1935
Well, gentlemen of the Class of 1935 (and this includes your wives and families, too) we are on the threshold of our 20th reunion - twenty years out of college. And for half of those twenty years I have been your class secretary. A great deal has happened to us. We have progressed remarkably in our occupations. We have moved about the country. We are raising the next generation to the point where sons of our own members are about to enter Dartmouth next fall. And, with deep regret for the unfinished tasks they have had to leave behind, we have lost our full share. It has been my pleasure, my privilege, and at times, my sorrow, to report to you through these columns the progress, the happenings, the joys and the sorrows, the marriages and births, and all the countless other little things that make us human and interesting to each other, that keep us united as a Dartmouth family, and that will bring us once again together in Hanover this June for a reunion.
This column completes my tour of duty as your secretary. Starting in October you will have a fresh voice, a new viewpoint, and I believe that will be all to the good - for you as individuals and for the class as a whole. To all of you who can make reunion I'll have an opportunity to express my thoughts in person. To the rest of you who, because of distance or pressure of business or for financial reasons, cannot make it this time, thanks for all your help. It's been a pleasure to work with you and for you. I can only hope that my small efforts have helped to keep you in touch with each other and the College - have helped to keep alive the spirit of Dartmouth and all that it stands for. If so - I can withdraw with satisfaction.
Enough of this soliloquizing - we still have news to report. Let's start with Dick Halvorsen. Seems awhile ago he received a writing assignment to do a magazine article concerned with the Army overseas. Learning that his work would take him through Madrid he called to get Bob Sellmer's address and found that Tom Lane expected to be in Madrid about the same time. So, the three old roommates in the Bridgman Block overlapped almost, with Dick arriving the afternoon that Tom was leaving for the States. The fourth roommate, Mac McCarty, had been a visitor in Madrid only a short time before, during the Christmas holidays. Sellmer, who originally extended an invitation to visitors, is probably now praying for a halt. Incidentally, Dick expects to be back in town to attend reunion.
A few weeks ago I ran into Jack Egan in New York. Learned that his firm, Virginia Metal Products, for which he was sales manager, had just been merged with Olin Industries. Jack's headquarters are now back on Park Avenue, N.Y.C., and he is spending three days a week in the big city, living at the Hotel Shelton, awaiting final arrangements as to his sales assignment. His family is still living in Charlotte, N. C., pending the outcome.
Back in April the newspapers announced the election of Howie Kaiser as vice president in charge of sales for Burlington Hosiery Co. Had a picture of him in the New York Herald-Tribune and I'd say he hasn't changed much - except to look a little more important. But that's all to the good and congratulations, Howie. See you at reunion?
Last month we hinted at the fact that SteveDorsey was going to get a new government post. It has just been announced that, by appointment of the President, he will become a consul and secretary in the diplomatic service effective this fall. This will be sad news to Steve's friends around Washington, where he has become a leading citizen in the Georgetown area, since the appointment means a tour of duty in some foreign country. However, maybe he'll go to Madrid. (As I remember, he's another roommate from the Bridgman Block.)
A news clipping from the Whitinsville, Mass., paper features Bill Lionette under the church notices. Seems Bill was guest speaker at the Congregational Church supper on the theme, "The Christian Lives His Religion in Business." Bill is a research analyst at the Norton Company in Worcester and very active in local church affairs.
Don't know the outcome but Dick Hube announced his candidacy for the Farmington (Conn.) Board of Education last March. Dick has been living in Farmington for fourteen years. He's factory manager of North and judd Co. of New Britain and a past president of the local PTA.
Here's a picture of Wiley Hubbell in the Roanoke (Va.) Times (and he doesn't look too bad, either) which goes along with a notice that he spoke at a meeting of the National Office Management Association on the subject, "Progress Report of GE in Roanoke," including slides showing what has been done by his firm. Hub, who lives in Schenectady, has been with GE since graduation.
A hasty note from Doc Luria reports on a few more people we haven't heard about in some time. "Long lost Oran Waterman, who spent two years at Dartmouth, turns up as attorney in the Department of Justice. Anyone in legal difficulty with the government?" ArtWertheim M.D., 84-51 Beverly Rd., Kew Gardens, L. I., N. Y., "I'm doing full-time medicine, teaching, and a little research in chronic disease, mainly hypertension, and arteriosclerosis. Have an assistant professorship in medicine at Columbia and work at a place called the Columbia University Research Service at the Goldwater Memorial Hospital on Welfare Island, N. Y." Doc also mentions hearing from Len Shortell, who expects to attend reunion, and passes on a few snide remarks about Fred Mebel, a skin specialist, who has become so specialized that all he can show for the top of his head is skin.
Latest travel report from my loyal correspondent and champion squash player out inMinneapolis, George Hoke:
"On January 25 I flew west out of here, through San Francisco, Hawaii, Canton, Figi and into Auckland. Did some deep-sea fishing in the North Island (black Marlin) and then flew 1,000 miles to the south tip of New Zealand where we picked up a Hertz car and for the next three weeks drove up through both Islands. The scenery was Alpine in character. I had a letter of introduction to Sir Edmund Hillary and met the conqueror of Mt. Everest. Lots of lakes, trout-fishing, etc. Incidentally, at Lake Taupo I caught five trout on a light fly-rod which would average fifteen pounds apiece. After a month in New Zealand, I spent a couple of days in Suva, Figi, and then about five days on Waikiki before returning home. Looking forward to seeing you this June."
George, we're looking forward to seeing you, too, and with the thought of making you traveling secretary for the class.
By now you should have received your new class directory. This new up-to-date listing of all members of the class was put in the mails by mid-May so that it could be used by those planning to return to Hanover for reunion as a handy check list. If there are mistakes or omissions, we're sorry. Data was based on the post-card mailing we sent out a few months previously, plus the college records. If you didn't send in a post-card reply and your address is wrong, you know who to blame. Nevertheless, we hope the directory is reasonably accurate and will be a help to all of you in contacting old acquaintances and up-dating your Christmas mailing lists. (Return cards were received from more than two thirds of the class.)
That does it as far as the news is concerned. We're looking forward to seeing you in Hanover. And even if you can't make it, have a wonderful summer, send a few bucks to the Fund, and thanks for listening.
HAPPY AT THE OUTCOME of the highschool ski races at Arapahoe, Colo., Neil Roberts '35 (left), president of the Denver Dartmouth Club, and Newcomb Eldredge 'so,chairman of the Dartmouth Cup Ski Race,relax at the banquet following the annualcompetition.
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