1936
Two big events for '36ers have occurred since our last class report. They are the unofficial "True-Twentieth" Reunion that was held Tune 2 at the home of Ed and RuthBrooks in Old Greenwich. Conn., and the Alumni Fund campaign for 1956 which under the leadership of Kirk Liggett achieved a gift from our class of $14,950.02. This is the first year Kirk has been our Head Class Agent. When I saw him at the "True-Twentieth he was starting his two-week summer vacation and was devoting the entire time to Alumini Fund work. His accomplishments and those of all our class agents is distinguished by this great total contribution, plus the fact that 433 classmates out of 536 made some financial gesture in support of the College this Year.
To tell you about the "True-Twentieth" Reunion that took place in June Earl Copp sent out a special issue of TITHE. You will recall that the headline was Lawd —Didn't It Rain'" Earl reported all the happy details and the names of 98 adults and one sheep doe who signed at the tent and shared the fun and food. Bob Prentice, treasurer of the reunion committee, has reported that we cleared about $45.00 which was turned over to Dink Gidney for the 25-year Fund. Our next biff reunion will be our 25th. So with that thought let's add the "True Twentieth to our memories and go on to the tremendous amount of news that has come in during the summer of '56.
Tack Frieard has been named manager of athletics at the new Frontier Regional High School at South Deerfield, Mass He will also teach mathematics as he had been doing the Deerfield High 5ch001.... Semi Soule has been elected Director of the Lake Placid. N. Y.. Chamber of Commerce. He is head of the Whiteface Mountain Ski School and also owns the Holly Hill Motel in town. Incidentally, Semi's grandfather, Colin Reed Wise, was Dartmouth 1868. ...Ben Stein of Livingston, Montana, is running for the State Senate on the Democratic ticket RogerWilliams, publisher and treasurer of Guy Gannett Publishing Co., has been reappointed by Governor Muskie to the Maine Aeronautics Commission.
Northeastern University has appointed DesStewart to the post of Assistant Director of Public Relations. Des has been in radio and publicity work for years and for the last nine has been director of publicity for the Salvation Army in New England.... Spencer Johnson has set up his own manufacturing business in Ridgewood, N. J., to make chemicals for the rubber industry. After many years as a research engineer with Congoleum-Nairn, Spence has formed his own company. It is Spencer Products Co. Inc Paul Guibord has been elected president of the General Agents Association of Northern New Jersey. Paul is general agent in New Jersey for Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co Lee McGonagle, former claims manager of Ranier National Insurance Co., has been appointed assistant vice president of the Pacific Underwriters Corp. of Seattle, Wash. Lee has been associated with the claims side of the insurance industry since 1942 when he joined the Travelers Insurance Co.
At the annual stockholders meeting of the Eastern Life Insurance Co. of New York Herb Beskind was elected to the board of directors. Herb is secretary and treasurer of the Doughnut Corp. of America and its sub- sidiary companies. He is a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, as well as a director of Hillside Hospital, Long Island, and of Jewish Family Service in New York. He is also a Fellow in Perpetuity of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Two grants to the College were announced this summer which were made available by men of '36. One grant was made in behalf of Raymond D. Builter, assistant controller of Columbia Records. This grant of $2,000 is for unrestricted use. It was given by the C.B.S. Foundation under a plan in whereby privately supported institutions which have provided key executives will receive grants of $2,000 for each executive.
The David Chapin Berkshire School Fund was established this summer by SlocumChapin, whose son David was killed at the age of us last summer in an avalanche while climbing in the Canadian Rockies. Income from the fund, which represents proceeds of a life insurance policy on David's life, will help deserving students to come to the College that he had hoped one day to attend. Bus Chapin is a vice president of the American Broadcasting Company. He asked that preference be given to graduates of the Berkshire School who qualify for admission to Dartmouth and for financial aid. David had been a student at Berkshire. Bus has two daughters, Joan and Michele. They live in Stamford, Conn.
