1942
For some time I have wondered how a big-little motion picture company operates. The answer is very simple. Just look at the business of Campbell Films, owned and operated by Bob Campbell in Saxtons River, Vt. After spending a brief time with Remington Arms and five years with the Willard Film Co. in New York City, Bob embarked upon the first stages of what today is a full-time operation and a steadily growing business. The production of commercial films that tell a story have a wide variety of uses such as fund raising, industrial training, public relations and the like. In this field, Bob has to date completed a number of pictures and was recently seen working on a series for a large food chain (see cut) which brought him to New Jersey. Some of the shooting took place in Cranford where the four Baldwins turned actors and enjoyed a home-cooked roast beef dinner while Bob and his cameras were busy recording the event for use in his food chain film. Once the cameras have done their recording on location, even as far from home as Atlanta, Ga., Bob then retires to a large house (until January the family residence - they have a new home now), which is slowly being converted into a full-fledged, completely equipped production studio. Out of the sound rooms, editing rooms, art rooms (yes, they do their own caption and animation work) and some others I'd never heard of before, comes a film in keeping with the finest techniques and tradition of the Hollywood documentaries. The beauty of having headquarters in Vermont, says Bob, is two-fold; there is room for the equipment with space to work and it is good country in which to bring up their seven children.
As I note the activity of Ken Le Sure, as reported by Jack Harding from Washington, D. C., your secretary takes this opportunity to correct the record in last month's column in which we referred to Ken LeSeur of Batavia. N. Y. As you all know, it is John and not Ken, for the latter is teaching at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D. C., where among the many students is Lana Harding, Jack's eldest daughter. "Ken is considered one of the finest teachers ever to be at Friends School - he really takes an interest in all the children and has the ability to make them eager to learn." That is about the finest compliment to be paid in the teaching profession and one can certainly appreciate Jack's comments with regard to his daughter's teacher.
The North Jersey Bridge Association sort of jumped the gun on spring, for before the first day of the season arrived, Bill Russell wrote that he and his partner had won the open pairs in the association's Annual Spring Contract Bridge Championships. They took home a shiny big trophy for safe keeping until next year. And who do you suppose gets the polishing job? I'm sure Bill will be too busy keeping up with his tournament play throughout N. J. and New York City, to say nothing of a neighborly bout with Rusty Hartranft, once in a while.
Joe Tobin has been, like others in the profession, one busy doctor and it is particularly gratifying to be brought up-to-date at this time. Joe graduated from Boston University School of Medicine in 1946 and after completing a year of internship in Orange, N. J., he entered Residency Training in Psychiatry with the State of New Jersey, eventually becoming Clinical Director of the State Hospital at Marlboro. In 1954, the family moved to Princeton when Joe was transferred to Trenton as Director of Professional Education. Most of his time has been spent with studying, clinical practice, teaching and research and in 1955 he completed his last examination as a specialist and hopes he never has to take another one. Although it sounds as though there is no play, Joe worked out vacations for the family, Jone and the two children, so they could be on the St. Lawrence while a two-week tour of duty with the New Jersey National Guard kept him near at hand. Although there is private practice five nights a week. Joe feels that with his studies completed he has surplus hours on his hands for the first time in years.
It is always a pleasure to have letters and lengthy notes from classmates and I appear to be particularly blessed this month. From the State of Rhode Island comes news from Bert Anger which we will pass along in Bert's own words:
"After four years of Wall Street hustle and bustle with the usual commuter's routine thrown in, we were glad to get an opportunity to move to the relative quiet of Providence. We live only 25 minutes from my office and 8 minutes away from the local Yacht Club. Here we keep a 29-foot sailing sloop, named the 'Wah Hoo Wah' which we brought with us from Europe in 1955 when we spent 5 months abroad in connection with my employer's new subsidiary. (Sec'ty note: Bert is Assistant Export Manager for the Nicholson File Co.)
"As Providence is the seat of another Ivy institution, it is only natural that Dartmouth men are in a minority here. I was, therefore, particularly pleased when Monica's (our oldest daughter) boyfriend turned out to be the son of Bill Coleman '45, last year's president of the Rhode Island Club.
"Unless others are hiding someplace, I am the only '42 in this state. (Bert, there is one hiding, Joe McCormick is in Woonsocket where he is employed by the U. S. Rubber Co.) Consequently, my contacts with classmates are rather rare. This past winter I met Merrill McLane on a local ski slope. Merrill is with the C.I.A. and was undergoing some special training at the Naval Station in Newport, R. I. One '41 whom I met skiing under less happy circumstances was John Bolten. I helped take him off a Cannon Mountain trail last month (February) with a fractured hip."
And now from here and there: Too bad Bob Keeler of Attleboro, Mass., didn't know of Jerry's location for Bob and Doris were vacationing in Mexico City in March and saw only one Dartmouth man, Clark Fletcher '38. Also with a Spanish flavor is a note from Alex Hooker who was taking a tour group of college students to Havana and Varadeno Beach, Cuba, for spring vacation. Al is an Assistant Professor at Ripon College, Ripon, Wis., and last year took a group to San Juan, Puerto Rico and St. Croix, Virgin Islands, with his wife, Fran, helping with the chaperoning.
In Oyster Bay, Al Hutchinson has opened offices for the practice of law, general insurance and real estate. The years between Al's graduation in 1949 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and his current practice were spent with Huntington & Chase, attorneys of Glen Cove. Gus Newell, with the Massachusetts Protective Assn. Inc. and the Paul Revere Life Insurance Co. since 1945, continues to advance, with the appointment at the annual meeting in February, to assistant superintendent of accident and sickness underwriting. The man responsible for Jones & Lamson Machine Co.'s systems and procedures program is Allen Hooker from Windsor, Vt. The current planning includes the installation of an electronic computer early next year, which should keep Hook plenty busy. And out in Wooster, Ohio, Jay Harris, formerly sales manager of the Specialty Division of The Wooster Rubber Co., has been promoted to the position of Houseware Sales Manager for the company.
The late March kick-off dinners for the Alumni Fund agents were well attended by your new crew, at least in the East where I had first-hand information. The Boston dinner found Paul Breck, Bob Burdett and EdHawkridge present along with Charlie Brown, while the New York group left little elbow room at the table headed by Rusty Hartranft and assistants Frank Bartlett, John Brewer, Roy Carruthers, Buzz Cassidy, Bill Gray, Dutch Schaefer, Dick Smith, and Milt Williams. Also in attendance were your Newsletter Editor, Dick Lippman, up from Philadelphia and your Secretary. They were raring to go and you have probably heard from them by now. So long till June when I'll be back to wind up the first year's activity.
Class Secretary Dick Baldwin '42 (left) chats with Bob Campbell '42 in New Jersey whereCampbell Films (Saxtons River, Vt.) was shooting a training film for a supermarket chain.Campbell Films is also making a Dartmouth College film for the capital gifts campaign.
Secretary, 209 Beech St., Cranford, N. J.
Class Agent, 6 Crossgates Rd., Madison, N. J.
