1939
Make out your check to the Alumni Fund and send it along to Moreau Brown! Then come back and read this. Run along now!
Thank you, boys and girls! And now, this beautiful May morning finds me all hearts and flowers, for a little bird has just whispered the news that old Ed Oppenheim has finally bitten the dust. On April 10 in Brentwood, Calif., he was married to Miss Barbara Anne Lawton, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Murray Maxwell Lawton of Beverley Hills. The new Mrs. Oppenheim attended Hathaway-Brown School in Cleveland, Ohio University, and the University of California. Br'er Oppenheim is currently occupied as an investment banker, venturing out of his Oklahoma City base to roam the wilds of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona in search of millionaires. On his travels, he also works as a volunteer member of the national enrollment committee, searching for Big Green scholars and, I hope, halfbacks.
Writer of the month is none other than RedJensen, who sends a long and interesting letter from 29 Crescent Road, Longmeadow, Mass., asking me to use only "material of interest to the class." Some of the following may be personal, but I think it is of great interest to all of us, as an example of what sheer guts can do:
"I came home last June after spending twenty months in two hospitals. I have a room on the first floor with all the necessary equipment. I still need respiratory assistance all the time but have been weaned away from the iron lung. I use a chest respirator and a rocking bed.... Sit up about five or six hours each day. Am writing to you on an electric typewriter which I peck away at with my two index fingers. I keep very busy with numerous activities. Of course, I read a great deal. My wife Roz is the sister of Scott Taylor '39. My three boys are now 12, 9, and 5 years of age.... Enough about me.
Bill Mason is manager of the Springfield IBM office. He lives in Hampdem with wife and children. John Karr is in the heating and oil delivery business. Lives in Ludlow with wife and three children. Dick Clark works for Monsanto. Lives in Longmeadow with wife and two daughters. BobElkins works for Adams and Ruxton Const. Co. in Springfield. Toby Wing works in Springfield branch of Shawmut Bank of Boston. Lives in Springfield with wife, Lucille, and spends winter weekends skiing. Hank Hastings in West Spring-field making and selling "bird calls." Mike Daley in the mill-work business. Lives in Springfield with wife and two children. He is building a new home in Longmeadow. Bun Cotton has just given up his job and has a for-sale sign on his house. He is taking wife and children to Florida, West Coast, where he will make his home and go into business. Scott Taylor, Mrs. J.'s brother, owns and operates a resort health spa, both baths and pools, in Thermopolis, Wyo. Lives there with wife and three children. Hear from Skip Morse often. Any city needing an efficient manager should contact Skip, for he will be available next year."
More news of IBM comes in a letter from Bob Howe:
"Friday, the 13th of August, marked the arrival of our third son, Stephen, and then, as of February 1, we were transferred by IBM to Hartford, Conn., where I took over the reins as IBM manager from Y. P. Dawkins '38, who was promoted to manager of the Publications Department of World Headquarters in New York City."
Bob has been with IBM since graduation, starting out as an integral part of the company's exhibit at the New York World's Fair, thence to a sales position at Boston, and in 1953, to Rochester, N. Y., as old Think's accounting machine manager. He and Louise have two other boys in addition to young master Stephen: David, 10, and Douglas, 8. The move back to God's country so affected him that he concluded his letter with the following rash statement: "We are delighted to be located back in New England and close to the center of concentration for Dartmouth alumni. As soon as we become ensconced in our new home, the welcome mat will be out for any Dartmouthite passing through."
Of course, if you don't care for central Connecticut, you could spend your vacation down at the shore:
"Essex in one of those small New England towns we dreamed about for retirement, but luckily on this job [Connecticut Advertising Manager for Conover-Mast Purchasing Directory. Ed.] I could live anywhere in Connecticut and work from the house. A few days in New York once a month covers any details at headquarters - the rest of the time I pull on my space suit and hop around to all the industries and agencies gathering business for the Directory. A week ago 'Dick JacksonTwins' Brooks put on a show for about 200 teenagers in New Britain and I was lucky enough to attend. Ran into Bob Richman in the Hardware City where he is Chief Copywriter for the Graham Agency. Anyone around Providence who can spare an afternoon when racing season is on should call Phil Sanborn and make an easy buck. Old Sandbox in his semi-retirement has become one of the hottest handicappers in the business. Any fellows lucky enough to come to Essex by yacht this summer, or those driving through on the way to the Cape, can take advantage of the pause that refreshes. And that's about it. Regards, CornieMiller."