Dr. Frank Sornberger and his wife flew out of Boston's International Airport on Sept. 16 for a business and pleasure month in Europe. Harriett Sornberger is the former Harriett McGraw of Cortland, N. Y., and is a graduate of Mt. Holyoke class of 1942. They left their children Ann 12, Susan 9 and John 6 with Frank's father and mother in Cortland where Frank is a specialist in radiology. Frank's father is Dr. F. F. Sornberger and they work together professionally.
Many vacation news items have come in. Let me know when you see any other '36ers on your travels. The way this class is getting around, you never can tell when you'll see a classmate and that makes life a little more fun. For example, Class Chairman Pete Fitzherbert of Auburn, Maine, writes in part: "Ray Reitman was up here for a vacation, over at Cobbossee. Barbara and I got together with Ray and Peg one evening at Poland Springs and who did we bump into there but Bob and Betty Houlihan. Not only was it a '36 reunion, but Betty and turned out to be classmates at Wellesley"....
Steve Dietz and Pinky Conklin met on a stratocruiser coming East from the Coast.... When Nancy and I went to bring our oldest daughter Peggy home from camp m the White Mountains we found that Ted andPat Andrew from North Andover, Mass., were there with their daughter Carole, and Gardner Schirmer had his daughter Pani, and Vince Wentworth had three daughters, Dinny, Lee and Susan, all at the same camp.... Phil Gilbert met Pop and Virginia Nairne by chance in Chicago a while ago.... Boyce Price and his family checked in at the Hanover Inn the same day in July that John Wiesman and his family did. The John Van B. Sullivans were there a week earlier.
Your able class treasurer Frank Weston vacationed at the Chatham Bars Inn on Cape Cod and brought his golf score down to the low 705.... Jim Conkling was the key speaker at the Annual Junior Achievement Award luncheon in Bridgeport, Conn. ...Ed Brooks has been in Europe again.... Cliff and Pearsie Porter with their 14-year-old daughter Lynn have returned from Europe. ... Rog Bayles was reported in Seattle 011 business from Connecticut, and Walt Kadlec was in Wilmington, Del., from home in Los Angeles on DuPont business Bill and Eleanor May were seen on the Hanover Plain this summer as were Lew Frankle and his wife from Shaker Heights, Ohio.... Gib and Ann Sykes were there in September.... So were Bob and Theo Prentice and Paul and Cathie Lynch at the Hanover Inn.... Gene and Liz Anspach vacationed ..at Lake Placid. ... Wis and Hattie Williams were at Nantucket with their daughters Marie and Linda. Marie graduated from Westover School in Middlebury, Conn., as her mother, the former Harriett Dimon of Utica, N. Y., had done, and enters Smith this fall.
The fall football schedule which has just arrived is the first note for these pleasant events which bring classmates together at and after the games. At this writing Kirk Liggett and Gene Tamburi have volunteered as hosts after the Penn and Yale games respectively. Parties will be arranged after Harvard and Princeton games also. Kirk Liggett wants all '36ers to come to his house, October 6, after the Penn game. It is Kirk and Lea's wedding anniversary. Their address, 135 Glenview Ave., Wyncote, Pa. It is six miles off the Pennsylvania Turnpike and twelve miles from Franklin Field.
On Nov. 3 it's the Yale Game, and Gene Tamburi invites all '36ers to his Inn. the Yankee Silversmith at Wallingford, Conn. This is just twelve miles east of New Haven on the Wilbur. Cross Parkway. This should be convenient for all — not too far out of the way for the N. Y.-N. J. group, on the way home for the Boston members, and perfect for the Connecticut gang.
I hope you can get out to the game this year. One classmate told me he couldn't go to any games this fall. He said he had married a fashionable wife and she refused to sit there wrapped in last year's blanket.
Prentice, Norb and Pic Hofman, and Pete and Barbara Fitzherbert.
Secretary, 287 Rutledge Ave. East Orange, N. J.
Treasurer, 753 Upper Blvd., Ridgewood, N.J.
