1940

Well, where's the news? I know, you guys are too busy. Well, so am I - hence this somewhat meager column. The few standbys are unmentionable, 'cause we'll raise a storm again from someone who, like Bob Skinner (rest his blessed skis!), once inquired why we seem to hit the same old names so often. Okay - that's an understandable gripe. I only wish we had more to say about more of you. But then, again, I'm not the best correspondent either. Give us a hand, will you?

Under the dateline of July 25, the Associated Press stated that five former American Army officers exchanged small talk that day with the colonel-in-chief of the British rifle brigade they served with in World War II. The colonel was Queen Elizabeth II. The Americans had flown the Atlantic especially to meet the Queen at the regiment's annual inspection parade. They chatted, too, with another rifle brigade veteran - Sir Anthony Eden, who served as a captain in the regiment during World War I. Among the seventeen American Army officers who served with the (now) Queen's Royal Rifles were Tom Braden and Ted Ellsworth, both with a claim to the hometown of Dubuque, lowa. The fact that columnist Stewart Alsop was also a member and on deck for the ceremonies probably accounts for the prominent treatment given to the event in the news. However, at least one of the '40 alumni was conspicuous, also, in the presence of Ted Ellsworth, whose flavorful prose we think ranks up there too.

Today we tried to get Harry Howard on the telephone, but he was away in Chicago. Harry's in the same office building with me, or I should put it the other way since the building is named for his firm, the famous dress pattern outfit, Butterick Company. Harry has only recently moved up from vice president and general sales manager to assume broader administrative duties within the organization.

Further afield, John B. Moore and frau, Kathryn, received a spread in the Saratogian on the occasion of a recent visit with John's parents, Henry T. Moore, president of Skidmore College, and Mrs. Moore. John had just received an accolade for having successfully completed examinations qualifying him as a fellow of the Society of Actuaries. These are the boys that step out into higher mathematics in order to tell the insurance companies when, how, and by how much to adjust their actuarial tables so as to deal appropriately with us calculated risks. John is with the Cleveland office of the Wyatt Corporation, consulting actuaries, whose ranks he joined after about twelve years of actuarial duty with the Metropolitan, interspersed with five years in the Army.

And even further in the woods, Jack Moody writes that he has made another change. He's the new controller for the Vermont Marble Company, of Proctor, Vt. Having been associated with his public accounting firm of Willis, Moody & Company since 1941, except for a period of wartime service in the government, I suppose Jack finally decided to let someone else sign the expense accounts. In any case, the new position sounds like a fine step up and one which will keep the sage of the Green Mountains very busy learning how to read the figures through a different set of eyeglasses. Jack writes:

"We make a helluva lot of marble and sell it all over the U. S. and Canada. We also run a railroad, a power company, a machine tool plant, and so on. Controller means I'm supposed to know all about each division, what it's doing, plans to do, etc. The family is still in Burlington. We're in the middle of house-selling there and house-hunting here, which will probably take a few months to wind up."

Vanished! Fran Gaskins, Commander USN, has skipped. My Alumni Fund plea to him went the rounds and came back to me three months later marked "unclaimed." Anyone knowing, of his whereabouts might drop a card or otherwise get the word to Hanover. Fran enlisted in the Navy back in 1940 and not much has been heard from him since.

Les Nichols, erstwhile Manhattan P.R. specialist, has opened his own public relations office in Louisville, Ky., his wife's home town. They moved there the end of September.

Duane (Col. Scotty) Treeman is now at the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Va., for advanced training in professional soldiering with wings.

Doc Art French has departed the Salt Lake City terrain to establish himself for a tour of duty at Ann Arbor, Mich. We presume it's a research position connected with the medical or related facilities of the U. of Michigan, or something akin to that. Maybe Art or his more communicative wife, Peg, will give us the details for another issue.

As long as you're in the midst of the annual class dues campaign it might be well to give a capsulized report on the state of the 1940 exchequer. Treasurer Rainie has submitted his annual report to the Dartmouth Treasurers Association which indicates that the accumulated class surplus declined $400 to a new figure of $4,550 at the end of the fiscal year on August 1. After income and outgo was reckoned, the dues payments last year did not quite pay the tab for MAGAZINE, mailings and stationery. It's time to ante in so that we can pay our way and, perhaps, give the surplus a shot in the arm. While you're making out your check, send along a note of yourself which Don can pass along to me. See you at reunion!

New President of the Sugar Club of NewYork, Daniel Dyer '39 will head this educational and social group of the sugar trade. Heis a partner of B. W. Dyer & Co. and a director of the Cuban Chamber of Commerce inthe United States.

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