1941
At the end of April, yours truly will have made the annual pilgrimage to Hanover to attend the conference for Class Secretaries, Class Agents and Treasurers. Just had a note from Stew Steffey, who is charged with keeping the Class out of the red, and indications are that he will be on hand. If Agent BudMartin makes the long haul east from Missouri, '41 will have been well represented. A report on the meetings of course in next month's wind-up.
In Stew's letter he reports that Dr. AI Ferguson set a broken leg for Stew's oldest boy. Doc must be doing a land-office business since the Steffey family also reports four cases of measles.
Bill Steel and I attended the monthly meeting of the Long Island Alumni Association last night. Red O'Connor, just back from a busy legal schedule in Washington, D. C., was among those present and is chairman of the Association's summer party. It's going to be an all-day beach outing for Dartmouth families. Those of you who live on Long Island can watch for the announcement of the big day.
Had lunch recently with Bill Danforth who runs the Danforth Anchor Company. While the head office is on the West Coast, Bill finds that he is spending most of his time along the Eastern seaboard. Waring Carrington is also with the company and doing a fine job in the Berkeley, Calif., office.
The news clippings this month are extremly few. One from the New Haven (Conn.) Register tells how Bill English has been appointed manager of the Industrial Engineering Department in the Naugatuck Footwear Plant of the United States Rubber Company. Bill joined the company in 1946 after leaving the Army and got his feet wet as a management trainee. From there he went on to become top man in the department he now heads. Bill and his wife Genevieve have three children.
Dr. Bob Feller, a fellow at the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh, has been given a tremendously interesting task. He has been commissioned by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, to develop materials that will make paintings of the future more durable. A very large percentage of the world's most famous paintings have "lost areas" where the paint has fallen off. Often these defects are not seen because of clever methods of restoration. Bob says he would like to create materials comparable in durability to those used in the Fa yum paintings of ancient Egypt. During 2,000 years their colors have retained a striking brilliance. Incidentally, Bob's last job for the Institute took the past three years to complete and resulted in the development of a varnish that will not crack, discolor or release any material onto the paint it is designed to protect. It is also easily removable so it may be replaced if it collects dust and dirt. In these days when so much time seems to be spent on finding new means of destroying, it's encouraging to find someone doing so much to preserve the culture of man.
Now for some hopping and skipping around the country to see what some of the lads are doing. Starting in New York State: Copt. BobRainie is living in Geneva, N. Y., after being summoned back to active duty with the Air Force Medical Corps a year ago. Bob is the head of a general medicine ward at Sampson AFB Hospital. Over in Syracuse, John White is back with Bristol Laboratories as assistant comptroller. John, Bill Alorrow and Joe Hill make up Syracuse's '41 contingent. The White family consisted of four girls (including twins who are now over 10) but might be changed by the time you read these notes, since another youngster was expected this spring.
In Elsmere, N. Y., it's Doug Bridge who holds our banner high. Dong is now credit manager of the Albany Felt Company which manufactures papermaker felts and other industrial fabrics. Doug sees Al Van Wie occasionally and says that George Canfield passes through town once in a while. In the City of New York, at the J. Henry Schroder Banking Corp., Don Brown has been made assistant vice president. But more important says Don is the fact that last spring his son and heir was born.
Lee Bye is a resident of Margate City, N. J., and earns the family bread and butter as traffic supt. with the N. J. Bell Telephone Company. Lee seems to get transferred about every two years and expresses the hope that he'll settle in one place for a while. He and his wife, Helen, have two boys to place in Dartmouth's future hall of fame.
By this time, Dr. Dick Sexton ought to be out of the Navy again and back working as a plastic surgeon in Providence, R. I. Dick was stationed at the Naval Hospital at Portsmouth, Va. The grapevine has it that DickShedclen has finished an active tour with the Army Air Force and is again flying for American Airlines. Speaking about airplanes reminds me that Dick Pace is now living in Pensacola, Fla., Dick wants to know what kind of a football team we're going to have next year. That, my friends, is the $64-question but maybe I'll be able to get a preliminary report during my trip to Hanover.
Jumping out to California - here's a note from Holclen Higbee:
"I still can't get out of the college routine (not that I want to). This year I have a full-time teaching program in the Geography Dept. at Stanford. Next year I will go back into the Business School at Stanford and see if I can finish off my Ph.D. program there. Haven't been back East in four years. We now have two girls, 5 and 1½. We have two acres of land with about 125 fruit trees - mostly apricot. I am turning into a real farmer. We see quite a bit of Don and Betsy Ross who live quite near us. Look us up if you come to San Francisco."
Since there is just one more issue of the MAGAZINE for which to prepare notes, I was pleased to get the first few issues of DopeFrom the Duckboards, on which Don Hagen is doing such a terrific job. Don's newsletter is always entertaining and informative. For example I found out in the March 6 issue that Rog Hoffman is a neighbor of mine. Maybe we'll get together now.
Look in the June issue for a report on the trip to Hanover. See you in Ebbetts Field.
Secretary, Albert Frank - Guenther Law, Inc. 131 Cedar St., New York, N. Y.
Class Agent, 438 St. Louis St., Springfield, Mo.
