baseball to get national political battles out of the headlines. And the baseball fans love it. It seems to me that a baseball fan is completely incurable. Why just the other day I said to a friend of mine, "What do you think of Joe McCarthy?" He replied, "I still think he's the best manager the Yankees ever had!" And so we go into spring when the birds, the bees and even the Giant fans are doing very nicely indeed.
A look at the mailbag first. This month's big story comes from Peoria, Ill. - from the campus of Bradley University, where DustyRodes has been elected president of that noble institution. Bradley is the school that year in and year out turns up with a mighty fine basketball team and I believe the college symbol is an Indian. Now you know what made them think of Dusty. Seriously though, Wah-Hoo-Wahs are in order and I understand from the editor of this MAGAZINE that there is a special feature on Dusty somewhere else in the book.
Here's an item from the Dartmouth Club of New York News. Major Bob O'Brien is serving as executive director of the Unitarian Service Committee in South Korea, in charge of the effort to assist native teachers in replacing the methods and traditions brought into that country during the Japanese occupation. The last we had heard from O'Bie was during his tenure with Marsh & McClennan, insurance brokers, in Boston. Looks like the Marine Corps just couldn't get along without him. We know that the folks up Newton way miss that big Irish grin.
Bill Sleepeck is in the news. Hes been elected president of the Graphic Arts Association of Illinois. Bill is president of Sleepeck-Helman Printing Company in Chicago. The New Orleans Item contains a note that the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Louisiana honored the five Dartmouth undergraduates from the New Orleans area at a reception, and indicated that the president of the Association is Jim Keating. These fellows turn up all over the country. Jim, what caused a New Yorker like you to be transplanted? Keep up the good work down there and let's hear from you.
Danbury, Conn., organized a Junior Chamber of Commerce last January and selected Jim McLellan as its first president. At a Charter Night dinner in Danbury, Jim pledged that the organization would "make Danbury a better place in which to live" and would "train our members in leadership." Every month more examples come to my attention of '41s' taking civic responsibilities in their communities all over the country. This is a point I always make when I'm asked to defend the advantages of a liberal education.
Nick Carter writes from Menlo Park, Calif., that he is still in the stocks and bonds business with Walston & Co. in San Francisco. Nick has three daughters (11, 10 and 4 years). He saw his old roommate Bob Krieger on a recent trip to Minneapolis, and also JohnKelley.
Ed Phelan got out of the Navy last February 15 and is working out of New Castle, Pa., calling on bedding and furniture manufacturers in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, D. C. and Delaware. Ed is with Flex-O-Laters, Inc. Are these found in the trundle beds?
Another new name has been heard from Brummy Miller. I have good reason to remember Brummy as the lad who gave me a boxing lesson that first winter in school during the college open boxing tournament. Ah - the leather was flying thick and fast in one direction - mine. You're in a good football area out there in Waukegan, Ill., Brummy, and I hope you're keeping your eyes open for prospects.
By this time, I imagine that Bob Baker is back on Long Island. His letter of late last fall from the Belgian Congo is still worth quoting.
"As indicated I have left the Gold Coast and now am doing some vacation relief work in the Belgian Congo at Leopoldville. (Bob is with Fan American World Airways.) This is only temporary and I expect to be back in the States before 1954. The white man's grave didn't get me and I'll sure be glad to leave the Congo and see some cold weather."
We still like to think of the days on the lacrosse field when Tommy Dent captivated the entire audience by the way he called Bob's name across the field, "Ba-a-k-e-rrrrr. And the "r's" rolled off his Scottish tongue in the finest brogue you ever heard.
The George Tamlyns of Brooklyn are expecting another youngster this month. George's two girls are 8 and 2½ He's now an investment analyst with the Equitable Life Assurance Society in New York and in a few more months will have his MBA from the N.Y.U. Graduate School of Business. If this baby's a boy and the Dodgers win the World Series, George will never come down out of the clouds.
More in May.
Secretary, Albert Frank - Guenther Law, Inc. 131 Cedar St., New York, N. Y.
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