1936
April 26 is the date of the 1936 class dinner. It will be held at the Dartmouth Club of New York, 37 East 39th Street. Wives are invited. The class had a gay and happy party a year ago where 34 people turned out and this will be run on the same informal scale. By the time you read these notes, announcements and invitations should have gone out and you will know more about the dinner than I do now. This is a reminder. All I know is that Dick Morton (as past class secretary, knowing closing dates) telephoned me yesterday and said Pete Fitzherbert flew into New York on business and was able to arrange a quick lunch with Paul Lynch, Norb Hofman, Frank Weston and Dick and they all agreed a class dinner was in order. Dick Morton has made reservations at the Club, and that's about all it takes to start a bang-up '36 party.
We hadn't heard from Dick Brierly for a long time, and at last he writes from Paul Bunyon Country "The Brierley family now consists of my wife, Jean, and four daughters - Linda, 15, Sandy, 13, Gail, 11, and Ann, 4. Our new address is 4629 Browndale Avenue South, Minneapolis 24, Minn. It happens to be a Dartmouth house since I purchased it from my old friend, Bob Gibson '39 who was a few years behind me at school.... This past summer, Jean and I and the family moved our headquarters from Kansas City, Mo. to Minneapolis which is headquarters of the Company (Archer-Daniels-Midland)." Dick is a vice president and assistant to the president as well as Manager of the Alfalfa Division. This is a division with 40 plants that buys alfalfa from the farmer, dehydrates it, stores it, and merchandises it, basically to the mixed feed industry. In 1954, Dick was sent to the Advanced Management Course at Harvard Business School which is a challenge provided to certain key men and a preliminary step to Dick's being given a vice presidency at Archer-Daniels-Midland.
Abbott Conley's stepson, Dick Harrison, is in the Air Force. Ab is an accountant with Air Reduction Company at their research laboratories in Summit, N. J. His home is 45 Tallmadge Avenue, Chatham, N. J. His father is Walter Conley '05 of Morristown.
The only classmate of ours who has made a career of serious music, and possibly the only Dartmouth man in many years with this distinction is Raphael Hillyer. He is an expert solo violinist. He is also the violinist or violist in the Juilliard String Quartet. With this group, he has been making approximately 75 professional concerts each year including TV appearances. He has just returned from a European concert tour where, with the Quartet, he played in all the free countries, at the Salzberg and Berlin Festivals, recorded and broadcast over B. B. C., Radio Berlin. Rome, Copenhagen, and Oslo. Raphael is on the faculty of the Juilliard School. For many years the Quartet was under a recording contract with Columbia Records, but they have just signed for a long term with R. C. A. to become the exclusive string quartet to make Victor Records.
When the Quartet was organized by the Juilliard Foundation in 1946, they made their first public appearance in Hanover just before making their professional debut in New York City. They have played at Dartmouth practically every other year since that time. At the Music Festival at Aspen, Raphael works with Louis Benezet who is a director of the Cultural Center there as well as President of Colorado College. Throughout this country, Canada, and abroad '36ers greet Raphael at concerts. He remembers seeing Jim Gidney and Chuck Aaron recently in Cleveland and Dick Wakefield in Seattle. Dartmouth men of other classes too have stopped him after concerts here and in Europe. Steve Stotzer, El Camp, and Dan Schwartz he recalls seeing some time ago.
Many of you who had Raphael's father, Professor Silverman, in mathematics will be interested to know he is now teaching math at the University of Houston. He is on leave from the Municipal Liberal Arts College in Tel Aviv, where he went after retirement from Dartmouth three years ago and where he helped establish that new college. Raphael's wife is Dr. Gerda Hillyer. She is on the staff at the Memorial Hospital in New York and practices under Dr. Emerson Day *34. Her maiden name was Gerda Sgalitzer and she received her medical degree at the University of Vienna Medical School. Raphael met Gerda when he was with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and she was on the faculty of the Boston University Medical School. They have 3 children, Nitra, who is 11, Linda 8, and Jonathan 6, and they live at 06 Sherman Avenue, Teaneck, N. J.
Here are some short news items. Dave Futnam has been elected New Hampshire Vice Chairman of the New England Council. Ted Olson has received the 1956 National Quality Award for outstanding service in the field of life insurance underwriting: Chet Young is running for re-election for the school board in Scituate, Mass.: Don Sutherland is electioneering for his first year on the school board in Danvers, Mass.: George Brown, former city attorney, has been appointed to a 5-year terra as president of the Board of Education in Hackensack, N. J.: Roy Coppedge, who is a vice president and director of the National Distillers Products Corp., has been elected a Director of the New York Trust Co.: Pinky Conklin has been elected a trustee of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association. He is vice president and director of the Guardian Life Insurance Co. Pinky is also an adjunct professor of finance at the New York University Graduate School of Business Administration: Bob Button has returned from a visit to NATO countries on behalf of "Voice" for which he is the director of International Broadcasting Service: Al Flouton has been made Supervisor of all P. & G. products advertising at the Compton Agency in New York which handles Ivory Soap, Crisco. and other brands: Bill Hart writes brother Tom Hart, Syracuse lawyer, that the climate in the Azores beats that in Upstate New York, especially as the blood thins out. Bill expects to take his vacation "back home" this summer but return in the fall to the U. S. Military School where he and his wife teach in the Azores: Bob Patterson has spent 3 weeks skiing in Austria. A K.L.M. plane flew into Rochester to pick up Bob and his party of 8 and fly them directly to St. Anton, St. Moritz and Klosters. Since his wife Tink injured her knee in a skiing accident on Mt. Mansfield 3 years ago she was glad to keep the home fires burning with son, Andrew 13. Their other son, Robert H., is a freshman at Exeter. Herb Higgins has been transferred from the U.S. Consulate in Bombay to Sao Paulo, Brazil. Society columns report the Dick Spencers have vacationed in Florida, so did Dick and Madine Morton with their sons, Robert and Donald. Dexter Martin is teaching at Princeton. John Arnold is with I.B.M. in Chicago. Ken Licber lias been made vice president of Cyprus Mines Corp. in Los Angeles. This is a switch from U.S. Steel's tube division in Pittsburgh where Ken was a V.P. His office is now at 523 A Vest 6th St., Los Angeles 14 and his home at 222 Via Lorca, Newport Beach, Calif. Stan McCoy has taken over the management of The Grosvenor, "a distinctive hotel of quiet charm" at 35 Fifth Ave. at 10th Street in New York: Hugh Di Fabio has moved to 5821 Central in Kansas City, Mo.: Al Roberts is on the staff of Presbyterian Hospital in New York where he does general surgery. He passed his specialty boards in 1950. He has three children, Michael, 12, and twins, Gary and Carol who are 8 years old. He and his wife are going to try to get to the class dinner at the Dartmouth Club on April 25: Pete and Barbara Fitzherbert are planning to fly down from Auburn, Me. for the class dinner.
Gil Cutler says nothing improves a joke more than telling it to your employees.
Raphael Hillyer '36 (second from left) is violinist with the famed Juilliard String Quartet. Other members shown are (l to r) RobertMann, Claus Adam and Robert Knoff.
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