1934
September was a month o£ getting squared away for the Executive Committee meeting to be held on October 20. More about this in the next issue. Jim Wendell, our Memorial Fund chairman, was in New York City for a meeting of all Memorial Fund personnel to devise methods of raising more money. Other goals and objectives were to advise and assist Jim with his campaign. I spoke to him just before he returned to Grand Rapids, and he claimed he had picked up some new ideas which he will try to put into practice. As of September 14 Jim had heard from 87 members of the class in regard to amounts which they could contribute or had already been paid into the fund. As previously noted, 406 men in the class contributed to the 1956 Alumni Fund. Please write to Jim - 954 Gladstone S.E., Grand Rapids, Mich., and tell him what your present plans are for contributing to the Memorial Fund. You cannot afford to wait until the 25th Reunion before making your decision or gift. One big bite hurts and little nips are fairly painless. Tell Jim now how much you can pledge and which of several methods will be the simplest and least painful for you to make your donations.
Clyde Seney, who was with Booz Allen & Hamilton, has for over a year now had his own office for the general practice of management consulting in the Pershing Square Building, 271 North Avenue, New Rochelle, N. Y. This still leaves BAH with a West Coast resident partner in the person of Bill Eldridge.I read in "Business Week" that a "Sur- vival Plan" is being worked out by them for New York area's sixteen million residents. The project was commissioned by a three-state civil defense board; its aim: to get everyone out of harm's way between warning and actual enemy raid. Well, Bill, if more of us lived in the Hanovers of this country, your solution would be simpler.
A cordial note from Henry (Brownie)Brown who also is in business for himself as a manufacturer's representative. He saw EdHill in Boston. Ed is top brass in the Army Engineer Corps and is in charge of flood control in New England. Brownie sent me some slides of photographs which he took at reunion and which I will send to the college for possible reprint in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and subsequently to be included in the class archives. Brownie wrote further that RussIreland, who lives next door to the Browns, was involved in a head-on collision en route to Hanover to visit his son, Stephen '58. Elizabeth was also in the car and, although both were incapacitated for awhile, they are now fine again.
Delving into some not so recent correspondence, I've come upon a letterhead with Cluett, Peabody 8c Co., Inc. signed "Bob." Robert L. Palmer is vice-president in charge of purchasing for Cluett and also in charge of merchandising men's shirts, ties, handkerchiefs, underwear and, to the extent they are still in existence, collars. Bob and wife spent vacations traveling in the Mid-West, the South, and one summer on a North Cape cruise. Across town at Hathaway shirts, HarryWallace moves up into an expanded sales job.... From Pennsylvania, the general manager of the Wm. B. Schleisner store, none other than Bob Offenbach, writes a very newsy letter: "We have quite an active Dartmouth Alumni group here in Harrisburg with weekly luncheon meetings on Fridays at 12:15. ...I am currently vice-president of the Central Pennsylvania Alumni and am helping the boys work on interviews for prospective candidates for Dartmouth. There haven't been too many members of our class in this part of the world, but I did have dinner recently with Seymour Dunn and also met Herb Heston who is assistant to Andy Truxal, our old sociology professor. I have one son, Dick, who is looking forward to matriculating at Dartmouth."
Bob had a card from Bill Reid who is head of the history department at Hyde Park High School in Hyde Park, Mass., and I can report receiving a post card from The Elbow Beach Surf Club in Bermuda where SpeedThomas and Kay with their three daughters, Debbie, Susan and Wendy, spent a couple of weeks. Speed met several "D" men, but no names are given. Undoubtedly one of them was Bob Mann who was producing television shorts in a fabulous hangar originally used by the Air Force as a base.
Al Yankauer was kind enough to write me last Christmas and I've never had space enough to report his activities as an eminent physician with the New York State Health Department. His life is as "serene as can be reasonably expected in a family with twin six-year-old sons and one four-and-a-half-yearold daughter." He's been in Albany for four years, and his work is part administration, part promotion and development, and part research in public health work for mothers and children. Yank's old roommate, Peanuts Davies, was on television again. That well-manicured finger you saw on the net cord at Forest Hills was our tennis official. Helping out his father as one of the linesmen was son Terry. Every time Rosewall made a passing shot, there was Terry calling the shot, until some old gaffer sitting in the shade made Terry change places with him so that the old gent could be comfortable and, at the same time, be seen by the T.V. audience.
Now that the baseball season is drawing to a frenetic close, the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown, N. Y., announces the appointment of Fred Rath Jr. to the newly created position of Vice-Director of the New York State Historical Association and its Farmers' Museum. After graduation Fred took his Master's degree at Harvard and has had distinguished service in the field of American history museums and historic preservation. Trained by the National Park Service, he served that organization at Morristown, Washington, D. C., and at the Vicksburg National Memorial Park. In 1942 he joined the American Field Service and drove an ambulance in the Middle East and North Africa. Returning to this country, he entered the Army, was for a period a Russian specialist and thereafter in Military Intelligence, and ended his military career in 1945 as M/Sgt. in the Paratroops, having served in France and Germany. Returning to the National Park Service in 1946, he was appointed Associate Historian at Hyde Park and the Vanderbilt Mansion. At Hyde Park he was in charge of the daily operation and interpretation of Franklin D. Roosevelt's home and the Vanderbilt Mansion from January 1946 to August 1948. In 1948 he left the National Park Service to become the first Director of the National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings which later merged with the National Trust for Historic Preservation which was chartered by Act of Congress. In this field he has established a national reputation as one of its ablest and most thoughtful leaders. I call that a wonderfully full life.
Secretary, 160 Broadway, New York 38, N. Y.
Treasurer, Hovey Lane, Hanover, N. H.
