1927
Greetings to all men, women, and children of 1927, as we enter the new year of 1958. And to any wives who happen to read this column, a special hope that they will include among their New Year's resolutions a promise to write your secretary at least once during this year with news of you and your family.
One of the greatest Dartmouth alumni functions ever held will be the dinner in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria in New York on February 5, honoring President-Emeritus Hopkins on the occasion of his eightieth year. As one of the classes privileged to be associated with Hoppy during the years of the great growth and development that he brought to the College, 1927 will unquestionably want to turn out in great numbers to honor him. Plans for our participation are necessarily still in the formative stage as this is being written, and by the time you read this column you will doubtless have received much more up-to- date news on just what they are. However, I can assure you that this will be an occasion that none of us who can possibly arrange things so as to be in New York at that time will want to miss. Wives are definitely welcome and invited, and it should be one of the largest gatherings of the Class ever held.
It has just been announced that William H. MacKay has been appointed Vice President of Industrial and Public Relations and Secretary of the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Corporation. Mac has been with Dunlop since graduation from Dartmouth, starting as a factory operator. He became personnel manager in 1932, and later manager of industrial relations and industrial engineering. For the past four years, in addition to his industrial relations duties, he has been engaged in reorganizing manufacturing operations under a broad modernization program undertaken by the Dunlop Company. Mac is a past president of the Industrial Relations Association of Buffalo, and a member of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce Industrial Relations Committee and of the Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering committees of the Rubber Manufacturers Association.
Charlie Gibson has been elected president of B. I. Cotton Mills, a newly formed subsidiary of Burlington Industries. The new company will operate the Ely and Walker and the Martel-Henrietta groups of mills, with a total of fourteen plants. Prior to his election as president of this concern, Charlie was director of manufacturing for Ely and Walker. His headquarters will remain in Greenville, S. C.
Norm Ford has been appointed actuarial secretary of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. at Springfield, Mass. He has been with this company since 1927, and is an Associate of the Society of Actuaries and a member of the Hartford, Conn., and Boston Actuarial Clubs. Norm has one son, Norman Jr., a graduate of M.I.T., and one grandson.
Col. Bob Voorhis, Judge Advocate of the U. S. Army in Japan, has been awarded a Department of the Army Commendation Ribbon with Metal Pendant.
Chuck Baker has changed the name of his law firm to "Baker and Pollock, and moved his offices to 305 Cleveland Trust Bldg., Plainsville, Ohio.
Kimball Union Academy, of which Fred Carver is headmaster, has received the largest bequest in its history, expected to total about $1,000,000, from the estate of Madge D. Miller of New York City.
Brad Fuller was a candidate for reelection to the School Committee of Newburyport, Mass., a position which he has held for the last 18 years. He is a development engineer with the United Shoe Machinery Corp. at Beverly, Mass.
As usual, the football games bring forth a bit of news. Sam Wormser writes that he sat between John Machen and Ed Baker at the Penn game, and thereby discovered that Ed and Ruth had had a grand European trip, atttending the London meeting of the American Bar Association, and almost having Queen Elizabeth to themselves while watching Prince Philip play polo at Windsor Castle. Sam is now into the interviewing and enrollment work, along with Sid Voice, which keeps many of us busy at this time of year.
There was evidently quite a 1927 turnout at the Princeton game, though we must have been pretty well scattered. A letter from Doane Arnold reports on those he saw, numbering a dozen or more, and I saw at least that many more. Certainly, the weather was not conducive to visiting between the halves, and if anyone was more than so feet away he was invisible through the snow. Unfortunately, no gathering for all the Class had been planned, so we missed those whose seats were not close to ours.
There are a few address changes since we last reported on the wandering members of the Class - Duke Coulter, whose move from San Francisco to New York was reported last month, is now located at 120 Broadway. Don O'Hara, c/o Woodward Baldwin and Co., 43 Worth St., New York. Carl Schuster, 120 East 80th St., New York. Marsh McGough from Atlanta to 446 Bean St., Washington, Penna. Laurence Moss to 578 Willow St., Lockport, N. Y.
William H. MacKay '27 has been named VicePresident of Industrial and Public Relationsand Secretary of the Dunlop Tire and RubberCo., with whom he has been since graduation.
Secretary, West River Rd., M.R. 1 Perrysburg, Ohio
Treasurer, Apt. 10C, 3908 N. Charles St. Baltimore 18, Md.
