1934
Hope everyone has received the newly issued Class Directory. If anyone needs an additional copy, please drop me a line to that effect. Mine didn't come in too handy on a recent trip to Palm Beach and Havana. The nearest address was Ed Valier in Fort Lauderdale, but unless you were interested in Nashua or Needles running at Gulfstream, that was too far out of the way. I expect to make good use of the directory in future trips around the country.
Dreaming of winter vacations, a postcard has just arrived from "3rd Class Seamen Houck and Smith" aboard the charter schooner Malabar X.
"We're now sailing in the Exhumas some hundred miles S.E. of Nassau. Haven't run across any of Captain Kidd's treasure. We've sworn over a bottle of San Carlos rum to cut in both the Alumni and Memorial Funds. To date have found only weather, sailing conditions, good food, fishing, and skin diving beyond compare. Don't give a damn if we don't get back until the 25th Reunion.
Nick Xanthaky, our member of the executive committee in the Boston area, keeps us posted
"A short note to inform you about the Dartmouth Alumni Banquet held at the Statler Hotel. The following '34s held down Table #34 with a sprinkling of '35s: Bob Rodman, Harry Gilmore,Dick Emerson, Ollie Sargent, Ed Cowie, and Nick.Jack Gilbert was scheduled to perform with his now famous octet but unfortunately Jack was ill and only the septet performed with an excellent medley of songs. One other note of interest - the Class of '33 won the attendance cup with approximately 26 members attending. Long sigh from this corner and wish that '34 could make a better showing."
Harry Gilmore in turn sends me a clipping from the Manchester Union Leader all about Nick:
"Nick Xanthaky former Manchester High School Teacher and athlete at Central High and Dartmouth College, is an officer of the company making the 'rotorcycle'. a one-man helicopter for the U.S. Navy. Xanthaky is the secretary and also a director of the Gyrodyne Company of America, which designed and manufactured the Navy XRON-1."
Harry ran into Swede Lindstrom in Hanover, who was there on behalf of the National City Bank of Cleveland. Don Cameron, the college placement officer, said that Swede was doing fine work in attracting youngsters to Dartmouth. Harry reports that Swede looked healthy and happy in spite of finding his days too short to accomplish everything in his business activity and his enthusiastic work for his charities and church.
Others heard from during the month: BillCalm - his latest book, A Pictorial Biographyof Einstein, is selling well. It is already in a second edition in less than two months and was highlighted in Brentano's and Scribner's windows on Fifth Ave. He has three children whose names do not appear in our card index. Kirk Spitler enclosed a notice of a text book written by Jack Fish on Hemorrhage of LatePregnancy. Jack is connected with the Emory University School of Medicine and an American Lecturer in gynecology and obstetrics. Ernie Barcella sent his class dues to Bill Wilson with "intention to get to Hanover this summer." Incidentally I hope all readers have sent Bill their class dues by this date. Bill has written that his wife Jo is back in Mary Hitchcock Hospital where she had a spinal fusion. Let's hope and pray that this one is successful. She will be there for some time and I'm sure some encouraging notes will help her.
Word reaches us from another Bob Smith,Robert M., that he has been appointed Assistant Clinical Professor of Anesthesia at the Harvard Medical School where he has taught since 1947. Bob served with the U.S. Medical Corps from 1942 to 1946. He holds the position of anesthesiologist at the Children's Hospital in Boston. In addition to teaching, Bob has written numerous articles for medical journals.
Charlie Amies who hasn't checked in but once since graduation, writes from the Baltimore office of the Home Life Insurance Company of New York:
"I attended one of the three regional meetings of the Admissions Office conducted for educational purposes. Too many of the best high school graduates are going to other colleges. So the purpose of these meetings is to instruct and arouse enthusiasm in the alumni to get boys Dartmouth minded. The sessions were very good and I met Dartmouth men from all over the Hast but no '34s, except for Peanuts Davies. Statistically I have a wife and three children and the two youngest will be candidates with the classes of '74 and '78."
