1935

The Dartmouth College News Service made an announcement last month that a member of our class had been appointed to one of the top administrative positions of the College. He is George Colton, who was named Director of Development, with operating responsibility for all of the College's fund raising activities, including the forthcoming capital gifts campaign.

George had been Assistant Director of Development for about a year, and before that he was Executive Secretary of the Development Council.

George joined the Dartmouth administration in 1945, following ten years in the business world — first with the Stowell-MacGregor Corp. of Dixfield, Me., and later as an executive with Western Electric in New York. He lives with his wife, Ruth, and their two sons and a daughter at 17 North Park Street, Hanover.

Another of our members, Reg Bankart, has been active with College affairs in New York, serving as President of the Dartmouth College Club on 39th Street. We are also represented on the Club's Board of Directors by Carl Funke, who lives over in New Jersey, but spends a great deal of his time in the city selling for his own firm, the Carl Funke Company.

As the New York Club President, Bankart served as toastmaster of the New York Alumni Fund kickoff dinner last month, ably running the affair and presenting President Dickey and other officials from Hanover. Among those attending this dinner were Ed Offutt, Art Bamford, and your correspondent.

Distaff News...

A letter was received the other day from Phyllis Kurson, who reported that she and Ken had had recent reunions with Mel and Mary Rothschild, and Ralph and Gladys Lazarus. Phyllis noted, with a backward glance over some years, the "memories of the illustrious class of '31 at Newton High School, Newton, Mass., which included not only Reg Bankart and Fran Chase, but also Fran's wife and myself." It's always pleasant to hear from wives when classmates themselves are too busy to write, and we hope more of the distaff members of the class will be sending us news of family activities.

Miscellany...

Doug Ley writes from Boston that the Leys and Eddie Dyer's family made a joint ski junket a few weeks ago into the New Hampshire hills. This is becoming an annual affair with the two families. Doug also says that the Gardner Cushmans have bought a house in Gilmanton, N. H. (Peyton Place); that Harris Reynolds is still making news chasing lawbreakers in his capacity as special assistant attorney-general; that Tom Bledsoe is an editor with the Beacon Press in Boston; and that Dave Buxbaum had just taken off for Phoenix, Ariz., where he was addressing an insurance gathering.... Stan Benson has been elected moderator of the town of Lakeville, Mass. for the third year. ... George McKearin and family visited the Bob Youngs in Pitts-field, Mass. George is in his father's insurance business in Hoosick Falls, N. Y.... Sydney Krivan, our former basketball star, is a frequent MC of sports gatherings around Boston .... Bill Lionett is now wage administrator for the Norton Co. and a member of the district school board in Worcester, Mass.... Dr. Ray Schear, down in Mobile, is one of the leading pediatricians of that section of the country.... Charles Tobey, the prominent Concord, N. H., attorney, has opened a branch law office in nearby Contoocook.... Scotty McPherson is now plant manager of the Mosinee Paper Mills in Wisconsin.... Wiley Hubbell writes from Roanoke, Va., that he is now well settled there in his new post with General Electric.... Al Zimmerman not long ago celebrated his 20th year with Sears Roebuck. He is now a merchandising manager with them in Boston Investigation turns up another retailing executive in Saul Deitel, who has been made vice-president of the Myerson Stores down in Tucson, Ariz. ... Free lance writer and explorer, DickHalvorsen, writes that he has already put inhis application with the Air Force to go alongon the first rocket ship to the moon.

Report from Belgrade...

From John Howe, now with the UnitedNations Technical Assistance Board in Belgrade, comes a newsy and interesting letter.Since it gives a perceptive feel of living todayin the troubled areas of Central Europe, wewill quote directly, as follows:

"After some six years at UN Headquarters, mostly working with technical assistance activities, I was detailed to Tehran in March, 1954, as Deputy Resident Representative of the United Nations Technical Assistance Board. The Board co-ordinates the UN technical assistance programme which is carried out by the six or seven agencies of the enlarged UN family: World Health Organization, Food and Agriculture Org., UNESCO, etc.

"Hitting Tehran straight from New York, with the prospect of setting up housekeeping there with the wife and three daughters, was a bit of a shock at first. As it turned out, however, we became very comfortably established and had a very pleasant and most memorable couple of years. Drove the whole family over, the road to Baghdad, Amman, Jerusalem, Damascus, Beirut and return for a holiday in August-September of '55. Also memorable.

"We liked that hitch, our first abroad, so much that we signed on to come to Belgrade (same job) for another two years instead of rushing eagerly back home to Roslyn, L. I., as we had thought we would when we left. Were back in New York on home leave during July and August. Chased around visiting various parts of the family, painted the house in Roslyn, spent a wonderful day or two with Hobe Griffin and family at Orleans, Mass., with Johnny Jewett and family up from Chatham.

"Sailed on the lie de France, September first; all piled into our previously-unseen new Chevvy station wagon which came off the boat at Le Havre, and drove to Belgrade with stops, shorter or longer, in Paris, Geneva (where we had to leave Lynn, age 14, to board at the International School), Sirmione (hah) and Rijecka.

"It is, of course, very interesting to be in this country, which is unique at this stage of history in many ways (end of political commentary). Our 12-year-old, Kath, and eight-year-old, Sal, go happily to the international elementary school which is Anglo-American in sponsorship. In a capital having one of the worst housing shortages in the world, we are lucky in occupying a new small house, one of a newly-built group called the 'diplomatic colony'. The government collects $150 per mo. for the bare little house and we have to buy our furniture where we can. The downtown area can be often smokier than pre-war Pittsburgh on account of the brown coal, lignite, or semi-peat used for all heating. On the other hand, no parking problem with so few cars, distances are short, best seats at the National Ballet are only 50 cents equivalent, and they allow their ladies of the corps here to maintain somewhat more feminine figures than the companies further West, I do believe.

"We are looking forward to driving around Italy for a week or ten days during the Easter school holidays - all five of us. We haven't seen much of Europe yet and plan to squeeze in all the touring we can during the next year or so. We'll be here right through the summer and we shall feel offended if those classmates who drive through on the way to Istanbul and points east don't stop by and see us."

Secretary, 17 East 45th St. New York 17, N. Y.

Class A vent, 1129 Willow Road, Winnetka, Ill.