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By now everyone should have fully recuperated from bidding "good-bye" to 1956 and giving a rousing Wah Hoo Wah for 1957. 1956 was a year of historic happenings and memorable accomplishments. I am sure that there were many occasions for gladness for everyone of us and I hope that the moments of sadness were not numerous for anyone.
From all reports it was a great year for '41'ers, collectively and individually. For all of us it marked the passing of our 15th year out of college. Those who were able to return to Hanover in June to celebrate this memorable event will long remember those three wonderful days of renewing old acquaintances.
Individually 1956 was a year of several marriages, many births and numerous business promotions among our classmates. The '41 family has increased substantially during the past year. The progenitors of the latest addition thereto are Dick and Judy Potter. Now Tom, Dick and Harry answer the roll-call in the Potter home in Hicksville, New York. Tom was born on July 27. Dick Sr. is making certain that his three boys will never go barefooted by making a name for himself in the hosiery business with Dwight S. Williams Co. of New York City.
1956 also saw the. passing of a well-known weekly magazine from our newsstands. Before passing from the American scene one of the last issues of Colliers contained a color picture and thumb-nail biography of handsome Jack Meyer, top surviving ace of World War 11. Colonel Jack and Mary and their five children live at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Ala. Jack instructs at the Air War College.
One promotion in 1956 was not enough for Dr. Jim Kelso. Jim's most recent promotion at Massachusetts Institute of Technology was to the position of executive assistant to the President. Promotions are second nature to Jim, who rose through the ranks of the paratroopers in World War II from private to lieutenant colonel. Jim, Dorothy and their two children live in Winchester, Mass.
The boys up New England way have made an enviable record in the last year. Up in the north country, close to our old stamping ground, Don Tabor Was recently appointed a director of the National Bank of Lebanon to complement his already numerous civic activities.
A little to the south, George C. Denny was recently named assistant underwriting secretary of the Berkshire Life Insurance Company of Pittsfield, Mass., where George and Joanne have lived since 1952.
Pittsfield has also been the center of vigorous alumni activity by some of our brethren. Bob Hess was recently elected vice-president of the Dartmouth Club of Berkshire County. Its gala Dartmouth Night celebration was attended by Ab Combes.
Down the line a bit Bill Hotaling is president of the Dartmouth Club of New Haven. Around New York, Ed Acker is busy interviewing freshman prospects and organizing a class cocktail party at the Dartmouth Club of New York. Dick Darby and Frank Hall are presently serving tenures as executive committeemen of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Long Island.
NEWS OF NEW BUSINESS VENTURES
Percy Holloway is now New York representative for The Reporter, a news magazine. Lance Ballou is with the National Broadcasting Company in television network sales. Harry Douty has left Macy's to take the plunge and go into business for himself as a sporting goods manufacturer. Good luck, Harry!
The number one national headline event of the past year was the November election in which several of our classmates actively participated as officers of political organizations, campaigners and candidates. In New Jersey, Milt Cunningham was candidate for mayor of Hightstown on the Republican ticket. After leaving Dartmouth, Milt graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science. He is the third generation of pharmacists practicing his profession in Hightstown in a business established by his grandfather and continued by his father. His many civic activities include secretary of the pharmaceutical association of his county, president of the local Lion's Club, trustee of his church and president of the Board of Health. With all this, he still has found time to be a family-man. Milt and Betty have three children, David, Lynne and Nancy.
From Ridgewood, N. J., comes news of Steele and Corinna Brown and their two daughters. Steele is a production head of General Chemical Co. Corinna is one of the leading artists in the Ridgewood Art Community, her specialty being water colors.
Nor has that great section of our country, the Middle West, been without many noteworthy achievements during the last year. The Horatio Alger of Youngstown, Ohio, is Bill McKelvey, who rose from stock clerk to vice-president, secretary and general merchandise manager of the G. M. McKelvey Co., one of the largest stores between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Like Milt Cunningham, Bill is the third generation of his family to continue a business founded in 1883. He has also followed the family pattern of extensive civic activities which have included service as president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, civil defense work and participation in youth activities. But Bill's first interest is naturally his family of five sons and a daughter, who keep Bill and Sallie fully occupied.
ADDITIONAL NEWSBITS FROM THE MIDWEST
Jack and Marjorie Kelley recently bought a new home in Wayzata, Minn. Bob Krieger is busily engaged in Dartmouth Alumni affairs in Minneapolis, where he keeps tabs on Don Norton who is keeping the wheels of progress turning for Minnesota Mining Co. Bill Sleepeck is also speeding up the road to fame and fortune in the conduct of his Chicago printing business.
Congratulations to all for their exploits of 1956 - family-wise and business-wise. May everyone's success and good fortune increase and multiply in 1957.
Secretary, 3 Nassau Rd., Great Neck, N. Y.
Treasurer, 1175 Murrayhill Ave., Pittsburgh 17, Pa.
