1951
April showers bring May flowers and June bugs bring fabulous 51's gigantic fifth. The dates - June 15 and 16, of course. Start packing your bag now. We hope to outstrip all other classes in our attendance records. Not even in the late 1800's did old Eleazar Wheelock's Indians living in their teepees along the Connecticut River nearby return for their fifth in such numbers as we shall. "Outstripping all other classes" is not a selfish ideal, it is just standard procedure for the great '51 class, and only proves to us that Hanover gave us a rich and rewarding experience. Whether you wish to come to sip a cool brew with an old friend, or to walk around the Green or out to Oak Hill, or through the tender grasses on the golf course, or just to sit on the Inn porch and watch a great school which will have just given up her students for another year, do plan on coming!!
We just had a farewell bread breaking with Bob Meyer who is moving to Kansas City after several years here with St. Regis's multiwall bag division. It's surely a step in the right direction for Bob who will be moving into the K.C. operation as number one man. Also out this way Dave Wiggins has recently left Minneapolis's N.W. Bank to take up a full time position with a company he helped to organize. The name - Leighton, Page Corp. Its business —at. present the manufacture of a high grade line of model railroad equipment, such as transformers, power packs and the like. The company is composed of several research people from Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co., with Dave as treasurer and operating head. The company also stresses research on many other products. They are looking for common stock buyers at $100 a share. (We should really charge for this advertisement.)
Wedding bells rang for Miss Nancy Jane Codling and our Bill Fraser on February 9 in Albany, N. Y. Nancy is from Loudonville, N. Y. and received her education at Pine Manor Junior College and Cornell University. She is also a member of the Albany Junior League, in which town Bill is manager of the Albany branch of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. As our informa- tion has it, Dick Reed stood by as usher and Bill and Nancy are now residing at 13 - CR Dutch Village, Albany. It was good to hear that Bill Halpin was on the Hanover plain from New York City in January. We imagine that he got out to the fabulous new Holt's Ledge ski area for a little schoosing. It will be off to a summer wedding for Douglas Arthur Frandsen and Patricia Hoyt Carroll. Pat calls Brooklyn her home, is a provisional member in the Junior League and picked up her sheepskin at Wells College in Aurora, N. Y. Doug, of course, was a Tuck grad, a Lieut, in the Air Force, and just what now, we do not know.
From the West coast comes John Burnett's traipsing the middle aisle with Eloise Jane Soule, a University of Idaho grad and high school teacher. The couple will be living in Berkeley, Calif. John's first post was as an engineer at Oak Ridge before going to California. The never-to-be-forgotten honeymoon was had at her parental estate, Soule Ranch, Baker, Idaho.
The engagement of Esther Simon and Donald Herdeg was recently announced by the prospective bride's parents of Wilmington, Del. The wedding is planned for May 18 in Wilmington, which we hope will give the newlyweds time to get settled, have a short moon, and get up to Hanover on June 15 for our big 5. By the way, have you made your plans yet? Don is in the employ of General Electric in Schenectady as a sales specialist in electronic tube marketing.
A recent addition to the windy city of Chicago is the Bob Hopkins family. We haven't heard from Hoppy for a long time, but the underworld reports that he has moved out as a district sales manager for Avon Products Company. They're in the cosmetics business, my wife tells me, in case you didn't know it.
The picture in this month's column shows two fine '51 families and their six respective offspring. To top it all off the Bill Ruggs and the Ted Weises are standing in front of a house designed by Ed Eichler's father. It certainly is an all Dartmouth picture and is a clear indication that we are moving ahead on all fronts. One sentence in the fine letter we got from Ted certainly hits home and it would be great if some more of you would think of it occasionally. He said, "You know it really isn't so hard once you sit down and put your mind to writing a letter." Bill moved out to Palo Alto last fall after doing graduate work in Architecture at Duke and is with the City Planning Commission. It's also reported that Herb Christensen has recently thrown off the uniforms of Uncle Sam and has returned to southern California. As for Ted Weis, he and the wife moved to the west several years ago and since have made many notable strides forward. The formation of a family of three boys and a girl is no small feat in itself. Working-wise, Ted was first associated with the Admiral Corp., but after two years, realized he wanted a smaller, more rapidly growing company, and consequently joined an electronic firm by the name of Varian Associates. When he joined in 1953, there were 300 employees, and now there are 1200, so you can see there is some growth after all in old California. And here we thought Minnesota was the only really rapidly growing state in the union. Ted is now serving on a management advisory board for his company, which manufactures several types of electronic tubes used primarily in the microwave communication systems across the country. From the sounds of it, Ted must be working for the local Chamber of Commerce, since he indicates that there isn't a thing on earth that Palo Alto doesn't have - from beaches of the Pacific ocean to sailing, skiing, and a fabulous climate. I only hope there is some way all of you guys in the far west can make the reunion march to Hanover.
Now a word from Bob Bowler and his Bearcats, who are out to see that if you haven't heard about reunion you do have the facts and figures before you. Publicity chairman Bowler writes from the Windy City that the response to his first mailing has been excellent. However, those of you who have not replied would be doing Bob a good turn if you would at your earliest convenience. The cost for the weekend has not been finalized, but the complete package for EVERYTHING will be about $27 per man and $20 for any female, be she wife, date, or what have you. The only extra we know of to date, outside of incidental expenses, would be your lodging, which is furnished by the College, at an extremely nominal fee. Next month we hope to have the cost pinned down exactly. That's the 30 mark for April. May the showers bring you May flowers and a fine trip to reunion in June.
Dartmouth's northernmost "club" last summer included (l to r) John Sater '51, Larry Coachman '47 and Wes Blake '51, shown in Northwest Greenland, north of Thule, where they studied an ice cliff at the front of the glacier in the background. Dick Goldthwait '33 was in charge of the scientific party.
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