1927
For all except the fortunate few of us who live in spots that God hasn't forgotten, the summer of 1955 will go clown in memory as the season of the big heat, the big blow, and the big flood. As I look back on the last four months, I seem to remember nothing but heat, and still more heat. However, as this is being written, we, at least here around the Great Lakes, are enjoying the sort of weather that makes you feel that everything that has gone before is worth while, if it leads up to days like these. There is just the least tang of fall in the air, and it brings back memories of glorious days and crisp nights in Hanover some thirty-odd years ago, when as freshmen we were getting our first look at the College that was to become such a large part of our lives.
Since the last column was written early in May, your secretary has made two trips to Hanover, first for the Class Officers' meeting, where, outside of our permanent residents, he was the sole representative of the Class, and a month later, at reunion time, for the meeting of the Alumni Council, where I had the pleasure of welcoming Bo Head to his first Council meeting, had a delightful visit with RoilyHowes, and just missed seeing Charlie Huntley, though I did talk with him on the phone. Charlie was in Norwich, visiting his old home, all the way from Austin, Texas. He called me at the Inn, just as I had checked in, but when he came over I had gone to Al Foley's lecture in Dartmouth Hall, and got back to the Inn about five minutes after he had left. As he was leaving at five the next morning, we missed our chance to get together. Roily had come from San Francisco in order to play his banjo in an orchestra, assembled from old time stars of the Barbary Coast, for the reunions of 1934, 1935, and 1936. Roily told me that he had never lost his interest in music, and that his greatest pleasure comes from playing with an orchestra in San Francisco, made up of fellow music lovers, who get together about once a week just for the pleasure of playing. Since he came all the way from San Francisco to Hanover just to play there, I don't think that anyone would challenge his statement that he loves it. Outside of the reuning classes, I think that 1927 must have held the record for total miles traveled, with one from the Coast, two from Texas, and one from Ohio. I felt as though I were just a commuter.
This is the first opportunity for correcting an error which crept into the column last May, when I had Hank Orth manufacturing automotive safety belts. The fact of the matter is that Hank manufactures the Faultless line of loose-leaf record-keeping equipment, with the Stationers Loose Leaf Co. in Milwaukee, while it is Cy Morand who makes auto safety belts in Chicago. Perhaps it is worth while making a mistake once in a while, because this one brought forth a fine letter from Hank, in which he brings us up to date on the Orth family. His oldest daughter Jane completed her freshman year at Smith in June, and his younger daughter Penny, who will be a high school senior this year, spent the summer in Germany, living with a German family in a suburb of Hamburg, as an exchange student under the American Field Service Program.
While this news is a little late, it is important enough to record here for the benefit of those of you who missed seeing it in the papers. Dud Bonsai has been appointed head of a committee of the New York City Bar Association to make a special study of the Federal loyalty security program. The inquiry is being financed by a grant of $100,000 from the Fund for the Republic. Dud is a member of the executive committee of the N.Y.C. Bar Association, and is also chairman of the executive committee of the Institute of International Education.
On August 10, the New York papers carried the story of Carlton Gilbert's appointment as advertising director of the United States Rubber Co. Gil had been serving as assistant advertising director, a post to which he was appointed quite recently. He joined U. S. Rubber in 1934, in the sales promotion department of the footwear and general products division. He has had a steady rise since, to his present high position.
The following is from the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch:
"A tiny Columbus restaurant seating only 34 diners at a time is praised in the June issue of American Restaurant Magazine for its quality foods and efficient service. Tuck Inn, 29 W. Gay St., could well serve as an example for many things, the article said. Then the story explains that its thriving condition is proof that even a small operation can be well known and profitable, and that good food remains the most important factor in successful service. The establishment is owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Tucker, who made their debut in the restaurant field December 3, 1949. They have acquired a reputation for quality of their beef stew and like most operators who serve excellent food are always looking for good recipes. A favored Tuck Inn recipe was printed with the article. It is for a hot cranberrychicken sandwich for which Tucker, active in the Central Ohio Restaurant Association, gave credit to a former food editor of the Dispatch."
Nelson Robinson, Kroger Co., Nashville, Tenn., manager for the past eighteen years has moved to Houston, Tex., as newly elected president of Henke and Pilot, Inc., a 26-store supermarket chain, recently merged with Kroger. Henke and Pilot, in addition to its stores in the Houstin and Gulf Coast area, operates a large warehouse, a bakery, and a meat processing plant in Houston. The stores will continue to operate under their present name. Robbie joined Kroger in the sales department in 1937, became sales manager at Pittsburgh, and moved to Nashville in 1937. He served as a lieutenant colonel in the Army quartermaster corps for four years during World War II.
Bill Chapman is adding to his duties as president of W. D. Chapman and Co., insurance brokers, the presidency of the Mount Vernon Savings and Loan Association of Mount Vernon, N. Y. Bill has been a director of the association since 1927, and in assuming the presidency is following family tradition, as his father was president some years ago. His son, Laighton, is at Washington and Lee University.
Marty Heifer, superintendent of schools of Binghamton, N. Y., has been appointed as a member of the New York State Teachers Retirement Board for a term of three years. Marty began his career in education as principal of Skaneateles, N. Y., high school in 1932. In 1934 he became principal of Onandaga High School, and in 1938 of Massena High School. He became superintendent of schools in Massena, and was appointed superintendent in Binghampton in 1937. He has also been a member of the board of directors of the New York State Teachers Association.
Vic Reynolds was elected chairman of the executive committee of the Friends of the Dartmouth Library at their meeting in Hanover on May 27. , Dob Stevens writes:
"Am having great fun with the Vermont farm where the family spends four months of the year and I get up each weekend. Restoration of a 150 year-old house and putting in water, heat and light is an experience everyone should go through. It's a real education. They really put timber in houses those days. It's nice to see the number of city people who are picking up the old New England homes and restoring them for summer and weekend living and eventual retirement. Roots run deep in these old hills."
Don and Betty McCall have been busy with weddings this past summer. Their son Fent was married on May 21, in Fort Sill, Okla., to Miss Shirley Margaret Moroney, and their daughter Mimi was married in New York on August 25 to James Louden Armstrong 3rd.
While many of us are reporting the arrival of grandchildren, Al House announces the birth of his third son, Douglas Sherman House, on May 21.
Stew Schackne, in his travels for Standard Oil of New Jersey, spent some time in Tulsa last spring, and while there had dinner with Fred Fellingham and Dick Simpson, along with Eric Stahl '20 and Philo Grimes '28. Stew reports that he is now a grandfather twice over. His son, who was at Dartmouth for two years and is now a lieutenant in the Marine Corps, has a boy born in 1953, and a brand new daughter, who arrived in May. By coincidence, Stew happened to have a conference of public relations men in Miami just a few days after the granddaughter was born, so he had a chance to see her when she was just four days old.
There have been a good many address changes since last spring, but as these notes are running longer than they should, I'll hold them until next month, when the flow of news will probably have dropped back to its usual trickle.
Secretary, Pine Hill Farm, West River Rd., Perrysburg, Ohio
Treasurer, Box 1927, Pittsburgh 30, Pa.
Bequest Chairman,
