1933

Secretary, 217 Goundry Street North Tonawanda, N. Y.

Treasurer, Quechee, Vt.

Welcome back for the start of our Twenty-Fifth Year!

On Friday, September 6, the Executive Committee of your class had a luncheon and meeting in Hanover attended by about 18 members of the Class of 1933. General plans and responsibilities were approved which will culminate next spring, we hope, in one of the most exciting and most worthwhile Twenty-Fifth Reunions in the history of Dartmouth College and a Memorial Fund which will give other classes a mark to shoot at for many years to come. Apparently, our Memorial Fund will be the last one officially to be recognized for a number of years, due to the overriding importance of the 200th Anniversary Development Fund. You will hear a great deal more about Reunion as the plans and responsibilities unfold in detail. Let us say only that in recent correspondence, the following people have indicated that they are definitely going to attend Reunion next June: Hank McKee, Stu Durkee, Marty KerWin, Hunter Hicks (who says, "I am looking forward to seeing all the boys who are 'over the hill'."), Mel Katz, Dick Jackson, Sam Black, Page Worthington, Jack Masten, Wood Foster, Lee Eckels, Wes Beattie, Ken Spang, John Monagan, Bill Bates, Dar Bates, Sid Stoneman, Rip Ripley, Bud King, Justin Stanley, Lym Wakefield, George Theriault, and several others whose names escape us right now. Actually, some of these boys did not come right out and say they would be in Hanover for our 25th, but one could read between the lines that that is what they meant.

The occasion for the 1933 meeting was The Dartmouth Convocation on Great Issues in the Anglo-Canadian-American Community, about whose exciting and forceful impact you will read elsewhere in this MAGAZINE.

We have a whole spate of news which has collected over the summer, and we are going to leave you have some of it herewith. However, since the MAGAZINE is trying to keep within reasonable bounds for this particular issue, we may be forced to let some of the news go until a later date. Thus, if you are newsworthy, do not despair if your name does not appear in this issue. If you have any doubt or questions as to when it may appear, please write your class secretary.

Last spring, too late for publication, we saw Rev. Charles C. Merrill, secretary of the Class of 1894 and the father of our own Vincent, who reported to us that Vin has been made a partner in the firm of Shurcliff, Shurcliff & Merrill, Landscape Architects and Town Planners, in Boston. Vin has long been associated with this firm among whose distinguished pieces of work has been the land- scape work in the restoration at Williamsburg, Va. Vin has also been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Congratulations, Vin. We are just as proud of you as your father is!

Dar Bates, who is senior project coordinator in the Research and Methods Division of Addressograph-Multigraph Corp., stayed with us overnight in the early summer. This column asked a question about a possible Class Grandfather. Dar tells us that he was a grandfather on December 13, 1956. Naturally, the child was a girl. Can anybody beat this mark? Who is the first grandfather of a boy, as though it made any difference?

Jack Masten has been elected a member of the Alumni Council. Dick Jackson forwarded news of Leo Bemache. Leo is the Ottawa manager of Community Concerts of Canada, Ltd., and lives at 77 Metcalfe Street, Ottawa 4, Ontario. Leo, also, hopes to be with us for our 25th next June.

Dick also forwards an excerpt from a letter received from Walt Bezanson, professor of American Civilization at Rutgers, which I know you will enjoy. Walt writes,

"A fine deal ahead for our family this year. We sail in September for Europe where I shall try to hold down the Fulbright Chair in American Literature and Civilization at the University of Liege, Belgium, as well as do some lecturing in Ghent, Brussels, Rome, and (godloveus) Nice. Our boys are now 13 and 9, good ignorant American kids who will shortly be hurled into the tight little school system of Belgium to do all their lessons in French. Premiere lecon: Comment dit-on little League en frangais? Les popsicles, combien coutentils? Fortunately for international accord, papa will lecture en anglais."

From the public prints, we quote some clips and glean some news. The H. A. Johnson Company, one of the outstanding manufacturers and distributors of food products, of which Cliff Johnson is president, celebrated its Both anniversary last spring. Jack Bowman, general manager of Bowman Record Shops Inc., in Bridgeport, was named chairman of the Barnum Festival Dance which took place in July. Also in July Jim McFarland was elected a vice president of General Mills and general manager of its grocery products division. Also in July, Sikorsky Aircraft division of United Aircraft Corporation announced the appointment of Miller A. Wachs as chief of component development. Some littleknown facts about Miller are that he was born in Korea, that he earned his Master of Science degree at M.I.T., that he has been with Sikorsky Aircraft since 1942 and has been chief development engineer since 1952, and he is the father of five daughters (a little over par for the course). The Wachs family lives at 852 Wilcoxson Avenue, Stratford, Conn.

Congratulations to all of you!

Here's some late but exciting news which was delayed in transmission by the Boston newspaper strike. Dick Jackson, whose name has occasionally appeared in this column in reference to railroading or fund gathering, in August was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy in charge of personnel and reserve and was sworn in September 16! Congratulations, Dick, and best wishes for this great responsibility. This is but one more indication that the country is gradually reaching the point of view long held by many of us that its best interests and long-run security are best advanced by administrative authority vested in Dartmouth men, and particularly those of the Class of 1933!

Here is a brief run-down of Dartmouth'smost successful Alumni Fund as far as 1933is concerned: We had 387 contributors for aparticipation index of 78 and reached a newdollar record of $15,159.00, representing 82%of our objective. In other words, we are notdoing quite as well as we should but we aredoing better than we ever have before. Ourtrend is in the right direction!

See you next month.