1938
The Christmas season brought the usual signs of good cheer and good wishes; so quite a bit of the grist for the mill this time comes from Christmas cards and other such messages.
A very nice and complete account as a Christmas letter arrived from Charley Hathaway, formerly of the Alaskan Dartmouth Club, now at Fort Monroe, and living in Phoebus, Va. A very interesting story he tells of the move, with family and pets, from Alaska to Virginia, plus a visit in Swampscott and a brief sojourn consuming lobsters in Maine.
"My headquarters is in the same place but the name and job were changed last February. The change from Army Field Force operations to Continental Army Command operations is considerable - to put it mildly. Currently I'm concerned with funding for headquarters operations, Army field exercises, Board of Research and Development funds, and may I be permitted to say that it is rough. The world is struggling with this atomic age and so are we. We are also struggling to put the Army on a business basis - 'taint easy, Magee.
"Made lieutenant colonel this month. Must be the oldest lieutenant colonel in the Army. Often wonder who besides my fellow dishwasher, Col.Jim Seaver, is in service. A curious but satisfying way to make a living in this day and age."
The sage of Indianapolis, McMurtrie, still living a life of leisure on 1938 funds, checked in with a few terse comments on Life and 1938. "Spent a weekend with Jack and KayeGriffith during Indiana's and North western's fight for the Big Ten cellar this fall — and had a (the word here is hardly complimentary, so we omit it) visit with cocktails with Bornemari in Elkhart not so long ago. His Elkhart Screw Products Co. has really expanded and doing lots of biz."
To wind up the holiday roster of well-wishers, probably the most clever (and useful) card of all came from the illustrious MartyKing in the form of a guide of Gotham for Gourmets, including the usual descriptive material about New York's most famous eateries, but also the indispensable factual matter concerning prices. The Emersons average about one visit to New York per year, what with the multitudinous duties here, but we shall pack away the guide for our next attempt. During the winter we have frequently planned on a weekend in the Big City only to have a hockey game re-scheduled for the day, or a .surprise dance at which we have to chaperone, or the small-fry has found out about it and developed a special cold.
One of my favorite newspapers, the NorthAdams (Mass.) Independent (circ. 13,326), in its usual masterful style, reports:
"Mrs. Edward W. Martin of 6 Crandall St. has announced the engagement of her daughter, Miss Mary Claire Martin, to Graham U. White of Summit, N. J. A former teacher in the Adams elementary schools, Miss Martin at present is teaching in the public schools system at Summit, N. J. Mr. White is manager in the tax department of Price Waterhouse & Company of New York City. No date has been announced for the wedding."
A brief card from the Alumni RecordsOffice records that Robert Faegre has beenelected president and chief executive officerof Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company inMinneapolis.
Just to show you that life can be beautifuleven in these atomic days, witness the following "Small Talk of the Town" from the Newark News:
"Football and fancy dress combined to keep one gay suburban group in merrymaking mood the whole wonderful weekend long. Using the Princeton-Dartmouth game as celebratory center, Mildred and (Dr.) Arlington Bens el set their East Orange home as houseparty headquarters, started the festive ball rolling at dinner for 28 on Friday, followed through with a cheering good time at Palmer Stadium on Saturday, then topped the evening at the Maplewood Club's Gay Nineties Dance in costume."
One of the annual features of this column, largely thanks to an alert alumni group in the Far West, is a round-up of 1938ers in the Coast area. So here goes for this year.
Dave Balmer is listed as an "administrator," which actually means an administrative analyst with the County Government in Fairfield. Palo Alto is the residence of Bill Bartlett, who is a salesman for Procter and Gamble Distributing Co. in San Francisco. JohnBowles is a radio announcer with station KYA in Frisco. Durward Brandis is still training pilots for United Air Lines in the same foggy city.
Having now completed his study of architecture Bill Clarke is an architectural draftsman for the J. H. Crawford Development Co. in Sunnyvale. Ferrien Davis is still plugging along in the advertising end of Hills Bros. Coffee Co.
A rather cryptic listing shows Bill Fry as an "instructor," College of Marin, Ross, in San Anselmo; somebody can interpret that for me at their leisure. Bob Kelley of the Poly Prep and Brooklyn Kelleys is ranching it in Newman, Calif., a far cry from the wrestling mats of the East. A considerable change in area and so forth is represented by JohnMayer, formerly considered as a district sales manager for a Frozen Foods Plan, yclept, as The Dartmouth used to use the word, the "Rich Plan"; he is now analyzing markets for Crown Zellerbach.
Down from the cruel north, Seattle, to be exact, has descended one Leonard McChesney, now agency superintendent for the Great American Insurance Co. in the inclement clime of San Francisco. Right across the bay as Prof, of Law at the University in Berkeley is Frank Newman. Old stick-in-the-mud, Dr.Robert Pollack, hasn't even changed his address since the 1938 Directory was published; still practicing medicine in the damp city and still living in Burlingame. Andy Robertson hasn't moved either and is with Tinsley Laboratories in Berkeley.
Berkeley appears to be full of Dartmouth '38ers, because Bill Simmons is there, too, as research administrator with the State Department of Health. Slattery is with the Founders Insurance Co. in the wet Metropolis. The Bank of America in the same general locale boasts of the services of Larry Symmes. The genial obstetrician, Pete Talbot, continues his practice in Menlo Park. Super-snooper Art van Kirk renders various credit-granting agencies his services as a credit investigator for the Hooper-Holmes Bureau in S.F. GeorgeWallace is an extremely reticent fellow; he wouldn't divulge anything more for the directory than his address, and no more does he do for the California crowd, - maybe he just clips coupons and votes Republican; anyway, he does live in Burlingame. FrankWright wouldn't tell his fellows out there what he was doing, but my last records indicate that he was passenger sales manager for Trans World Airlines, and lives in Orinda.
Tom Macey has shifted from sales manager for Norge and Bendix appliances to the Stanford Research Institute, but continues to live in Mill Valley.
Some very interesting figures have come in from the Dartmouth Development Council. You know, from Bud Walls' propaganda, that we have a pretty good goal to achieve on our 25th Reunion. Just to give you an idea of the magnitude of his task, and ours, we have, since we graduated, decades ago, given to the College, in every connection recorded, $109,502.95. In other words, to meet our objective seven years from now, we must all give again a little more than we have given since we left Hanover Plain.
Two Presidents
The recent election of Robert Faegre '38 asPresident and chief executive officer of Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company followedseventeen years of management experience inthe Minneapolis firm.
Whitefoord S. Mays Jr. '38 has been madePresident of Morgan-Jones, Inc., New Yorktextile firm.
Secretary, Trinity-Pawling School Pawling, N. Y.
Treasurer, 406 Peck Rd., Geneva, Ill.
Memorial Fund Chairman,
