1938
Writing class notes a month in advance makes time fly. In the middle of the Pawling "mud season," this column gradually takes shape, but won't appear until tennis is under way and the baseball season in mid-fling. Right now, like many members of the class, I have my fingers crossed on several young hopefuls who await word from their college applications in great trepidation and complete confusion. It's hard to single out those who really want Dartmouth and who wouldn't be tempted by that completely unpredictable Princeton bid.
Deep in the heart of you-know-what, DanMarshall sends along a clipping of HenryBeck signing a contract to build the new National Bank of Commerce building in Dallas at a cost of $8,000,000: "Other structures which have been built by the Henry C. Beck Co., include the 550,000 square-foot Fulton National Bank building in Atlanta, Ga.; the 30-story Adolphus Tower in Dallas; the 21-story Beck building in Shreveport; and the $80,000,000 Reynolds aluminum plant in Corpus Christi."
Most of the news this month is of the business world; but then we have slightly favored the intellectual set in past years. Sox Calder appears in the financial section of the HeraldTrib as elected president of Union Bag & Paper Corp. He moves up from executive vice president, which was our last listing of him.
Another business president checks in from Syracuse in the person of Dave Hosmer. The formerly corpulent one (still maybe?) lists himself on his letterhead as president of Patrician Knitting Co., "manufacturers of Knitted Fabrics," of all things. This is nothing new since the publication of the Directory, but it had slipped my attention, as perhaps it had yours, too. The Hosmer menage numbers four off-shoots, two of either sex.
From one of my favorite newspapers, the Baraboo (Wise.) News-Republic, I have received a terse clipping to the effect that:
Baraboo friends will be interested to know that H. S. French, former Baraboo boy, has been newly named vice president and assistant trust officer of the Marshall and Isley Bank of Milwaukee. Schuyler, as he will be better known here, comes from a family of bankers, for he is a grandson of the late L. S. VanOrden, who for many years headed the Baraboo National bank of this city.
Following his graduation from Dartmouth in 1938, French had joined the Milwaukee bank as a bond analyst. He served in Navy from 1943 to 1946, when he resumed his work in the bank's trust department. He was elected an assistant cashier in 1948 and assistant vice president in 1952.
The ever-reliable Ganter reports another Boston luncheon in February. Charley Main, present and accounted for, is now a partner in Charles T. Main Inc., consulting engineers. Comdr. Vining Sherman showed in his chauffeured Navy police car. Bill describes him as "Director of Discipline" (Boston's Navy Police Commissioner). It's the first shore duty for Vining in a long time, and he certainly must be enjoying it. Home and family should be a pleasant novelty after the USS Hale.
Hitchcock, Brett (off to Bermuda to rest the tired nerves), and Ganter made up the rest of the luncheon.
The Rev. Telfer Mook has departed the Bible Belt of Illinois for Concord, N. H., where he is minister of the First Congregational Church. Comdr. Bob Carroll is now on the Staff, CINC, Pac. Fleet. A change of address for Ed Meservey from New York to Princeton, N. J., betokens employment at the local school there in physics. Comdr. BillNorcross is Public Works Officer at the Marine Corps Base in Camp Pendleton, Calif. 'Twould appear we have a modicum of Commanders in the Class.
Among the foreign residents is ClarkFletcher, Studebaker de Mexico, and the town where he lives cannot be pronounced: Tlalnepantla. Wiggin has returned to Haiti, incidentally, and is now back in Port-au-Prince. John McClure has moved from Texas to the Mardi Gras town, but no further word as to what the change of scenery may mean occupation-wise. Col. Frank Richardson has moved from Montana to Suffolk County AF.G., in New York, still with the fighter planes.
Hans Barber, who used to be with the insurance business in Charleston, W. Va., has returned to New England and is located in South Hamilton, Mass. Bill Collins, last listed in Mokwonago, Wis., now checks in from Stamford, Conn.; nothing further than that.
As a pre-reunion warm-up, a cocktail party and buffet supper will bring together the Classes of 1937, '38 and '39 on April 13 at the Dartmouth Club. All '38ers in the vicinity are urged to attend.
Now that the good Republican news has been out two days, and several schools I have heard about receiving substantial donations on the basis of continuing prosperity, why not get the old check into the mailbag for Scotly's minions, and make it a good, fat Republican one at that. Scotty's putting out superhuman effort this spring so let's give him a superhuman response. With ever mounting costs, the College can use every little bit.
Alexander Calder Jr. '38 on February 29 became the president of Union Bag and PaperCorp., largest paper bag makers in the U. S.
Secretary, Trinity-Pawling School Pawling, N. Y.
Class Agent, 329 Concord Rd., Yonkers, N. Y,