(Secretary's note - I don't have any names in the card index. Please when writing me, give details as to names and birth dates.)
Last month I mentioned that Ed Hilton had become a partner in his law firm. The name of the firm is Lord, Bissell & Brook located at 135 South La Salle St., Chicago, Ill. Also congratulations to the newly promoted Marty Dwyer, now a vice-president of the Lennen & Newell, Inc. advertising agency. His picture appeared in both the New York Times and the HeraldTribune. The article was longer in the Times. Don't think we ever recorded the birth of Marty and Joy's fourth child - a son, Dennis, to join Jacqueline, Dolores and Robert. Felicitations, too, to Ed Davis, president of New England Chapter of the American Material Handling Society, Inc. This is a national organization dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of efficient material handling in manufacturing, distribution, warehousing, transportation and military operations. It was founded in 1949 and has over 4000 members with chapters in forty cities of the United States and Canada.
Art Leonard writes that he spent quite a tew weekends skiing this winter, mostly in Vermont and some in New Hampshire. He is kept pretty busy with his varied activities, as president of the children's school P.T.A., president of the Northeastern Alumni Association of Dartmouth and president of the New York State Wholesale Liquor Association. He yearns to return for awhile to private life and manage his own businesses in Albany.
Dick Wells bumped into Larry Herman in the small airport at Kalamazoo. They flew to Chicago together. Larry is a director or the Wax Paper Institute handling industry credit, advertising, ink consumption etc., and his work keeps him jumping.
Among those who paid class dues ana sent notes along were Bob Gallagher, who vouchsafed that all was well with him; John Anderson, who is president of a Cleveland realtor firm, founded in 1945 and bearing his name. John also wrote an article en tilled "The Value of Class Instruction" which appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel. This is a weekly magazine of international circulation and brought letters of appreciation for John's article from as far away as Holland. Joe Swensson and Barbara together with Kurt and Joe Jr. have moved to 97 Prospect St., Manchester, Conn.; Stan Silverman in his inimitable amusing style notes his new address, 2784 La Cuesta Drive, Los Angeles, Calif.
"This is in the Outpost section of North Hollywood, some fifty yards or so from Mulholland Drive, famous in these parts as a. 'Lover's Lane . We're happily ensconced here, high atop the proverbial windy hill but not above the smog wich is a curse out here. (Even the worry-warts have it, a health hazard. Wadda they want, to live forever?) The 'we' includes my wife Peggy and her daughter Alicia and an impressive animal, son of Ch. of Ch. Bangaway - A.K.C.'d as 'Alicia's Caesar', the Boxerest Boxer of them all. I continue as story editor of Mark Stevens Television Company and am also doing some writing on my own, all the way from scripts for SergeantPreston of the Kukon to a screen-play and a play aimed for Broadway in which quien sabe, AlanHewitt, Robert Ryan or even Pat Weaver might appear."
Confessions are good for the soul and yoursecretary admits he was the ignoramus whodidn't recognize Charles Goodfellow perchedon his ladder at the City Bank Farmers TrustCompany. The picture appeared in manymagazines with the legend:
"He is one of our Trust Company officers. It's not often that you'll find him with his feet off the ground but this time he needed some spot information in a hurry. So there he is up in the library stacks of the Investment Research Department. ....For those with available funds of $75,000 or more Charlie and his associates are definitely good fellows to know."
No wonder I didn't recognize him with his feet off the ground and I certainly didn't have the requisite available funds.
Rollie Morton, president of Rolmor Press, Inc., a division of Geffen, Morton & Griffiths, with justifiable pride announces the merger of Arrow Press and William E. Rudge's Sons. This puts him in the "big league" of the printing industry. It's a great pleasure to record the progress of the men of '34 as they seek and find new worlds to conquer.
Meeting on the ski slopes at Otsego Ski Clubin Gaylord, Mich., were (l to r): Owen Fairweather '35, Jack AuWerter '35 and LeeChilcote '30.
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Class Agent, 1750 Elm St., Manchester, N.H.
