1930
The weekend of April go-May 2 was that of Class Officers meetings in Hanover. So far as weather was concerned, it was one of those rare spring weekends on the Hanover Plain when, out of the depths, the thermometer reached into the eighties and when sun-bathing and watching the athletic events on Memorial Field in shirt sleeves was certainly in vogue. I can assure, you it was as much of a treat for us visitors this year as it was for us 25 years ago when we were in Hanover. The delegation of Class officers from 1930 was one of the largest in attendance at these meetings. Our group included Eleanor and CharlieRaymond, Ann and Fred Watson (who is president of Dartmouth in Delaware), HankEmbree (Memorial Fund chairman), EdSchuster (Alumni Fund agent) and your secretary. Of course, ALUMNI MAGAZINE Editor Charlie Widmayer and Director of Admissions Al Dickerson were also in attendance at several of the meetings, although the weekend was the period of final choice for Al of the constituency of the Class of 1958 (and you can imagine how exhausted he was). Thirtyteer Editor Dick Bowlen made a special trip over to Hanover from Springfield, Vt., to attend a luncheon meeting of your Class officers and some of the officers of the Class of 1929, which discussed reunion plans in general. Catherineand Hank Newell happened to pick Saturday afternoon as one to visit Hanover, so that the 1930 delegation in Hanover that weekend was a good one. Your Class officers not only obtained the benefits to be derived from these general meetings in Hanover, but also had the opportunity of making plans and further discussing plans for our 25th reunion of next year. The time is getting shorter!
Thirtymen continue to make their contribution to civic affairs. Malcolm Rip Ripley won a hotly contested contest in Hingham, Mass., during March for a membership on the Hingham School Committee....GordonShattuck has been serving as a member of the West Springfield Massachusetts Finance Committee during this past year, and that committee spent the Washington's Birthday holiday in finishing their study and the recommendations of requested budgets from various town departments in order to prepare for a public hearing. . . . John Whipple was this year named chairman of the Cancer Drive in his home town of Marblehead, Mass.... Judge Jack Keating was elected first vice president of the Stamford, Conn., Mental Health Association at its receipt annual meeting, and was also named as a co-chairman of the Annual Fund Drive of that association to be held in May.
Shelly Stark has had a mighty busy spring, but apparently that is the usual routine of affairs for Shelly. In April his children, Chip and Trudy, had their birthdays, with Jess and Penny having theirs in the following month of May. In addition to such family activities, however, Shelly is author of a most successful and highly praised play, Time of Storm, which is being produced at the Greenwich Mews Theatre on West 13th St. in New York. This play involving the witch hunt in Massachusetts in 1693 has received exceptional press reviews. In addition, however, Shelly is author, or co-author, of the comic strip which many of you probably follow in your daily papers, "Jet Scott." In between such activities, Shelly continues to do what he has been doing for many years, - writing radio and television scripts.
A card from Bud French indicated that he had been in California during the latter part of April and up to that point had at least talked on the telephone with Chuck Faye....Walker "Dean" Wiggin is a trustee of the Cardigan Mountain School of Canaan, N..H., and attended a recent meeting of the board of trustees in Boston, at which a substantial construction program of the School was announced. . . . Fred Page has been named a vice president of Whitehall Fund Inc. and is vice president of Tri-Continental Corp., Broad St. Investing Corp. and National Investors Corp. Fred also serves as a director of the Brooklyn Union Gas Co., a trustee of Irving Savings Bank and financial consultant for Atlantic City Electric Co.
