1943
Unfortunate fellow classmates, you have just lost the services of one of our best class secretaries, Waldo "Doc" Fielding, either due to too many babies (not all his own) or too much television. (The Mrs. stars on some program but, not being a TV owner, I can't tell you which one.) Maybe Doc had to write too much script.
So to attempt to start off on the right foot, I'll head off with a rousing acclaim to Leo "Bud" Silverstein Jr., our head class agent, who has been doing such a great job for us in the past and whom we all want to back and support in every way possible this year - to be our biggest and best year!! I predict 450 of you guys out there will give better than $10,000. Any bids?? What do you say, let's do it and top our college objective of $9,680 for the first time in our history. There are 49 fellows teaming up actively with Bud and you to do this great and wonderful job that will help the College maintain an educational institution that you will be proud to have your sons go to and graduate from. You have already seen their names listed in the newsletter. Get busy and help them by sending in your own contribution and, once that's done, get the next guy closest to you to do the same. Enough of this now, but if our record doesn't show results by May you will get more in the June issue!! And I don't mean perhaps!!
This is a column written about the class, for the class, and by a class member. (It's your tough luck it happens to be me, but forgetting that for the moment drop me a line, a postcard, a telegram, a telephone call, a picture with notations, anything at all so I know that you are still alive.) Manual for Secretaries states that too often a secretary only writes about his friends or a few members of the class. How can he do otherwise if you don't give him the word. How about it, John Cook in San Antonio, Tex.; George Barlow, down in the wilds of New York City; Bob Costello in the same area; Harry Armstrong from Chicago area; Andy Caffrey from Lawrence, Mass.; John Earle from California, also Paul Hanlon from same state; Stanley Skaug, Omaha; Bill Seidman, Michigan; Walter Powers, whom I see every day (what goes on in legal circles), John Robinson from New Jersey. Could go on indefinitely. Let's get some news?
The foreign travellers who have settled in various parts of the world seem to be our best correspondents, so I'll let you read a wonderful note from Carl Batter from the gay city of Paris. Here it is:
"Just a short note to let you know that we have had a small '43 reunion right here in the heart of Paris. I say small, but actually it is enormous if one considers that not one of us actually anticipated being in - when we left Dartmouth in 1943, nor have we ever expected to find classmates here. So much so that none of us have paid much attention to the matter until very recently.
"In any event here is the list: 1) Howie Thomas, who has been here only a short time. He is working for the American Committee for a United Europe, whatever that may be, after having served the State Department in Lille, Paris, Tonkin, Hong-Kong and other places for some seven years. Howie is the only bachelor among us so we know he is enjoying Paris.
"2) Guy Mollet, who is now our oldest Paris veteran. He came here in 1946 and has been here ever since, except for a very short tour in Geneva. He now works for our delegation to NATO.
"3) Dick Pierce is more French than any of us. He is in the travel agent business and worried just a little about the winter slack season.
"4) J. M. Clark (not to be confused with his twin brother) who is here working for the International Air Transport Association.
"5) And myself, which makes five and a lot of '43's for Paris.
"Addresses are as follows:
"Thomas: 38 rue de la Tour, Paris (16) ('business)
"Mollet: % American Embassy, Paris
"Pierce: 3 rue Meyerbeer, Paris (9) (business)
"Clark: 76 Avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris (8) (business)
"Regards to all of the '43's, and please pardon the typing. It was a very liquid lunch."
Carl himself breaks into print in the European edition of the New York Tribune as brought to "Doc's" attention by a clipping from above-mentioned paper sent over by Guy Mollet Jr. Guy seems to be one of the group enjoying Parisian hospitality and wine and has been for some time. It is a long article concerning French Premier Guy Mollet and his thoughts about Israel just before he departed for the United States and conferences on just this subject. Carl, as Commander of the Department of France of the American Legion, presented the Legion's Gold Medal to M. Mollet at a special ceremony given in M. Mollet's honor.
