1936
The Dartmouth Team will be oh the gridiron by the time these notes are written, and the first class of '36 affair will take place after the Harvard game on October 25. Dick Knight, the inimitable Boston accountant, has agreed to head up the "after the Harvard game" program for '36ers. He will undoubtedly get an assist from Dr. Bob Ingersoll who with Dick, in former years, has made the facilities of the Winchester Country Club available for classmates, wives, children and friends. Please check with Dick Knight, who lives at 15 Alden Lane in Winchester, Mass., for final details. The date is October 25.
After the Yale game, on November i, a '36 party will be held at the Yankee Silversmith Inn in Wallingford, Conn., ten miles north of New Haven on the Merritt Parkway. The Silversmith is one of Gene Tamburi's inns, and Gene is reserving a special room for classmates and their friends to meet there after the game. Twenty-eight classmates plus wives and friends stopped at the Silversmith last year after the Yale game.
Letters have come in from classmates all over the world this summer. Many important steps have been taken by '36ers since the last report. It is a secretary's delight. At the beginning of the summer vacation, the 1936 Executive Committee held their meeting in Hanover. An excellent report of that meetingis available from Jacko Morrison who was the acting secretary. The following members were present: Pete Fitzherbert, Chairman; Frank Weston, Treasurer: Al Gibney, Reunion Chairman; and the following members of the Executive Committee: Brew Towne, BillMacurda, Gil Sykes, Ray Reitman, BrintSchorer, Bill Crangle, Fred Weiss, and JackoMorrison.
About the meeting Jocko writes:
The following members of the class who are permanently in the Hanover area joined us at one time or another during the weekend: Eddie Chamberlain, Bob Densmore, Stoney Jackson, Bob Chaffee, Bill McLaughlin. Al Phipps happened to be in town and also joined us. Wives who added loveliness to the committee meeting were: Barbara Fitzherbert, Elsie Weston, Eloise Gibney, Marge Towne, Mim Macurda, Ann Sykes, Peg Reitman, Doris Schorer, Doris Crangle, Bernice Weiss and Ruth-Morrison.
The 1936 Executive Committee wrote into the minutes of their meeting in Hanover special recognition for Frank Weston and Jack McKallagat for their continued good work as class Treasurer and editor of Tithe respectively.
Another'record for the summertime notes of the class of 1936 is the work of Kirk Liggett and all his assistant class agents on the 1958 Alumni Fund. The total given this year by our class was $6,596, exclusive of the capital gift campaign.
Sad news to report is that Clara (Smith) Clark, widow of Myron Clark, was killed in an auto accident in July. She is survived by her parents in Methuen, Mass., and by three sons, George (named after the late George Clark '99 of Plymouth, N. H.), Tobey and John.
From the floating gardens of Xochomilcho in Mexico comes a picture of Bob Ireland who was vacationing there after another successful year with the Constitution Life Insurance Company in Lawndale, Calif. Bob sends along a ticket stub from the Los Angeles Dodgers Inc., Walter F. O'Malley, Pres. with the comment, "the enclosed stub may bring nostalgic memories to Eastern Dodger fans." ,
Al Tenkin is in the control department of the DuPont Co. in Wilmington, Del. His son, Mike, is a Sophomore at Dartmouth this year. Al says he sees his old roommate Bob Bikle occasionally. Bob is an admiralty lawyer in Philadelphia and lives at 34 Fariston Road, Wayne, Pa. Ray and Peg Reitman were at their new camp at Lake Cobbossee, Me., for most of the summer.
Golfers will be interested in Gib Sykes' continued prowess on the golf course 23 years after he led the Dartmouth team. He eliminated one of the favorites on the first round of the Anderson Memorial Tournament at the Wingfoot Golf Club in WestChester County, N. Y. Gib and his partner who were playing "partner's best ball" were later overcome in this tournament of experts.
Samuel French Morse has been named associate professor of English at Mt. Holyoke. This Phi Bete and A. T. O. member is a poet, critic and scholar as well as teacher. He is most noted for his research into the life and work of the late Wallace Stevens, particularly for "Opus Posthumous," an edition of Stevens' prose and poetry published last year. Sam has been on the faculty of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., since 1951-
"A new appointment to the faculty at Yale is Z. Waters White. He has been named head of the Industrial Forestry Dept. at Yale. For the last 17 years. Zeb has been a technical advisor on the staff of Pomeroy & McGowan, forestry managers in Monticello, Ark.
Joining the growing group of classmates who are "presidents" is Roy Coppedge who was named president of National Distillers where he has been general counsel and vice president. Roy is a member of the Dartmouth Club of New York. Ed Brooks who is president of Columbian Carbon International has been made a vice president also of the Columbian Carbon Co. in New York City. Ed has been practically commuting to Europe for a number of years and this new assignment may give him more of a chance to enjoy the good old U. S. A. Another globe trotter is Al Phipps who writes on the letterhead of Muller & Phipps Asia Ltd. (Asiatic Selling Corp.):
I returned in May from a nine-month trip with Laura to Southern Africa, where we have eight offices. Not only do I have my son Ned, at Dartmouth, but my daughter Pamela (Skidmore gal) married a Dartmouth boy, Samuel Clark Lovejoy Jr. on March 30, 1957. Sam is Dartmouth class of '57, but has not yet graduated since at the end of his sophomore year he joined the Navy for a four-year hitch, which means when he goes back to Hanover he will be in the same class as Ned. Since Sam's father and grandfather both graduated from Dartmouth, you can see we are quite a Dartmouth family!
Budd Schulberg writes from Sarasota, Fla.:
I'm completing the picture I wrote for our company "Across the Everglades." It was all shot in the Glades this past winter, with Burl Ives, Christopher Plumber, Gypsy Rose Lee, Tony Galento, Emmett Kelly and some fane New York actors, and will be released this fall by Warners. In my spare (?) time I am working on the play "The Disenchanted," for which we have signed Jason Robards Jr. We should open in New York in early December. To be closer to operations we're renting our Sarasota house and moving to Princeton in September. Hope to get up to Hanover at least once this fall.
There is currently going on in New York City a safety drive for pedestrian traffic. The police give summons to as many as 2,500 people a week. Don MacNeary ran across Broadway the other morning on his way to work and a cop stopped him. Don's first words were, "Tell me, officer, how fast was I going?"
At a meeting of '36 class officers held in Hanover were (left to right) Bob Densmore, Bill Crangle, and Bill Macurda.
Roy F. Coppege '38 has been elected President of National Distillers and Chemical Corp. Before joining National Distillers he had been a partner of Breed, Abbot and Morgan, the law firm which is general counsel for the distillery corporation.
Secretary, 287 Rutledge Ave. East Orange, N. J.
Treasurer, 753 Upper Blvd., Ridgewood, N. J.
