1936
Those of you who haven't made final Reunion plans, shake a leg! Starting on June 16 and continuing for three magic days Doc Ingersoll and committee will turn back the Hanover clock a mere twenty (nineteen, to be precise) short years! As long as the sap runs in them arteries you'll be glad you took in this one.
The William S. Merell Company celebrated its 125 th anniversary by naming ElliottPalmer their new assistant to the president. Elliott joined the Cincinnati pharmaceutical firm in 1943 and became Canadian manager in 1948 He continues as Canadian manager and adds the new over-all company duties thereto. .
Aeronautical engineer Hal Miller is in Bridgeport, Conn., helping Sikorsky pick up and "set down things military. Weekends and free evenings he can be reached at the Miller place over in Trumbull, Conn.... Wausau, Wise., folks with a yen to girdle the globe buy ticket's best and cheapest from Al Langlois, genial manager of Marathon Travel Bureau.
Things are really popping for Budd Schulberg. Scarcely a soul doesn't know that Onthe Waterfront won eight Oscars — for best picture, actor, supporting actress, director, cinematography, film editing, art direction and last but not least, best story and screen-play! Columbia has just bought The HarderThey Fall and has signed Bogart to do the lead. R.K.O. had been sitting on the screen rights for several years. Plan to come by the January '56 issue of Holiday magazine wherein is scheduled to appear the short story Budd is now whipping into shape in Florida. All is not peaches and syrup, though. We saw the lad take it on the whiskers, figurative speaking, just the other eve on TV. Archie McBride, hard-punching young heavyweight, a chunk of whom we hear Budd owns, came out on the short end of a decision with "Hurricane" Jackson ... alas.
Spent several pleasant evenings with BillFerguson (of the going-to-Reunion Fergusons) in New York. Bill has left the department store field to join the Carborundum Company in Niagara Falls as staff assistant in the office of the president. Long range plans at Carborundum call for machine accounting of the robot character and Bill spent two weeks in N. Y. with the maker reviewing the intricacies of these calculating giants. If shortly the abrasive business is run by a flock of strategically located electric "brains," cherchez Fergie ... he'll be the guy poking the buttons and pulling the switches.
Had the similar good fortune to meet up with Joe Smith at the Dartmouth Club. Joe had come to town from West Orange to attend an electronic convention. Boss man of the Smith Company, Joe is a manufacturers agent for such lines as Teflon, Formvar, power resistors, molded rubber, fiberglas tuning, precision ball bearings, etc. Like all the rest, Joe will be on hand in June ... hocking the business, if necessary.
Here's some third-hand news from the fratres in urbe. Executive Officer of the College and Acting Director of Admissions, EddieChamberlain, is near exhaustion, they say, from the rigors of selecting and getting the right freshman class. Stoney Jackson, working right along with Eddie, has been thriving on benzedrine and sleeping pills for the same reason. Noted some time back in the N. Y.Times sport section that the doc who kept Dartmouth's great Japanese skier, Igaya, in competition despite a badly twisted ankle all season was none other than Ed Hyde.
Queens College prof. Dr. Graham Beckel has been staying out late nights with a series of demonstrations concerning the United Nations and its specialized agencies. His travels have taken him before educational- groups throughout the eastern United States. He was assistant director of the first N.Y.U. workshop in Europe and is a top authority on the United Nations Charter.
Some months ago Vin Wentworth decided against a lifelong career in the automotive field which he entered around 1946-47. He, therefore, sold his Lincoln-Mercury agency and rejoined his old outfit, the Farrington Company, as national sales manager of the Charge-a-Plate Division. Retail business of any sort having charge customers are either Vin's customers, or will be.
Since graduation Ed Whitlock has been in the insurance business over the country. Sales earned him the headache of his own agency and a couple of years ago he joined the home office staff of The Home Insurance Company in New York City where he now monitors the advertising and sales promotion efforts of this ever expanding operation. For escape Ed recommends a camping vacation in the summer, something he, mom and daughters 12, 10 and 7 all find to their liking.
The Dartmouth Glee Club did themselves proud in their March concert sponsored by the Dartmouth Club of Western Connecticut and patroned by such stalwarts as Rog Bay Us,Paul Lynch, George McCleary, Bob Prentice,Jack Smith and Gib Sykes, a fine looking bunch in their boiled shirts, we might add. ... Ex of Warner and Swazey in Cleveland, Tom Allen is living temporarily at the Dartmouth Club and searching madly for a home in Connecticut. Tom has joined American Airlines in New York as their financial analyst. Until he finds the right real estate, it's home to Cleveland on weekends ... by plane, natch. Welcome to the fraternity, Tom.
Kicking off the Alumni Fund in the New York group meeting were Spence Johnson,Norm Sherry, Pete Fitzherbert (down from Maine in the company plane), Frank Weston,Gil Balkam and Gib Sykes. You'll all be pleased and proud to know that Pete was honored at that meeting with the Harvey P. Hood Trophy for his outstanding record as 1936 Class Agent. Ever since Pete has been on the job he has set a new class record each year for number of contributors and the amount contributed. He's set to do it again and we don't know of a guy who more deserves to have it happen.
Let's be realistic when we draw the old check this year. Remember that the one for ten dollars must be matched by one of seventy to produce an average of forty. Darned if we haven't got to average forty to get where we're going!
To the gang in New York and environs, be it known that '36 is holding a big dinner and Reunion Rally on May 10 at the Dartmouth Club. To those outside the area, we'll be talking at you in one more column before we see you in Hanover!
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