1933
First off this month, we'll wind up our backlog of address changes lest they finally become too stale for useful publication.
Nat Leonard, for instance, was reported at 37 Walbrook Rd., Scarsdale, N.Y. The last real information we had about you, Nat, was dated fifteen years ago and showed that you taught French at McBurney School. The readers of this column would be real pleased to be brought up to date, so why don't you drop us a line to fill in the gap?
Bob Sumner, 422 University, Grosse Pointe 30, Mich., is another brother whose silence has been golden for lo! these many years. The record shows that he was with W.W. Sumner Insurance Agency and that Mary McKay Sumner was born just about ten years ago. How about the last decade, Bob? Your friends are anxious to hear.
Now Doug Kaplinger, whose business address is 353 Dwight St., Springfield, Mass., is still vice president of an engineering concern but we don't know whether it's Albany Designing, Inc. Please enlighten us, Doug.
John E. Coleman has moved down the street about 400 numbers to 867 Broadview Ave., Highland Park, Ill. About seven years ago, John was president of John E. Coleman, Inc. - commodities, and unless our spies report differently, we must assume that this status still holds.
Jack Jennings, after photography in Washington, has gone back to Vermont and now is at 7 East St., Vergennes, a town of 1753 souls. What he does there (flying? publicity? photography?) we have no idea but would sure like to hear.
Dr. William B. Harris can now be found at 360 S. Columbia Ave., Columbus 9, Ohio. Eighteen years ago Bill entered partnership with his father, Dr. I.B. Harris. We hope this association is still going, Bill, although if it is, we realize your dad must be getting along in years.
Another M.D., Thomas W. Reul, is a physician at Medical Arts Clinic in Watertown, S. D. Our records are exceptionally bare, Tom, concerning you, and we would appreciate any fill-in you can give us since you took your M.D. at the University of Chicago about nineteen years ago.
Jack A. Kent in Los Angeles, who has gone from Buckingham Road to 2843 Motor Ave., is another for whom the records are sparse. They show, Jack, that you were the prop, of a set 'em up and knock 'em down emporium (bowling alley) about sixteen years ago but nothing from then on and nothing about your family, if any. Please write right, right now.
Three newspaper clippings have come in this month. One, from the Hartford Times, reports that Edwin C. Knapp, who has been in insurance since 1941, has recently become associated with William A. Curtin real estate and mortgage agency as its insurance representative. Congratulations, Ed. Insurance representative in Hartford must be quite a competitive position. How about it?
The Northport (N.Y.) Observer reports that another Edwin—Edwin S. Lapham of Wading River - has been appointed second assistant county attorney for Suffolk County. Ed is also a partner in the firm of Scheinberg, Wolf, Lapham & DePetris of Riverhead. We happen to know that Ed is just slightly older than your reporter, so hear this all ye brethren who have considered the years to be crowding you. We quote from the Observer:
"Attorney Lapham has all the enthusiasm of youth and has already impressed his elders in the profession by his competence and general understanding of the law. His appointment to the County Attorney's staff is being received by general approval."
The New Haven Journal-Courier reports the promotion of one John W. Bowman, a Dartmouth man, to assistant manager of the Southern New England Telephone Company office in Danbury. The article states that Bowman lives on Newton Road, Woodbridge, Conn., and has lately been a staff assistant in the West Hartford telephone office and that he began telephone work in 1948 as a directory advertising salesman in Bridgeport. Now our question, Dr. Anthony, is whether this fellow is our John Bowman who, the record shows, lives at 50 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport, Conn., and has been a retail merchant in Norwalk and Bridgeport in the period 1949-1951 and probably thereafter. We don't think, on the evidence, that it's the same man. However, source information on this vexing problem either from our John or his friends, will be greatly appreciated.
Talked on the phone the other day with Bud Madden out Denver way.
Bill Bates, who has some sort of alumni job, was in Hanover recently as were Mackey and D'Arcy. Speaking of the latter, a recent summary showed $15,537 paid in to the 1933 Memorial Fund since June 30, 1955, and the total paid in as of February 1, 1956, to be $46,699. The pot's boiling, and it's up to us to keep it sol While quiet organization work goes on for this big project, emphasis shifts now at this time of the year to the Alumni Fund. Wouldn't it be swell if everyone kicked in with a substantially higher gift than last year, before each of our A.C.A.'s even wrote us a letter? You're dreamin', boy, they say, but it sure is fun to dream!
This used to be the big income tax issue but the Congress of the United States of America saw fit to change the ides of March to -the oweds of April, so we shall wait to point out to you the beneficial tax-saving involved in making large annual gifts to Dartmouth College for the credit and glory of the Class of 1933.
John Sheldon '32 (r), recently elected board chairman of the State Street Council, Chicago,is congratulated by Mayor Richard Daley, speaker at the Council's annual January meeting.
Secretary, 217 Goundry btreet, North Tonawanda, N.Y.
Treasurer, Quechee, Vt.
Memorial Fund Chairman,
