1938

Secretary, Peacham Academy, Peacham, VL

Treasurer, 149 Commonwealth Ave., Aurora, Ill.

The old shoe box moved around this summer from New York to Peacham, to California, and home via Wyoming, but it didn't pick up the usual amount of grist for the mill; perhaps a rolling stone? Numerous small items seem to have accumulated in the bottom, but no overflow as yet.

Charley Hathaway Jr. (Lt. Col.):

"I only write every three years or so, but that's better than nothing. Would that more people in our worthy class could drop an occasional note to the '38 shoe box.

"Theoretically I shall be ensconced at Fort Wayne (later postcard corrects to read Benjamin Harrison) this fall. Fort Wayne is not in Indiana; it's in Detroit, Mich. Our life at Fort Monroe is no more; it was a grand assignment, too. Ft. Monroe is the headquarters of the mighty Continental Army Command; my new assignment is related to the Ordnance Corps.

"Just think — in a little over three years I shall be retired — I might even have to go to work. Possibly Seaver and I can join up on another dishwashing job. Colonel Seaver could be the Senior dish-washer or possibly he could dry and I'd wash."

Believe it or not, that's the only letter of the summer! The only other communique of any sort is a cryptic postcard from the Inimitable Francis X. Reilly Jr., from Sao Paulo, Brazil foreshadowing a quick trip to the Argentine and then home, all under the auspices of Wilson & Co.

Speaking of South America and things to do with same, Stanton Brown has come up with a very serious illness and is now resident in Washington taking a long course of treatments, which all pray will be successful. I had hoped to see him in Hanover on my return to New England, but he must remain close to Bethesda with Nena's family.

Various and sundry items have come through the usual efficiencies of the clipping service, in the first instance promotions and other incidentals of the business world.

"The Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Co. has promoted Walter J. Dodd to assistant manager of the home office claim department. He joined the company last year and has been in claim work since graduating from Dartmouth."

Bill Bennett has been chosen Comptroller of Colgate-Palmolive Co. This is a move up from Assistant Comptroller, to which he was appointed in 1952.

From Manchester, N. H., comes word that John Nelson has been elected to the board of directors of the National Association of Cost Accountants. He is immediate past president of the New Hampshire chapter, NACA; a member and past director of the N. H. Society of CPA's, a member of the American Institute of CPA's, and a member and past secretary of the Exchange Club.

American Cyanamid Co. announces that Bliss K. Thorne, former member of the New York Times and the public relations staff of Avco Manufacturing Co. has joined their organization as coordinator of corporate press relations.

But all this summer was not one of industrial muscle-flexing; the field of oratory and the finer arts was not neglected. Aside from Dean Karl Hill's attendance at Educators' Day at the Gulf Oil Corporation Research Center in Harmarvilla, Pa., in June, two other members of the class broke into the cultural or instructional field. Bob MacGregor, manager of publications for the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Hartford, spoke to the Worcester (Mass.), Life Underwriters Association on "Sales Tools to Build Your Business."

In the field of the possibly "finer" arts (although what is finer than building your business?) Larry Laughlin has had an exhibit in his native Chelmsford of five photographic portraits. Although an insurance executive by profession, Larry has done some professional work in the field of photography. After Dartmouth he attended the Museum School of Art ill Boston and made photography his hobby during the war. He is vice-president of the Lowell Art Association.

The portraits he exhibited included his children. Julie and Peter; a study of an old man lighting a cigarette, and an action pho- tograph of a black cat stepping up to a windowsill in which the velvety softness of the cat's fur was emphasized.

Summer being the traditional season for social activities, we must hereby record the visit to Norwich, Vt., of Rev. Herb Loring, associate professor of religion and chaplain of Doane College, Crete, Neb., with Mrs. Loring and their four children. Herb served as preacher this summer in Benson.

With somewhat alarming frequency, accounts still come in, even for such an elderly class as ours, of nuptials near and far. For example, in Rochester, N. Y., Mrs. Elizabeth Whitney Nicholl became the bride of RalphW. Johnston. The bride is a graduate of the University of Rochester.

The engagement of Robert A. Southworth and Miss {Catherine Hobson of Little Boar's Head, N. H., has been announced, and by the time you read this, the wedding will have taken place. Miss Hobson is a graduate of the Madeira School and of Bradford Junior College and was attending Barnard College. Bob, incidentally, is with Socony Oil.

As mentioned in the last notes last June, several items of more than usual import are on the agenda for this year. As you may have heard rumors, we have a reunion in June. Due to the peripatetic nature of the summer for this correspondent, he made only one futile stab at talking a Reunion Chairman into office; he will now proceed to make an intensive campaign and come up with a potent executive force to get the ball rolling. Any suggestions as to personnel or policies for the event will, as usual, be welcome.

Another project, closely allied with the Reunion, is the publication of another directory. Having made a complete boo-boo of the questionnaires from the last one except for the bare minimum necessary for the actual directory, I'm not going to attempt anything fancy this time. This is especially true at the moment (meaning the beginning of September) when breaking into a brand new job is taking all waking hours (would you ever imagine that it would be part of a Headmaster's job to find board and room for a horse in order to get a student to attend his school?). The only bright idea this department has had about a new Directory is that it be more pocket-sized than the last. If anyone who has had some use for the last one has any suggestions as to additional information or improved format, please advise.

The last matter of new business before the house in June will be the important one of choosing a set of officers for the crucial five years before our 25th. Everyone knows the necessity for a concentrated and vigorous leadership during that period; a little advance thought before the tents go up would seem to be highly desirable.