1934
It feels good to be back in harness again and composing a monthly chronicle. We can only hope that your summer passed as pleasantly as ours. The only regret we have is that time seems to speed by in jet propulsion style.
We visited our children in camp and spent a weekend on Cape Cod as did Shirley andRay Hulsart. We heartily recommend the Harborside Inn in Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard. Bill Rench's nephew, who is a sophomore at Dartmouth, was working there in the dining room. Carl Hess was likewise on the Cape to see Ricky and Karen at their respective camps. Speaking of camps, I can't resist telling you this anecdote which some of you may have read in Bob Considine's column. Bob and I are fellow members of the Hollywood Golf Club in Deal, New Jersey. The pro there is Lou Barbara whose son Stephen sent the following postcard from camp to his brother and sister: "Dear Louie I am having a wonderful time. I miss you and Chrissie very much. If you have gone into my room and messed it up, I will kill you. Love Steve."
Bud Yallalee, who is my favorite and most frequent correspondent, wrote that he had had dinner with Ray Vickland just prior to Ray's vacation on — you guessed it — Cape Cod. Bud also lunched with Adman BillAdams in Los Angeles.
Not all the news this summer was good. We lost another one of our most faithful and respected members, Bill Callihan. I asked OscarRuebhausen if he would consent to write an obituary notice which you will find in the necrology section at the end of the class notes. Bill's death leaves a big gap in our ranks and our sympathy goes to his widow and family. Several of Bill's friends have started a Memorial Fund similar to the one which was set up for Al Marks. If any of you would like to contribute to this Memorial Fund for Bill, please send checks to Harry Gilmore.
Guess you have all heard how the class acquitted itself in the 1956 Alumni Fund campaign. We did not cover ourselves with glory nor did we finish too far behind our own competition. Harry and his assistants can take a bow for a job well done in their first year and hope that the hours and days which they spent will bear fruit in the next three years. Our total of $16,451.40 was 94% of our objective and that was fine, but only 406 of a possible 518 contributors left us with a participation index of 78%. The Fund this year established a new high among all colleges in the nation with a participation percentage of 70.9% and a new record in number of contributors 20,106 alumni.
It's a puzzlement why the picnic at NelsKrogslund's was so poorly attended. I owe Nels and Dorothy an apology for not organizing this in better fashion. Only the following were able to enjoy their host's gracious hospitality the George Copps, the Dick Gruens, the Harry McCanns, the Orv Dryfooses (on their way back from an Alumni Council meeting in Hanover), Marty Dwyer and Edie Smith, Bob Smith's wife.
Bill Wilson writes that Jo is well on the road back to good health and able to perform her household chores again. He enclosed a letter from Professor Herm Chase. Herm is leaving Rumford, Rhode Island, for Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, England. Herm was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and will study the nature of the biological effects of X-ray and other radiation at the hospital which is near London. After receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, Herm taught for ten years at the University of Illinois and then joined the Brown faculty in 1948. He is an expert in the field of the growth of the human skin. Doc Bowler's students will recall that was the answer to one of the five questions on the final examination. Must have made a great impression on Herm.
Chic Chickering reports a change of address to 1107 Nottingham Road, Wilmington, Delaware, for the following excellent reason. He has been appointed eastern district sales manager of the DuPont Company's film department, with headquarters in Philadelphia. Chic joined DuPont directly after graduation and following a hitch in the Navy (where he saw service in the Pacific and emerged with the rank of lieutenant commander) he returned to that great industrial giant in charge of sales promotion for the film department. He went to San Francisco for a while, then to Ridgewood, N. J., and now to the capital of the empire.
Another promotion for banker Dave Hedges. Down in Texas where big keeps getting bigger a consolidation of the First and City National Banks into Houston's largest bank, the newly-created First City National Bank, finds Dave as vice-president in charge of the commercial business development department. He is responsible for solicitation of new commercial accounts, both locally and nationally and he is qualified to pass on the credit needs of the firms which he contacts. So if you want to borrow a buck or two in this tight money market which our Federal Reserve and ArtWillis are imposing on us, you know where to go.
Mention of vice-presidents inevitably leads us to Orv Dryfoos, the one and only of The New York Times. He covered both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Even the Herald Tribune doffed its cap to Orv's achievement in electrically transmitting an eight-page edition of The Times using material set in type in New York. Transmission was made to San Francisco in an hour and a quarter across 3000 miles and then immediate distribution to delegates and visitors to the GOP Convention. The convention edition is similar to the four-page facsimile paper which The Times published for the 1945 meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco.
New things you learn every day — Some aquatic birds that frequent Adirondack lakes can dive to a depth o£ more than fifty feet in search of fish. How is it done? Why are these birds (loons, grebes and diving ducks) so good at fishing and others (mallards and black ducks) are not? Prof. Perry W. Gilbert of Cornell's department of zoology is trying to find out. He makes high-speed photographs of various aquatic birds as they dive and swim under water.
We are having a meeting of the Class Executive Committee on the weekend of October 20 in Hanover. The following have indicated to Chairman Bill Scherman that not only will they be present, but if possible, they will bring wives: Tom Beers, George Copp, Marty Dwyer, John Foley, Frank Heath, Ike Powers, Bud Smith, Harry Gilmore, Bob Engelman, Jack Gilbert, Dick Gruen, Laury Herman, George Kimball, JefE Jackson, Jim Wendell, Bill Wilson, Nick Xanthaky and Dick Houck. You are all cordially invited to attend the meeting but you'll have to make your own reservations for accommodations. That's the weekend of the Holy Cross game and the town will be jammed. The Executive Committee will hear various committee reports and discuss plans for the 25th reunion with special emphasis on the Memorial Fund and the publication of a class book containing biographical information and progress of a quarter of a century. We hope that all applications for the football game will be allocated in one section so that we can all sit together. Treasurer Bill Wilson will take care of this. Let me know if anybody else can make it that weekend.
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