1950
By the time your weary peepers glance over these lines, you probably have sent a sizeable donation to the worthy cause of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund Drive for 1957. If so, great. If not, get with it, lads, time's a-wasting! Our share is up this year, as is everything else, including your no doubt fabulous salary, so try to send a little more than you did last year. After all, you did find your experience worthwhile and want to make it available in the future for others. So much for the pitch.
Meanwhile, back at...
THE HITCHING POST
On March 9, Whit Williams and Priscilla Westcott Mudge of Scarsdale, N. Y., were married. Bob Williams '52 was best man for his brother and Rick Miller was on duty as an usher. At the reception we spotted the Bill Fergusons, all three of them, Bill West with his bride, and Bob and Helen Tredwell. Whit hustles advertising art for Cooper Studios in White Plains.
WALKING THE LAST MILE
As if gaining inspiration from the above affair, three more classmates made known their intentions within the week. On March it it was publicized that Fizz Nichols and Jean Gibson Prentiss of Danvers, Mass., would be married May 4. She is an alumna of Vermont Junior College.
Three days later our local blat carried the announcement of the engagement of Tony Poltrack and Arlene Olmsted of Pleasantville, N. Y. She went to Packard J. C., graduated from Squire School of Business, and has been working at General Precision Laboratory here.
Among the audits Tony has been on with his employer, Price Waterhouse, is (you guessed it!) G.P.L.
On March 16 the word went out that Bill Gumbart and Miss Elizabeth Cushman of Bridgeport, Conn., would be wed this summer. An alumna of Middlebury, she's teaching at North Haven. Bill was recently made an assistant trust officer of the First National Bank and Trust Company in New Haven.
RATTLE PRATTLE
On February 11 Walt and Pat Schuette welcomed their third. This lad is named Scott Earl and was two ounces shy of eight pounds when delivered. His sister, Leslie Ann, is four and brother, Richie, is two. Pop brings home the bacon - literally? - from the provision department of Swift & Co. in St. Paul.
The last day of the month, February that is, found Ken and Nina Rothchild toting up the savings to accrue by virtue of another tax deduction in their household. Mary Todd tipped the scales at six pounds, nine ounces.
"We've had it!" proclaimed Ben and Bets Johnson from Maine. It turns out to be another daughter, Christine Elizabeth, another six-niner.
Also parents of two girls are Priscilla and Don Freund in Philadelphia. March 11 was birthday for Melinda who arrived measuring 22 inches and weighing an even eight pounds. Sister Alison is 2½. Don's in his second year of obstetrics and" gynecology residency at Episcopal Hospital.
Just in time for our deadline we got the news o£ the birth of Mary Hall Tredwell, daughter of Bob and Helen Tredwell. The little lady scaled eight pounds, three ounces, soaking wet.
Wall Hoo Wah, all you injuns, squaws, and papoosesses.
MISCELLANEOUS MUTTERING
New Yorkers were pleasantly surprised March 4 to find the smiling countenance of Johnny Caldwell in the "Prep School Sports" column of the Times. John's schuss-boomers at Vermont Academy, though officially unorganized, unofficially organized themselves into the Eastern prep school ski championship.
Also in the news, Bruce Magoon has been made an assistant secretary at the Framingham (Mass.) Trust Co. He'd been in public relations there. The papers listed him as father of two and active in the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Boy Scouts, and Framingham Community Recreation Center.
Frank Dickinson has announced his candidacy for selectman in Acton, Mass. He and Joanne boast a family consisting of Joy, five; Susan, three; and Anne, two. Frank is Boston sales-manager for Haynes Stellite Co., division of Union Carbide.
Recent visitors to Hanover included Don Waite and Stew Young. Did you pirate some good men, guys?
Hats off to John Brotherhood and Jimmy Myers. In January, John was elected a vice prexy of Graceman Advertising, Inc., a Hartford agency. He'd been a promotional writer at Fortune and executive assistant to the promotional director of Time. Jim was made assistant to the director of accounting at Campbell Soup's general office, Camden, N. J.
The end of March found over 250 Dartmouths gathered at the Union Club in New York for the Alumni Fund Kickoff. 1950 was well represented with ten of us on hand including Chuck Gardner of J. Walter Thompson, who has some sort of class function up his sleeve for this spring, Ken Clark, Rick Miller, and Gerry Sarno whose company, Bethlehem Steel, got a small order for the new Chase Manhattan Bank building downtown - something like 50,000 tons. Maybe that's not the exact figure, but don't stand underneath when they unload it! Also attending the function were Terry Guider, just shifted into Manhattan from a Bronx territory for Otis Elevator; and Ken Edelson, who went to work for General Sportscraft Co., Ltd., in New York, in January. Rounding out the group were George Singer, Bill Cross, and Nob Hovde. We all decided Chuck's idea for a gathering of the clan before the frost is on the pumpkin again was great. Any comment from our neighbors?
The other day my boss said, "If you have a minute, tell me all you know." Fortunately he got called away in 30 seconds, just as I ran out of information. Which is the same as pertains to knowledge about you - whatcha up to? We'll look for you in 30 days.
Secretary, 71 Tompkins Ave. Pleasantville, N. Y.
Class Agent, 3589 Criclley Rd., Shaker Heights Cleveland 22, Ohio