The fellows of our class making news on these shores include the following: Don Miller became the youngest Vice-President of the First National Bank of Boston around the first of this year. That's quite an achievement in one of the biggest banks in the East. Also should help support Don's five children and lovely wife down on their estate in Hamilton, Mass. Next my former roommate at the Phi Psi House, William T. Maeck, breaks into print by accepting a position in the public relations department of the American Cyanamid Co. in New York City, effective March 4. Bill leaves the Stamford, Conn., Hospital where he was public relations and personnel director since June, 1953. Before that, of course, Bill served as director of alumni relations and placement at Clarkson College of Technology at Potsdam, N. Y. Assistant Professor Relly I. Raffman has succeeded Dr. Loring H. Dodd as director of the fine arts course at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. The Professor joined the faculty at Clark as an instructor in music and director of musical organization in 1954 after teaching at Southwest Missouri State College. He picked up a Masters at Columbia University and a wife by the name of Rita La Planti, a concert pianist. I don't mean that he picked up this lovely lady but rather that he picked out. Well, I'd better stop this line of chatter before I get in deep. Whatever he did, he is married and living in Cherry Valley, adjacent to Worcester. (How would I know how you get a wife, I haven't found the secret yet!)
Also doing a little teaching is Donald H.Taylor. Don will teach an evening course in investments to be offered by the University of Rhode Island extension division. This comes, of course, after his duties of assistant secretary of the investment department of Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co. have been completed during the day. I saw Don at the Dartmouth-Harvard game this year and he was doing anything but teaching, but he certainly looked healthy and happy!!
Congratulations to all those staunch classmates for their great feats. I only wish it were possible to include in the MAGAZINE the pictures of these fellows as they certainly were impressive in their respective newspaper write-ups.
Those of the class who have recently stopped long enough at the Hanover Inn to get their name on the Bulletin Board are: Donald W. Crance on February 19, 1957. He all the way from Milwaukee, Wise. (How about some news from out that way, Don?) Next came Blanton "Bud" Wiggin from Needham, Mass. on February 26, 1957. Bud started his own business a year or so ago, distributing hospital and laboratory equipment to the big-wig doctors throughout the country and, from a report from a Harvard doctor friend of mine, he is doing extremely well. James Cruikshank, actually a neighbor of Bud's, also from Needham, showed up a day later for a sniff of the Hanover air. He must have seen Bud sneaking off to the hills. I don't know the reason for these fellows' visit, but I can state that yours truly wound up at the Inn (maybe it should have been at Dick's House) on March 8, to take on the young, vigorous undergraduates in a sport for young men, or foolish oldsters, known as hockey. Honestly, if some of you fellows don't produce some young alumni pretty soon to help stave off these undergraduates we are going to have to succumb. This year the oldsters staggered through to a 9-6 result, or some such result. I'm really too tired to even remember. These kids are coming up to me now and saying, "You play just as well as you did 20 years ago. How do you do it?" They have an awe-stricken expression on their face as I come back with, "Now listen, you weren't even born that long ago much less remember my hockey playing, so it couldn't be that long ago." That should stop them, but no, they come back with, "Daddy told me!" Oh! well, give up, Stan. "Head up and keep fighting," as Eddie Jeremiah says. I can, as long as he does and he is still out there, class of '29 or no!!
It is with deep regret that I belatedly announce the tragic death of Anthony Rudd's wife who died on February 17, 1957 from a brain injury following an automobile accident. The entire class joins me in extending our sympathy to Tony and his young son, Tony Jr. Mrs. Rudd made many contributions to the welfare of her community and was active on several civic organizations including the Planning Board of the town of Stockbridge, Mass. Tony has been employed by the Berkshire Eagle, a daily paper published in Pittsfield, Mass., for the past nine years and it was here he met his wife who was in the news and advertising department.
I close with a fervent plea for all to help Bud Silverstein and his lieutenants in this effort to push our class contributions over the top.
John Koslowski '43 and son Tommy just before action began in the Alumni-Varsity and Pee-Wee games at Dartmouth, March 9.
Secretary, 75 Federal St., Boston 9, Mass.
Class Agent, Lenti Terrace, R.F.D. 1 Glastonbury, Conn.
