1934
Usually I operate on the theory that one should never do today that which doesn't have to be done until tomorrow but my pile of mail is so high that I'm going to attack it right now.
Stan Neill writes that he and Russ Davis spent an evening with Bill Hartman on board the S.S. Vulcania when passengers were embarking en route to Italy. It was a great reunion with a few drinks and a delicious dinner, thanks to Bill, the bon vivant and world traveler.
Just learned from Bill Ramsey that he and his wife, Koppy, were in Hanover last fall for the Convocation. Bill combined a business trip to Detroit and Boston with a week's vacation. He goes on to say:
I'm out of the law practice and in the road machinery manufacturing business and am now enjoying life in real estate with N. P. Dodge Co. of Omaha (in our 103 rd year) of which I'm a V.P. We are trying to promote a subdivision in the Bahamas at the moment. (Secretary's note—Liz and I will be in Nassau the first week in March please try and join us.) Koppy is one of the two women on the Omaha School Board. Our four girls Mary, Barbara, Carol and Julie are just wonderful.
Another proud father of four beauteous girls is Tom Cass. His youngest, Laura, celebrated her first birthday recently while her teen-age sisters Linda, Deborah and Victoria, have started taking an interest in Dartmouth men. Tom is a V.P. of Container Corporation of America having eliminated his old job by dissolving the subsidiary California Container Corp. He's in charge of mills and carton plants on the West Coast.
Bill Gilmore managed to get Phil Glazer and Dave Hedges out in the Arizona sun. Bill says they both looked great but who wouldn't out in Scottsdale? He also saw BillKnibbs in San . Diego and the two of them spent an enjoyable evening of reminiscence.
It's been years since we've had word from Jim Gilford but he's still in Lynn, Mass., from whence he dropped Bill Wilson a note. It was good to hear from you, Jim and congratulations on your freshman son. Also glad to learn that Dick Wells is once again in tiptop shape - and tried his hand at duck hunting last fall. Although this was the first time he had ever shot a gun he found the experience interesting and "I guess even called fun." Sounds like you didn't bag your quota of widgeons. Happier hunting next year.
Received a cordial invitation to visit Stan Smoyer after the Princeton game. Stan not too long ago set up a plant for Johnson & Johnson in India and is now enjoying a busy life in the Tiger's lair, Jersey type. He even found time to run for the local governing body in Princeton. One of his running mates was Ken Fairman, our old nemesis on Princeton's ton'sfootball, basketball, and lacrosse teams and now Director of Athletics.
For some reason or other Bill Craig hasn't been receiving his copies of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. This may be due to his lengthy business trips to Texas and Mexico. He was relaxing on his Jersey farm in December and catching up on class gossip.
Stew Anderson is back in the routine with the State Department in Washington and as usual working very hard. The only person he has crossed paths with has been Ernie Barcella, even though Stew has attended the Dartmouth luncheons at the Touchdown Club from time to time. I too have rarely found classmates at the Dartmouth Downtown meetings in New York and although the food would scarcely rate one star in a Michelin guide the programs arranged have been excellent.
Here's what Hank Peirce has to say:
We had a fine year. Roger went to a camp in Michigan last summer and Betty and I spent a couple of weeks there eating, elbow bending, boating, golf, tennis, and sunbathing. Business has been soft but things are picking up now. Money! Money! Money! Make it, spend it, tax it, or give it. So goes the exciting strenuous battle. I enjoyed a week at the Greenbrier in White Sulphur at the Million Dollar Round Table and now as Indiana State Chairman for the Enrollment program my Dartmouth functions are claiming my attention, time and energy.
Bud Yallalee is still living at the Dartmouth Club in New York. He is regional merchandising supervisor on the Eastern Seaboard for the California Prune Advisory Board. He wends his way from Boston to Miami and out of San Francisco which is home plate for him and the Giants. Bud and I can both report hasty glimpses of Bob Ford and Harry Wallace.
Dr. Emerson Day, Director of the Strang Cancer Prevention Clinic of Memorial Center and Chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine at Sloan-Kettering Institute, was the principal speaker at the final report meeting of the United Hospital Fund attended by my wife, Liz. She thought you were great, Em!
Ted Gregory chips in with the following: I have been appointed to a four-year term on the Test Selection Committee of the Educational Records Bureau in New York City. Our third son, Mark Hitchcock Gregory, aged 1%, is a strapping fellow who bodes well to carry on the fine football traditions in Hanover. Frank Lepreau spent the night with us not so long ago and was as inspiring as ever. My remedial reading summer program, called Landfall Workshop, was challenging and successful again last summer and most of the credit goes to my wife Elizabeth.
Dick Houck unable to attend the fall reunion toasted us in whatever it is that one imbibes in Venezuela. Bud Yallalee thought the Houcker was there on business.
Alan Hewitt must have been rushing between television shows for he apologized for his lack of news of any great interest. Don't you realize how glamorous your life seems to us who sit in front of our sets night after night watching you?
Laura and Frank Heath flew East for the Princeton game. Their daughter Beverly is in Polly Banfield's class at school. Polly is Nancy and Dick Banfield's middle one, sandwiched between Dick Jr. and Beckett. Phil Eckels and Mary have a daughter, Katherine at Goucher this year and she's very happy there. This is one of my favorite girls' colleges because this is Liz's alma mater and in the same class was Fred Wolf's wife, Margery.
I have in hand a business card from GeorgeL. Thomas which carries in bold print the one word - retired - and in the four corners - no address, no phone, no business and no money.
Hope this information about Dave Hill has been cleared by security forces and that I'm not divulging anything that will oblige me to plead the fifth amendment. He works for the Technical Advisory Panel as a mem. ber of the Advisory Group on Electronic Parts which reports to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense. His group monitors research, aimed at developing parts suitable for satellites, ICBM's and the like. In another field of endeavor he won a ribbon for a water color in a local art show.
Had lunch with Babe Shea at Toots Shor's the other day. He plays golf all year round up at Siwanoy and hasn't gained a pound since graduation. I thought this almost as praiseworthy as his standing as a vice president of J. C. Penney.
That about wraps it up for this month. I hit the john-pot as they call it in more conservative circles, and if you keep sending me news items from around the country I promise not to clutter the column with the activities of the New York group.
Reg Bankart '35 (left), outgoing president of the Dartmouth Club of New York, hands over the gavel to his classmate, Carl Funke '35, who succeeded him.
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