1938
A nice note from Bill Lyle recounts a visitto the hills of Hanover and the new ski areain Lyme Center.
"Don Clarke just moved to Hopkinton, north of here, from Ohio. He is dairy farming. We met when he answered our ad in the weekly Bulletin offering our sheep. We're not going out of raising them - just cutting down, so Betty will have fewer mid-wifery duties this spring. I have all the ewes trained to 'borning' while I'm away on a business trip. It's much simpler that way.
"I'm still with Nashua Corp. now well settled in N. H. living after the years in N.Y.C. Travel one or two weeks a month. All in all a very enjoyable existence. How you can spend on these old houses (more than correct - ed.).
"Made the mistake of missing the last meeting of the Nashua Dartmouth Club and was elected president. That'll teach me!
"Charley Main and Marjorie sat near us at the Harvard game and we joined them afterwards for a drink. He's active in Winchester, Mass., politics and very busy in the construction and engineering business."
It must be the atmosphere or somethingabout New England that brings out the localpolitical urge among 1938'ers. We get little ifany word of such activity from the remoteprovinces, but just about everyone in NewHampshire and Massachusetts is politickinglike mad. From Wakefield, Mass., for examplecomes the public announcement that BoitWiswall will run again for the MunicipalLight Board.
"Mr. Wiswall is a former member of the Finance Committee and resigned from that committee when he was elected to the MLB in 1951. He is a director of the Wakefield Trust Company and a corporator of the Wakefield Savings Bank.
"The candidate is a member of the West Side Social Club, and Bear Hill Country Club where he served on the board of governors. He has been a leader of Community Fund campaigns for several years and at present is president of the local Community Chest.
"A veteran of World War II, he served 2½ years overseas with the rank of captain in Port Command in the Mediterranean Theater. He is at present assistant treasurer of the Consolidated Paper Box Company of Somerville."
Not to be outdone by Lyle, Reno turns up now as president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Merrimack county.
From the local paper in the Tri-Town area (White-River, Leb., and you know what) comes the intriguing story of a rather unusual professional venture - the Johnny Cake Society, formed by 11 doctors from Providence, R. I. who combine travel, sociability, and scientific programs. The society meets eight times a year in different parts of the country, with the host rotating. Host for the Hanover conference, naturally enough, was Henry C. McDuff. The members of the society, made up largely of clinicians on the staffs of Providence hospitals presented a scientific program in the Faulkner Assembly Room of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital.
Before moving on from the Hanover scene, I can't help mentioning the two tragic deaths in the same week —"Mac" Mahoney and Dick Southgate. Undoubtedly they will be given ample coverage elsewhere in this Magazine, but they were so much a part of the Hanover scene while we were in residence, that their passing cannot help changing for us a great deal the character of the town. Dick Southgate was a familiar sight, always ready with a friendly greeting, and a constant fixture of the Theta Delt house. We were in on the inauguration of Mac's fabulous emporium and all knew his ready wit, friendly interest in our affairs, and general enthusiasm for the College and everything to do with it. Just as much as anything else we tend upon returning to Hanover, to look for the familiar faces and places on Main Street as much as the College area; the street will be a little different now.
Jim Bonnyman checks in this month asManager of the Celluar Concrete Corp. inSarasota, Florida. This respondent intends asouthern expedition in that general directionthis spring to shake off the miasmic climateof Pawling and will duly note that whenferrying a small first-grader to the circus,friend Bonnyman is in the vicinity.
From the Windy precincts of Chicago, BigBill McNeil is reported merely as a "regionalsales manager," but what he sells must remaina mystery until amplification comes from areputable source. The last I heard it was medical instruments, but maybe that's an oldcategory for him.
E. Blair Warner of South Bend, Ind., hasjoined the board of directors of the FirstBank & Trust Co.
"Active in community affairs, Warner is a member of the executive committee of the Memorial Hospital board of directors and vice president of the South Bend School Building Corp., formed to build the new Washington High School. He is a former president of the Community Chest of South Bend, Council of Community Services of St. Joseph County and the South Bend Civic Planning Assn.
"After his graduation from Dartmouth College, he was associated with Haskins & Sells, Chicago certified public accountancy firm, and served in the Army Finance Department from 1941 to 1946 and again in 1950. He received the South Bend Junior Assn. of Commerce distinguished service award in 1950."
Thomas J. Lipton, Inc. announced the promotion recently of Walt Halfman to assistantsales manager. He will be responsible for theadministration of all branch sales offices inthe United States, and for the developmentof systems and procedures.
Walt started work in the tea business right after graduation from Harvard "B" School, as a salesman in New England and New York City. He spent four years in the Navy Supply Corps. In 1946 he was in the sales department of the Lipton Home Office as sales analyst and in 1947 was made sales supervision manager.
Now is the time, right now and not later, to toss in the old moo-la to Scotty. Don't waste any time about it so that he has to send you threatening letters.
Secretary, Trinity-Pawling School Pawling, N. Y.
Class Agent, 39 College St., Hanover, N. H.
