1942
From what one has seen and heard during the past month or so, it's not hard to gain the impression that a political campaign of high and low roads has wound its way across our doorstep and out through the TV set. It all reminds me of a time only a few short months removed, when a similar campaign, without benefit of mass media, wound its way from the Alumni Gymnasium to the steps of Silsby Hall. There, without benefit of smoke filled room, but rather in broad daylight, was enacted in the time-tested American way the "election" of your current board. For those of you who were not able to be present, let me say that the major parties could have taken a lesson last June on how to obtain a unanimous vote for their slate. Although Dick Clarke was not able to attend the short June course, he reports grass roots activity from Northfield, Ill., where the local Stevenson for President club takes up much of his spare time.
Putting one little word after another, who said, "What ever became of Dick Lippman?" You might expect that after four successful years as Alumni Fund Agent he would be inclined to gracefully rest on his laurels. Fortunately for the class, Dick has seen fit to maintain his active interest in the progress of Dartmouth and '42. Class Chairman, Charlie Brown, advised the board in early September of the appointment of Lip to the office of Newsletter editor. Congratulations, Lip, as you take over the reigns from Bob Schoonmaker.
In September, Sid Bull flew down from Boston to a Memorial Fund meeting at the Dartmouth Club in New York. Unfortunately, Gulf Oil wouldn't allow our distance man time to take a turn around the city so it was mostly work for Sid. And speaking of the Memorial Fund, I am sure you all are aware that the 25th year is the big one. Toward this time, Sid will be diligently working on his program about which we will hear more later. At the moment, our class has over one hundred dollars credit which will grow with proper attention.
Army Stambaugh, another Gulf Oil man, currently in the capacity of administrative assistant to the vice-president in domestic marketing out in Pittsburgh, Pa., found time recently to visit with Ed and Sally Ferbert at their home in Erie, Pa. Ed is sales representative for Picklands, Mather and Co. in the coal business. Also in Pittsburgh, writes Army, are Hank Davis, as district manager for U. S. Rubber, his brother-in-law, Bill Hart who is an account supervisor with B. B. D. & O. and Craig Kuhn, since 1952, a partner of Wilner, Wilner and Kuhn. I imagine Army's family of girls (three by the last count; Susie, Sally and Betsy) are giving him a real insight into the mysteries of female psychology, with more yet to come since the oldest is now eight.
From the West and far West filters news of much activity. Jim (Colonel) Lain was swinging across the country this fall from his home in Galveston, Texas, and expected to be in Hanover with his wife Flo and their two daughters in time to witness the Holy Cross game last month. As a partner of Rotan, Mosle and Co. in the investment business, I suppose Jim thought this was a good time to spend some of those profits. As New Jersey's gift to Texas, Don Meads took with him last year, when he moved to the southwest, a family completely in keeping with the Texas tradition of doing things in a big way. At that time the Meads family included four boys and two girls, but as of this past summer, Jane presented the multitude with a third sister. I can well see why Don went to Dallas as an assistant vice-president of New York Life in charge of their investment program in the area —he needed elbow room. In all modesty, Don suggested that his family was probably no class record and he is right. Bob and Beth Campbell in Sax tons River, Vt., have held title to this honor since 1953 but now have to move over and share the seven level. Close behind these two families come Bob and Cathy Garwick, Texas residents also, Houston to be exact, who at the last census called roll on six.
If anyone is looking for a skiing guide in Colorado this winter, John dele Montagne is your man. After spending the summer in Jackson Hole doing work for the U.S. Geological Survey, he apparently made a survey around home in Golden, Colo., and came to the conclusion that it might be possible to find more time for skiing this winter if Phoebe had a dishwasher. I wonder just what those mechanical wonders will provide for next.
Los Altos, Cal., has a Dartmouth Club of at least one since late last year when Fred andVirginia Brutschy moved their family into a new home in the hills not too far from Stanford. Fred, you had better be careful that those sons of yours, who I am sure are indians now, become fully appraised of the difference between the Dartmouth and Stanford varieties. Besides working on his acre in the hills, Fred is busy with General Electric in San Jose as a senior nuclear engineer in the new atomic equipment department. And around the corner in Carmel, Ernie and Esther Friez moved in October 1 when Ernie became resident manager of the La Playa Hotel. No longer will he commute with the seasons as has been his pleasure for the past four years when he wintered at the Royal Palms Inn, Phoenix, Ariz., and summered at Harbor View Hotel, Edgartown, Mass.
Randy Gilpatric took up new duties in the not too distant past when he moved to Seattle, Wash., to do sales forecasting and market research for Union Oil of California. Gil's wife Marjorie and their two sons are kept busy on their own forecasting trying to figure out how that home budget can be made more flexible. If you get an answer to that or how to live within a budget, don't forget to let the rest of us know.
Random jottings from Nova Scotia to Indiana: Bill and Margaret Bishop see very little Dartmouth activity in Port Dufferin, Nova Scotia, where Bill follows his ministry at St. James Rectory where he has been since 1952. In the meantime, the Bishops report an addition to the family, Roberta Jane, born in January 1956, their second child. In August of this year, Bert and Betty Keirstead became the proud parents of their third child, second girl - Ann Fairbanks. Buzz Cassidy, due to problems at home, regretfully had missed the 15th. Buzz now reveals that Kathie was the problem, maternally speaking, for Pamela was born in August. This is the third potential houseparty date in the Cassidy family. While Dick Remsen's wife Ann was home busy with a Remsen heir presumptive as of last May, the old man was off busy shooting a mean game of golf. In May, he won the Travis Memorial in Garden City with his brother Ted ('50) and in September he led the field in the William C. S. Remsen ('43) Memorial Club Championship at Buck Hill Falls, Pa.
When Ted (who shot that puck) Lapres writes that things have changed since his days in New York, I am inclined to agree with him even though it was but a scant seven years ago. Ted and spouse Barbara are kept busy with their two braves and a like amount of squaws, the latest addition having arrived this year to fill out four in as many years. In his other hours, Ted is a busy associate with Kirkman, Mulligan and Harris, located in Atlantic City. By and Helen Hinton have also added a fourth to their family, James Howard, the third boy. To this By adds "and last." As if that weren't enough for the month of June, By started his new duties as a member of the legal department of Sinclair Refining Co. in the capacity of Sinclair's Washington, D. C., attorney. And out in Indiana, Tom Moore has been promoted to Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine as well as being elected Treasurer and member of the Executive Council of the Society of University Surgeons.
Don't look now, but is that a "what goes on with Dartmouth '42s" card lying on the desk? The one you meant to mail yesterday?
Proc Page '42 of Burlington, Vt., and Charlie Brown '42 of Marblehead, Mass., were roommates again at the conference of New England enrollment workers in September.
Presented left to right are Roy Watson '43, son Michael, a Minnesota Northern, and son Steve. Roy is President and General Manager of Kahler Corp. in Rochester, Minn.
Secretary, 209 Beech St., Cranford, N. J.
Treasurer, 34 Thaxter Rd., Newtonville 60, Mass.
