1942
My mailman has started to moan again. This does not mean that my admirers are all taking time to write me a note. It does not mean that my enemies are sending me threatening letters. Nor does it mean that my mailman has recurrent attacks of arthritis. But the quantity of my mail has jumped to sizable proportions. That's right, the Alumni Fund is going full blast.
The wold is out that the Class of 1940 is really digging to take back the Green Derby we copped from them last year. Head man Dick Lippman reports that the 1942 quota has been raised $350 over last year to $7,320. That is a nice piece of change, but very much within our reach. The biggest step toward the goal is to shoot for 100% participation. The big checks are great, but as long as you give something, you are helping to make a success of the total elfort.
Last year the American Alumni Council singled out the Dartmouth Alumni Fund for having the highest percentage of alumni contributing. However, Princeton has completed their 1954 drive and their participation figure topped Dartmouth's 1953 record. It is of considerable consolation to know that prominent among the members of the Alumni Fund Committee for the College stands Addison L.Winship. This coupled with Lippman's Legions — some forty-odd assistant class agents - means that the battle is in good hands.
Now that we are back for your money again, you might be interested to know the results obtained by Charlie Sturz in recently rounding up the Class dues. Charlie reports that, despite a jump in rates to $5, he received more individual payments and more total dollars than in previous years. Of course, now if you figure the depreciated value of the dollar in there - oh, well.
I really had a bad one last month. At last count there were four names misspelled, including an ex-roommate. How bad off can you get? Warren Kreter, Paul Tewksbury Torian,Dick Fairman and Dex Richards I hope took some solace in the fact that all the mistakes were typographical and that I did catch tliem before publication, but too late for correction. A couple of more months like that and I may be able to retire by popular demand.
When it comes to stacking us up against New York or Chicago, maybe we don't do so well, but right in their own backyard Detroit, 1942 does all right. At the annual meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Detroit the Class of '42 took top honors for the most present. Hank Reynolds, Bob Waldron, Jack Scolaro,Bud Maynard, Charlie Sturz and your reporter were all there to quaff the free beer. We even helped to re-elect Phil Moon secretary-treasurer in his absence. Red Rolfe and Tuss McLaughry combined to give us an up-to-date picture of Dartmouth sports. Red pulled a bit of a switch and emphasized the need for material and called upon the fat old alumni to start digging up some ball players. Hank Reynolds, unreported for some time, is in the replacement division of the Federal Mogul Corporation in Detroit, in sales liaison work.
Bob Headley is a guy who doesn't want a few miles to come between him and Dartmouth. Since regular mail takes about four months to reach him in Saudi Arabia, he wants his important messages (dues, Alumni Fund) sent air mail. Now there's a guy that deserves something besides bills. I'll write him a letter,— how about you doing it, too?
Another one of our overseas contingent has made it back to Uncle Sugar. Capt. and Mrs.James W. Froude, with their three children, have recently returned from a year in the Philippines. Jim was assigned as aircraft maintenance officer for the 501st Air Resupply Squadron on Clark Air Force Base, north of Manila. He is now assigned as an Air Force ROTC instructor at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, N. H. Prior to his Philippine assignment, Jim had served in Korea, so Durham ought to look pretty good to him about now.
From deep in the heart of you-know-what comes word that George Rushton is an assistant professor teaching chemistry at McMurry College in Abilene, Texas.
Bill Stockdale is another teacher and is holding forth at the General College, University of Minnesota. What do you teach, Bill?
Another formidable political figure is rising in New York State. Dick Bolton has been appointed assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of New York. He was assistant District Attorney in Rensselaer from 1947-1953. A graduate of the Albany Law College, he also studied at Northwestern University. Dick is a former vice president of the Rensselaer County Young Republicans Club. He served as a second lieutenant and as an intelligence officer with the U.S. Air Force during World War II.
Another legal eagle is George Liskow, city attorney in his home town, Lake Charles, La. George's daughter, Lady Katharine, is 13 years old. This is as good a place as any to start a survey to find the oldest daughter of a member of the Class of 1942. Who can top big George Liskow and Lady Katharine?
Lawyer Ben Page has been too busy in the Tax Department of Stanolind Oil in Houston to get around to matrimony. Jean and TedLocke have lived in Seattle less than a year. Ted is practicing law and celebrating the birth of their fourth child.
To get away from the barristers for a moment, Gardie Bridge was the chairman of the Hanover, N. H., Chapter Red Cross drive. Dick Nehring boasts a family of three girls and a 16-month-old boy in Amityville, N. Y. Jack Hagy is a food broker in Upper Darby, Pa. Pete Krist is in industrial relations in New York. Sam Frank is a textile converter in Baltimore. Bill Donovan has sold his store in Detroit.
Dr. and Mrs. LeRoy Lincoln Eldredge Jr. announced the birth of Jonathan DeForrest Eldredge on March 10 in Hingham, Mass. It seems to me that is the second boy for the
Eldredges, but I could be mistaken. Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Friez have left the Rlyal Palums in Phoenix to take up their summer diggings at Martha's Vineyard. Who said the hotel business was though duty?
Recent Hanover Inn visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lee of Brookline, Mass., and Reverend and Mrs. James w. Curtis, of Saugatuck, Mich.
The account of the big Alumni Officers' meeting in Hanover earlier this month I'll have to leave for next month. However, don't let your disappointment over this deter you from sending in your bit to the Alumni Fund. Remember Dartmouth's participation record in the Alumni Fund is the best of any college in the country. This year let's really go for the 100% mark.
NAMESAKE: A new 21-inch television set put out by Zenith has been named "The Dartmouth" by Gene Kinney '44 (r) of the Zenilh Radio Corp. advertising department and Bud Hall '43 of Young & Rubicam, Inc. They are shown talking over promotion plans.
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