1936

This month Dartmouth men have the annual Alumni Fund Campaign on their minds. At the "Kick Off" dinner in New York, one point President Dickey made was that Dartmouth is a privilege. Those men like us who have known that privilege are the ones the College turns to to make that privilege available to others year after year.

Our industrious head agent, Kirk Liggett, has organized class agents to call on each classmate to try to make '36 a Green Derby winner this year. If you like to be coaxed, hold up your check. On the other hand, you can save the agents work and worry by promptly contributing. Have sympathy for Kirk. You may be class agent yourself someday.

The class agents' dinner in New York was held at the Union League Club this year. A generous '36 table was made up of Bill Martens, Gil Balkam, Gib Sykes, Vic Sabary from Princeton, Ray Builter from Bridgeport and Kirk Liggett who came up from Philadelphia. Dick Holt '38 was also at our table and passed along the news that he had visited Red Kane recently in Clearwater, Fla., and found him prospering with his own contracting and building firm there. Red moved to the Sunshine State a few years ago with the sole purpose in mind to live a more relaxed and out-of-door life. Apparently, he's found it. Red, his wife and two daughters, live at 1818 Brentwood Drive, Clearwater, Fla.

Our class chairman, Pete Fitzherbert, who is always working to strengthen class of '36 alumni relations, has made the announcement that Len Florsheim has been named to the class executive committee to represent us in Chicago. We have a strong class membership around Chicago and we are fortunate that Len has agreed to serve the class in this way.

Morrie Stein's son, Fred, is a junior at Deer-field; and his second son, Stephen, will enroll there next fall.... Joe Kinney, who is making a career of the army, has been shifted to Manchester, N. H. He is a major with the Army Reserve Training Center there.... Roger &Lois Bayles in New Canaan, Conn., had a party for new classmate neighbors, Dave & Shirley Fox, Dick & Madine Morton and John & Betty Mallory.... Don Sutherland was elected to the school board in Danvers and so was Chet Young in Scituate, Mass.

Playing the trumpet in the hottest band in New England today is Seth Thomas who heads a "five piece Quartet." Seth was playing at Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard recently. It was one of the steady bookings of weekend entertainment by the band. On weekdays, Seth is a production manager at the Scoville Manufacturing Company plant in Waterbury, Conn. His oldest daughter, Penny, is a student at Skidmore College. The last time I saw Seth he was tugging a baby carriage (not empty) up the stairs of Archie Delmarsh's '33, Rocky Point Inn on Fourth Lake in the Adirondacks. Could be, Penny was in that carriage.

Morrie Paine and his son, Hank, were skiing at Woodstock, Vt., during the spring holidays. Hank is 6 years old and showing great prowess as a skier for a "soulhern boy." "South" to Hank is Waterbury, Conn., where Morrie manages the big department store of Howland-Hughes. Morrie's father is Ralph Paine '10. Morrie says that one day he and Hank went to visit Seth Thomas at his summer home on Bantam Lake, Conn, and stopped at the local diner to ask directions. Morrie said to the clerk at the counter, "Can you tell me where Seth Thomas has his summer home?" She said "That name sounds familiar to me. I think he lives around here somewhere. I'll ask the chef." In a couple of minutes she came back from the kitchen and said, "Seth Thomas is the name on the clock hanging over the steam table."

The Reliable Shoe Store at 1502 Hancock Street, Quincy, Mass. is owned and operated by Al Pactovis. This is the family store that Al's father ran for many years, and when he died Al resigned as manager of Filene's store in Wellesley to run the old Reliable. Al met his wife, the former Edith Simans of Portland, Me., when he managed the shoe department of Filene's store there. I guess Edith came in to the store to buy shoes. Anyway, she got a husband in the shoe department and now they have a son, Bill, aged 12 who is gunning for Dartmouth.

Joining the ranks of vice presidents in our class is Hesty Hirst in Providence, R. I. He is vice president and Secretary of the Black-stone Mutual Insurance Co. In addition to these assignments, Hesty is very active in Republican town affairs in Barrington, R. I. where he makes his home at 48 Hawthorne Avenue. He has just resigned from the planning board to go on the budget committee for the town. He is chairman of the charter committee that is preparing a new charter to present to the State Legislature for final approval. Hesty's children are Ann, aged 15, Edgar 14, and George 7. The report here says that Hesty can still carry the drum with the same aplomb as he did 20 years ago, but this may be a debatable point after having had a view of his waist line at our 20th reunion.

The engagement of Johnny Ovitz to Miss Janet Downs has been announced by Mrs. Robert N. Downs of Elkins Park, Md. Janet is the daughter of Mrs. Downs and the late Dr. R. N. Downs of Gennantown, Pa. John is a doctor in Sycamore. Ill. His first wife died several years ago, and he has four children.

Roy and Lillian Adams are calypso dancers with a high amateur standing in Westchester County, N. Y. Another talent of Lillian's is painting and she has done two prize winning oils of Hanover. One painting shows the campus on the occasion of our 20th reunion at the time the class of '36 was sitting for the group photograph. Baker Library and the big elms are in the background for this most interesting painting.

Jerry King was elected president of the Schenectady Insuring Agency in Schenectady, N. Y. He was employed by the Aetna Insurance Company prior to becoming associated with the Schenectady Agency in 1945. He was elected secretary in 1952. and vice-president in 1954. Jerry is active in many business and civic associations. He lives at 1364 Belmont Avenue, Schenectady.

Al Montague is a M.D. in New York City. He is the University psychiatrist at Columbia, attending psychiatrist at St. Lakes Hospital and also carries on his own private practice. Al is one of the few class bachelors.

The strike on the tube trains between New York and New Jersey this week caused a commuter jam at the ferry docks that would have made a sardine cry. Amid this mass of humanity on Wednesday morning, Art Toan tapped me on the shoulder. He commutes from Sad. die River, N. J. to Wall Street. He's a partner in Price Waterhouse. He will be in Venezuela this month on an oil auditing assignment.

Fred Weiss passes along the news that our mutual roommate Fred Gonnerman after ten years in trade association work with George B. Byrne Co., has organized his own firm, registered in Washington as a "legal lobbyist" and opened for business.

Remember the Alumni Fund. Let's win the Green Derby this year.

Art Appleton '36, his wife, the former film star, Martha O'Driscoll, and their daughter Lyndaphotographed at their home in Northbrook, Illinois.

Secretary, 287 Rutledge Ave. East Orange, N. J.

Class Agent, 135 Glenview Ave., Wyncote, Pa.