1939

My predecessor, Jocko, sent me his files the other day. It took four airmail stamps to handle the transaction, and what a wealth of college lore and memorabilia it contained! Most of the weight was consumed by newspaper clippings dated April 26 and May 1 where lovable old Lolly Parsons and Vincent X. Flahery and other Los Angeles Examiner columnists had interviewed Dartmouth's own Bob MacLeod, publisher of Harpers Bazaar who was in L. A. looking for a Western editor. They gave him the third degree on the sack dress which is 29 degrees less than the Masons would have given it, and he responded in a noncommittal manner endemic to the fourth estate and politically considerate to his board of directors. He went on record as favoring the modified version and just about everybody agreed. It was a diplomatic coup, and paves the way for a happier, more buxom future.

The Alumni Records Office, facing up squarely to the atrophied penmanship of its graduated sons, has purchased a Thermo-Fax copier and feeds the uninformed class secretaries a sparse diet of vignettes from local newspapers selected by a clipping bureau which should know better. Result: an occasional mail brings chemically treated, yellowing, sometimes legible copies of clippings from astonishing sources. For instance, the eastern Feed Merchant of Sherburne, N. Y., announced in its August issue that Al Loberg has been moved by his employer, General Mills, from Exeter, N. H., to the Delmarva Peninsula. Al is district sales manager with headquarters at Seaford, Del. He has been with General Mills for nineteen years, and the article implies he really knows his onions.

Fred Fiigon has been appointed assistant trust officer of the First National Bank of Lewiston, where Fred has lived since 1947. He has been merchandise manager of McMeen's Department Store. Also in the marts of trade we learn that Bill McCarthy who has been assistant manager and store superintendent of Bamberger's Paramus, has recently been made superintendent of selling service. Bill has been with Bambergers in one capacity or another since his graduation. Another surprising missile that dropped out of the envelope is a green timetable-looking summons titled Essex Log, weekly publication of he Rotary Club of Essex, Conn., indicating that they have dinner frequently at the Griswold Inn. Prominently displayed under the gear-like insignia and motto "Service Above self" is the name of its current president, Cornie Miller. The text inside begins (quote) It was nice to see President Cornie at the head table again - try to make it more often Cornie we miss you." (That eight o'clock class always was a killer.)

Malcolm T. Fogg is almost a neighbor. He now lives at 7824 Shawnee Run Road, Cincinnati 43, Ohio. Fred Mowatt Jr. is chief counsel, Home Improvement Program, Federal Housing Administration, 811 Vermont Ave., Washington 25, D. C. Not only that, but he apparently has even wrangled a house for himself at 5921 North Fifth St., Arlington 3, Va. He wants all classmates who are not satisfied with their present homes to write him their problems. He has a peachy list of paint stores. Easy Terms.

Ralph Holben lives at the University Club, 1135 Sixteenth St., N.W., Washington 6, D. C. Fran Holland, Box 526, Derby Line, Vt. Hank Mills, 950 Lake Road, Webster, N. Y. Les Terry has moved to 38 Beaman St., Poultney, Vt. and Lt. Col. Chuck Obermeyer, Hq. 2nd Student Training Regt., U. S. Army Training Center, Engr., Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. (get that on an Xmas card if you can!)

I was in St. Louis last month and gave Russ Fette a call. Russ helps operate the Fette & Stith Agency (insurance) and from all appearances likes it fine — and it likes him. Cloaked under the disguise of roving boy reporter I got myself invited to dinner at his new home, 84 Lake Forest, Richmond Heights. He and Cece have two boys and a girl and the remains of a bottle of 120 proof bourbon deposited in escrow by Bob Hagge sometime ago on a visit as spontaneous as mine. We refought W.W. II from Peking to the bottom of the bottle. We learned that Phil Wentworth also lives in St. Louis now at 449 Sherwood and works for a manufacturer of leather specialties, the Prince-Gardner Company. We issued the Fettes a firstclass tavern license then disappeared into the night's murky fold.

Dr. Al Ley is chief of the laboratory research unit at Memorial Hospital, New York. Bert MacMannis is the New York advertising sales manager for the U. S. edition of Reader's Digest. Tommy Burrell ran unopposed for the three-year term on the planning board of Westport, Mass., and though our Thermo-Fax copy of the March 8, 1958, clipping from the New Bedford Independent indicated that the election would be held that coming Monday, I think all of his classmates can assume he made it and can breathe easy. It might also be gratifying to learn that our own Jack Cumming is the Barrington, R. 1., vice chairman for the Special Gifts Phase of the Dartmouth College Capital Gifts Campaign. Clem Burnap has joined the Technical Sales Department of Atomics International, a division of the North American Aviation at Canoga Park, Calif., where he will be concerned with licensing activities in connection with marketing nuclear reactors abroad. And to think we used to know him when he threw apple cores at Pathe News pictures of Mrs. Roosevelt in the Nugget!

Several years ago as we were bidding goodnight to our favorite desert spa. El Chorro, near Phoenix, we got wedged in the doorway with Art Larkin and Peggy. As all good Dartmouth men will, at that time of night and under those circumstances, we exchanged amenities, then immediately fell into discussion of packaged meats and Spam in particular. At that time Art was vice president of the Geo. A. Hormel Co. o£ Austin, Minn., inventor of the meat that won World War II. Now we learn that having conquered the Axis, he has turned to conquer sleep. Art is the new marketing manager for the Maxwell House Division of General Foods and has the direct responsibility for national sales of instant and regular ground Maxwell House, instant and regular Sanka, Yuban and Bliss. In addition, advertising, market research, and product management fall under him. Ours is certainly a class of many facets. Now, what and who will we talk about next month? The files are exhausted.

Secretary, 1908 Coolidge Dr. Dayton 19, Ohio

Treasurer, 15 Meridan PI., Huntington Station, N. Y.