Old Corn Beef also reports that his activitiesinclude: "Rotary, Essex Men's Club, Vestry St.John's Episcopal Church - plus sailing andfishing when possible." And the semi-retiredMr. Sanborn, it appears, actually keeps busy busy selling insurance.
To finish up with Mr. Howe, let him not think that he has the only new baby in the class. Look at this crop! (All ages, as of Valentine's Day):
To Anne and Al Davidson in New Bern, N. C., Robert, age 3 days. To Audrey and Dudley Richards in Baltimore, Md., Tracey Campbell, age 5 weeks. To Ann and GeorgeDarr in Washington, D. C., Shannon, age 3 months. To Gini and Bob North in Darien, Conn., Baby North, age 3 months. To Kay and Harry Edmondson in Chicago, Ill., Eric, age 3 months. To Marie and Ed Robinson in Gambier, Ohio, Margaret, age 5 months. To Dorothy and Joe Newman in Philadelphia, Pa., Jane, age 7 months. To Peggy and AtTishman in Stamford, Conn., Virginia, age 4 months. To Sue and Paul Winship in Darien, Conn., Timmy, age 4 months. To Fay and BobClymer in Reading, Pa., Susan Kristine, age 6 months.
It says here in the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times: "The gleaming stars douse their lamps and the long banks of sky blush pink. Along the shoreline the silver sands turn opalescent and the murmuring gulf leaves a frothy rose fringe on the water's edge. Gradually a stealthlike figure takes form in the dim light." And who the hell is it? Bert MacMannis, out looking for sea shells.
It seems that Bert is one of the nation's foremost collectors of conches, welk, king's crowns, cockles, seahorses, egg baskets, buttercup scallops, bleeding teeth, sand dollars, sea feathers, screw-shaped worms, denuded sea urchins, and common barnacle-covered clams. Apparently, Bert just collects them; Sally puts them to use in various decorative and utilitarian ways at their home in Darien, Conn., with the help of son Bert, 12, and daughters Marcia, 6, and Bunny, 3.
The Times devoted a full page to their activities, complete with pictures of the attractive Sally, and of our class wheel horse holding his tummy in. I learned a few things from the article. For example, sea shells make excellent serving dishes, a large cockle, with its fluted edges and soft colors, being a dandy resting place for piping hot baked devilled crab, and so on. Anyone for oatmeal in a denuded sea urchin?
Seen at the recent luncheon for the new football faculty at the Statler in New York City: Hugh McLaren, Bill Webster, SamThurm, Rodg Harrison, Jim Fuller, Rev. BobThomas.
In a recent Valentine message, the modest Dr. Amos R. Little of Helena, Mont., mentioned as his hobbies only skiing, mountain climbing, and, if I remember correctly, some other innocuous pastime, like deep-sea diving or lion hunting. He mentioned nary a word of the news that he recently became the eighth man ever to receive the Stevens Memorial Medal, which honors the memory of A. Leo Stevens, inventor of the manually operated parachute, and the first dirigible airship pilot in the United States. The award, presented to him by the Governor of Montana at a testimonial dinner in Helena, was in recognition of Bud's outstanding services as a paradoctor under the 2nd Air Force Search and Rescue program, the Forest Service School Training Program, the and Air Force and the Continental Air Force Command.
TRANSFERRED TO CLEVELAND, MartinKing '38 will act as manager of advertisingfor General Electric's Lamp Division. Kingformerly was with G.E. in New York City, incharge of the public relations manpower development program.
AN EXCHANGE OF JOBS brought Bob Howe '39 (I) to Hartford, Conn., as manager with IBM,and took Y. P. Dawkins '38 (r) to New York City, as manager of the Publications Departmentof World Headquarters of IBM. They exchange greetings in the Hartford office.
Secretary, American Bankers Association 12 East 36th St., New York 16, N. Y.
Class Agent, 236 St. Stephen's Lane, Scotia, N. Y.
