1927

Happy New Year. May 1955 bring health, prosperity, and happiness to all 1927 men, and a lot of newsy letters to their secretary!

During the last couple of months, several members of the Class have been working on plans for a big Fathers and Sons Weekend in Hanover for those fortunate enough to have sons in College, and their sons. According to the last count, there are about forty sons of 1927 now in Hanover, and it seemed to a few of us who have the responsibility of planning class activities that it is high time that we had some sort of get-together with them. It is hoped that arrangements can be made to schedule this for sometime in the early part of May, when spring should be coming to the Hanover plain, and the golf course should be getting into prime shape. While this will be primarily a gathering of members of the Class who have sons in College, it should be made clear that all 1927 men and wives, and, yes, even daughters and non-Dartmouth sons, will be most welcome. Announcement of the exact weekend, and of the personnel of the committee in charge will be made soon, probably in the next issue of the Speakeasy. Further news of this big 1927 gathering will be carried in future columns in the MAGAZINE, SO none can say that they haven't been given sufficient notice. Better start to lay your plans now, so that nothing will interfere with your being there.

On October 18, Howie Mullin left St. Louis for Washington, to take up duties as director of the Iron and Steel Division, Business and Defense Services Administration in the Department of Commerce. This is a department set up by the Government to represent the entire steel industry in its relations with all departments of the Government, primarily the Defense and Commerce Departments. This is a six-month assignment, and is rotated among the various steel companies. Howie was chosen by United States Steel, when it became their turn to furnish the director. He will be there until about May 1, commuting to St. Louis on weekends, which will give him a chance to continue to direct the Alumni Fund for the Class, though under considerable difficulties. Cooperation on the part of all of you in the way of early gifts without the usual prodding will doubtless be greatly appreciated.

As of November 18, Rog Salinger added to his other activities an association as registered representative with Brown Brothers Harriman and Co.

A welcome letter from Cal Voorhis, under date of November 15, brings us up to date on his activities. Cal says:

"As I think you know, in 1951 I resigned as southern representative of Appleton-Century-Crofts of New York in order to go into the automobile business here in Chapel Hill, N. C., as dealer for Nash cars and International Harvester trucks. I was tired of traveling, and I JUST KNEW (everyone does) that all auto dealers were automatically guaranteed riches. We got off to a good start and did an extremely good business for about eighteen months. Then we went into receivership because all the profits were tied up in used cars, and the bottom dropped out. So now, poorer but wiser, I am back in the publishing business as Southeastern representative of the World Publishing Co., of Cleveland. My principal occupation is to introduce Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language to the colleges in this area."

Cal is a potential grandfather, his oldest daughter Anne having been married this past summer to a graduate chemist at the University of North Carolina. His younger daughter Julia is a freshman in the Women's College of the University of North Carolina, and his son is a sophomore at Chapel Hill High School. He alternates weekends between the football team and the band, which doesn't sound quite right for North Carolina, where I have been led to believe that they take their football very seriously. Cal says that he sees Harry Dey once in a while, in Staunton, Va., where Harry is head man at Staunton Military Academy.

Paul Staab writes from Hollywood, Calif. He has been doing quite a bit of traveling about the country during the past couple of years, and managed to work a visit to Hanover into his itinerary. Like most o£ the rest of us, Paul says that he would have liked to have spent several months there, but other things called him elsewhere.

Mark the date of February 10 on your calendars for the next 1927 Class Dinner in New York. It will be held, as usual, at the Dartmouth Club, and if any of you who live in other parts of the country are planning a trip to New York this winter, it will be well worth your while to try to be there at that time. These New York dinners are always great fun, as I can attest, having attended a couple of them, and there is always a good turnout. I know that those of you who live within shooting distance of New York will hear a lot more about this, and that most of you will be there, so this notice is directed mainly to those living elsewhere.

Art Keleher says that he and Marion are now living alone, and not liking it, all of their family having grown up and left the nest. Their daughter Sally is married; their elder son Bernard is a lieutenant in the Air Force, (lying B-25s; and their younger son Arthur '54 is a lieutenant in the Marines. Bald, and a grandfather, Art is feeling the pangs of age.

Stew Schackne has been named as manager of the public relations department of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. He has been assistant manager since 1945. After graduation from Dartmouth, Stew worked for a time on the Toledo News Bee, and later was associated with his father in the real estate business in Toledo. He moved to New York in 1932, was in the advertising department of Underwood-Elliot-Fisher, associate editor of the AmericanDruggist, and assistant advertising manager of the Sonoto Corporation, before going with Earl Newson and Co. While with Newson he served as consultant to Standard Oil's newly organized public relations department, then went with them in 1945.

Ed Knapp is vice president of Kasco Mills, Inc., in charge of sales of dog food. He has recently moved to 33 Pine St., Waverly, N. Y. My informant doesn't say whether or not Ed is responsible for those singing commercials exhorting us to feed our dogs "K-A-S-C-O."

We haven't had room to give the changes in addresses for the last few months, and there are too many to crowd them all in here, so we will have to be content to catch up on a few of the more recent ones, as follows:

Ed Fry, Room 439, 225 Fifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y.; Steve Osborn, Box 473, Lake City, Minn.; Ed Watkins, c/o Charles A. Parcells & Co., 639 Penobscot Bldg., Detroit, Mich.; Lt. Col. BedWilliams, Staff Legal Officer, Force Troops, FMF Pac, Quarters 17-S-8, Apt. B, Camp Pendleton, Calif.; Chuck Downey, Sales Manager, J. W. Melbourne Co., 48 Willow St., " Springfield, Mass.; Ray King, 418 East sth St., Jamestown, N. Y. Other changes, while not so recent . involve a change in locale: Reg Hor ton, 230 Middlebury Rd., Watertown, Conn.; Hal Starbuck, Main St., Somers, Conn.; Burt Harris, 811 14th St., Boulder, Colo., representing a long move from Hackensack, N. J.; Cug Daley, c/o Sponge Rubber Products Co., Shelton, Conn., from Chicago; Frell Owl, Lapwai, Idaho, from Red Lake, Minn.; Dick Mommers, 1810 West Club Lane, Richmond, Va.; CurtWright, 1715 North Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa.; Brick Stone, General Motors Overseas Operations, 1775 Broadway, New York 19, N. Y., from Caracas, Venezuela.

The only recent visitors to Hanover, according to the records of the Inn were Charlieand Barbara Bartlett, who were there on November 5. If others of you were there, you didn't make your presence officially known.

Just as these notes were about to be put into the mail, word was received that JayWilling has accepted the job as chairman of our Fathers and Sons weekend. If any of you have any suggestions concerning it, Jay will be very glad to receive them. Address your communications to James B. Willing, 23 Leslie Road, Winchester, Mass. With Jay in command, we can all look forward to a most enjoyable time.

Secretary, Pine Hill Farm, West River Rd., Perrysburg, Ohio

Treasurer, Box 1927, Pittsburgh 30, Pa.

Bequest Chairman,