1953
The scene: Soldier's Field, Cambridge, Mass. The score: Harvard 16, Dartmouth 8. Other irritating factors: it was raining, cold, and white handkerchiefs were waved at us. All was 'agin us Saturday, October 25, but as John Dell Isola. former Dartmouth line coach, used to say: "What you lose on the oranges, you make up on the bananas." And '53 did just that! After the game, the Hotel Continental in Cambridge was the scene of spirits quickly revived and old friendships renewed. At the height of the party it was estimated that there were about 50-75 members of '53 present (not to mention wives, dates, and parents), with 25 or more members of other classes joining in the fun. "When a group will stand from quarter to five 'till nine P.M. - Confucius say: "All present, good time had." Our thanks go to Howie Clery in making this traditional '53 gathering one of the best ever. Just a few of the faces I caught - Alger, Barnett, Bigham, Bloomer, Blum, Callender, Carleton, Clery, Cobb, Cook, John Corcoran, Courtney, Crisp, Dorsett, Dunham, Edgar, Fleet, Fleming, Henderson, Horton, Bill Johnson, Kay, Malin, Mattoon, Melcher Mitchell, Gib Murphy, Newton, Osborn, Paganucci, Kes Pierson, Senne, Simpson, Spiegel, Dave Stanley, Stiles, Vitalis, and "Whittemore.
Before the game on Saturday, the Class Executive Committee met in Howie Clery's home to discuss matters pertaining to class affairs. Several major decisions were reached concerning the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and Regional Class meetings. The full details of these discussions will be brought to you via a Class Chairman's Report very soon. Charlie Buchanan also advised the committee that the class dues program was coming along nicely; he, however, urged those who had not sent their check to him to please do so as soon as possible.
The weekend and all of its events made each one a little bit more proud he wore the green and was a member of a class that continues to grow stronger and stronger through mutual friendship and devotion to Dartmouth.
George Weston had his eye right on Charlotte Fleury as she marched the long aisle on September 6 in Springfield, Mass., before marriage Vows were repeated. Charlotte is a graduate of the University of Mass., and plans to make her new home in Southhampton, Mass. George is employed by the Tecnifax Corp. as head of its Seminar Bureau. And in April, Ross Moyer plans to have an eye on Nancy Brudi of Fort Wayne, Ind., as she approaches the altar. Tom Dewey and Isabel Taylor of Indianapolis, and more recently San Francisco, are planning a winter wedding. The future bride is a graduate of De Pauw University.
And now let's catch up on the following "doings": Joe Burbeck, a timebuyer for Compton Advertising Agency, is handling the Duncan Hines Cake Mix and Big Top Peanut Butter accounts. Joe entered the Compton agency in 1955 in their media department and then moved into timebuying; BillChaffee is working on his master's degree at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard; Bill Crotty recently joined the law firm of Cobb, Cole, and Pierce in Daytona Beach, Fla.; Bob Foster, a salesman with Whitehall Laboratories, a Division of American Home Products; Al Gruber a grad student and research assistant at Purdue University; LenJohnson, a teaching fellow in French at Harvard; Dave Lewis, in surgical resident training at Cincinnati General Hospital; SamLewis, working in sales for Greenwood Mills, Inc. in Chicago; Art Little, a sales trainee for Otis Elevator in Boston; Gib Murphy, a partner in Luby and Murphy law firm in Hartford, Conn.; Pete Patterson, a resident in pediatrics at the Army s Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco; Gerry Sorkin is Advertising Sales Promotion Manager for Peek-A-Boot, Inc. in Los Angeles; Dick Stanley is with the investment banking house in New York of Smith, Barney and Co.; Stu Streuver, a graduate student of archeology at Northwestern University; Foxy Wolf is with Prudential Life Insurance in Hartford, Conn.; and George Stanley is in sales with the Textile Fibers Division of Dow Chemical Co.
The modern version of "Black Dan" Webster's famous Dartmouth College Case was recently re-enacted when our own Bill Johnson was admitted to practice before the New Hampshire Bar on September 3 and immediately proceeded to argue a case before the jurists concerning a College trust case, Bill won the verdict, thereby bringing great credit to himself, his law firm of Cotton, Tesreau, and Stebbins of Lebanon, N. H., and, of course, the College. In the field of law, Ralph Heyman, a member of the Ohio and Illinois bars, has recently had published his study of "Estate Planning and Conflict of Laws" written in partial fulfillment of the degree of Master of Laws from the University of Cincinnati.
Two births to announce - a daughter to Lefty and Doris Leavens, Wendy Sue, on September 16, and a son to Grafton and Pat Sieber, Grafton Jr., on October 5.
And now "round the girdled earth we send, each to one another, a wish that is warm and sincere for a joyous Christmas Season and a year ahead that will be marked by good health, prosperity, and peace. Merry Christmas!
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