1925
On the day these notes are written, there appears in The New York Times Book Review a cartoon of an author sitting disconsolately at his desk while his wife remarks, "I thought the new typewriter was to solve all your problems." Your Secretary knows how the poor guy feels. With two deadlines a month to meet, for these notes and the Newsletter, and with what is obviously a conspiracy of silence in full effect among his classmates, there is a real opening here for a typewriter that writes its own stuff. But there are four clippings, even though two of them are duplicates.
Nate Bugbee has taken on another community obligation by becoming Treasurer of the Franklin Square House in Boston. This is a non-profit hotel for young women, one of the largest in the country. Nate, also Treasurer of Tufts University, is a trustee of the West Newton, Mass. Savings Bank, a director and trustee of the Newton-Wellesley Hospital, and a trustee of the Stone Institute for the Aged. He is Vice-President of Standish, Ayer, and McKay, Investment Counsellors.
Brad Smith is now Executive Vice-President of the Insurance Co. of North America and its affiliate, Philadelphia Fire and Marine Insurance Co. He is also a director of the North America Group which included another affiliate, Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America. Brad joined the companies in 1929 and has been Vice-President of the fire companies since 1943. He holds a number of directorships and is a member of the Board of Managers of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Haverford School. The Governor of Pennsylvania recently appointed him chairman of a 14-man committee to study flood control and flood insurance in that state.
Staying with the name, there is an interesting piece about Stan Smith in a recent issue or National Petroleum News. It begins with an interview with his father, Ernst E. Smith, Board Chairman of Smith Oil and Refining Co. of Rockford, Ill., of which Stan is now President. Apparently there was a time when Stan had the habit of biting his playmates, but all is now forgiven in Rockford. Under his vigorous leadership with his motto, "You've got to spend money to make money," the company, founded by his grandfather, has expanded in size and scope. It has terminals at Fulton and Peru and a newly built pipeline terminal at Rockford. Stan is active in community affairs, both political and philanthropic and is chairman of the History and Public Relations Committees of the American Petroleum Institute.
Bunny Levison announces that the annual Boston Dinner for Twenty-fivers and wives will be on April 26, and by this time all those who live in the area will have been notified as to details. Any from more remote regions who might be in a position to attend should communicate with Bunny directly. (B. L. Levison, 26 Egmont St., Brookline 26, Mass.) Here are the latest address changes:
David M. Ames, Red Cottage, Picket Twenty, Andover, Hants, England; Andrew B. Foster, 1616 Walnut St., Room 914, Philadelphia 3, Pa.; Charles M. Hinckley, 1338 Crenshaw Blvd., Apt. 18, Los Angeles, Calif.; Donald S. Kilby, 345-1 Aberdeen Hall, 3415 38th St., N.W., Washington 16, D. C.: James O. Martin, P. O. Box 78, Chandler, Ariz.; Hiram S. Russell, 917 Hinman, Evanston, Ill.; Herbert F. Abrams, 39 Montauk Highway, Blue Point, N. Y.; Charles M. Annis, 320 Canterbury Rd., Rochester 7, N. Y.; Wallace S. Jordan, 15 East 91st St., N.Y.C. 28; James F. Lawler, 44 Woodleigh Ave., Greenfield, Mass.
Turning again to the Stan Smith Story, it is reported that he once wrote his father this note: "If sons always followed in their fathers' footsteps, we'd be living in caves and eating nuts." And although this might have been provoked by a business discussion, its application is universal. The other animals are content to be chips off the old block; only man refuses to take the world or himself as he finds them, and only man can project his experience in time and space beyond the events of his own biology. An educational enterprise is an attempt consciously to establish the patterns of this experience, but they are themselves in constant flux and not immune to influence from energies outside the educational process. As man changes his world, some of the change comes off on him and the reciprocal alteration is not uniformly an improvement. Caught between impacts, the formal activities of education must undertake the paradoxical adaptation of being at once firm and yielding. The only resolution lies in learning that we cannot teach the truth but only encourage an unending quest for it.. Only thus may we reach across the abyss between generations, which by its very nature tends to widen and is sometimes so appalling. If our children seem to be drawing away from us, they may be drawing ahead of us, too. To equip them to do so without impediment is the essential aim of the liberal arts - the liberating education. This is the purpose to which Dartmouth is committed and to the support of which she now, by tradition, calls her sons - that men's hearts and minds may be forever and unalterably free.
Karl P. Lipsohn '25 of Hingham, Mass., last month assumed a new position at the University of Vermont as Executive Assistant to the President for External Affairs. He will be responsible for all activities involving alumni and public relations and development.
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