1934

This will be the last column of the season to come down the pike so had better make it a good one.

If you haven't sent in your contributions to the Alumni Fund please grab a check and write the largest figure your financial condition will permit. In spite of the yeoman work that Harry Gilmore has been doing, our horse in the Green Derby has been running last in a field of seven. At the quarter-mile pole we began picking up the rest of the field and eased into sixth place one jump ahead of 1935. Now it's time to go to the whip with dollars from each and everyone of you.

Again we sing the praise of Orv Dryfoos and applaud his elevation to the presidency of The New York Times. We know of no man who wears his honors more modestly and becomingly. Added to his duties is the chairmanship of a committee in the Greater New York area to help launch the 200th Anniversary Development Program for the College. Hope that all of you who received invitations to the meeting at the University Club went to learn from Orv, and other Trustees of Dartmouth, what the program will entail.

But leave us not forget that success has come to many others in our class. With professional courtesy we'll take the doctors first. Em Day, director of the Strang Cancer Prevention Clinic of the Memorial Center, was recently awarded the annual medal of the American Cancer Society in recognition of his distinguished service in the field of cancer detection and control. This medal will find a place among his trophies in his new home at 91 Greenacres Ave., Scarsdale, N. Y. Then there are those two professors at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. One is Ferdinand McAllister to whom I spoke on the telephone the other day. His specialty is cardio-vascular surgery and in addition to teaching and operating and consultation at Delafield Hospital, Bergen Pines Hospital and St. Francis Sanitarium, he manages to see a little of his wife Helen and supervise the rearing of Ann and Thomas. The other medical professor, Sid Carter, tells me his wife, Liz, complains she never sees him these days. Teaching at the Neurological Institute takes up a good part of Sid's time but he also specializes in children's neurology. He is an authority on GuillonBarre's syndrome (I've had it) and has written a paper on 39 cases they have had among children at his clinic. If his annual meeting in Atlantic City doesn't conflict, he promised me he would be at Nels Krogslund's with his sons. Jeffrey and Jonathan. He plans to send them to Fieldston next year - a school from whence graduated Nat Shimberg. Dr. Harry MacKinnon also spends part of his day as clinical professor at the University of Cincinnati when not healing the harassed and disturbed. His field is psychiatry. Dr. Ted Flemming has a new address at 121 Huntington Court, Williamsville 21, N. Y. Dr. Steve Meigher and Denise were able to get away from his daily rounds and spend a day in Hanover. Dr. Fred Sanborn of Pocasset, Mass., has a thriving private practice that keeps him out at all hours of the day and night much to Mary's regret.

News flashes about the legal fraternity. ... Merrill Heald was promoted to general attorney in the law department of the United States Steel Corp. at Pittsburgh, Pa.. .. Bob Allabough was elected to the Board of Directors of the County Bank and Trust Company of Paterson, N. J. Bob adds this directorship to his collection of the Dixon Chemical and Research Inc., and R. & J. Dick Co. in Clifton. ... Thomas "Red" Thomas, a partner in the law firm of Kirkland, Fleming, Green, Martin and Ellis, is general chairman of the 1957 Chicago Boy Scout fund drive to raise almost half a million dollars. Tom has 1100 adult team captains to assist him in his campaign. ... It is ancient history by now but Perk Bass continues to win all his campaigns. From the New Hampshire viewpoint, Perk's activities in Congress are as important as the. state's two princes of politics. Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams and Senator Styles Bridges. Like most congressmen. Perk writes newsletters periodically to his constituents and although we can't vote for you we would like to hear your views.... Maury O'Connor, a partner in Allard, Shelton and O'Connor, is sufficiently communal-minded to spend part of his hectic days as City Attorney of Covina, serving on the State Bar Legislative Committee and working on the Community Chest Board. ... Bob Rodman has just become President of the Jewish Big Brothers Association, a charter member of Big Brothers of America. The agency helps boys and girls who come before the juvenile sessions in the courts of Greater Boston and it also endeavors to prevent juvenile delinquency through the assignment of properly qualified volunteers. ... Buzz Edson also chimes in with a new address at Southold, N. Y., quite far out on Long Island.

Now for some news about the clients of the aforesaid esquires.... Gene Orsenigo, the furniture tycoon, advises me that his oldest daughter is a sophomore at Manhattanville having eschewed her mother, Nina's, alma mater. Sarah Lawrence. Nina and Helen Davies were classmates there. Gene has seen Jack O'Brien and Buz Hartman in the course of his business trips. Don Moir's latest rung on the ladder is plant personnel director of Hyatt Bearings Division of General Motors. Don has been living in Ridgewood, N. J., for the last three years and like his son Don, Jr., is keenly interested in the Boy Scouts. Another Jerseyite who keeps the world clean with the soap he manufactures, is Solon Palmer of Upper Montclair. Ever since his Boot and Saddle days he has been interested in horses and so it wasn't surprising to learn that he had worked with the Junior Essex Troop, a mounted boys' military organization and been an instructor in horsemanship and even managed a horse show. See that Alan Hewitt's starring vehicle, "Inherit The Wind", has only six more weeks to run which may permit him to take off on one of those fabulous European trips. Somewhere in mv files I have a letter from him which I still intend to use as a space filler someday - or if any of you want a super de luxe itinerary, write for it. ... Armand Benoit got his photo in the Bridgeport Post on his appointment as works manager of the Underwood Corp. Bob Doyle, as far as I know the only florist in the class, (and he didn't even take Botany with me and the rest of you fellows who needed to fulfill a science requirement), has a change of address - 3770 E. Dartmouth Ave., Denver 10, Colo, (how loyal can a man get?). Art Noble is unpressing his tennis racquet but Babe Shea just looks at his old lacrosse stick gathering dust in the attic and reads Bill Scherman's-Sports Illustrated to find out how they play the game between Princeton and the Army. "Advertising Age" reports that three agencies had billings of more than $200,000,000 last year: J. Walter Thompson, McCann-Erickson and Young & Rubicam. Well Art Grimes of McC-E can'take a big bow for keeping his agency up there in second place.

"And now to wrap things up before we take leave for the summer vacations. Don't forget the spring reunion at Nels Krogslund's on June 22. It's hoped that this issue will reach you just as a reminder. Finally remember the Executive Committee Meeting in Hanover on October 11 and 12. Everyone is invited to attend as was the case in '56. The George Kimballs, Art Moebius and Ruth, and the Nelson McClarys have already made reservations. We have reserved 15 double rooms and baths and 8 singles at Bonnie Oaks because last year at the Keenes was a little too crowded. This is a holiday weekend and the Brown game is in Hanover so let me know as soon as possible whether you want us to count on you.

Secretary, 160 Broadway, New York 38, N. Y.

Class Agent, 1750 Elm St., Manchester, N. H.