1939
Bully! Bully! We're beginning to get some fan mail. Classmates, God love 'em, are beginning to send in sparse autobiographical pasages of current events and happenings of yesteryear, many of which rate a hasty secretarial reply. For instance: In October we initiated the Madam Defarge Trophy for the classmate who could speak of the ultimate in quantitative progeny. (Who's got the most kids?) Already we have prolific old Ernie Smith, M.D. of Lapham Corner, Oakland, R. I., throwing his hat in the ring. Ernie's entry blank shows that he and wife Dorothy own seven (7) boys. He goes on to say, "It's got to stop though as our house is now frequently mistaken for a local branch of the YMCA." At the end of 1959 the classmate who can best beat Ernie will be awarded the miniature guillotine partially embedded in clear plastic dangling from a Dartmouth tie clasp.
Since the welfare of our class for the next six years culminating in our 25th reunion will be handled by our Executive Committee, we will make it a point each month to bring you up-to-date on one member of this exalted group. This month's member, by virtue of his having bothered to write us, is Walt Darby. Walt is a lawyer. He lives in Port Washington, L. I. He has recently changed firms after twelve years, and is now a partner at Foley and Grainger, offices at 26 Broadway. Though he is engaged in the general practice of law, his specialty is admiralty law which means that any of you amateur yachtsmen who get your balloon spinnakers caught in your neighbor's outboard motors can find legal haven with Captain Bligh Darby. After the excellent way Walt handled the chairmanship of our "twentieth" reunion, we think he deserves his cushy berth on the executive committee with its commensurate lush salary and wish him mixed metaphors in his new venture.
Here's a field day for your Xmas card list: Bob English teaches music at Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vt. His address is R. F. D. $2, Poultney, Vt. Dr. Kevin J. Fay, 609 Calle Rinconada, Santa Barbara, Calif. Ralph Holben, Saxony Apts., 1801 Clydesdale Place, N. W., Washington 9. D. C. Warren B. Pinney, 810 Merchandise Mart Bldg., 510 S. Ervay, Dallas, Texas. Dick Varey owns and lives at Christmas Island Cottages, R. F. D. #3, Laconia, N. H. Lt. Col. Jim Feeley USMC with the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif., currently lives at 1834 North Kirkwood Place, Arlington, Va. (This sounds confusing to me, so better mail your card early).
Another point of confusion on new addresses forwarded by our ever vigilant Alumni Records Office is Phil Sellinger. In October he was listed as Executive Secretary to the Governor of Wisconsin, living at 5438 Dahlem Drive, Madison 5, Wise. At this writing it is November 5 - the election returns are still confused. Phil, are you or aren't you? Please write us.
Pem Pleasants, our class glow-worm, has recently been made marketing development manager for lighting sales of the Sylvania Lighting Products Division of Sylvania Electric. Only three years ago he was their lowly sales manager for light bulbs, and I had dinner with him at Bob Brown's house in Gloucester high on a cliff overlooking Norman's Woe while Pem explained how he sold them. "You fight for eye-level rack space in the stores," he confided. See how easy it is to advance in the marts of trade?
We learn from the Quincy, Mass., PatriotLedger that Walter Martinson, who lives at 34 Hancock Court, was the head of the Specialties Division of the Quincy United Fund Drive. Walt is a C. P. A. and business consultant. Al Lansberg has been recently named treasurer and controller of Knox Glass, Inc. of Knox, Penna. Also a C. P. A., Al resigned as treasurer and controller of the Plax Corp. in Hartford, Conn., in 1955 to join Knox Glass.
The magazine Madison Avenue for September carried a page article on our creative friend Pete Cardozo. Director for radio and tv and a vice president of Fuller & Smith & Ross, Pete has written scripts and articles for all types of media aimed at entertaining kids. Now he feels they should be more aware of the world around them and has formed an Explorers' Club and has written their text book "A Wonderful World for Children" (Bantam Books) designed to attract them away from their tv sets and initiate them into the thrills of living experiences. He fancies himself a twentieth century Pied Piper - sort of a juvenile Mary Worth. This is all avocation, mind you, done in his spare time. It sounds like a terrific idea to me, Pete, and I'll gladly furnish you four disciples of various sizes postpaid.
In their October 11 issue, New Yorker's man Stanley safaried out to the Westchester Country Club as a guest of Toro Mfg. Co. to see a demonstration of Wind Tunnel Mowing. He fell in with an amiable young man who turned out to be Toro's president, Dave Lilly, frustrated by a brisk falling rain - half gale, to quote Stanley out of context. From there on in the description gets confusing. There are bulls, hamburgers, plastic buckets, and ex-wrestlers jumping on the new plastic housing of the mower shouting "Ole" with an accent aigu. Drop us a note, Dave, and tell us how many you sold.
Moreau Brown, attending the Third Biennial Engineering Education Conference at the University of Michigan where he was moderator of Session III, "Support by Industry of Higher Education," sent us a program and wrote us a note. Browny with headquarters in New York City is administrator of General Electric's Corporate Support Program where Progress is their Most Important Product. His new residence address is 258 South Main, New City, N. Y. Please send a knob for my electric skillet.
Bill Borsdorff writes from a new address, 909 Park Ave., Plainfield, N. J., that it is a long time between drinks. Absorbing this truism, he goes on to say that P. C. Thomas and Frank O'Brien will accompany him to the Princeton game.
The Ziff-Davis Publishing Co. of One Park Ave., N. Y., N. Y., has announced the promotion of Howie Stoughton to company treasurer. He lives in Darien, Conn., with his wife Betsy and two children. Wes Goding writes our treasurer while sending his class dues that he has apparently missed all sorts of meetings with classmates due to conflicting dates, and his excuse for missing the reunion sounded convincing and resulted in his drinking alone, and we all know how much fun that is. Jim Donovan was recently promoted to full colonel USMC; currently living at 6026 Amherst Ave., Springfield, Va. Otis Mudge has been elected to the teaching staff of the Winnacunnet School in Hampton, N. H.
Closing with a solemn note this month, we have been informed of the death of Allen Hazen on October 20 in Minneapolis. We have written his widow, Lenore Haucke Hazen, and learned that Allen suffered from Hodgkin's Disease for the past seven and a half years until his death. There is a Hodgkin's Disease Fund at the University of Minnesota Medical School to which many have contributed in Allen's memory. The family would appreciate more contributions to this fund from any classmates who might care to do so in Allen's name. He is also survived by a daughter and two sons.
Secretary, 1908 Coolidge Dr. Dayton 19, Ohio
Treasurer, 15 Meridan PI., Huntington Station, N. Y.
