1942
When you were reading all of the reams of publicity which surrounded the recent Ford Motor Co. stock offering, you probably weren't aware that Bill Mitchell was right up to his ears in the deal. Bill has been with Ford almost ten years and now boasts the title of Manager of Stockholder Relations (a function of the Public Relations staff). For the past three years he and his assistants have been handling the annual report, which totaled about 200 copies during the company's private ownership. Now that the company is publicly owned, Bill's work-of-art will be going to a considerably wider audience.
AI Dingwall has set some sort of a record among the advertising fraternity; 1956 marks his tenth year with the Ted Bates ad agency in New York City as a producer in the radio-TV department. Maybe the secret of his serene consistency is in his leading avocation, the theater. Al is a very active member of the board of directors of the Connecticut Playmakers. Recently he played a leading role in The Little Foxes and also did the score for their production of Finian's Rainbow. Al and Nancy are looking forward to the Big Fifteenth this June. Although they missed the other reunions, they're no strangers to Hanover. In fact they spent their honeymoon and a part of each summer (save one) since 1948 in Hanover. In taking Nancy to a Hanover reunion he is breaking with the tradition established by his dad, but we're convinced he's making the right move. You just have to keep selling all the time, don't you, Al!
Near neighbors of the Dingwalls in Riverside, Conn., are Bob and Kay Gorman. Kay is another active member of the same theater group. Reports on Bob's activities during these «poductions are a bit hazy. We suspect he's either selling cloth for J. P. Stevens or taking care of the numerous Gorman children.
Another N.Y. adman from Riverside is Scotty Matthews, currently account executive on Best Foods for Dancer Fitzgerald and Sample and complete with three daughters, too. Wonder how the calories in Hellman's mayonnaise are effecting the Matthews middle.
New York insurance executive W.G. Kreter has a sound reason to increase his life insurance. Charles Kreter arrived January 20 to make it three of a kind for Maggie and Warren.
Warren reports that the New York contingent at the reunion in June will be large and loud. That sounds like a challenge to the rest of the country to top the New York dandies in numbers and noise. I for one don't think that should be too tough to do and I'll bet there are a lot of other country boys who feel the same way.
There's going to be quite a delegation from Minneapolis in Hanover next June. Georgeand Aileen McClintock and Jeanne and JimDoerr are making their plans right now. Jimmy, the acknowledged limerick king of the Middle West, is polishing up his repertory and preparing to take on all comers. (Wait 'til you get a load of the head of skin on this boy!)
By June George should have his Big Green recruiting chores in good shape and will be anxious to compare selling techniques with Charlie Brown and other top flight Dartmouth hustlers. An attorney by trade, George is blazing quite a trail as a Dartmouth booster in the midst of the perennially strong alumni group in the Twin Cities area. Incidentally he says that it's real easy and fun, too. Just tell the boy the facts and he'll sell himself on Dartmouth.
Jeanne and Aileen are typical of a big share of '42 wives. If anything, they are even more enthusiastic about the Reunion in Hanover than their husbands. The McClintocks are veterans of both previous reunions while the Doerrs will be first-timers. Despite seven children between them, the sitter problem is going to be licked so they can get to Hanover and have themselves a ball. Take heed girls, it's a fun time for you, too. So take the ball and run. Don't wait for Dad. Get that sitter! Rob that piggy bank! And go, go!
Jeekers and Bob Rodgers just celebrated their fourteenth wedding anniversary. Sounds like a record for '42. Can anyone top it? Their 13-year-old, Terri, wants to go to Northampton's Mary Burnham School next fall. (And now how old do you feel?) Bob is New York City Sales Manager of NBC's TV Film Program Division. How about two tickets to the Ed Sullivan Show, Bob?
In Boston John Perkins has been promoted to Trust Operations Officer by the board of directors of the Second Bank-State Street Trust Company. After leaving Dartmouth, John graduated from Babson Institute of Business Administration. Following three and one-half years in the Air Force he joined the bank in 1947 in the trust department. He is treasurer of the Massachusetts Civic League, Inc.; President of the Babson Institute of Business Administration Alumni Association and trustee of Babson Institute. John still makes his home in Weston, but beyond that he's a mystery. Let's have some more family info, John.
Dick Duncan is now back in private law practice in Newport, N.H., after a couple of years as assistant attorney-general in Concord. A graduate of. the Harvard Law School he also was elected county solicitor in 1952.
Random notes from the St. Paul-Minneapolis area.... Roger Baker out of the department store business and into Florida real estate management. Bet he doesn't miss that foot of snow which has graced the Twin Cities since last October. Frank Brown working for Gould National Battery.... JohnnyBrooks a General Mills man. ... Arnie Ueland a lumber baron in Mankato, Minn.... Kelley Wehnes back from Mexico with lots of colorful tales.
Burt Keirstead living up in South Norwalk, Conn., has moved into the insurance business with Mutual Life of New York.
Al Britton reports that reunion plans are rounding into shape. If you haven't already received the complete dope, it will be in your hands shortly. Jim Farley, Gardie Bridge,Mike de Sherbinin, Harry Bond and Ed Leonard, all of whom live in the Hanover area, are assisting Al, the reunion chairman, to put together a real great celebration package.
Now all that remains is for you and you and you to start rounding up the gang for the big show. Remember the dates: June 15-17, starting on a Friday. Another arresting thought that occurs to me is that the Fifteenth Reunion will be the last one to find most of us on the sunny side of 40. This could be my last chance to parade around Hanover with a "full" head of hair.
Admitted to general partnership in Bache &Co., Harry A. Jacobs Jr. '42 is associated withthe firm's syndicate department as manager.He joined Bache & Co. in 1946.
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