1933
When you read this, the gong is about to sound the last round of the 19.55 Alumni Fund. Are you in? You have until midnight June 30 to put your shoulder to the Dartmouth wheel of progress and nudge her forward with a firm crisp contribution. Make your gift a thoughtful one, but make it, and make it NOW! Plant that lettuce where it will do the College the most good - send her on to Hanover, son, and within the next fortnight, too! Let's see how we do in our Green Derby. Right now we're eighth (among nine), just edging out '32, but the wise money says we can end up in the first division with a little effort. We're betting that '33 will make the effort!
Thought we didn't have much news, but on spreading it out over the dining room table, we find there's quite a bunch of it. For instance, a recent Sunday Chicago Trib shows a picture of Otto Graham (Cleveland Browns), former Waukegan High star, chatting amiably with Robert C. Coulson, Waukegan mayor; and the same edition carried a story, with picture of the Rev. Theodore V. Pur cell, of a $20,000 grant to the graduate school of Loyola University for a research study on human relations in the meat packing industry. Ted, who is assistant professor of psychology and industrial relations, is directing the studies with a staff of seven assistants. The grant is made up of sums given by the Rockefeller Foundation, Swift & Co., and the Amalgamated Meat Cutters' Union, A. F. of L. Research will be based on extensive interviews with Swift's employees and union members of the Kansas City and East St. Louis plants.
The Los Angeles Mirror for April 8, commenting enthusiastically on the wad of dough to be invested in downtown Los Angeles redevelopment during the next two years, asks, among other things, why Superior Oil Co. is building a multimillion-dollar, limit-height office building in downtown L.A., and quotes the answer of Treasurer S. H. Durkee, "Because it's more centrally located. This is where the oil business is."
Herb Harwood, efficient and genial secretary of '26, forwarded an ad of Braniff Airways from Travel Items, the trade paper for travel agents. The ad, complete with fine picture, says, "You ought to know Bill Fobes," and proceeds to give Branilf's. regional sales manager, headquartered in Minneapolis, "a Dartmouth man from way back," a very nice pat on the back - "the personification of the term 'friendly transportation'," they say, and "one of the big assets gained in our merger with Mid-Continent." That's good stuff, Bill, and it makes us happy to read it.
From Ernie Earley, secretary of '18 and always a great help, comes another in the series of articles written by George N. Farrand, C.P.A. and assistant treasurer of Young & Rubicam, Inc., for Advertising Agency concerning The Financial Management of AdvertisingAgencies. As we said before, George does a nice job here.
A good letter from Henry Craig Smith in Summit, N. J., enclosing a write-up and interview with Edward J. Foley Jr. appearing in the January issue of Suburban Life. Henry is temporarily between jobs, so if you are looking for an expert in time study and incentives or job evaluation, employee rating, etc., Hank may be able to give you some help now. The article about the president of the Foley Chevrolet Motor Sales Company (Newark, N. J.), whose dedicated mission is highway safety (to be attained by the development of good driving habits and courtesy, claims Ed), should be a treasured item in the Foleys' scrap book because, not only is it laudatory of Ed and Joan, but also it contains pictures of these two good-looking people and their two equally good-looking sons. Let me quote the preface to the article, which may bring a proper blush to Ed's cheek but which well phrases a thought we have all sometimes held:
"There is a product in this country which is too little advertised. All the free world knows about American finance, industrial prowess, engineering feats and agricultural superiority, but unfortunately they hear too little about another development of American soil - nice, properly modest, well mannered people. When this erudite but unpresumptuous fellow travels at home or abroad, he doesn't raise his voice or throw his weight around and so the man with the neon-sign personality slips in as the typical American type and leaves the country short in its final analysis. But it is an erroneous conclusion - that just-right American is the top specimen of the world and the yield is sufficient for national pride."
John Meek promised substantial news for the column after his recent swing down Richmond way where he was in touch with LarryReeves.
Elliot Blakesley's boss, Uncle Sugar, has changed his office in L.A. Just call the F.B.I. Jarv Chapman, whose recent appointment as general sales manager. Industrial Products, National Carbon Div. of Union Carbide, was announced here, works at 30 East 42nd St., New York, and lives at the interesting address 26 Point-on-Woods Rd., Darien, Conn. GayMilius has moved to Room 5C 764, the Pentagon. Hal Smith, president of the First Federal Savings and Loan Assn. of Waterbury, works under an awful reminder of scrupulous integrity at 50 Leavenworth St. and lives in more relaxed surroundings at 145 Woodlawn Terrace.
And so we take leave of beautiful L. A., beautiful N.Y.C., beautiful Darien, beautiful Pentagon and beautiful Waterbury and wend our way slowly homeward. And we say to you, have a pleasant, a good and a safe summer! And we also say, if you haven't yet sent your Alumni Fund check for a fine round amount to Hanover, you had damn well better do it RIGHT NOW! Because if you don't, you're going to miss, and this year such conduct is frowned upon among all respectable and most unrespectable 1933ers. See you in the fall from the top of the heap! Happy summer!
RESPONSIBLE for his firm's activities inmore than fifty countries, Frank W. ParmeleeJr. '34 has been named to the newly createdpost of Vice President for Foreign Operationsat Toledo Scale Co., Toledo, O.
Secretary, 217 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, N. Y.
Class Agent, Legal Dept., B. & M. R.R., 150 Causeway St., Boston, Mass.
