1940
We recently attended a most successful annual class officers meeting in Hanover. Also in attendance were Jack and Lois Moody (memorial funds meeting) and Don and Ruby Rainie (class treasurers meeting). There is something about Hanover in May that makes one recapture his youth. Nothing looks any different and while there it is hard to realize that the age of 20 is long passed. The chap at the baseball game on Saturday trying to woo some queen in the sunshine might have been you seventeen to twenty years ago and the shortstop booting the ball on an easy play might have been - who could it have been? It's wonderful to have it all as we remember it, and yet time marches on and big plans have been made to make Dartmouth a better place without, I am sure, making it lose the quality that we remember and love so well. Much of the discussions at the meetings was centered around the plans for improving her plant and her purpose without enlarging or changing her character.
A note from Les Nichols informs us that the efforts of the Republican Party in Kentucky, of which he is a most active and important member, paid off in that both senatorial candidates were elected and the party had a presidential majority for the first time in the history of Kentucky. Les served as Executive Director for Eisenhower-Morton-Cooper. He reports that he is enjoying considerable success in adding clients to his public relations-fund raising agency. He and Nancy and their two girls, Nancy and Karen, are extremely happy in Louisville.
Brud Seller writes from Greenfield, Mass., that his children now number three, two girls and a boy. He has remodeled and enlarged his 200-year-old house and now has room to expand. We will look for a birth announcement very soon! He has been pleased with the progress of his oil business, so pleased in fact that he will spend the entire summer at Cape Cod. Ah, success.
Fred Eaton reports from Atlanta that he is still with Sears Roebuck but has changed jobs to be manager of one of their larger stores. He had formerly been personnel director of the southern territory for the company. He is the father of three boys and one girl, ranging in age from eight to three and shortly expects number five. Fred in his wanderings has seen Don Schott and Tom Ballantyne in Florida, Dave Fish in Chicago and Bob Dingwall in New York.
The class of 1940 continues its leadership in alumni affairs. John Willets of Milwaukee has been elected to a two-year term on the Alumni Council. John Moore has been elected president of the Dartmouth Club of Cleveland while Bob MacMillen continues as club secretary for the third year. Moore is married to the former Kathryn Wilson, understood to have been a protege of Scotty Rogers. The distaff side works for a Cleveland brokerage firm where she manages to multiply John's hard earned money by astute investment.
Dave Davenport has gone into business for himself in Cleveland as a manufacturer's agent, representing several lines of industrial products. He and Fred Porter will probably spend their time at the next reunion discussing their respective problems. Is it the twentieth? Ouch!
Scotty Rogers saw Hugh and Mamise Schwarz in Florida while on his usual extended winter vacation. Hugh seems to be basking in the joy of having a son at last and all news from his sector has stopped. Must have worn himself out on the Alumni Fund you know, Harvey P. Hood Trophy and all that. Scotty was recently in New York for a meeting of the American Management Association.
Jim Moore is busy in Indiana, Pa., bringing up six children (a class record?), practicing law and trying to keep four acres of lawn under control. He laments that he sees no Forties although he has talked to Dick Babcock on the phone and heard from Gardy Friedlander, king of the nylons and a wheel in Phoenix Hosiery.
Dick Kidder brings us the sad tidings that Jack Willson's father recently passed away. Dick also advises us that he has recently purchased a fuel oil business in Tilton, N. H., to go with their retail lumber business. He and Marjory have three children; Alan (15, 6 ft., 205 lbs.), Jay (14, 6 foot one, 220 lbs.) and Marilyn, 12. The boys are freshmen at Tilton Preparatory School and should be very good watchdogs for their little sister. Dick has seen Al McKernan who is with Seemans Electric Co. in Manchester, N. H.
Hank Chase has been appointed manager of Hercules' Powder Company's Pluto Works in Ishpeming, Mich. He was formerly assistant manager of their Missouri Ammonia Works in Louisiana, Mo. Hank has been with Hercules since 1940, having started as a chemist. His entire business life has been spent in the company's explosives department. In other words, he has always done things with a bang.
Jim Faulkner has been made assistant secretary of the American Casualty Company in Reading, Pa. Jim served in the Marine Corps and was discharged as a major in 1945. He entered the ocean marine insurance business after the war and received his training in underwriting and claims procedures both in the United States and the Far East.
Paul Johnson, sports writer for the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram, has taken on the extracurricular activity of golf coach of the Major Beal High School in Shrewsbury, Mass. For his valiant efforts Paul will draw down the magnificent salary of $100 per annum. So who needs to be paid to play golf?
Associate Professor Bob Kinsman of the University of California at Los Angeles has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He and Barbara accompanied by their children, Susan 11, Sarah 7, and Margaret 5 are already in London where they will remain until next September. His particular field of study will be John Shelton, poet laureate to Henry VII and Henry VIII of Great Britain. His research will lead him to the British Museum, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and to the National Museum in Edinburgh. Upon graduation from Dartmouth, Windy did graduate work at Yale. During the war he served in the Far East as a Japanese interpreter.
Hal Sommer, the managing partner of Wolf Management Engineering, business consultants in Chicago, has been elected a director of Cooper's Inc. He and Sally have two children - Scott, aged 10 and Paul, aged 7.
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