1936
"Duckboards" is a word I haven't heard spoken for twenty years, but when I think of April and Hanover, that ol' debil duekboard comes back to my mind. This year in April 1956, however, there's a lot of news as '36ers are pounding a path the world over. Take for example Roily Hasting who, as retiring president of the Los Altos (Calif.) Board of Realtors, was awarded the "Realtor of the Year Award," or Phil Gilbert who is organizing a Westchester County (N. Y.) for the Stevenson Committee as he did four years ago, or SamMorse invited to be Phi Beta Kappa poet at Tufts, or Herb Higgins, U. S. Consul in Bombay, India, or my long lost friend Dave Sanderson turning in a new address at Rua Filipe Folque, 7, Lisbon, Portugal, or Al Flouton flying to and from Puerto Rico on a new business development, or Jim Lancaster called to a church in South Hadley, Mass., or RayReitman of South Orange, N. J., seen in Hanover with a couple of neighbors' sons who are interested in going to Dartmouth, or WaltMosenthal working for his Doctors degree at Teachers College, Columbia, or Pinky (GeorgeT.) Conklin recently returned from a vacation of ten days each in Paris, Rome, Capri and Venice. Pinky is financial vice president in charge of investments at the Guardian Life Insurance Co.
There is a new doctor in the class. He is Robert Bright, specialist in internal medicine. If you want him to peek into you, however, you'll have to pay his fare from Hawaii or go out there yourself, for he's interning at Queens Hospital in Honolulu. This might give you a trip to the Island which is deductible. Bob married the former Ruth Bennett who was an English professor at Duke when Bob was taking his Ph.D. She is now chief social worker of Queens Hospital Social Service Department. Bob has been a Ph.D. since 1939, but an M.D. only since graduating at the University of California in 1955. He says this step has fulfilled an early ambition that the depression delayed. He taught organic chemistry at Tulane and the University of Hawaii for several years and then began a business career which found him as supervisor of technical service with the Oronite Chemical Division of the Standard Oil Co. of California, when he resigned in 1951 to enter medical school. Bob writes that after he completes his internship, he'd "like to combine clinical research in internal medicine with practice. I think the biggest challenge of future medicine will be in the understanding of the relationship between biochemistry and disease, and I'd like to be a part of this study here in Hawaii."
In the Baby Department this month are two additions to the Dartmouth family. Ferris Bradford Mack was born to Ethel and FerrisC. Mack of 293 West Lena Ave., Freeport, Long Island. According to Ferris C., who is editor of Garden City Books, Division of Doubleday & Co., the baby came home from the hospital wearing a "D" sweater. He joins Russell Mack at home, who is 4 years old. In the household of Ruth and Leo Levitt at 58 Whiteoak Drive, South Orange, N. J., Nancy Joy Levitt arrived on February 3. She is the fourth daughter in this nice family, joining Leona, 13, Eleanor, 9, and Barbara, 3.
William H. Foster reports that he occasionally gets out into the woods hunting with his son Wm. H. 3rd who is now 15 years old. This hobby is not surprising as far as this family is concerned because Bill is the sales manager of the Remington Firearms Co. in Bridgeport, Conn. Bill says he went to work for Remington Arms in July 1936 and has never left. His family consists of his wife, the former Claire Hoyle, and five children. The children, in addition to hunter Wm. H. 3rd, are Betsy, age 11, Missy, 9, and twins Jonathan and Jennifer, who are 8 years old. Bill says that Tom Parker stops in at his office from time to time. Tom is the district sales-manager for Remington Firearms in Boston. The Fosters live on Porter's Hill Road, Trumbull, Conn.
Another high honor in the merchandising field goes to Bob Houlihan. He has recently been elected president of the National Retail Furniture Association. N.R.F.A. is a group of over 9,000 retail furniture stores throughout the nation. Bob is also a Trustee of the National Foundation for Consumer Credit, Washington, D. C. He lives at 30 White Oak Road, Wellesley, Mass., with Elizabeth, his wife, and two sons, Bob Jr., who is almost 12 years old and Ted, 10. He is vice president and treasurer of Moller's Furniture Stores of Cambridge and Lowell, Mass.
A tall man under a rancher's Stetson was seen on Madison Avenue a few weeks ago. He was Louis Benezet, President of Colorado College, in the East on a speaking tour. ... JimFortune has been recently transferred to the operating department of Grace Lines. He's been with Grace Lines for ten years: is a New York City commuter from Passaic, N. J. A commuter in reverse is Bill May, who lives at 310 West 79 St., New York City. Bill owns and operates the May Shoe Shop in Elizabeth, N. J., to which business he commutes every day. He and his wife Eleanor have two sons to keep shod. They are Thomas, 13 years old, and Walter, 7.
You know what is due on April 15. Here is a classmate wrho can help you out, but not without a fee, I judge. Dick Knight has merged his accounting practice with Charles F. Rittenhouse & Co. and will serve his clients from their office in Boston. Dick is a C.P.A., member of the American Institute of Accountants and Massachusetts Society of C.P.A.'s.
William J. Minsch Jr., counsel of the Portsmouth, N. H., Area Office of the Atomic Energy Commission, has been appointed to the Office of the General Counsel of AEC in Washington. He joined the AEC in 1948 as attorney with the New York Operations Office, was transferred to the Oak Ridge Operations Office in January 1951, and went to the Portsmouth Office in July 1952. From 1939 to 1942, and again from 1946 to 1948, he was an attorney with the New York firm of Baldwin, Todd and Lefferts.
The '36 dinner at the Dartmouth Club of New York in February was a gay party. Wives were invited this time and a bevy of beautiful ones came out. Some classmates like GilBalkam and Boyce Price stopped in for preliminary libations. Bachelors Joe Davis and Pinky Conklin attended, as did Lillian and Red Adams; Ruth and Ed Brooks; Ruth and George A. Brown; Nina and Dick Dorrance; Shirley and Dave Fox; Olive and Dink Gidney; Pic and Norb Hofman; Cathie and Paul Lynch; Madine and Dick Morton: Pearsie and Cliff Porter; Theo and Bob Prentice; Yumi and Jack Smith; Lee and Art Wasserman; Ethel and Art Toan and Nancy and John Sawyer.
After a delicious meal which the club staff served in style, Paul Lynch regaled everyone at the piano. Most of this crowd had sung to Paul's 88 at reunion last June, so burst into the rousing songfest as if they had never been interrupted. On leaving the club, Harry Johnson who was at the desk in the lobby said, "Your singing tonight was the best I've heard in a long time. I think it was the ladies' voices that made it sound so good."
You'll be glad to know that Pete Fitzherbert, our Class Chairman, has made arrangements to hold a "real 20th Reunion." Details of the Reunion are being worked out now and you will receive more information in the mail. Ruth and Ed Brooks at Old Greenwich, Conn., have volunteered their grounds for the Reunion. Keep the date available; it will be June 2, Saturday noon and night.
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