1936
It's New Year's Day as I write these notes from clippings and letters you fellows have sent me. Thanks to the many of you who remembered your good old class secretary with Christmas wishes.
Headline news in the New Year is the announcement from class chairman Pete Fitzherbert that Jack McKallagat will be the editor of Tithe. Jack is in the insurance business in Lawrence, Mass., and next month I hope to be able to tell you more about this Deke who will want to hear from all of you as he puts Tithe together in the future. The demands of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania have become heavier and heavier for Earl Copp who felt obliged to resign The Tithe editorship after two devoted years at the job. To be nearer the statehouse, Earl and Florence have moved to Easton, Pa. Earl practically commutes to Harrisburg where he is working on public relations for the Republican ticket.
Other news flashes: Roy Adams has been elected president of the Greenwich-Stamford (Conn.) Chapter of the National Association of Accountants.... Joe Handrahan has been elected president of the Trimble Construction Co. in Pittsburgh, Pa.... The advertising account of Treadway Inns, Inc. has been placed with Gibney & Barreca Advertising Agency in Springfield, Mass. Brew Towne is the managing director of Treadway Inns and Al Gibney is president of Gibney and Barreca. ... In December The Dartmouth ALUMNI MAGAZINE awarded a Wah Hoo Wah to Steve Stiles of Green Bay, Wis., who was elected president of the National Wholesale Hardware Association. A picture of Steve and his family accompany these notes this month. At the Hardward Convention, Steve had the support of Huffy Huffman of bicycle fame and Bud Wolfe, general manager of the Utensil Division of the Bridgeport Brass Company.
Many of you remember Joe Cunninghamas a writer for The New York Daily Newsand Tithe. We hadn't heard from Joe sincehe laid down his Tithe pen about three yearsago, so it's good to read his mail again. I'mnot going to lift news from this literarygenius, but rather pass along his letter toyou. Joe writes:
As you may recall, I am now associated with the Dairy Industries Supply Association, an outfit that represents the interests of a group of companies that supply equipment, services and supplies to the processors of dairy products. This job has me travelling a modest amount.
In preparation for the convention of the International Assn. of Ice Cream Manufacturers and the Milk Industry Foundation I was out on the coast in May and June. I was close to Palm Springs so I took advantage of the trip to get in touch with Bill Bruckner, who lives there. Bill was one of the group with which I bummed around (I think the word is correctly chosen) in Hanover. Others were Dan Poor, whom I saw at reunion and Coley Judd, whom I once tried to contact in Cleveland only to find he is living in Florida. Frank Miller and Johnny Johnson were also part of this brain trust, both of whom, of course, have long since departed this world.
Getting back to Bill, he was quite recognizable. A little more stooped, perhaps - he always tended to slouch a bit because of his height - and a bit gray (perhaps even more than a bit), but I had no difficulty in recognizing him. Bill's family was recovering from a temporary illness, and as a consequence I did not meet them. Bill is a free lance writer, appears quite happy with his work. He is something of a regular for the Loretta Young Show - not a salaried writer for the show, but one on whom they depend for scripts from time to time. He also writes short stories (the market gone to hell, of course, with the loss of such magazines as Colliers), and such other things as a writer would write.
As for the Cunningham family, all are well, I'm glad to say. I have three children, Alan 16,' Elizabeth 14, and Richard 9. My wife underwent major surgery about three years ago, and has been slowly recovering. She now appears to be in good health again.
As for yours truly, except for .20 pounds distributed not too strategically aroiind the frame, and a slight tendency to thinning hair at the front of my part, there has not been any particular change. I'm very happy in my job, which, incidentally, will have me almost commuting to Chicago for the next year to set up The Giant Exposition to be held there in December 1958. It takes a year to get it all lined up, so I will be in and out of the windy city a few million times, more or less. I see Milt Johnston once in a while; he is a VIP at Dairypak, a company that makes among other things, the gable-top milk containers that open up to make a pouring spout.
That seems to be about the picture. The Cunninghams ninghams still live in rural Maryland, with a few acres surrounding the house, but with no more livestock. I travel too much for that. I go to the Dartmouth Club of Washington luncheons from time to time, and occasionally see Barry Sullivan who is the only '36er who seems to show up even occasionally. I saw Bill Yelverton on the street nearly a year ago, and Ernie Mechlin even longer ago than that. Seems ridiculous to live in the same area with someone and never see him, but apparently it's normal. Please express my good wishes to one and all.
