1938
Here we are in March, when, in Hanover, the duckboards would be at their height, Midyears and Carnival would be memories of the past, and seniors would be looking forward to the perfect spring, marred only by comps. The only difference this year for alumni will be the new April tax deadline, instead of dirty old March 15.
If you're still looking for deductions, why not give more to the Alumni Fund? In the long run it's cheaper than exemptions such as dependents added to the list at the last minute; and it does a lot of good. In spite of the New York publicity of last winter, I'm sure the added scholarship funds will not all go to buying football players, and some equally worthy young man may get the chance at the Dartmouth education that you and I had. And the added assets will go, assuredly, to making the Dartmouth Education that much more of an education when money will attract better teachers and more facilities for the intellectual side of the College, which, after all, is the core of the whole matter. .
As I have mentioned in previous years, it all boils down to your faith and mine in the type of Liberal Arts training and thinking which we want to see survive in this world of directed and dictated thought. Dartmouth may be a small microcosm of the Western World, but it's something tangible and worthwhile where we can express our conviction that free thought will persevere in this world. There are very few ways since we left active participation in world events in which we can show our colors, but this is one.
No doubt you have, as I have, read of the growing disciplinary problems in the schools these days. Very fortunately for me, I am in a place where we have the whip hand, as those of you who attended boarding schools well know. Al McSwain, on the other hand, has problems of "discipline" in industry and delivered a talk on "Today's Problems of Discipline" at the Greater-Lowell (Mass.) Industrial Management Club recently. To think that industry has kindred problems with the schools is more than a little refreshing.
From the home of the machete, Collinsville, Conn., comes word of various shifts in personnel at Ensign-Bickford Co. Charley Curtiss has been appointed manager of the Industrial Engineering Department. Besides graduating from Hanover, Charley received the LL.B. degree from the University of Connecticut Law School. His present promotion is from assistant manager of the same department.
Royce Randlett has been selected chairman of the 1955 Red Cross drive in Winchester, Mass. A life-long resident of Winchester, Royce served four years at Dartmouth and four in the Navy, his only absence from the home acres. After graduation from Dartmouth, he went to work for the Penn Dixie Cement Co. and is now associated with the firm of Draper, Sears & Co. He is married and has three children.
If any of you pass through Solano, Calif., and are in need of administrative assistance, Dave Balmer stands ready to help. He is ad- ministrative officer of the County of Solano and lives in FairEeld, Calif. Tommy Holmes is one of the Rocky Mountain group, where, in Grand Junction, Colo., he is assistant general manager of Minerals Engineering Co.
Ed Loreni, visiting Associate Professor of Meteorology at the University of California at Los Angeles, can be reached care of that august institution. Another visiting professor, Bob Ross, who made all sorts of rash promises re visiting firemen in England this year, can be run to earth and made to eat his words at "The New House" (around 1500 probably), Chichele Road, Oxted, Surrey, England. It would serve him right if some renegade '38s looked him up and demanded a supervised "pub crawl!"
Len McChesney is now agency superintendent in insurance; he was formerly listed as a special agent in fire insurance, but no name of any company. It's not like insurance men to omit that detail!
I thought almost all Dartmouth men were with Gulf Oil, but Dune Buttrick is a regional merchandiser for Sun out of Bridgeport, Conn.
After hearing, at the last New York dinner, the praises of Leroy Block as an advertising "sharpy" comes news that he has been named a vice president of the Grey Advertising Agency. Perhaps Gorman had some inside dope at the time; at least well give him credit for the tip.
At the'last meeting with Brownell in New York he reported on recent conferences at various spots in Harvard Square with Chevalier VViggin, now of the Littauer Center at dear old Hahvahd. The gist of what was decided at these conferences remains more than somewhat hazy in the memory of the redoubtable Brownell, but it involved considerable sampling of Boston's finest foods at such places you may all remember as Durgin-Park, where they "are not responsible for well-done meats."
All of which reminds me that since our days of the rather discouraging fare of freshman Commons, the food picture at Dartmouth is, and has been for three years, verging on the lyrical. Miss Gill, genial manageress of the Outing Club, has, as some of you know, taken over Thayer Hall, and reports are nothing short of the superlatives. When I had ten freshman advisees three years ago, they all raved about the fare, and one father was so worried that his son didn't complain about the food that he came up to Hanover to find out why. So in selling the College to prospectives, don't neglect this angle any more than Health Insurance, which, to my knowledge, the College, for no very good reason, studiously avoids. Obviously there is no connection between the two items in the paragraph above!
Next issue will be April, when the flowers begin to come out, even in Hanover, and by then perhaps some of you will have loosened up with a little dope on yourselves. In the meantime, loosen up with a little of the old green stuff and make Scotty happy.
Secretary, Trinity-Pawling School Pawling, N. Y.
Treasurer, 406 Peck Rd., Geneva, Ill.
