1941
It is evident that April is fast becoming an extremely important month. It always marks the opening of the baseball season. In addition it means the beginning of the annual Alumni Fund drive. This year something new has been added - Federal income tax returns. But nothing new is being added to the April notes because, just as I promised, the space is being devoted to selecting the pennant winners for 1955. To those of you who read these prognostications and disagree, simply tear the masthead off your ALUMNI MAGAZINE, jot down your own guesses on the back and send it along to me at the above address. Those who select the winners will receive the Crossed Bats & Balls Emblem at next reunion.
1. NEW YORK is the scene of feverish activity this month on behalf of the Alumni Fund. Our new Class Agent is Bruce Friedlich, who has recently reported in these notes as having been named New York advertising manager of Fortune magazine. Bruce is taking over for Bud Martin who did a fine job for three years but finds the problems of running Martin Motor Car Co. of Springfield, Mo., absorbing all of his time at present. We all know Bruce will do an excellent job and move us up to the top of the Green Derby. It's possible! Stranger things happen. Look, I'm picking the Giants to win the N.L. pennant again. But I'm hoping I'm wrong.
2. BROOKLYN finds its chances of winning hinging on the surgeon's knife with two key players trying out their operations. This reminds me to report that Dr. John Curran has resumed his general surgery practice in Worcester, Mass., after active duty as a lieutenant in the Navy. He served a year with the First Marine Division in Korea and six months at Chelsea Naval Hospital. During his first tour of duty in 1945-46 Jack was stationed on a transport which participated in the A-Bomb tests at Bikini. If the Dodgers can handle an A-Bomb named Willie Mays, they could take it all.
3. MILWAUKEE makes fine brew. It is also the home town of Dr. Bill Meyer who may want to use a fencing foil on me for picking the Braves third. And Chuck Reed is another Milwaukeeite who will back him up. Joe Rich who is transplanted in Erlton, N. J., completes the Milwaukee trio in '41 and the class secretary wishes to remind these gentlemen that his file on the Milwaukee area is mighty low. Would be highly pleased to hear from any of you.
4. ST. LOUIS is in Missouri and the home town of Leo Grace. But Leo is now living in Ardmore, Okla., and is associated with the Rock Hill Oil Company. Al Hinson, another Webster Grove product, is now residing in Kirkwood, Mo. The Cardinals will get in the outskirts of the first division.
5. CINCINNATI will have a good number of Dartmouth boosters, including the old Nutmegger from Connecticut, Boots Nanos. Boots is Asst. Branch Sales Manager for Remington Rand in Cincinnati. The old line Cincinnatians are Grant Hesser, Frank Simpson and Lew Johnstone.
6. PHILADELPHIA is not too far away for '41s in that area to come to New York for a gala cocktail party at the Dartmouth Club on May 13 at 6 P.M. Red O'Connor and RedTaft are working feverishly on prepara- tions for this whing-ding which will be a joint affair with the Class of '40. New Yorkers, of course, will be on hand and we'd like to woo some of you Mainliners.
7. CHICAGO could be a surprise. After all it took Stacy Hill away from Cincinnati. When last heard from, Jack O'Laughlin was manufacturing tools on S. Jefferson Street. And Al Becker is one of McGraw-Hill's top advertising salesmen, selling Chemical Week in the Windy City area.
8. PITTSBURGH will long be remembered as the home town of our noble Class Treasurer, Stew Steffey. But, sorry Stew, it looks like last place for the Pirates.
Now for the American League:
1. CLEVELAND still looks good. '41 is well represented there too. Hal Neale is an insurance agent. Harvey Dworken is a hardworking doctor of medicine there. It is my recollection that Jim Jacobs is located out there with Robert Heller & Associates. Add people like Bee Bishop, Hal Newell, Jack Waldorf,Bill Jeavons, and Dick Horn and you've got the makings of a good party.
2. NEW YORK will be a bridesmaid again and there were several charming ones at the recent wedding of Miss Patricia Kerwin of West Chester, Pa., and New York's own George Herman, CBS news analyst. They will reside in Washington, D. C. (picked for Fifth).
3. BOSTON gets New England into this column and New England gets Winsor Watson into this column. Win, a New York adman residing in Connecticut, got a heap of public notice when he put some of his youngster's sketches into a safe driving campaign prepared for the Advertising Council of New York. I read the item in the BridgeportTelegram, a paper on which Win once served as a reporter.
4. CHICAGO has already been mentioned in this column so I'll use this space to talk about Dr. Gene Stollerman, medical director of Irvington House, New York, for the care of children with heart disease. Gene is a widely-known authority on rheumatic fever and took part in the first international closedcircuit television symposium ever held. Gene presented a paper entitled Prevention ofRheumatic Fever. In addition to his position at Irvington House, Dr. Stollerman is attending physician at the Third Medical Division (N.Y.U. division of Bellevue Hospital), and instructor in medicine at N.Y.U. College of Medicine.
5. WASHINGTON is the home of the fifth-place Senators and also Pete Scott's new location with the C & P Telephone Co. Also my old roommate Bob Harvey works there and if he doesn't write me soon I'm going to complain to my Congressman.
6. DETROIT gave us Red Rolfe back but they can't patch a team together. Maybe they could use some of the industrial adhesives which Jack Becker sells throughout the state of Michigan.
7. BALTIMORE is rooted in seventh place and about the closest I can get to that town is Bethesda, Md., where Doug Atwood lists his address as the Kenwood Golf and Country Club. What 'ya doing there Doug? Better duty than the Orioles for sure!
8. KANSAS CITY is new to this league and will learn the hard way. I don't have anything to say about the A's except wait 'till next year. Wait till next year? Wait till next month. I'm saving the good stuff for then.
Secretary, Albert Frank-Guenther Law, Inc. 131 Cedar St., New York 6, N. Y.
Class Agent, 150 Morningside Rd., Verona, N. J.