The Honorable J. Frank McLaughlin '30,District Judge in Honolulu, Hawaii wrote toEddie Chamberlain,
Dr. Dick Dodge who is currently treating my bursitis condition, sends his Aloha. You might pass on to the Secretary of his class the fact that Dr. Dodge has returned from a month's trip to Korea under State Department sponsorship, where he performed over 30 operations. He tells me that the Korean people are in great need and are truly grateful for any help given them. As illustrative of their plight, he told of the large rambling wooden hospital structure, annexed from the Japanese, which the Koreans use. He said while he was there the temperature was 37 degrees and they had but six tons of coal to" last throughout the winter to heat the hospital. Now he is back in Honolulu where he is specializing as he has in the past in bones and joints, as well as being a general physician and surgeon. Dr. Dodge has a young son, Rickey, who is beginning to think seriously of Dartmouth. He is now attending Punahou School.
The new vice president of the National Bank of Toledo, Ohio, Dune Newell, says,
While writing I should get you up-to-date, in summary form, on the more personal family side. As you know, Phyllis Dorr of Newport, N. H., and I were married March 20, 1948, and' our family now consists of Duncan H. III, born in March, 1949 and Julia Phyllis, born in June, 1952, along with our police dog, Victory (born in August, 1949). (On leaving Maine we left behind us all eleven cats.)
Our third day in Perrysburg, with one moving van still in the yard, we received a message that the Dartmouth Club here was having a steak broil with the fortnight, which I attended, out at Sylvania Country Club. It will be no news to any Dartmouth man that the newcomer to the territory was received with real cordiality - but just the same it was a. most heartwarming welcome to Toledo and made me fee] right at home even before the pyramid of furniture in the dining room was unstacked. In fairness to non-Dartmouthites, I should add that that good reception is illustrative of the welcome Toledo and Perrysburg in general have accorded their new taxpayers and, much as the Newels love New England, they already are convinced they are glad they made the move.
Be sure to extend our cordial invitation to any who may be in these environs to stop in and be neighborly. Best regards.
The wet snow and losing score at the Dartmouth-Princeton game apparently didn'tdampen the spirits of the '36 members in attendance. Frank Weston was kind to send methe following note after the game, "Missedyou Saturday - Very bad snow - People present: Ed and Evvy Nilsson, Dick and Kate Wilson, Norb and Pic Hofman, Frank and ElsieWeston, Clark and Hazel Sorensen, PinkyConklin, Jack Kenny, Paul and Kathy Lynch,Bill and Pat Hoffmann, Bob and Dot Keller,Pete Fitzherbert, Sarge Underhill, GeorgeHambleton, Ray Reitman."
The next major get-together for '36 (afterPresident Hopkins' dinner on Feb. 5) will bethe dinner at the New York Dartmouth Clubfor classmates and their wives. This informalparty, because of its success in the past fewyears, is taking on the nature of an annualwinter function. This year something new inprograming will be added. We will have aguest of honor. He will be Eddie Chamberlain, Director of Admissions of the College.Eddie has agreed to join us for dinner and todiscussion admissions with classmates. This isparticularly timely because most of you haveboys who are anxious to have Dartmouth in their future. The meeting will be on a Friday night, March 7. Dick Morton is working on final details and when completed he will send a letter of information to all classmates in the metropolitan area. However, every class mate is invited, but don't bring the children Bob Warren brought his dog last year, but it's been recommended that guests be limited to wives.
Steve Stiles '36, president of Morley-Murphy Company in Green Bay, Wis., with (l to r) Cynthia, 17; Mrs. Stiles; Christine, 11; and Stephanie, 14. Steve was recently elected president ofthe National Wholesale Hardware Association.
Students again this summer at the Graduate School of Sales Management and Marketine at Rutgers University were (l to r) Sterling Atwater '37, from Handy and Harman, Providence; Russ Chase '45, from International Paper Co., New York; Ed White '38, from H. P. Hood & Sons, Boston; and Bob Cushman '36, from Norton Company, Worcester.
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