1934
This was a very busy period for me. Took Patsy and Peter to Hanover where the only skiing was in Jo and Bill Wilson's back yard. Saw Ed Brown officiating at the Dartmouth Boston University track meet and two fine wins by the basketball team against Penn and Cornell. We dropped in on Eloise and Walt Crandell who were celebrating their newly acquired grandparenthood, courtesy of Anne Crandell Phoenix. Walt told me that Bill Clough's oldest son, Bill III was a wonderful skier and wants to attend Dartmouth even though Perk Bass has nominated him to West Point. Bill's daughter, Nancy, is one of the best girl skiers in New England. Speaking of that sport, Frank Lepreau was one of those selected to honor the old meister, Otto Schneibs. Remember, Frank used to while away his winters mushing across the snowy fields and keeping his legs in shape to captain the cross-country team in the fall and run the two mile event in the spring. Now-a-days this hearty has little trouble in making his rounds in that winged Mercury.
Spent ten minutes talking to President Dickey about Orv Dryfoos. The President knew all about Orv's battle with the mumps and reported that Orv was completely recovered. This fellow really keeps an eye on his Trustees. The only sad note that weekend was reported in "The Dartmouth" in the passing of Mac Mahoney. He died of a heart attack and at the time of his death was the proprietor of Mac's Fountain and Luncheonette. We had almost forgotten that Mac was a four-letter man at the University of Connecticut, Class of 1920, and captain of the baseball team for two years. He had a host of friends in our class and we send our sincere sympathy to his widow and two sisters.
Among others who have been in Hanover recently — Don Allen, Helen and Peanuts Davies, and Bill Embrv, named "man of the year" by the Advertising Club of Louisville.
As previously reported, we spent the first two weeks in March cruising in the West Indies aboard the Mauritania. A wonderful vacation and lots of sunshine with stops at St. Thomas, St. Kitts, Nevis, Martinique, Trinidad, Cartegena, the Panama Canal, Haiti, Jamaica, and Havana. Now we're back at our desk in a new location but the same law practice and telephone number.
Prof. Perry W. Gilbert has received a Guggenheim fellowship for a study of shark reproduction. He will use tranquilizing drugs on them and note the effects. Expects to do most of his work in the West Indies and Maine.
Many of you with daughters approaching college age will have a friend in court at Smith College. Herb Heston leaves his job as Assistant to President Andrew G. Truxal of Hood College in order to become Director of Development at Smith this fall. Herb and Molly have two daughters and a son - Mrs. Richard Shipley of Columbia, S. C.; Patricia, a Sophomore at Hood and Frank, aged 13. The girls have eminently qualified Herb for his new position.
Several notes recently received from HarryGilmore deserve more than passing mention.Gillie now starts his drive for the AlumniFund. Give generously and every man inthe class should contribute to the best of hisability to show appreciation for the wonderful work of the class agent and his assistants.Gillie lost one of his most conscientiousagents when he received this letter fromSusie Sulzbacher:
"I wish I could again do my small part in the Fund Drive but I was elected President of the Jacksonville Rotary Club for next year and as such will be a delegate to the International Convention in Lucerne, Switzerland in May. Hazel and I will be in Europe for six weeks beginning April 19. As this period embraces the most important time of the Alumni Fund Campaign I am sure that you would want someone who would be able to devote full time to the drive."
The other note from Gillie was to alert me that Don Crowther was appointed Secretary of the Group Division of the Aetna Life Insurance Company.
A casual reading of the March issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE reveals that Jake Edwards runs the Village Nursing Home in Sturbridge, Mass., and Bob Offenbach is President of the Central Pennsylvania Alumni Association. Also Lex Paradis had his latest book, "From High School to a Job," highly recommended in the column of Dartmouth Authors. The reviewer praised it as "an outstanding first reference book."
Ted Gregory briefly notes that he has been appointed a member of the Educational Records Bureau Tests Committee to serve until 1960. Art Grimes spent two months in South America according to Doris. Dr. Robert M. Smith snowed under with requests for charitable contributions writes a letter which expresses the feeling of many of us. His loyalty to Dartmouth is deeply appreciated by those of us with similar problems.
The President and Editor of "Editor & Publisher," - our own Bob U. Brown, had an editorial column on Red China in the February issue of his excellent magazine and he observes that "the State Department's slip is showing." Elsewhere, Bill French has become a vice-president of the Marine National Exchange Bank in Milwaukee, Wis. How nautical can you get in Milwaukee? And for that matter ask Charlie Goodfellow how many farmers bank at his City Bank Farmers Trust Company in metropolitan New York. Speaking of the briny deep Mike Bloom, vice-president of O'Donnell-Usen Fisheries of Boston and manager of its Gloucester plant, has been elected president of the Gloucester Fisheries Association. Mike graduated from Harvard Business School after getting his initial experience and acumen on the "Jack-O-Lan-tern" board. In the vicinity of Beacon Hill we saw a picture of Bob Webb, grinning from ear to ear; as account executive of Chambers and Wiswell, one of New England's oldest and most progressive advertising agencies, he planned a new campaign for Columbian National Life. If good old reliable Jeff Jackson's memory serves him correctly, Jack Gilbert was once associated with Columbian.
Jamie King writes that his number two boy, Jack V. R. King, graduates from Dartmouth this June and Jamie's father, Dr. Victor L. King, will be in Hanover for his 50th reunion. How's that for tradition!
A little further West, Dick Wells chips in with the good news that he has pulled out in fine shape. He now has a hockey stick permanently engraved on his middle. From Southern California, 114 Via Orvieto, New-port Beach, Calif., comes a highly quotable note from Bill Emerson. Some excerpts follow: .
"Last spring an unexpected opportunity occurred for me to come out here with American Potash & Chemical Corp., as manager of research. The secretary of the company is Dick Hefler '36 and 25 years ago Dick and I both roomed in Richardson.... I have seen Brice Banks and BillEldridge at dinner and Bill Adams shows up regularly at the luncheons. My major problem with Bill is that he doesn't seem to be as up to date on advertising stories as I would have expected. Had a fine visit with Sam McCray and his family when I was in Dayton last fall. . . . Got into the spirit of things by buying a house 30 miles from my office. It's on an island in Newport Harbor and I can go swimming at the end of the block. Expect to look into the boat situation shortly. I'm also ten minutes from an excellent golf course."
And now back to the East and to all ourreaders in the vicinity - remember the datewe have for June 22 at Nels Krogslund's Middletown picnic grounds. On behalf of yourcommittee Dick Gruen, George Copp andHarry Wallace, will you drop me a note telling me you'll be there and be sure to bringthe wife and children.
Hank Werner (left), '34 class secretary, on the dock at Nevis in the West Indies with his wife Liz, her mother, Mrs. Louis J. Grumbach, Al Lundquist '23 and Kay Lundquist.
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