1942
Wah-Hoo-Wah, Da-Da-Dartmouth, As the Backs Go Tearing By, Run Girls Run, and Hi Ya Fletch! Yes, I was back in Hanover for the Alumni Officers Weekend last month and it was great. I was so carried away that I sat right down and wrote out a check for my modest contribution to the Alumni Fund instead of waiting until the last minute, as is usually the case.
Which reminds me, this is just about the last minute for this year's fund drive right now. 1942 has been waging an uphill fight to retain the Green Derby crown we won last year. We're competing against all the classes from 1940 through 1948 for the Group Five championship in the Green Derby.
For many, many outstanding young men a Dartmouth education is possible only because of the Alumni Fund. Of the freshman class 25% is receiving scholarship aid. Six of ten summa cum laude graduates last year were Dartmouth scholarship men. Don't feel that unless you can contribute a sizable amount, you shouldn't bother at all. Those small gifts, even of one dollar, are real important in pushing us over the top. We're shooting for something from everyone. Remember the deadline is June 30.
There was a goodly crowd of '42s in evidence during said festivities in Hanover. Diddy and Charlie Brown, Christine and AdWinship, Kennie and Phil Moon, Gaby andIra Berman, Ruth and Rollie Hummel, RalphMorrison and Gardie Bridge all took part in the extensive program. Polly and Mike deSherbinin were holding forth in their happy home, restricted from too active participation by the ever-present problem of managing three bouncing young de Sherbinins. The youngest is Julie, three months old. Mike is plumb tuckered from having Lippo (DickLippman, Esquire, that is) ride herd on him as an assistant class agent. The Lip, class agent par excellence (French 1 ?), is not only doing a bang-up job for the Alumni Fund, but he has also recently left the ad agency business to cash in on the air conditioning boom. As sales manager for the Home Air Conditioning Corporation in Bala-Cynwyd, Pa., he is peddling room air conditioners, as well as complete installations for homes.
In addition to being plant manager for the Atlas Engineering Co., building transformers, Charlie Brown manages to find time to be president of the North Shore Dartmouth Club, outside of Boston, and to give the Big Green enrollment workers a large assist. Ralph Morrison, maintaining a precarious hold on bachelrhood, is vice-president of the same Dartmouth Alumni group. Dick Godfrey is the assistant district manager for the Ford Motor company in Natick, Mass.
Ad Winship is chairman of the Alumni Council Committee on Class Organization and presided at a luncheon meeting of class presidents and chairmen of class executive committees in Hanover during the Alumni Officers Weekend. Rollie Hummel is secretary of the Dartmouth Club of East Williston, N. Y., on Long Island and is engaged in the import-export business in New York City. The Bermans, Moons, and Deweys didn't give par much of a scare, but we did really enjoy two wonderful sunny days on the Hanover golf course. It rained Sunday and back in Michigan on Monday the snow jolted us back to normal. Ira assures us that he is in the shoe leather business despite our previous report to the contrary. Phil led the assault on the new cocktail bar located in — of all places the venerable Hanover Inn.
John Callihan has joined the home office of New England Mutual. As field assistant he will provide liaison between the field and home office, travelling, teaching and consulting on the selection, installation and servicing of pension trusts.
Phil Locke has been appointed assistant personnel manager of the Underwood Corporation's Hartford Works. He graduated from the University of Connecticut Law School in 1951 and was formerly chief inspector at Underwood.
The general manager of the Bradford Veneer and Panel Co. in Bradford, Vt., is WallyFarr. As plywood manufacturers, they are feeling the pinch of foreign competition resulting from a cut in the protective tariff. Finland with a labor cost of 18 cents an hour in U. S. money is particularly tough to fight.
Brockton (Mass.) High School won the Tech Class A title in basketball last season, but lost out in the second round of the New England schoolboy championship. Coach GordieMcKernan is happy, however, since his team's showing has revived Brockton's lagging interest in basketball.
In Chicago at the Florsheim Shoe Co. the assistant upper leather buyer is none other than Dick Burns. Dick got his Master's degree from the Harvard Business School after the war and entered the shoe manufacturing business in New England. Two years ago Shirley and Dick moved to Chicago and now live in Evans ton with their two young sons.
Dick Higgins has recently assumed his new duties as assistant to the president of the Three Dimension Co. in Chicago, making slide projectors, stereo equipment, tape recorders, etc. TCD is a division of Bell and Howell and is the largest producer of slide projectors in the country.
A social note rounds out the Chicago news. Carol and Bud McKinlay returned last month from a "second honeymoon" trip to Bermuda. Some guys have got it.
Lt. Commander Frank Baldwin, Supply Corps USN, has reported aboard the Naval Air Station at Moffett Field, California, where he has been assigned to the supply department as an assistant Supply Officer.
Judge Jim Erwin announces the establishment of the law firm of Strater and Erwin in York, Maine. Ann and Al Hooker announce the birth of a son Stuart Allen, born April 6 in Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover.
Bob Giles reports that he is getting acclimated again after his Korean sojourn and has seen Betsy and Dick Silver and Freddy andPat Reilly. Prudy and John Brooks are planning to take in Hanover with Barbara and Clark MacGregor '44 for Clark's 10th reunion.
Army Stambaugh was recently made assistant to the vice-president for marketing at the Gulf Oil Co. in Pittsburgh. Jean and LeoCaproni are off for Trinidad where Leo has been appointed manager of Pan American World Airways' Guest House at Port of Spain. Paul Breck is with Cleverdon, Varney, and Pike, a large construction engineering firm in Boston. Andy Wood is a bachelor lawyer with Gaston, Snow, Rice, and Boyd' in Boston. PhilBlood is with the J. P. Blood Grocery Co. in Lynn, Mass. Paul Vaitses, the bachelor statesman, is in the Boston brokerage business with Minot-Kendall.
I'm sure the class joins me in expressing our deepest sympathy to Ward Tucker's widow and family over his death last month in Fitchburg, Mass. Ward started with us freshman year, but took his degree at Boston University in 1943.
Martha and Jim Farley welcomed their first child, a daughter, born last fall in Hanover. As reported in the 1942 Newsletterßy Hinton has announced the establishment of the law firm of Phelan and Hinton in Washington, D. C.
June 30 is real close, so don't delay any longer with that check for the Alumni Fund. Let's really give that 100% participation figure a battle this year.
The next issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE which carries class notes is next October. In the meantime let's hear from some of you strong, silent guys. I'm getting tired of writing down the same names.
Secretary, 1369 Stanley Blvd. Birmingham, Mich.
Class Agent, Duval Manor, Apt. 108, Greene & Johnston Sts., Philadelphia 44, Pa.
