1935

Secretary, 17 East 45th St., New York 17, N.Y.

Treasurer, 62 Prince St., West Newton 65, Mass.

Greetings to all of you after the summer hiatus. Hope everyone had good vacations, and that families are fine and careers increasingly rewarding.

First of all, we will report some of the outstanding job promotions received by classmates since our final column last spring.

Bill Mathers was elected vice president and secretary of Yale and Towne, the big lock and hardware manufacturing concern. Bill left his post with the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hope and Hadley (where he had handled Yale & Towne's legal affairs since '52) to start on his new responsibilities last month.

Al Keenan was named vice president of the Moore-McCormack Steamship Lines. Al, who got a law degree at Brooklyn Law School after he finished Dartmouth, has been with McCormack since 1945.

Ralph Lazarus was made president of Federated Department Stores. Ralph has been with Federated since his graduation from Dartmouth, and has worked up through practically every job in the organization to assume this new post, which makes him one of the country's most important merchandising executives. Frank Cornwell has left Monsanto Chemical to become director of folding carton sales for the Alton Box Board Co. of Alton, III. Calvin Wright has been appointed associate counsel for the John Hancock Mutual Insurance Co.

Howard Rowe is the new office manager at the Nashua Corp. in Nashua, N. H. Jim Hughes out in Cleveland has taken a new job as Vice President - Administration — of the Diamond Alkali Co. Adolph Weil, big cotton man down Georgia way, was elected the new president of the Atlantic Cotton Association. Leonard Bryant has been moved up to Vice President Production - of the Hooker Electrical Chemical Co. in Niagara Falls, N. Y.

Ralph Specht is being moved from Harrisburg, Pa., by the United Shoe Machinery Corp. to New York to take up a new job as Regional Sales Manager. He's bought a new home in Deal, N. J. Bob Smith, for some years with Time, Inc., has an important new spot as Regional Advertising Manager for Time International, a post which takes him flying all over the U. S. and abroad. Henry Muller has been moved up to Vice President of the Canadian Westinghouse Co. in Hamilton, Ontario. Muller has been with Westinghouse since '35, and is a fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and member of various other engineering societies.

A change in administration at the Dartmouth Club in New York involved two members of our class this past summer when RegBankart turned over his gavel as Club President to Carl Funke. Carl assumed this post at a time of more than usual responsibility, since our Club in New York is faced with a problem of having to find a new location, and Carl and his fellow officers are tracking down every possible mid-Manhattan real estate deal that seems to offer possibilities for a new Club headquarters in the big city.

Carl Heye died June 30 in Nantucket, Mass., apparently of a heart attack while trying to rescue his son, Theodore, who was floundering in the water. The boy was saved. Carl, who was 44 at the time of his death, lived with his family in Scarsdale, N. Y., where he ran his own real estate business.

Bob Alter was found dead in a hotel in Modesto, Calif., August 7, apparently a suicide. Dr. Alter, who was a top gynecologist, had taught at Duke University and at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, and, more recently, had had his own practice in Toledo, Ohio. Alter had left his wife and daughter in Toledo while he was on a business trip to the West Coast.

The long unsettled question as to who is the '35 class baby has apparently been definitely' solved by investigation undertaken by Charlotte Ford Morrison, the College's alumni recorder. As most of you will remember, the class baby, according to traditional Dartmouth custom, is "the first male child born to a member of the class married after graduation." Charlotte reports that the boy who came in first on this baby derby was William Saylor Wise, son of William K. (Bud) Wise. Bud and his wife were married July 27, 1935, a little more than a month folloWing graduation, and their son. Bill, was born April 15 the following year. Congratulations, Bill - congratulations. Bud — and congratulations to wife and mother Iris! 1 he Wises have been keeping somewhat incognito out in Pottstown, Pa. the last few years, but we hope to be able to flush out a photograph of the family to get a likeness of the '35 class baby, who this year, of course, became old enough to vote.

Runners-up in the baby derby were Doug Saunders, son of Don and Fern Saunders, born September 21, '36, and David Sommer, son of Larry and Ruth Sommer, who was born December 3, 1936.

Magazine writer Dick Halvorsen returned recently from a trip to the Near East. He had a layover in Madrid and tried to get in touch with Bob Sellmer, but reports that Sellmer was down in Southern Spain on a vacation. . . .Harry Ackerman was recently elected prexy of the Hollywood chapter of the Academy of TV Arts'and Sciences. Variety has reported that producer Ackerman will bring out a series of half-hour telefilms this season under his Ticonderoga Productions banner. . . . Rudy Pacht, legal-eagle for Hollywood movie stars, writes that Doug and Ruth Ley came westward on a trip during the summer and were special guests at a Dartmouth paity including Leon and Monett Kent, Dr. BillMumler, Bill and Tia Short and Ed Ramsey.