1938

The Yuletide season having come and gone with many greetings from members of the Class, as for example the fine portrait of the new Marty King mansion, Scotford's family and various other precincts reporting in, we find the mail-bag almost devoid of any news.

Indirectly, through a mutual acquaintance, word has trickled in that Wellington ("Duke") Wales is now managing editor of Woman's Day, with which shopping husbands are more or less familiar no doubt. "Duke" has been in the magazine field ever since departing the Hanover Plain. Presumably he still resides in the reaches of upper New York State, but there is no confirmation of that fact.

Enforced idleness in a hospital bed for some time during the vacation season allowed the perusal, a little more carefully than usual, of various national periodicals. Ted Hunter's wife Peg, as you all must have seen, got most generous treatment in Life for her GE model home. Perhaps a feature of the next reunion ought to be a guided tour of the various residences and other buildings the firm of Hunter and Hunter have done in the Hanover vicinity, not to mention various State projects.

A recent issue of Ski Magazine (published in Hanover, in case you didn't know it) featured an article on kid's ski-jumping ill Hanover. Many residents of the town feel that there is an over-emphasis on instruction there in various sports, skiing, swimming, tennis, etc., but certainly the programs are wellscheduled and supervised. The jumping article features pictures of Ted Hunter, Dave Bradley and John McLane judging and otherwise helping with the instruction. Harks back a little to the Olympics when we were in College and skiers seemed to come almost exclusively from Hanover, or at least the immediate surroundings.

A short visit to Hanover right after Christmas Day brought very little in the way of news of the class. A quick conference with Earl Ward in his emporium in regard to his newest agency for "Sailfish" portable sailboats, brought word of all being well with his family as well as the store. As the only family department store in Hanover, Ward's is a mainstay of the local economy. There one can get the ordinary items not available through J. Press.

Some late election news just came through, but I cannot offer any results on it. Belden Ely, who has been active in politics in Saugus ever since getting out of Dartmouth, ran for re-election to the Massachusetts State Legislature (usually known as "The Great and General Court"). After getting out of College, Belden did a great deal of graduate work in education at Harvard, B. U. and Staley College. While in the legislature he has been active on committees having to do with education, and was appointed by Governor Herter as a Delegate to the White House Conference on Education. Besides having taught in Saugus for fourteen years, he was also on the faculty of Endicott Junior College.

In thumbing through the Directory the other night, it struck my eye that there seemed to be quite a few '38'ers who at that date had reached the top as presidents of companies. A partial list would include: Dick Anderson, Averill, Beck, Blaney, Brett, Cotter, Calder, Duffey, Hatch, Freedman, Hosmer, Johnston, Kruschwitz, Llewellyn, Manegold, Mooney, Olson, Simons, "Newt" Smith, Gus Southworth, Stix, Straus, Jim Tompkins, Westheimer, and Wheelock. The list must by now be pretty obsolete, but still it's a pretty fair number considering the length of time since graduation. Any additions or corrections anyone wants to make will be gratefully received.

Probably due to the exigencies of the Christmas card "racket," most of you have been more than usually reticent about goings-on, and the shoe-box is completely empty. Unless you want to see "Compliments of a Friend" in this space next month, you'd better come through with some dirt. (Later the same day)

Rescue has come in a later mail at the last possible minute from faithful Treasurer, Bob Harvey in the form of several newsy little items:

Ev Wood, 1938's most peripatetic member jots from Frankfurt/M: "As of 1957 I expect to be living in America (with hick, maybe even around Hanover)," Ev has been abroad these many years as a pilot for PAA. Austie Grant notes that he has just started in private practice (medicine) in Phoenix, Ariz.—"slow going." And lastly, Hal Berman is spending a sabbatical year in Geneva and various other European cities studying trade problems between the East and West and expects to get to Moscow in the course of his studies.

To return to the Treasurer, here's the summary dope on his doings. He was ordained to the Episcopal priest-hood on the 21st of December in Chicago and is now back as vicar of St. David's Episcopal Mission inAurora, Illinois.

Reared in Bloomfield, N. J., the new priest was graduated in 1938 from Dartmouth College and subsequently lived in New York City where he was on the advertising sales staff of Life magazine. He and Mrs. Harvey, the former Suzanne Falter of Atchison, Kansas, were married early in 1941, and lived near Pearl Harbor, where he was assigned as engineering officer of a Pacific Fleet destroyer. Both Father Harvey and Mrs. Harvey are veterans of the Japanese attack on Oahu. He had four and one-half years service in Pacific destroyers, and presently holds the rank of Commander in the U. S. Naval Reserve. After the war, and until his entry in Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in 1955, Father Harvey represented the New York investment house of Calvin Bullock, as wholesale representative in 18 central states. The Harveys moved to Batavia in 1948, and after a year in Denver, returned to Geneva in 1952. They presently live in Aurora.

Secretary, Trinity-Pawling School Pawling, N. Y.

Treasurer, 149 Commonwealth Ave., Aurora, Ill.