1937
A couple of years ago we always had the latest dope on Boston, including Bankart,Bryant and Bill Brown's barbecue. Now it seems we are repeatedly parceling out the goings-on of the New York group but that should be understandable - Rog Allen and I work for Ballantyne and Bialla and they keep things stirred up around here.
Our fund gathering campaign was off to a whale of a start at the Dartmouth Club on 39th St. with a turnout eighteen strong for cocktails and dinner on March 9. Wayne Ballantyne was able to arrange additional fortification by having Kenneth T. Downs, Time Inc.'s Washington representative, speak to us after dinner on the subject of "Our Western Allies and Our Relations with Them." Needless to say it was an extremely interesting as well as stimulating talk as Ken's experiences while an INS foreign correspondent in Europe and North Africa were hair-raising, and his insight on Germany while in the State Department was most edifying.
Roily Bialla, with apparent restraint, spent only three quarters o£ the evening proselytizing classmates to be Agents for this years Alumni Fund. So far as I can gather, his theory is to make all of us agents and get that 100% participation about which they keep writing. Let's get that check off to Hanover now - large or small, it will get you off Bialla's list and on to that ever growing and more impressive list of contributors in the future of Dartmouth.
On hand at the dinner were Bill Ashe, Wayne Ballantyne, Mort Berkowitz, Charlie Blaisdell, Roily Bialla, Dave Camerer, Albie Chester, Jon Coggeshall, Al Gray, Wally Greenspan, Carl Gram, Lanny Moore, Bob McCoy, Tom Nast, Carl Noyes, Carl Ray, Gordon Torrey and Sheldon Wagner. It was the scoop of the season for me - Mint Bag Allen didn't show so I had a field day.
Dave Camerer, now an associate editor of A. S. Barnes and Co., has been named assistant to the president. Dave, who collaborated with the late Grantland Rice and edited the best seller The Tumult and the Shouting, has a new book Golf with the Masters which will be published in May.
Albie Chester made the trip in from Bridgton, N. J. He's still with Ferracute Machine Co., manufacturers of mechanical punch presses for the metal industry, and reports a 3-year-old son who is already a fisherman and ball player. Bill Ashe, elected treasurer of Great Lakes Carbon Corp. in January, was asking about Ted Bruce. How about a short note, Ted, bringing us up to date?
Wally Greenspan, now sales manager of the Frozen Foods Division of Flagstaff Foods, also had a long trip in from New Jersey. Wally is vice president of the Eastern Frozen Food Association and a director of the National Wholesale Frozen Food Association as well as chairman of the Metuchen Recreation Commission. His latter interest is no doubt accountable to those two girls and one boy aged 5, 4 and 2.
Em Brightman was recently appointed a director of Grocery - Non Foods Operations of the Grand Union Company.
Dr. George Andrews, formerly a consultant in psychiatry on the staff of Duke University Hospital, has been named clinical director of the men's and women's reception services and diagnostic and treatment centers at the Norwich, Conn., State Hospital.
Not long ago one of the pleasantest surprises a secretary can have was a two-page letter from Jack Young. Jack is assistant to the general sales manager of Lone Star Cement Corporation. He and wife Jinny and their three children drove up to Hanover to enroll their two sons, aged 11 and 7, in the classes of '65 and '69. It was Jack's first visit in eighteen years and sure was a mighty nostalgic one with new memories as the miles rolled by. He commented on the fact that those Vermont curves between Brattleboro and Windsor are still a 45 M.P.H. maximum whether you make the trek in a modern car or the old 1930 Ford roadster. Ironically enough, Jack found, after writing the letter, that he and I work in the same office building - it was sure appreciated just the same. Thanks, Tack.
Hank Pierce has just completed a plush but tough refresher course given by his firm, the General Electric Co., at the Westchester Country Club. Lecture periods were daily from 9 AM to 9 PM over a six weeks' stretch, so Hank had little time for socializing during the session.
Bob Sullivan was appointed to the New York advertising sales staff of Sports Illustrated early this year. Formerly he had been general manager of Rose Arms Corp., in Morristown, N. J.
Walter Hard, editor of Vermont Life, should be congratulated for the wide honors which his magazine has received. There are two noteworthy state publications, VermontLife and Arizona Highways. Walt reported that 68% of his mail subscriptions go outside the state and that they have subscribers in every state in this country and in 27 foreign countries. Don't forget Roily (Alumni Fund) Bialla.
PROMOTION: William G. Watson '36 hasbeen named manager of the Pittsburgh PlateGlass Co. in Buffalo, N. Y., distributingbranch. He was formerly manager of theYoungstown, O., branch office.
THE INSIDE STORY: Walter Johnson '37,one of the leaders of the movement to draftPresidential candidate Adlai Stevenson, is theauthor of a book published February 21 byKnopf, "How We Drafted Adlai Stevenson."
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