1940
March is mud-time, but this Sunday of Winter Carnival weekend has all the earmarks of a rainy, March mud season. The children are watching television, and we wonder how our patience survived rainy days before video's controversial advent.
Speaking of TV, we haven't heard anything of Jack Rourke lately. The Los Angeles smog-line must have enveloped him - or his press agent left him. But then, perhaps there are limitations to a Coast-to-Coast hook-up which prevent seeing Jack these days. Maybe later. Meantime, Jack has the company of a '40 classmate in the field. Frank Reeves is doing some production work from the New York City end of the circuit, with offices at 53 W. 53rd St. Now that "Tuffy" has settled down from the barnstorming routine of Horace Heidt, Inc., perhaps he can attend our next class reunion in person. His proxy for the last one had a good voice too, but the fact that he was a long-haired, somewhat shaggylooking canine didn't give quite the result desired for reunion attendance purposes!
Bill Chapin, whom we still list as an editor of the Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, has taken up residence in Sausalito, in San Francisco's backyard, Marin County. Presume he still has time between stories to get away for a periodic skiing jaunt, although the snow belt wouldn't be as handy there as Pico Peak was to his pre-war Rutland (Vt.) Herald job.
The White Plains (N. Y.) office of Employers' Group Insurance Co. has a new assistant claims superintendent in the person of Paul Dyer. Paul recently moved down from Norwood, Mass. Wonder whether he's getting any swimming these days to compare with the Spaulding Pool?
Slowly those who passed from the ranks of mufti back into the service during the Korean crisis are reappearing in the States, either up in rank or back in civilian status - or both. John Goodman, who in 1951 went back into the Army as a major in the office of the Judge Advocate, has just returned from an APO overseas address. Now a colonel, John is stationed in Washington, D. C., and living in nearby Arlington, Va. Tex Meyer speaks out from Tulsa, Okla. He has finally attained his majority in the Army after "years of sweating it out." Earlier, Tex was pulled back into active service in a port director's unit. He's getting around in the States now, but doesn't say what he's up to.
The human factor in these times of insecurity and emotional pressures is receiving the attention of two Boston classmates. JohnF. McDonald Jr. continues his service as a trained psychiatric social worker in that area; and Dick York is listed as a research psychologist with the Boston Psychopathic Hospital.
From news clips concerning recent appointments, we learn that the Worcester County Trust Co. has promoted Harry Midgley Jr. to full-fledged vice president. Also, ArtMountrey, account executive for the Compton Advertising agency, has been elected a vice president.
Frederick Davidson Jr. of Tuckahoe, N. Y., administrative engineer for the architectural firm of Eggers & Higgins, New York, has been elected vice president of the fifty-year-old Dartmouth Society of Engineers. Rick, a Thayer School graduate in '41, has long been active in the affairs of this engineering society, which is devoted to furthering professional interest among Dartmouth students and alumni. Rick's father is a past president of the same organization.
with the accent on skiing in this season, at least in those places where the snow lasts, we are again reading of Bob Skinner's prowess on the boards. In mid-January, Bob took his third straight crown in the Eastern Amateur Ski Association slalom at Big Bromley. Not long after that, two other skiers of the class, Ike Weed and Gary Allen, shared the spotlight as respectively club president and race chairman at the Gilford Outing Club's second annual junior giant slalom race at Belnap Mountain.
On the prospective nuptials front, the engagement of Bill Wrightson and Miss Jeanne Van Wagoner Christie, of Bergenfield, N. J., has been announced. No wedding date has been mentioned.
The outgoing Forty Alumni Fund team of Stet Whitcher "and Dave Leake met with incoming Hush Schwarz and Diz deSieyes, along with your scribe, at the N. Y. Dartmouth Club the evening of January 14 to begin a skull session concerning class activities and the forthcoming Fund program. Lasting through until late the following afternoon, the session accomplished much in a planning way. A later follow-up luncheon, through the generosity of host Jack Little, enabled Jack, Bill Bumsted, the genial adviser and yours truly to give a proper formal send-off to the new team. By the time you read this, you will have received a message from them directly. Your early response will save time, money and effort, and will help to preserve those ideals which only a living Dartmouth can nurture.
Secretary, 322 Canterbury Road, Westfield, N. J.
Treasurer, 88 North Main St., Concord, N. H.
