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DARTMOUTH 1912 HANOVER "OFFICIAL" 45th REUNION JUNE 9 to 11, 1958 "DON'T MISS YOUR DATE IN "58"
Garry Garrison has been appointed Chairman of the Reunion Committee to conduct our belated 45th Reunion, June 9 to 11, 1958. When you check these dates on your calendar - which I hope you will do immediately- you will observe that these dates fall on the second Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of June. Probably a goodly number of the Class will arrive in Hanover on Sunday, June 8. The classes of 1913 and 1914 will be reuning at the same time, under the new reunion schedule, so that we will have an opportunity of renewing acquaintanceship and friendship with the members of those two classes who followed us in College and probably have not seen nor heard from these many years. Reuning the first half of the week is a departure, necessitated by the inability of the College to provide accommodations for all of the reuning classes to gather at the same time. It is merely one of the growing pains of our increased number of alumni. Garry was in Hanover the weekend of the Brown game, to complete final arrangements for our reunion and you can be assured that we will be well provided for.
Although Charley Gately's last resignation from governmental service has been previously reported, nevertheless, the detailed account of his experiences is too good to keep.
"In case no one is interested, I'll tell you of myself as follows: I must preface my recital with the observation that all the stuff they fed us about stick-to-it, determination, will-to-win, bringing success, and comparable exhortations, are pure, unadulterated hokum. I shall illustrate: Six years ago almost to the day, I vowed and determined to follow my natural urge to labor no more. Every six months since, on the hour, I've quit and called it a day. I now hold the world's record for farewell luncheons and dinners from New York to Frisco via Houston. I've insulted my superiors by phone and letter at least once a week and still I'm not fired. And the dopes who teach tell kids the way to get on is to be nice to the boss! Kick him in the shins and he'll promote you; I know. June 30 last, I severed my employment, which was with the Government, for once and for all, and was paid in full. Three weeks later a greaseball by the name of Nasser grabbed a dirty ditch called Suez, and they draped me out in blue denims again. I've been at that one ever since, that one being popularly known as the 'Oil Lift To Europe.' It's been a tough, disagreeable grind. It's over now, but for seven months I've worked as hard for 50 bucks a day as I ever did when I was being paid. Along with the. munificent compensation, I received all the abuse in the dictionary. Eight different Congressional committees, principally a Boston Irishman from Wyoming by the name of O'Mahoney (St. Patrick didn't chase the snakes out of Ireland; he made Irishmen out of them) investigated us and uncomplimented us in as many different languages for saving the Free World from economic collapse. If you really want to know what a no-good louse someone let into your class at Dartmouth way back in September 1908, read the Congressional Record. My next farewell is scheduled for July. 31 this year. This one is positive, even if I have to go on crow diet. In the meantime I'm picking up the pieces, including the writing of a multi-volume tome labeled 'Report to the Secretary of the Interior on the Activities of the Middle East Emergency Committee, which means the truth, the whole truth and nothing but, about the Oil Lift. It will be written in the dignified prose to which I am accustomed."
Dr. Roy Haskell, who has spent his career as a plant pathologist with the Department of Agriculture since receiving his degree of Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1917, was honored by the receipt from the Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson, of the department's Superior Service Award. The ceremony took place in the Departmental Auditorium in Washington, D. C., last May. Upon his retirement Roy will make his home in Rochester, N. H., where he was born, and has customarily spent his summer vacations.
Charley McCarthy was detained at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital, after attending the Informal Reunion at Lake Morey, for a couple of operations, but after his return home at Falls Church, Va., in August, he has been doing fine, and following Doc Bowler's advice to take it easy, he is feeling as well as ever.
Changes of address: Robert D. Fletcher Rumney, N. H.; Charles E. McCarthy, 1417 Oak Ridge Road, Falls Church, Va.; Chester G. Newcomb, 2512 Tortugas Lane, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; James A. Steen, 41 Bloomfield Avenue, Newark, N. J.; Harry C. Wanner, Broad Run Farms, Sterling, Va.; James H. English, 1464 Overlea Street, Clearwater, Fla.; Paul E. Martin, Ammunition Inspector Box 763, Igloo, S. Dak.; Rollin H. Sturtevant (Retired), 363 Camino Del Norte, Tucson, Ariz.; Harry McCaffrey, 143-39 Ash Avenue, Flushing 55, N. Y.
Basil O'Connor was one of seventeen Dartmouth men honored with an Alumni Award,September 6, during the Dartmouth Convocation on Great Issues in the AngloCanadian-American Community. Followingis the citation read on that occasion:
"Basil O'Connor '12, some wise men have been prepared to say that the worth of the liberally educated man may be measured by the depth of his concern for his fellow men. Others have said: Measure the man by what he has accomplished. And still others ask: How is he regarded-what do people think of him? We are pleased to apply all three criteria to you. This summer parents throughout the world are thinking of you and of what you have done to remove the threat of infantile paralysis from their lives. Men who know say that you, through the intensity of your wish to lick polio, have moved the clock of medical progress ahead by many years. You have been the long-time President of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, an eminent lawyer, a Past President of the American Red Cross, and in Dartmouth affairs you are the long-time president of your class. You have received the Medal of Merit from the United States and have been decorated by at least 16 foreign governments. The Dartmouth Fellowship bestows its 'Well Done!' with this Alumni Award."
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