1915

You have all received the card request for Class Directory information. To the many who have sent theirs in - thanks! To the few who have not yet done so - get yours in and avoid a blank. 'B-o-a-r-d!!

Walter Wanger's production plan tor this year underwent a change when he closed negotiations for the purchase of rights to The Body Snatchers. This will be put before the cameras ahead of two previously scheduled projects: Mother, Sir, which will star loan Bennett (Mrs. Wanger); and YellowKnife. Adventures in Politics will follow later.

Russ Livermore, who left just before the New Year for Cocoanut Grove, Fla., is scheduled to be back in New York by April K

At this writing, Bags WanamakeT was due to fly down to Valencia, Venzuela, to handle further preliminary arrangements in connection with the $5,000,000 plant he has a hand in operating for U. S. Rubber. The complications involved in establishing such a project in a foreign country can well be imagined. How's your Spanish, Bags? He expected to be back again by late February. Permanent residence in Venezuela will depend on construction progress. It looks a bit ominous for Bag's reunion plans, but we're all hoping he can wangle the few days necessary for the big Tune event in Hanover.

All the above came out of an impromptu lunch gathering at the Dartmouth Club in New York early in January which brought together Bags, Jiggs Donohue, Kell Rose, BobMacHale and yours truly. It was a treat to see Bob MacHale again. Bob has been overseas many years for General Motors, dating back to his venture over there for Uncle Sam in 1917. All told, he has lived and traveled in seventeen different countries and his visits back to our parts have been few and far between; most of them - like the present one - on the spur of the moment. He picks up the phone in mid-afternoon and is told to catch the 5 o'clock plane - reservations all made - and off he goes! Until recently, Bob was headquartered in Antwerp, but is now located in London. P.S. - Bob is a bachelor!

Here's one for the fond fathers - "Train a boy in the way he should go and the first thing you know, he's gone!"

Bob Griffin writes: "Of course, I would have a birthday at a time when everyone else is celebrating - New Year's Eve — so it is recognized whether or no." In the same manner, Bob? He says he has finished working for the Government and all outside jobs which have kept him away from home so much in the past two years and is glad to be now living at home, albeit finding it a bit difficult to bring himself around to doing much of nothing. Bob says: "See you in Hanover - come June!"

Speaking of retiring, here's one I can't resist passing on - a notation on his Directory Information card: "Retired — do as damn please - housewife assistant — so on second thought, not always as damn please." (Name available to close friends only!)

And another one signed "Coldathantophy - "Sorry I didn't do better in filling out the card but them PO pens scratch u kno. You fix it around ifen it dont suit u." (Boy - a re the proofreaders going to have fun!)

Tom Connelly says he'll be there in June with all the fixings: "Retired in April and haven't minded it a bit, only Jen is F.B.I. -ing me all the time."

Doc Rowell sends in a very exciting-looking brochure in colors depicting "The Most Historically Romantic Three Miles in America' - Sleepy Hollow Restoration of which he is Executive Director - at Philipse Castle. Sure must take it in one of these days!

Sid Crawford suggests I prowl down around the docks to see if I can find any prospective Indians (footballers). Might be an idea at that - as first aid for the new coach! Sid says he's already tagged one of the rocking chairs on the Inn porch for reunion.

We all extend our best wishes to the new coach and his staff and a hearty welcome to the plains of Hanover. And an equally heart} "Amen" to the many fine tributes paid to Tuss McLaughry in the press and elsewhere! A quote from The Bulletin from Hanover is indicative: "We hardly need add that Dartmouth's athletic policy remains unchanged, as does its admissions policy and its financial aid policy."

A'luscious scenic post card from Kissimmee, Fla., contains this potent inscription from John Healy: "Just an idea of my future plans. We may settle on Kissimmee, although I think Lake Wales is the most beautiful spot in central Florida." And this I get on the coldest day of the year in New York! John adds that he expects to be in Hanover in June.

Ah - these easy-going days of idiomatic English! Got a fraternity luncheon invitation the other day which wound up with, "The Tariff? Must we be sordid? Oh, well — $1.75 (wid tip)."

And this pert one from Texas: - Mother: "Don't ever marry. I've seen the folly of it." Daughter: "But Mother, I want to see the folly of it, too."

Ralph Sawyer, Dean of Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies at Ann Arbor, gives me this item (Class of 1944 please copy):

"Martha and I announced the engagement of our daughter, Rosalind, to George Stoney Springsteen Jr. '44, when he visited us shortly befere Christmas. He is a graduate of Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, also. Rosalind got her Bachelor's degree from Oberlin College and her Master's degree from University of Michigan. They are both economists in the State Department in Washington. They expect to be married in May." Ralph gives an account of a phase of his activity which is a real eye-opener: "In September and October, I spent three weeks in Germany at the request of the Department of State as an Exchange Specialist. I lectured in German in eight German cities, including Berlin, on the peacetime uses of atomic energy. From the attendance at my talks and from the extensive press, radio and television coverage I received, I was convinced that the Germans were very much interested in hearing that other things than bombs were being developed in this country in the atomic energy field. This was my first trip to Germany since 1945 and I was astonished, as everybody else is by the extent of reconstruction and of industrial recovery there. My talks were in part based on my work here at the University of Michigan as director of the Michigan Memorial-Phoenix Project, our war memorial which is devoted to the peacetime uses of atomic energy. The Project is now spending about half a million dollars a year in research on the peacetime uses of atomic energy and is building a million-and-a-half-dollar laboratory and a million-dollar nuclear reactor for atomic research."

That, ray friends, is what one of our classmates is doing toward world betterment! Referring to reunion, Ralph says it comes at a bad time for deans to be away from home. Don't forget, Ralph, one of the recent song hits - It's Later than You Think! See you in Hanover?

Charlie Griffith's appointment as national chairman of the William Jewett Tucker Foundation Fund Committee is a natural. Congratulations, Charlie! And congratulations to the William Jewett Tucker Foundation!

Fifteeners in New York are slated for a dinner get-together during February and we're hoping for a big turn-out. Look for a blow-by-blow description in next issue.

Registrations at Hanover Inn showed some of the boys (and gals) still hanker for the wintry winds and sparkling air of the old College, notably: Mr. and Mrs. Dick Clarke,String Downing, Dale Barker, Jack Ferguson,Mr. and Mrs. George Dyke, and BeardsleyRuml. Hanover has its points, even in January!

Announcement is made of the marriage of Elsie Ward Donohue to William Riggs Reynolds Jr. on December 31, in Jamestown, N. Y. A note from Bill Reynolds says:

"With Bill Jr. now married, only the youngest, daughter Sarah, remains single. She is studying at Cleveland Institute of Art, following her graduation from Bradford Junior last June. Also announce the arrival of another grandson, William Joseph Kiebala, to Joseph and Elizabeth Kiebala of Geneva, N. Y. This makes seven grandchildren, probably putting us well up in class standing."

Bill wants to know how we are shaping up for a good turnout in June. All I can report at this sitting is an overwhelming trend - facts and figgers will have to come from the committee.

A note from Johnnie Johnson says he doubts if he can last out 'til 2000 A.D.

And that just about winds it up with another gentle reminder to those who haven't sent in their Directory Information!

Changes of address: Arthur I. Donohue, Phi Gamma Delta, 106 West 56th St., New York City 19; Lee R. MacHale, General Motors Ltd., 23 Buckingham Gate, London, S.W. 1, England.

Secretary, 3.01 East 53rd St. New York 22, N. Y.

Treasurer, 60 Stevens Rd., Needham 92, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,