1949
Winter Carnival starts within three days of this writing, and I for one would like to be up there celebrating it - but numerous circumstances have prevented us (and several other couples we contacted) from making it this year.
Several items of interest to report this month - most important is the scheduling of a Class Dinner at the Dartmouth Club of New York City on the evening of Friday, May 10. We will again have a room of "our own" and wives are, of course, cordially invited. The cost will be kept at the lowest point, and there will be a choice of meal. So all of you in that N.Y.C. area - mark the date down - Friday, May 10 - you'll get more literature on it later. Ed Clogston is responsible for setting this up for us, and I'm most sincerely appreciative.
Out in the Chicago area I've asked Rank Lashmet to attempt a similar get-together of his own choosing among the 15-20 of you who are in and around Chicago. Rank has agreed to do what he can, and I've mailed him the list with addresses, so those of you there will hear from him. All these class dinners will be "helped" in small part financially by your Class Treasury, and I'm most anxious to have them spread geographically as far as possible. We will underwrite any such gatherings if any of you will take the initiative to organize it. I can readily supply the list of guys in the area, so I'd be delighted to hear from any willing organizer. There's damned little work to it, and the rewards of an evening out with the boys will more than compensate for whatever actual effort is required. We will be glad to publicize and circularize all in the area for you. How about some volunteers?
Just the other day I was pleasantly surprised to get a phone call from Carl Struever of Eastman-Kodak in Rochester who was in Providence on a business trip. We unfortunately had only time for a phone conversation as Carl had a 6 p.m. plane to catch, but it was fine to hear from him. Carl reports that he sees Dave Strasenburgh often in Rochester and likewise saw quite a bit of Ralph Burgard when the latter was in Buffalo as manager of the Philharmonic there. Ralph is now in a similar capacity in Winston-Salem, N. C.
In Ed Clogston's letter I read where he's already tried out the new Dartmouth Skiway with great enthusiasm, that he's had a recent luncheon with Bob Alden, and that Ross Dunbar has recently had a son.
In Rank Lashmet's letter he enclosed a tearsheet from a recent trade paper which contained an article about our Phil Johnson.... Phil, it seems, has formed a partnership with a Jerry Toppel in Denver, Colo. Both of them are manufacturers' representatives extensively travelling Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, western Texas, Utah, Arizona, and Idaho.
King Ball writes from Augusta, Me., that he'd very much like a few volunteers for Assistant Class Agents in the upcoming Alumni Fund drive. I know King's had success in past years when several of you similarly volunteered, and I hope you'll do so again. There's not an awful lot of work required, and it's a great service to the Class, to King, and to the College. His address is Box 11, Augusta, so how about it?
Two engagements for the month....Joel Berson of New York is engaged to Ann Olstein of Woodmere, N. Y., with an April wedding planned. Joel is a Yale Law School grad. ...
Jay Urstadt of Pelham, N. Y., is engaged to Elinor McClure Funk of Santa Monica, Calif. The wedding will be this spring. Jay is a member of the New York Bar Association.
Dr. Tom McManus has joined the dental offices of Drs. Fred and Eugene Newman in Red Bank, N. J. Tom was discharged in October from the Navy Dental Corps after serving 27 months as Lt. (Sr. grade).
Herman W. Stein has been elected Assistant Treasurer of Bell & Howell Co. of Chicago.
Ernest Beattie has been named an industrial district sales manager in Philadelphia by Scott Paper Co. His most recent assignment was as industrial district sales manager in the Baltimore market. Employed by Scott in 1950, Ernie joined the company as a trainee in the consumers' representative department. He transferred to Detroit as a member of the washroom advisory service in 1952 and was subsequently named an industrial salesman.
Jack Kilmartin joined me last week for an evening of interviewing Dartmouth applicants for the Class of 1961. Such interviews are carried on in all areas where applicants are, and if you've never sat in on one of them, you should—you'd like it, and it's a service you can do for the College easily and pleasantly. Jack and I plan to attend the Rhode Island High School Hockey Playoffs this week to scout three boys who have already applied to the College. Jerry wants the word on how good they really are, and I'm sure Jack is more qualified there than I am. My job in this State is to locate them, to screen them academically and to try to sell them.
A few vocations I get from my change-of-address list of the month: Dick Carr is Sales Manager of Acme Wire Co. in New Haven.... Al Case is a Staff Member of the M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Mass....Hugh Cruickshank is Assistant Manager of Wholesale Magazine Agency in Anchorage, Alaska.
...Jep Ellingwood is in Civil Aeronautics in Miami....Dr. Joe Kelly is at University Hospitals in Cleveland....Dr. Barber Palmer is Resident Surgeon at the George Washington University Hospital....Bob Priester is with the U. S. National Bank in Denver....Lt. Alfred Sullivan is a Naval aviator in Warrington, Fla....Bill Thayer is with Woodard-Elwood Co. Investment Bankers in Minneapolis Bob Tillson is Sales Representative with Diebold, Inc. in Boston....John Travers is with the State Department in Rome....Dr. DavidVan Tassel is with the History Department at the University of Texas....Gerald Sedgewick is working for his Master's at the University of California.
I am hoping you'll attend regional class gatherings when they are scheduled...
DON'T FORGET THE 10TH OF MAY IN NEW YORK CITY...I'll be there-will you?
Herman W. Stein Jr. '49 has been elected Assistant Treasurer of Bell & Howell Company. He has been with the Chicago firm since 1951 and serves as secretary-treasurer of the Bell & Howell Foundation.
Secretary, 50 Tryon Ave. East Providence, R. I.
Treasurer, 21 Crescent Dr., Whippany, N. J.
