1929

The following letter, just received, will undoubtedly be of interest to all members of the class:

Dear Chris:

At long last the time has come for a report from the Class Agent. The ALUMNI MAGAZINE in its last issue gave us a statistical report covering the entire 1956 Alumni Fund Campaign as well as the specific doings of the Class of '29. Our class record was certainly nothing to be ashamed of. As a class we raised more funds than ever before, we were second in our Derby, and we were right up among the leaders from all the classes. All that, you have read in the Magazine and no doubt you have basked in the reflected warmth thereof.

But there was more than that. There were fifty or so agents who for the most part worked hard and long to make our participation in the fund successful. Thirty-eight of these agents were veterans of past campaigns; twelve were on the barricade for the first time. All of them gave of themselves and of their substance to attain these new heights. In the course of their jobs, they also corralled thirty-six contributors who had not given in 1955 while losing twenty-one who had given in 1955. They also obtained more gifts of $100 or more than we ever had before.

So far as specific results are concerned, Dud Orr led the pack. He had the "Gold Coast" and made the most of it. Following him among the veterans were "Tuck" Tucker in second place, Bruce Sutherland in third place, with prospects hidden all over the Pennsylvania hills, then Herb Bissell in Minnesota and "J. B." Cook of stony Connecticut. Close behind them in a dead heat were Tal Babcock of New York City, Bob Drake of Chicago, Wes Nord of Western New York, and Johnny Quebman in the land of the cod. Gene Davis combed the Connecticut and Massachusetts back country neck and neck with Al Benjamin in Illinois, Morrie Hartman in Cleveland and Charlie Schaeffer in the Nutmeg State. The other oldsters strung out behind, most of them maintaining a wholly respectable pace.

Then there were the new recruits. LarryShirley on points led the yearlings and actually was only two points behind "Tuck." LouPayne would have ranked fourth among the old hands and was second among the new, while Mace Ingram, taking over from MaurieMandlebaum in Hanover, was right up there, even getting a contribution from a classmate who hadn't given for nigh onto thirty years.John Laffey and Dick Danforth were right on his heels. And so it was a remarkable victory, an outstanding group of agents and a most generous class.

There was, however, one cloud on the horizon. We didn't have enough contributors. The Class of '2 ran circles around us on that subject and we certainly don't want to have this happen again. So now I am asking last year's agents to rekindle the torch for this year. I think they'll do it, probably without a defection, probably with new vigor and undoubtedly rededicated to a cause we all so thoroughly believe in.

And now my message to all the other members of the class for 1957 is to remember the job the agents and the College are doing, to think what it means to keep Dartmouth in the forefront of the liberating arts, and seriously to consider what fair share each of us should give to keep what we have and to perpetuate it for generations of Dartmouth men yet unselected. This means all of us must get in the fold with the "folding" for '57.

P.S.—lf you lived in Hungary, appeals like this you wouldn't have to worry about. You could worry about something else.

Ed Cogswell, who has been in the real estate business in and around Wellesley and Boston for the past twenty-five years, has now joined the firm of Hunneman & Co. at 5 Arlington St., Boston. We understand that his efforts will be concentrated in suburban Wellesley and vicinity.

Ellie Cavanagh is now entitled to place the initials "F.A.C.S." after his name. Not long ago, he was inducted a fellow of the American College of Surgeons at a cap-and-gown ceremony closing the organization's annual five-day clinical congress at San Francisco. Ellie and Marjorie are alone now at home; Julie is a senior at Dana Hall School in Wellesley, John is teaching history at the Dublin School, Dublin, N. H., and James Jr. is now in his third year of surgical training at the Boston City Hospital.

We have come across an editorial from the Medina, N. Y., Journal Register about Hal Hirsch that we think is worth quoting in part. It is entitled "Now Comfort is Stylish" and here are the appropriate sections:

Some of us oldsters are still finding it a little difficult to adjust to the garb which our youngsters - and their offspring - are wearing. In our day there were no such things as "sports clothes," except for baseball suits and padded football suits with hard-rubber nose-guards and sticks sewn up and down the front of the pants to inhibit broken femurs. Of course, there were captain's hats and double-breasted blue jackets with brass buttons. But for the rank and file of us, the clothes we relaxed in were simply those that were no longer very presentable, duds we didn't mind getting wet or muddy or snagged....Looking back, we didn't seem to have much leisure - not more than enough to look after the garden and the yard, get the storm windows on and off, tinker with the car and give it a wash now and then. But two things have happened since those days. One is the forty-hour-week, and the other is Harold S. Hirsch....In 1929, young Hirsch packed his brand new diploma in his suit case and started for Oxford to learn how to be a college professor. But the depression caught up with him, and he was called home to go to work in the family clothing factory, the White Stag Mfg. Co., in Portland, Ore. This venerable concern had first made sails for the clipper ships bound around the - later supplied gold-seekers with tents and tarpaulins, and when Hirsch put away his books to be a cutter, made canvas work clothes for lumberjacks....But Harold wanted to make ski togs to compete with the expensive imported outfits in which wealthy sportsmen and sportswomen were being photographed. The company took a chance - on $1,200 worth - and who would ski now without being dressed for it? Next he dreamed up play clothes in colored sailcloth and work denim. Then he discovered what every sailor has known since dungarees were invented, that they begin to have some character when they get faded. So Hirsch faded his denims first, then made sailor pants and pedal-pushers and jackets and shorts of it....Today, when Harold Hirsch is head man of White Stag and has his fellow citizens wearing play clothes pretty much around the clock and on all kinds of occasions, including the parties we used to "dress up" for, we wonder what next. Tomorrow, no doubt, a business suit will look pretty quaint - even in the office.... But toreador pants will still look funny - anywhere.

We have just heard that on February 2 The New Hampshire Bar Association adopted a resolution recommending that Frank R.Kenison, chief justice of the state Supreme Court, be appointed an associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court to replace Justice Stanley F. Reed, who retires February 25. The resolution was passed unanimously at the Bar Association's mid-winter meeting and copies of the resolve, which describes Chief Justice Kenison as "eminently qualified" for the appointment have been sent to President Eisenhower and Attorney General Brownell.

Bob Monahan is already making his way in the House of Representatives of the State of New Hampshire. The day after he was sworn in he was appointed to the top ranking majority position on the standing policy committee of "Resources, Recreation and Development" and he has since been appointed by Governor Lane Dwinell to serve on the Northeastern Forest Fire Protection Commission as one of the three New Hampshire commissioners. For those of you visiting Hanover, Bob has moved from Parkhurst Hall to Elm House at 25 North Main Street.

Due to the limitations which are continually being imposed on the space available in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE due to rising costs, we have obtained the permission of the new Newsletter Editor, Jack Blair, to present the annual father-son letters to you in one of his forthcoming issues — we hope it will be in your hands during the month of March.

Howard A. Heimbach '30

Col. Hamilton D. South '30 of the Marines has been made Director of Information for the Marine Corps. He recently was in the Far East where he served with the First Marine Air Wing as assistant personnel chief.

Secretary, Center Rd., Woodbridge, Conn.

Treasurer, 1728 Beechwood Blvd., Pittsburgh 17, Pa.

Bequest Chairman,