1941
The Fantastic Fifteenth Reunion is getting closer. In another month we'll be on the Hanover Plain. It is obvious that the Reunion Committee has big plans based on the questionnaire sent around last week by SnuffySmith, chairman. Are you and your fair lady going to be there to join in the festivities? It's certain that a Class Reunion can be a success only if a good share of the class is on hand. That is the main ingredient - the meeting of old friends and the rekindling of warm friendships. The rest is the wrapping and the trimming. Snuffy is in charge of all that and the committee will see that everyone has a great time. But the real success of the weekend is up to you. If you're there the party will be complete. So if you're on the fence about going, make up your mind right now to go. Don't let problems like baby sitters stop you. Junior will hardly know you've been away for two days.
Your secretary attended the Alumni Fund kick-off dinner in New York during March along with Bob Tepper, Bob Taft, Red O'Connor, Don Hagen, Dan Provost, Bruce Friedlich, Chuck Bolte, and Bob Barr. Our 1956 Fund campaign is off to a fine start and it is heart-warming to hear the reports of so many early contributors this spring. It is a tough job to direct an Alumni Fund drive and when the contributions come in early it makes the job of the Class Agent just a little easier. So keep up the good work. And many thanks to those of you who have already penned checks and sent them to Hanover.
On the preceding page I hope you noticed a picture of Dr. Tim Takaro with Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Vice President of the Republic of India. I have had some correspondence with Tim, who is director of surgery at one of the most important tuberculosis sanitoriums in Asia. Tim's most recent note states sadly that he will be unable to be at the Reunion since he must stay on in India until the spring of 1957. The photo was taken during a visit to the "San" by Sir Radhakrishnan, who is a well-known philosopher and taught at Oxford for a good many years. Tim says it was a big day for the San.
I would like to take a few lines to plug the work of one of our class's fine writers, ChuckBolte. Chuck's latest book The Price of Peace:A Plan for Disarmament is now out, published by Beacon Press ($2.50). On June 1, next, Chuck will join the editorial staff of Viking Press and also be occupied in general management of the company.
Fred Lynch, who runs the Lynch Development Co., builders, in Washington, D.C., is the first classmate to report a daughter getting married. Time certainly is flying by, boys. Fred was released from the Air Force as a colonel following his recall to duty in 1951. Now that he's in the building game, his long career in Geology at Dartmouth will stand him in good stead when it comes to foundations. Fred reports the following information: Bill Durkee is in Paris with NATO; AlexSalm is in New York real estate; Dick Cords is a Security Officer in Long Beach, Calif.; George Flather is practicing law in Washington, D.C.; Bob Dixon is now in the Pentagon after returning from Korea; and LarryThompson is at the Harvard Business School. Say Larry, how is the French poodle that Fred sent you from California?
Bob Tepper is running Tepper's Department Store in Asbury Park, N.J. On a recent motor trip I spotted one of your big outdoor signs, Bob. And Dick Hill makes the news again. This time he has been elected a vice president of the First National Bank of Boston. Arthur Phillips of Montpelier, Vt., is the new field secretary of Associated Industries of Vermont. For the past five years, Art has been with the Victor Adding Machine Company as assistant to the director of sales in Chicago.
Holden Higbee won't be able to get to the Reunion because he and his wife are sailing on the Santa Margarita for South America to the two week International Geographical Congress in Rio de Janeiro. He'll be away two months but says cheerfully: "See you at the 20th Reunion." Easy boy - that's a long time Kinsey-cally speaking.
Dr. George Simpson is happy to report that he is a 9-to-5 doctor at the Equitable Life Insurance Company in New York. No more midnight calls. Charlie Schlenker is vice chairman of the Red Cross drive in the Northern Valley area of New Jersey. He is taking time from his busy life as an insurance agent, estate and pension planner. A Nashua, N.H., newspaper reports that the Wonalancet Company, one of the city's fine old line firms, was 50 years old last October. Assistant secretary of this outstanding textile company is JohnEverett. Incidentally, John has three brothers working for the same company. Looking forward to seeing you in June, Johnny.
Next month when I write these class notes it will wind up five years as 1941's Class Secretary. Our Executive Committee has been going over the possible candidates for the job during the next five years. If you have any suggestions, or if there are any volunteers, please report them to me at the Reunion. Or, if you won't be able to make the Reunion but think you have the right man for the job, let me know by letter. The work is long, the pay is small, but the satisfaction of keeping in touch with so many classmates is rewarding. At any rate, see you next month when I will join Bob Harvey and Don Stillman among the ranks of ex-Secretaries of 1941.
After taking the oath of office as Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, Robert C. Hill '42 (r) examines his new commission with Assistant Secretary I. W. Carpenter Jr. Since last October Hill has been working on mutual security affairs in the State Department, including the preparation and presentation to Congress of legislation in this field.
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