1930

IMPORTANT NOTICE

During our 25th Reunion activities in Han- over, and on the morning of June 18, the Class of 1930 will hold an important Class Meeting for the transaction of official Class business. The agenda for that meeting is not yet com- plete, but the matters to be considered at that meeting involve the following two important considerations:

1. Election of executive committee mem- bers.

2. Consideration of. amendment of Class Constitution.

With respect to the election of the membersip of an eleven-man executive committee, your Secretary has, in accordance with our Class Constitution, appointed a nominating committee of three members, consisting of Bud French, chairman, Ed Schuster and FranHorn. This nominating committee will present to the meeting a slate of eleven nominees for election to the executive committee. However, our Class Constitution provides that other nominations may be made from the floor by members of the Class. The nominating committee which has been appointed would appreciate any suggestions or ideas of nominees to the executive committee which any member of the Class may wish to present for consideration, and it is suggested that your comments or suggestions be forwarded to the nominating committee, in care of G. Warren French, 99 Hudson St., New York 13, N. Y. It is important that the slate of men to be elected as members of the executive committee be representative of the Class as a whole and of the various geographical sections of the country from which the membership of the Class is constituted. The Class Constitution provides that the executive committee, elected by the members of the Class at a class meeting, shall, in turn, elect from their own number, the officers of the Class. Such officers will include the treasurer, a class agent, a secretary, and, if the amendment to the Constitution referred to below is adopted, a president of the Class.

At the present time, our Class Constitution provides for the single office of "secretary-chairman," whose duties pertain both to a secretary and the actual head of the Class. The Alumni Council, through its committee on class organization, has recommended that class constitutions be amended to provide for separate offices of secretary and president. It is felt that this division of duties will prove more beneficial to the Class and will avoid a concentration of duties and responsibilities in one man. A proposal to amend 1930's Class Constitution so as to provide for the separate offices of secretary and president will be presented to the class meeting to be held on the morning of June 18.

If any member of the Class has any thoughts with respect to nominees for election to the executive committee, please forward your suggestions to Bud French at once. And if any member of the Class desires to present any particular matter for consideration at the business meeting to be held on June 18, please advise your Secretary in advance of the meeting.

Congratulations are in order to RannyHobbs who was recently elected executive vice president of Rinehart & Co. This is but one more in a series of promotions which Ranny has received since he joined this company in 1943 as assistant manager of the College Department, after having been with Macmillan for eight years. Ranny became director of Rinehart's College Department in 1947, a vice president in 1948 , and was elected to its board of directors in 1950. He is also head of Rinehart's Technical Division.... Les Godwin is a member of the executive committee of the Better Home Heat Council, which held a meeting during the latter part of March in Boston, and Les' picture, together with three other officers of that organization, appeared m the Boston papers in connection with those meetings. Les is recognized as an authority in the home heating field.

Buckle Downey, principal of the Nashua, N. H., Junior High School, attended a conference of the American Association of Secondary School Principals which was held at Atlantic City during February, and Buck was one of two principal speakers on a panel discussion held during the conferences.... Gordon Shattuck, who was a member of the Finance Committee of the City of West Springfield, Mass., decided not to run for that office again. Perhaps this decision was dictated in part by the fact that Gordon broke his right leg during a skiing trip in January, but we trust that the leg is now sufficiently healed so that it will not interfere with Gordon's participation at reunion activities in Hanover this June.

Art Browning was one of a panel of five prominent lawyers who took part in a discussion during January at a men's club meeting of the Congregational Church in Manhasset, N. Y., on the subject of "Can a Lawyer Lead a Christian Life, and Still Make a Living?". Your Secretary is at a loss to determine how anyone could present the negative of that proposition, and feels sure that Art, who is now assistant vice president of New York Life Insurance Co., more than upheld the affirmative side of the question.... Eddie Jeremiah was elected secretary-treasurer of the American Hockey Coaches Association at the Association's recent annual meeting. This is but further indication, if any were needed, of the recognition given to Eddie as one of the leading hockey coaches in the country. Eddie has been coaching hockey at Dartmouth since 1937, has written several books on the subject, was voted "Hockey Coach of the Year" in 1950, has produced more Olympic hockey players than any other college coach in the nation, and his Dartmouth teams have won the Pentagonal Hockey League Championship for seven seasons.

Win Stone has been named executive secretary of the Modern Language Association, which carries with it a professorship at New York University. On September 1, Win will begin operations at New York University after 24 years of teaching at George Washington University, where in recent years he has been full professor of English and chairman of that department. The MLA is the main medium of publication for those working in the field of English and languages, and the post to which Win has been appointed is a very big one in the field of the humanities.

It is with deep regret that your Secretary reports the death on March 23 of Agnew A.Talcott.

As you read these Notes, it will be little more than one month before you and your classmates will be returning, from all parts of this country and abroad, to the Hanover Plain, for our memorable 25th Reunion. Please help the reunion committee by sending your notice and reunion tax to them at the earliest possible date. And with only a month remaining, make sure that you have done what you believe to be your fair share toward what all of us want to be a record-breaking Memorial Fund. If you have not yet contributed all that you wish to this united project of all of us in the Class, please do so at once and as generously as possible.

WHEN VICE PRESIDENT NIXON stopped in Panama on his goodwill tour, February 25,Harry S. Casler '30 (l), Public Affairs Officer, introduced him to a radio audience and to 500guests who attended the Vice President's inauguration of the U.S. Information Service headquarters there. Selden Chapin, U.S. Ambassador to Panama, is on the right.

RANALD P. HOBBS '30 was recently electedExecutive Vice President of Rinehart & Co.,publishers. He also heads the firm's technicaldivision. He became vice president in 1948and was elected to the board of directors in1950.

Secretary 294 Washington St., Boston, Mass.

Class Agent, 905 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn 21, N. Y.