1931
A real nice note out of Rochester, N. H., and signed Skip Clow. "Your MAGAZINE story encouraged me to sit down and write the enclosed check for the 25th Fund. I am not sure where to address Charlie McAllister. Have already sent in Alumni Fund check. I plan to continue contributing each year to the 25th Fund. Nothing particularly new with me. Am married and have a daughter Nancy who is a junior in high school and son, Stephen, who is a freshman at New Hampton School. I have just had my 20th anniversary with Spaulding Fibre Co. Inc. and enjoy my work." The enclosure was for a good fat sum ... and I'll bet Skip feels better for what he's done, and you can be sure Charlie feels better, too. Did you get the letter from Minehan and Campbell? The next few months are going to be pretty rough on those boys; but you can make it an awful lot easier if you 11 just make out your check now and send it in. You know as well as I know that you're going to do it sooner or later so why not do it sooner and cut down the wear and tear on Bill and Ed? This column is beginning to sound like an excerpt from Dun & Dun; but hell's bells the way I see it, we're going to be broke anyway and we might as well get broke the right way. You know how much you can give... so this year give a little more. It's just as easy as that. It only comes to a few bucks more for each of us. How about laying it on the line so that the College that gave us a good break can pass it along to others? I wish I knew more words so that I could wrap this up in pretty phrases and make it highly palatable to you; but I guess there's only one way of saying it and that is, "The College needs the money and the only place they can get it is from you. Guys like Bill Minehan will be working their heads off to make sure that the Alumni Fund is a success; but all you have to do is put a check in the mail and your part of the job is over."
Now for the news as I see it: Billy Alton, the oil's-well-that-ends-well kid, has decided to give up the plush environs of Rockefeller Center and go wild-catting in Saudi Arabia. Strange, indeed, for one heretofore so reticent suddenly to become a gusher. lieany Thorn is expecting. Jack Bean, whose company slogan is, "I just want to set the world on fire," has agreed to send each member of the class who contributes more this year than last year to the Alumni Fund, a carton of specially-imprinted book matches with his name and family crest on the cover. 1 think this is mighty swell of Jack, since all he asks in return is that you should go around pouring water on competitive match books.
It is rumored that a certain executive vice president of a certain cash register company in Dayton somehow managed to keep his name out of the papers in connection with the Hutton-Rubirosa shindig. This took some doing, but I'm glad I was able to help out Bob. Ernie Moore is expecting. Bill Benger has just received a special commendation from his salt manufacturing employer and has also received patent #1786513493-81245713 on an idea for mixing salt with garden seeds so that vegetables are grown already salted. A foreign subsidiary is now being organized to take care of the South American and the western-European markets, so if any of you have either capital to invest or are available personally, why not write to Bill and find out all about it? Joe Choate called to tell me that he has just pulled off the coup of this or any other year. As you know, Joe handles all the promotions for the Boat Association and he finally managed to get Chuck O'Neill to write a book about life on the high seas. This will be published by Singleday soon under the title, SheWas For Sail; So I Invited, Her To Launch. Chuck has agreed to turn over half the royalties to the Alumni Fund, so when you buy the book you'll not only be getting some mighty pleasant reading but you'll be filling up that old kitty. Dutch Holland is expecting. BunnyBertram has accepted the challenge of the Rocky Mountain Schussers to a man-to-man skijoring race along the Alcan Highway. Bunny leaves soon (as a matter of fact he may now be on the way) and will headquarters at Fairbanks, Alaska, while getting his supplies together and building himself up for the gruelling 33-day haul.
Abner Dean has been commissioned by the Port of New York Authority to paint a mural the length of the Holland Tunnel depicting the history of the growth of New York and New Jersey since the days of Peter Minuit. As soon as I heard this, I called Ab and he told me that he was greatly flattered by the commission and that he planned to start working on it sometime late in 1955. It will probably take about nine years to complete the job. Frank McCord, one of the better fact-finders in "huckster haven," lias been cited by the National Psychosomatic Research Foundation for the paper he wrote at the recent national convention of national distributors on the subject of Most of our Young People arc Between the Age of 14. This has caused something of a stir in advertising circles because if Frank is right, then most advertising copy will have to be written for a higher intellectual level than has previously been adopted. Nothing quite so startling as the fact that a furry caterpillar can wrap itself up in a silk kimono and emerge as a butterfly unless it's the news that Rex Fall is leaving the inkstained confines of the Eagle and taking over as press agent for Zsa Zsa Gabor... and he gets money, too! Ed Gruen, Tuck School tycoon, and his charming Berta, are silently but swiftly and surely picking up all available shares of Hanover Industries ... and one of these days that block on South Main Street will become the foundation of a new Dartmouth dynasty.
Charlie McAllister is expecting. Went Eldredge has put his très moderne house on the market for the summer while he and the lovely Diana retrace the course of the second Holy Crusade during which Henri Gaston LePoer shed his red blood so that his descendant's could be blue. Ori Hobbs was back on the plains of Hanover recently and kept a capacity audience enthralled in Webster Hall with his lecture on "The H-bomb is not the answer to Kinsey." I don't know how you feel about it, but I get a sense of personal pride out of knowing that other '31ers are accomplishing things. There isn't much I can lay claim to myself, but I get a vicarious thrill out of knowing that "I knew them when." There-fore, I know you'll understand when I say that I reflected a kind of incandescent glow when I read in Newsweek that the United States would be represented in the Pan-American Scrabble Tournament by Jack Gilmore,Ollie Hayward, Dick Cukor and Doug Woodring. This is a rare distinction, indeed; and the fact that our team, representing the entire country, is composed entirely of '31ers, is not to be regarded lightly.
Greg Moore is expecting. I remember EdRhetls as an accomplished debater. Maybe you remember him as an astute student... but now we've got to think of him as a shrewd manipulator. He found a loop-hole in the law and before this gap can be filled or the error corrected, Ed will own the manufacturing rights for all those little six-sided dominos that figure so prominently in the financial activities of Las Vegas. Bill Sleek is expecting. That's all for now, be happy, stay '31. See you next month. P.S. Oh, incidentally, this column was written on April 1.
NEW ADVANCE: Recently made manager of the marketing department of General Focds Associated Producs, James D. North '32 was formerly vice president of the Market Research Corp. of America and has had wide experience in the marketing of food products.
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