1945
And here we are! Of course it's June every year at this time, but this one's special; the culmination of a two-pronged drive, the Alumni Fund and our Reunion. Have you done your best? I'm particularly interested in reunion, for I know there are some of you who, even at this late date, haven't been able to make up your minds, and others who, with a little arm-twisting, would change a negative decision. Think hard, for it's important. Not only to you, but to us, your classmates, and to Dartmouth. To be an active, vital part of Dartmouth's great alumni body is a satisfying feeling. You belong. Come back.
There's lots of news this month so here we go.... Lee Kreindler rates this month's lead-off spot for outstanding accomplishment in the field of jurisprudence. Lee, one of four partners in the N. Y. firm of Kreindler and Kreindler, "recently argued and won" his first case before the United States Supreme Court. The case received considerable attention, being reported in the American Bar AssociationJournal, the New York Law Journal, and half a dozen other reviews, "for it made new law and changed the existing law in most of the country." From Bob Cate on the West Coast, San Francisco to be exact, comes a message of happy existence, "an urbane urban existence in a redecorated old fiat overlooking the G.G. Bridge while Bob Perry and family cling to a bucolic pattern in Walnut Creek. Perry is with the Shell Development Corp." Hal Breen reports leaving French, Jones, Laflin and Assciates, San Francisco Land Planners, last fall and moving to Michigan where he is an assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Michigan State. It's an academic question, Hal, but how do you like teaching? Mrs. Bob Bull, Peggy by name, sends news of an addition to the Bull-pen, Sherry Ann by name. This young miss arrived on December 18 last to provide a welcome deduction on ye olde income tax. Bonnie Bellows, a real bonnie bell from the land of lochs and bens, writes of the latest doings of her wandering spouse, LarryBellows. When last heard from the Bellows were coming from the Belgian Congo, but as of last February, these itinerants were closing in on the U.S.A. and now reside at Beaurepaire, Quebec, nineteen miles outside of Montreal. They're planning on reunion "come high wind or water," for Hanover reminds Bonnie of her native Scotland., Scotland, that's the place where on a Saturday night you can't see the scotch for the rye. (It may be well that this is my last column for I seem to be cracking under the strain, although ice should be cracked before it's strained.)... Give up?
To Reg Pierce, Secretary of '46,I am greatly endebted for the following news. And to do justice to that august soul, I'm quoting:
"I see so many of your damned Class of '45 (the reference here seems to indicate that our class is somehow plugged up or something) that I felt I owed it to you and them to send on the news for reprint in your column. Bull Hinman and Barbara have a terrific new home in Riverside, Conn., part of Greenwich. We have seen a good bit of them this past year. As always, Bull has his colorful stories and wonderful recollections of Hanover and the North Country. They have two girls, Tricia and Mary Ellen, 3 and 4, and Tom (Little Moose), 1½. Bull was just promoted to division sales manager of International Paper Co. Jim andMary Brown have an apartment in Scarsdale and two little daughters, Linda, 2, and Pam, 8 months. They have just returned from a vacation in Palm Beach. Jim's tennis and golf are as good as ever. His insatiable interest in jazz leads him to the Metropole and Birdland with Peer Pedersen, BobFisher, John Little, Laddie Schuler, and Rock Davidson '44. (Here Reg makes reference to PeerPedersen's wedding to Lucy Schaefer.) The reception at the Starlight Roof of the Waldorf-Astoria really brought out the '45s. John and ConnieChambers are living in Old Greenwich, Conn. John just had an excellent promotion to advertising manager for one of the big fashion fabric divisions of Deering Miliken Co. in N.Y.C. They have two children, Danny, 4, and Sally, 2. Things must be good for they added a second car, a baby blue Plymouth station wagon.
"John and Cocky Geyer also live in Greenwich and are ardent yachtsmen. John is a consistent winner in the Indian Harbor Yacht Club Frostbite races. The name of his boat is John's Other Wife and this year he bought Cocky a Frostbite to ease family relations. John is an account executive on the Kelvinator Refrigerator account with Geyer, Inc. He and Cocky are very active in civic and local community affairs with John being the president of the Young Republican Club of Greenwich. Danand Jane Carpenter are still living in Bermuda. Dan, ever his energetic and enthusiastic self, and Jane' owned and ran a very successful and excellent Inn, the Waterlot, in Paget, which they've just sold. Dan is now a sporting events promoter and advertising wheel on the Island, staging the fights, rugby, cricket, and handling the programs, tickets and promotion. He is into everything and is known and liked throughout the Island. They have three boys, Bill, 8, Dan, 5, and Tom, 2, and a little daughter."
Well, Reg had more to say but it will have to wait until reunion when you can get it first hand. But before ending, thanks again, Reg, from all of us.
Inasmuch as this is likely to be my last column for you, may I say a few words. First, thanks for your letters and notes, they were all "reatly appreciated. Secondly, thanks for your toleration and patience. My pun-allergy is incurable and must have been hard to bear with sometimes. I apologize - for the result not the intent. Next, it has been a pleasure and an honor to serve as your secretary-chairman but it has also been a difficult job and one which I feel I have not done justice to. I feel, moreover, that with a class numbering 700 plus, the single position which I now hold should be divided into two offices, thus en- abling both men to perform their duties more satisfactorily. I hope that you will vote such a change at reunion. And lastly, may I wish all the luck in the world to my successor and ask that you give him the same cooperation and assistance that you gave me, so that his period of service will be as pleasant and rewarding as mine was. See you at reunion.
P.S. I've only one regret. For the first time since I've been Secretary, I've got news left over that I can't use. So there you are.
Secretary, Middlesex School, Concord, Mass.
Class Agent, . 73 Fairview St., Leominster, Mass.
