1927
If we could make a deal with the editor of this MAGAZINE which would permit us to delay submitting the copy for these notes until after our fall reunion, we would be able to give you a lot of news that would be a lot more current than it will be when you read it next month. However, as this would entail delaying the schedule of the MAGAZINE for all the rest of the alumni, it just can't be done. The best we can do at the moment is to promise a full report on the reunion, complete with the record of thedeliberations of the Executive Committee,for the December issue. Inasmuch as thiswill be too late to announce any plans forfootball game gatherings and fall Classdinners, we will leave the responsibility fordisseminating this information to Les Battinand the "Speak".
And speaking of Les, we had a verypleasant visit from him during September,while he was on his way from Cleveland,where he had been attending a show puton by the regulator valve industry, toChicago, where he was to visit his daughter.He reported that he had put in a very busysummer, and while he didn't say so, Iimagine that a great deal of the extrapressure came from work that had piled upwhile he was spending most of his time onplans for our Thirtieth. Les says that wewill just have to be patient about thepromised reunion book-he's still going toget it out, but it is taking longer than hehad thought it would. One thing we can besure of — no matter how long it takes, itwill be well worth the wait.
Don McCall was in Toledo a couple of weeks ago, but only for the short time that it took to shift his car from one railroad to another. He was on his way to White Sulphur Springs, and expected to spend a few days in New York on his way back to the Pacific Northwest. Unfortunately he couldn't stay around this part of the country long enough to take in the October reunion.
Another of our West Coast contingent will soon be making the long trek to New York, but his trip will involve a permanent change of locale. Duke Coulter, who for 20 years has been living on the West Coast, has been appointed vice president for the New York area of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, and by the time you read this will be settled in New York. Duke and Sonia are flying to New York for a preview of the new job, and, incidentally, a little house hunting, early in October, so they plan to be with us for the Brown game weekend.
Marty Heifer, Superintendent of Schools in Binghamton, N. Y., is the new president of the New York State Council of School Superintendents. He was elected at the council's annual meeting at Saranac Lake on Sept. 17. The group which Marty will head consists of all of the educational leaders of the cities and villages in the state of New York.
Roy and Lillie Dreher have announced the engagement of their younger daughter, Linda, to Yeoman 3/c Theodore Jay Blair, U.S.N. Linda is a graduate of Hollins College, and spent her junior year at the Sorbonne in Paris. She will be married in November.
Ken Andersen, who is executive vice-president of the Scientific Apparatus Makers Association, has been elected president of the American Society of Association Executives.
Those of you who were at reunion in June will long remember Nick Carter's beautiful memorial service. While Nick has retired from the active ministry, he has by no means given up his activities. He is president of the Boston Seaman's Friend Society, a trustee of the Hartford Seminary Foundation and the Deering Foundation, and during August was guest preacher at the Congregational Church on the Green in Litchfield, Conn.
A note from Rog Braman, during the course of which he remarks, "Those birthday cards of yours seem to come more often after age 50. Why is that? Could it be that one can count the remaining years now where as we never used to try, or worry about it?" prompted me to do a little research to see if there were still any members of the Class who had not reached the half-century mark. I couldn't remember any of our Class running around Hanover in kneepants, but remembering that we lived in the age of plus-fours, perhaps knee-pants wouldn't have been very conspicuous. I discovered that there are still two of us who are still on the magic side of fifty, though by the time you read this, one of them will have passed over the hump. He is Kyung Pang Yeu, who, when last heard from, was a professor at the Agricultural College in Nanchang, Kiangsi, China. Since there has been no postal communication with that part of China since the Communists took over, we have been out of touch with him for several years.
Bunny Smith, who for the past seventeen years has been Eastern Branch Manager for Kendall Mills, has returned to Walpole, Mass., as Manager of the Baby Products Division of that company. His new address is 201 Lowell Road, Wellesley Hills.
Lt. Col. Elmer Worth, formerly Provost Marshal, 39th Air Division, USAF, has been transferred to Lackland Air Force Base, Tex.
I don't know how many of you were listening to your radios during the weekend of September 6 and 7, but those of you who were must have been impressed by the terrific coverage that was given to the Dartmouth Convocation. Conceived as a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Great Issues course, the Convocation discussed the vital issues facing the Anglo-Canadian-American Community, with participants including men in policy-making positions in the three governments. It was the sort of thing that makes us all proud that we are Dartmouth men, and was an auspicious start to the activities leading up to our two-hundreth anniversary in 1969.
Kenneth Andersen '27 of Chicago was electedPresident of the American Society of Association Executives at the annual meeting of theSociety in St. Louis in September. He is executive vice president of the Scientific Apparatus Makers Association.
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