A mighty welcome letter was received recently by Treasurer Charlie Raymond from Harry Wilson, which gives an account of Harry's interesting activities since 1948. Writing from an address of 3250 West 37th Ave., Vancouver, B. C., Harry wrote as follows:
"I left my medical practice in Ship Harbour, N. S., in the late spring of '48, after the Federal government, egged on by one of my ex-R.C.A.C. senior officers, offered me the job of organizing a "Division of Civil Aviation Medicine" with the Department of Transport. I had grave doubts of life in the Civil Service, so took it only on a temporary basis. For the three and one-half years I was there I enjoyed the post very fully. Set up a civil medical examining service for flight personnel of 250 physicians across the country, set up regional consultant boards, ran didactic and practical courses in aviation medicine for these examiners, wrote Physical Standards and an assortment of handbooks and served on the 1.C.A.0. Medical Subcommittee at its meetings to establish international medical standards - the second time, in 1951, as chairman.
"As I said, it was one hell of a lot of fun, organizing and getting the thing running. Made a lot of good friends in aviation generally, especially in your C.A.A. in Washington acid among your airline medical directors, but I could see the job tapering off to a somewhat dull static level, and decided to leave it and go back to studying again.
"And that explains the Vancouver, 8.C., address. Came out here in October, 1951, as a junior resident in pathology at the Vancouver General Hospital. It is a huge rambling place, 1400 beds, and a volume of work going through its laboratory that is equalled by only a few hospitals on the continent. Sold our Ottawa house, packed up wife, Greta, Judy (now age 17) Harry, 14, two dogs and innumerable and indescribable goods and chattels in the Pontiac and the Vanguard and drove out here in convoy. Had the house here on 37 th Avenue before the rest of the belongings arrived and have been leading the student and studious life with minor aberrations ever since.
"Shortly after I arrived I went to work with Canadian Pacific Airlines, as medical examiner and since then have added T.C.A. to the C.P.A. work. Greta runs my airport office for me, as most of my time is spent in the laboratory at the General Hospital.
"There you have it - the '48-'54 thumb-nail sketch. One thing is certain, whether we stay here or take some permanent hospital appointment back East, Greta and I will definitely be in Hanover for the 25th. We have missed all the previous reunions for various reasons and this forth-coming 25th is a must. Will look forward to seeing you there."
Dr. Bill Fenton was appointed as director of the New York State Museum and State Science Service, effective July 1, by the New York State Education Department. Bill became an internationally recognized scholar of the Iroquois Indians of New York and Canada and a specialist on tribal organization of American Indians during a term of twelve years on the research staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, and in 1951 he was named the first executive secretary of the Division of Anthropology and Psychology of the National Research Council, his present post. He has made numerous field trips to Indian groups in the United States and Canada, has contributed widely to scientific journals and is the author of several books on the Iroquois Indians. In 1952 the Department of State sent Bill to Vienna as the United States Delegate to the Fourth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, where he was elected one of six honorary vice presidents of the Congress.
Bill's activities in his field make mighty interesting reading. In 1932 the Laboratory of Anthropology at Santa Fe sent Bill to learn field archeology on the Great Plains of Nebraska and South Dakota; the next winter he held the Carroll Cutler Fellowship at Yale; and the following summer commenced ethnological field work on the Allegheny Reservation for the Institute of Human Relations. He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1937 for a field study of Iroquois ceremonialism. Meanwhile the United States Indian Service set up an applied anthropology unit and sent Bill back to the Seneca Iroquois as community worker in charge of Tonawanda and Tuscarora Reservations, where the old chiefs proceeded to complete his education in "Indian Politics" while he acted as liaison between New York Indian Agency and the State of New York on education and welfare matters. For two years prior to 1939 he taught sociology and anthropology at St. Lawrence University, and at various times since has been visiting professor of anthropology at Northwestern University, University of Michigan, and lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, and currently at the Catholic University of America. During World War II Bill served as secretary of the Smithsonian War Committee and as research associate of the Ethnogeographic Board.
Remember to take your part in 1930's Alumni Fund campaign. Ed Schuster and his Assistant Class Agents will especially appreciate your early attention to this matter. Please do not wait until the June 30 deadline.
Secretary, 294 Washington St., Boston, Mass.
Class Agent, 905 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn 21, N. Y.
