1953
After a very pleasant four-month vacation from this column, your correspondent (along with the groundhog) is being forced to emerge from hibernation this month of February. Actually, it feels pretty good to be back at the typewriter again, and we want to extend belated holiday greetings to all of you. As Dick explained last issue, our hopes to take part in this winter's South Pole Expedition were snuffed out when we were transferred off the USS Glacier a few hours prior to its departure for Little America. New assignment finds us steaming up and down the East Coast on one of the oldest DE's in commission. We guess one could think of much worse duty, however, and in addition, the Brough's schedule allows me to resume the job of Sec-Chairman of the Class. ... Before turning to the news, I want to thank DickCahn for taking time out from his work at Yale to pinch-hit so ably for me these past few months. It was a pleasure, I must confess, Dick, to see someone else "sweat" those deadline dates.
CLASS BUSINESS On December 23 the Executive Committee met in N.Y.C. to wade through heavy agenda which included such topics as the class reunion, possibility of more regional class get-togethers, and the selection of a new Head Agent following the resignation of Charlie Fleet. As Charlie explained to us, the uncertainty of his location and free time or availability these next three years while in the Navy convinced him that it would be in the best interest of the Class and the College to turn this big job over to a man with more free time and "permanency." On behalf of the Executive Commit- tee, I would like to publicly commend Charlie for the unselfish manner in which he gave his time and talents these past two years, the two most difficult ones our Class will face as regards this particular work. The Committee hopes to announce the new Head Agent (as well as the membership of the Reunion Committee) next issue, and urges each of you to give your whole-hearted support to him, this spring, in his first campaign. Last, just a reminder that our reunion will be in June of 1957 not 1958 under the new reunion plan adopted while we were in college.
GREEN JOTTINGS Among the '53s settling in the Boston area this fall were Jackand Charlie Buchanan, Ed Rose, Shertn Horton. Returned this summer from 2 yrs. study at Oxford, Jack is combining a part-time job with some courses at Harvard Grad. School while waiting for Harvard Med School to open again next fall. Paul Paganucci (2nd yr. Harvard Law School), Jon Moore '54 (2nd yr. Littauer School), and Charlie Morrison '54 (Ist yr. Harvard Law student) are sharing an apartment in Cambridge, and have turned it into an adjunct of the Dartmouth Club of Boston. Chas. Buchanan and his new Mrs. have taken an apartment nearby while the Appleton, Wise., scholar attends Ist yr. classes at Harvard "B" School. Nancy andJack Alger (3rd yr. Harvard Law) also are in same housing project, while bachelor ShermHorton, out of the Navy and now a Ist yr. Harvard Law student, can be found busy studying late into the night just across the street in one of the dorms. ... In the case of Ed Rose, however, it appears that it was the lure of the all-powerful dollar rather than educational opportunities that attracted him to Cambridge. Ed taught chemistry at Bryn Mawr College for women last yr. (rather an ideal spot for a bachelor like Ed, we would imagine), but has abandoned it tor a very good research position with the Boston consulting firm of Arthur D. Little Co.
To counterbalance this influx of '53s we, of course, have several classmates leaving the Boston area, the greatest part of which will be the twenty to thirty graduates of the Harvard Medical and Law Schools this June. Come June there will be three members of the Wm. McCarthys heading for Baltimore, thanks to a very cute income tax deduction, Sue, who arrived late this summer. ... Bill and Bev are both enjoying good health, although Sue manages to keep them. pretty busy. A few miles away at the med school we understand that Fran L'Esperance, LeeDennis and Bruce Gilmour have decided on careers in surgery. This apparently will mean another 5 yrs. of training. Our feelings upon learning this are admiration, but not envy. Ben Branch, Bruce's roommate, intends to practice general medicine in Philadelphia.
During Christmas leave we had a pleasant chat with Jack Hall. Jack has been with the sales department for Scott Paper Co. in the New Haven region since his discharge from the Marine Corps this summer, and is very enthusiastic about the work. Another exgyrene who has found the readjustment hurdle very easy is Phil Fenton. Phil is involved in merchandising work for Lindy Air Products, subsidiary of Union Carbide, in Baltimore, and apparently finds the job even better than he had hoped. Phil's "29 Palms" buddy, Dave Florence, has taken a job with IBM in New York following a term at Columbia Law School. Over the Princeton-Dartmouth weekend your correspondent managed to drag himself away from the bacchanalia existing on the campus for a few hours and enjoy a wonderful dinner and visit with still some more ex-Marines, Charlie Jacob, SmileySchoder, his recent bride, Ginger, and her parents. Jake is ensconced in first-year architectural studies at U. of Penn. and Smiley is working in N.Y.C. with his dad. The greater part of that weekend was spent with Jack"Bomber" Patten and naturally was full of laughs. Since graduating from Dartmouth in February of '54, Jack has been associated with McGraw-Hill Publishers (as a space salesman), first in Chicago and now in New York. While in Chicago Jack was surprised by a visit from Pete Reich on hi.sway home following release from the Marines last summer. Pete has recently accepted a position with Simpson Paper Co. in the State of Washington ... the location with which he fell in love while working as a lumber-jack a few summers back.
Space is running a little short, so we will postpone all "troths and betroths" until next issue. We do, however, want to log in the addition of Stephen Bowen Rice (Moma and Papa both well and enjoying two pleasant years at Army expense in Germany) and Alison Courtney (Jim and Debbie located in Turkey where Jim is doing U.S. Navy Supply work) to the ever increasing '53 family.
Now for a few items in brief Bill Vitalis working in N.Y.C. for W. R. Grace Co. and living at the Dartmouth Club. ... PhilHoeffer, not satisfied with one job, holding down "winter" position with Arthur Anderson accounting firm in New York, and managing the Christopher Ryder House on the Cape (Chatham) during summer months.... Bob Yates writing headline stories for the Binghamton (N. Y.) .Press, while Fred Bush is involved in the same racket in Schenectady. ..."Red" Alley apparently still very happy with his Gillette sales position which takes him up and down the East Coast. ... and last, our cover boy Bill Andre (December issue Sports Illustrated), seemingly finding some free time to escape from the rigors of preparing for the Olympics as a member of the U.S. pentathlon team.
In closing we want to encourage everyone who can possibly do so to take an active part in interviewing prospective Dartmouth students, or in some other way to arouse more interest among outstanding high school boys in Dartmouth. 'Til the Ides of March.
Secretary,USS Brough (DE-148) c/o Fleet P. 0., New York, N. Y.
Treasurer, 2411-A Cleghorn, Honolulu, Hawaii
