1940
Not much news this month. Diz de Sieyes and his Indian Drum are benefiting - I hope. Frankly, the lack of grist for the editorial mill doesn't bother me as it used to. It makes me the more appreciative of those letters and bits of class gossip I do receive. In any case, for these next couple of months you'll be deluged with more important messages from Hugh Schwarz and his band of assistant class agents, who are giving of their time as well as of their money to perpetuate Dartmouth's contribution to a free society.
If you seek after more spirited tare ana a true tale of adventure by a Dartmouth Forty, read Gary Allen's story of bear hunting in the New Hampshire hills, as told in "My Eight-Year Stalk," featured in the March issue of Outdoor Life magazine. Gary realized the pinnacle of just about every New Hampshire sportsman's dreams after eight years of studying bear signs, overseeing bear crossings, patiently waiting at beech groves all day and sitting in apple tree ambushes all night. In November 1953, having narrowed his search down to Mt. Paugus, overlooking Mt. Chocorua in the Sandwich Range, Gary happened upon opportunity. As the article puts it: "He spotted a very black stump with two knobs on top of it. Suddenly the stump stood up. Allen squeezed the trigger of his 30/06 and the bear went down." In between bear hunts, Gary finds time to work for Northland Ski Co., to coach Penny Pitou, the Gilford lass who recently won the National Junior downhill, slalom and Alpine combined ski titles, and to devote himself to his family of budding ski enthusiasts.
Other activity in the North Country has been exhibited recently by three other Dartmouthites of 1940. Dick Kidder was depicted in the local news the other day awarding prizes from the Franklin Recreation Association to the Lakes Region Little Basketball League - which, incidentally, includes two prize-winning juniors bearing the Kidder name.
Earl Reingold has been putting in a heavy season as president of the Concord (N. H.) Lions Club. And Frank Whaland, whose business is as state agent for the Caledonian Insurance Co., broke all precedent in his home town of Haverhill, Mass., by not seeking nomination to more than one office at a time at recent elections. Seems that Frank ran only for selectman and broke with tradition by not at the same time seeking nomination to the offices of assessor and the board of public welfare. The outcome of Frank's race is not known at this time, but we can hold firmly to his stated philosophy, that; ''to have better government it is essential for more of us to take part rather than sit on the side lines and complain ... the people should have a choice between at least two candidates, and no administrative office should be filled by default.
Rick Davidson, our link with the construction engineering field, wrote us the other daythat he could no longer parry his wife'spointed thrusts concerning his failure to announce to the class the arrival of his latestprogeny. Patricia Louise Davidson arrived twodays after Christmas last year to even thefamily race at two of each gender - which, incidentally, Rick feels is a "nice round number!" Rick is still with Eggers & Higgins, architects, as an administrative engineer. For thoseof you whose duties bring you into frequentor even occasional contact with the GrandCentral area, Rick's office is a hop and a skipaway at 100 E. 42nd St., New York City. He dlike to see any of you whenever you can dropover.
Out in Columbus, Ohio, Dick Heer has contributed the benefit of his fund-raising experience in the Dartmouth cause by assisting Otterbein College's efforts to raise in excess of one million dollars for a new dormitory for women. There ought to be some willing helpers among the not-so-fair sex for such a worthy cause - Dartmouth never dramatized her fund-raising objective in quite that manner!
Bob O'Brien, the Unitarians' missionary educator, recently completed six weeks of study at the Cherokee Indian reservation in North Carolina and has, by this time, been assigned to another part of the world in furdiering the education of societies beyond our
A news clipping indicates that Ken Hamilton has been named a vice president in charge of new industrial and business services for the Hicks & Greist, Inc. (New York) advertising
Jay Weinberg is still ignoring his age by being a leading squash racket wielder for the D-Club of New York, ably assisted by talent-scout hunter Bud Hewitt who, also still ignoring his age, has turned up a new rookie pitcher, in the person of Frank Mace, '43 to back Jay up on the courts. And speaking of Bud, he has pleaded for inclusion of some mention of a forthcoming '4O-'41 cocktail party for classmates and wives to take place May 13 at the N. Y. Club at 5:30. More complete details will be included in a forthcoming Indian Drum issue.
Jim Gibson has somehow navigated to Los Angeles, Calif., from his banking position in Cincinnati, Ohio. Bill Sides also has migrated, from the manufacturing business in Connecticut to Noranda Copper & Brass Ltd., Montreal, Canada.
And, while we're traveling, we'll indicate that Danny Sullivan and family, of Hampden, Maine, and Sid Harrington, of Longmeadow, Mass., visited the Hanover Inn in early March.
That's the sum total. If you want to come to the aid of this party, now's the time to do so. One more issue and I'll be started on the home stretch to reunion time. But more about that later!
Secretary, 322 Canterbury Road, Westfield, N. J.
Class Agent, Minute Maid Corp., Plymouth, Fla,
