1944

As we start off 1956, we have quite a roster of '44s directing the various alumni clubs throughout the country. Robert F. Miller is president of the Arizona Dartmouth Club in Tucson; Hap Bush heads up the Hartford Club; Don Warner, the Toledo Club; TeenyRiggs presiding over the Dartmouth Club of Western Oklahoma in Oklahoma City; Mansfield, president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Philadelphia; and Eric Barradale at the podium in Brattleboro. Bill Roberts is secretary of the Rocky Mountain Alumni Association in Great Falls and NormSimpson scribing for the Dartmouth Club of Central New York in Syracuse.

You'll be pleased to know that Bob andJoan McLaughry are expecting a little visitor the end of June. Joan is head of the N.H.M.S. society and as a good executive has selected a capable assistant... namely, Robert. GusClucas is living up in Hanover this year, adding to the ever growing ranks of '44s showing good sense and getting back to the plains.

Don Smith has been elected vice president of Kenyon & Eckhart Advertising. Don's had quite a background. Previously he was account executive with Grey Advertising, promotion manager of the Merchandising Dept. of Young & Rubicam, and merchandising manager of Look magazine. He started as a copy boy with the New York Daily News and went from there to space salesman for Time before joining Look. And speaking about vice presidents, they made one out of NeedleAllen at Aubry Lanston just before Christmas.

Here's an excerpt from a letter from BigBill Trier:

"I'm still in the Navy and according to present plans expect to be a twenty-year man at least. I completed my residency training in General Surgery at the U. S. - St. Albans, L.I., N. Y., and have now been sent by the Navy to St. Louis where I begin training in plastic surgery in January.

"Met Monte Duval several times while in St. Albans. He is on the surgical staff at Long Island Medical College in Brooklyn where he teaches the medical students, among other things. According to his students, he's a very popular lecturer. Saw Ward Wermer a couple of times at medical meetings in and around NYC. He's now in surgical practice on Long Island."

I believe I mentioned recently that Dr.Bill Foye is an associate professor at the Mass. College of Pharmacy. He's pretty much of a top dog in his particular field ... has a Ph.D., has been an instructor in Naval Chemical Warfare, a research chemist with DuPont, and is active in a number of learned societies, the names of which most of us couldn't even pronounce. He has also had a score of his scientific papers published. Dr. Jim Averill's popularity as an after-dinner speaker is growing all the time. He studied with Dr. Paul Dudley White, the heart specialist who attended Ike, and is certainly building a good name for himself up in Northampton.

My stork communications are not what they should be, but it's good to announce that he made his fifth trip to Jim and TommyDonnelly's abode last October 25 with little Barbara Jean ... and was down to see Teenyand Marilyn Riggs last June with young Eileen.

Dick and Proc Ostberg have moved to the Buffalo area and have bought a home in suburban Snyder.

Capt. Francis P. Murphy has been assigned to the staff of psychiatrists at the Army Hospital in Tokyo, Japan. Let's hope that he can line up some more good skiers to go to Dartmouth as Don Oakes did when he was over there a few years back .. . but not quite so good that they'll trim the Yanks in the Olympics as it appears this Igaya is going to do. Fritz and Joan Hier seem pleased to be back in Berlin, and as Fritz says, "Speaking as we do, fluent Wienerschnitzel-and-Gesundheit, we can again order Bauerbrot and not get a taxi, a taxi and not buy into a fleet of overland trucks. Nice feeling." I think you know they have two sons, Robbie and Gary.

I was pleased to see that Dick Rondeau got up to Hanover this winter and just hope he passed along a few gems to the team. Hope your 1040 won't be too agonizing.

Dom Benedict Reid '43, who became a monkin 1948 and was ordained a priest in 1954, hasbeen made Prior of the Benedictine Priory atThree Rivers, Mich. Now a member of theEpiscopal religious order, Richard P. Reid,as classmates will recall him, spent threeyears in the Army Air Corps in World War11, flying as engineer and gunner.

An informal Class of '44 get-together in Ohio included (1 to r): front row, Bob Miller, Class Secretary, and his wife Sheila; Helen Welch, Nancy and Bud Coith. Back row, Bud Welch, Dottie and West Shell.

Secretary, 1105 Center St., Milford, O.

Treasurer, Ballwood Rd., Old Greenwich, Conn.