1945
Again this is my yearly service to those of you who do some traveling and are likely to find yourselves in far-away or strange places. Some of your classmates are busy serving Dartmouth as Alumni Club officers and would like very much to hear from you as you pass through their environs. Rod Walser serves as president of the Wilmington, Del., group; Bob Ross as the secretary of the Fort Lauderdale club; "Jug" Agry heads the Dartmouth Club of Georgia in Atlanta; John Leggat, president of the Dartmouth Club of Lowell; Stan Newton performs as secretary of the Nashoba Dartmouth Club; and in St. Louis, it's Bruce Symonds, secretary; lastly, Geoff Maclay heads the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Wisconsin with headquarters in Milwaukee.
The desire and efficiency of your treasurer, Barney Oldfield, continues to amaze me. With an unpleasant but necessary job on his hands, Barney has performed in marvelous fashion. An example of his ingenuity is to be found in his dealings with Raphael Eban in London. Foreign exchange being as complicated as it is and with the restrictions on the British pound, Barney and Raphael have set up an exchange system of their own. Raphael deposits £1-16-0 in a London bank in Barney's name (for future use for Oldfield and family when and if they reach London) and Barney pays Dr. Eban's dues. Neat, wot? Incidentally Raphael is a radiologist and senior registrar at St. Mary's, home of Roger Bannister and penicillin, with a list of degrees as long as your arm after his name. Claims the only reason he can take so many exams is that he's still unmarried. He also spent two years in Malaya, with Gurkha troops, chasing Chinese communists.
Larry Blood, reporting from Fayetteville, N. Y., lists his offspring as now numbering five and himself as still on the payroll of Chevrolet Motor Division with the title of Zone Business Manager for the Syracuse area. I here inject a thought; seems to me that our class may be setting some sort of a record for progeny. Here's Larry with five, last month's column listed several with four or five, and I know of one classmate with eight. Pretty soon the number of offspring will outnumber the number of classmates. The present ratio might be pretty interesting.
From Carl Loewenson: "After years of silence I can report being completely married (Diane) with two children. Have the usual suburban worries having bought a house a year and a half ago on the outskirts of Baltimore. Since graduation have been with The Hecht Co. and am now Divisional Merchandise Manager of children's wear."Bob Cate in Brazil reports "Not much news from Amazonia, things proceeding as usual - this morning no water, no elevator (we live on the nth floor), no air conditioning. Also we both have the grippe Asiatica. Humid tropical regards." Lt. Comdr. Harry Roberts informs all that he will be out of the Navy this year and in practice in San Diego. Loring Wood beat him out, being released from the Navy a year ago and "involved with a Fellowship in cardiology at Buffalo General Hospital. We now have a third member of our household, Karen Spencer Wood, born 13 January, '56. Makes household activities somewhat more active." Ted Bennett is at Columbia & Union Seminary working on a Ph.D. in religion. He was elected a Fellow of the National Council on Religion in Higher Education last May. Congratulations, Ted. Vic Smith reports in from Pickerington, Ohio, which he says, "is a thriving Fairfield County village located at the intersection of the New York Central and Ohio route 256; about 16 miles SE of Columbus. I'm here to build a large new plant for Western Elec- tric. Expect to be here for about two years." Paul Samek has sold his women's wear shop in Winston-Salem and is now fashion merchandise manager for Sears, Roebuck in Tampa, Fla. I quote Jim Field's letter because it has interest to all and I hope you investigate the product concerned.
Shave with Ingram - I'm starving! The plight of the small - not to mention wee, - businessman in today's economy is indeed precarious. But the product is off the ground 4½ months, and as a product I couldn't be prouder. It's qualit Even has milk in it. But how to finance advertising and promotion? So it's really a barehands, up-by-the-bootstraps operation at this point. But I'm happy this way whereas I'm miserable in a company, even with several times the income.
Keep your eyes on your sales, Jim. If 700 '455 buy and spread the good word, it should help.
John McCauley signs in from Atlanta, 710 Peachtree St. to be exact, and reports himself still selling for. du Pont and trying to diet some fat off. He spent a week's vacation in the Adirondacks a short time ago with Frank Hutchins, Grif Strasenburgh, Spence Johnson, and Bill Hale '44. And the shortest, most succinct report of the year goes to lawyer Jim Knowles of Clarksburg, W. Va., who writes: "Another year, another son, another client."
And so I'll say: "So long for another month, another column, and another get-together."
Eliot Mover '45 (right), head agent for his class, was recently elected Chairman of the New Filmland Chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization. Shown with him at a Manchester, N.H., meeting are C. C. Marfan, president of Spencer Shoe Co., and Melvin Gordon president of Tennessee Knitting Mills. Mover is president of Bunny Bear, Inc. of Everett, Mass., makers of nursery products, a company which he has headed since 1953.
Secretary, Middlesex School, Concord, Mass.
Treasurer, Stoney Ridge Rd., N. Ridgeville, Ohio
