1933
Three more months until we see you all mit frauen und kinder in Hanover! D'Arcy reports that you fellows are doing wonders with the Memorial Fund and as the specific kick-off for the College's 200th Anniversary Development Fund. More power to you! SET YOUR SIGHTS ON 33! Hitch your wagon to the star of 33 times your annual Alumni Fund contribution. Most of us would like to do more. Some of us will do more. Many of us must be content with somewhat less. But, remember, this is a chance to buy a piece of immortality! On the installment plan yet remember we have 33 months in which to pay, starting right now!
We were saddened to have news of the death on December 16, 1957 of Stanley Zebrowski of Thompsonville, Conn.
A recent mention here of Bob Guggenheim brought a more up-to-date address (11771 Montana Avenue, Los Angeles 49) and a most welcome letter. The letter stirred us to speculate again as to who may be the Class Grandfather. It looks like Bob has a pretty goodclaim since his grandson, Christopher Langan,was born in October of 1956. Anybody wantto dispute the title? As a matter of fact, Bobwill probably have been made a grandfatherfor the second time when you read theselines. Bob's firm is MacManus, John & Adams,Inc., and not as previously reported. Bob'sson (not the father of the grandbaby) is asophomore at the University of Californiaat Berkeley. Thanks, Bob, for the news, andwe concur in your hope that Chris may follow in his grandfather's footsteps by attending Dartmouth.
Moving eastward with some newer addresses, we have Wilber H. Bradford, living at 1673 Sherman Street, Denver 3, and passing his time at Bradford-Robinson Printing Co., 1824 Stout Street, Denver 1. Next we have Martin M. Kerwin at 442 Linum Lane, Webster Groves 19, Mo. Then comes Robert E. Kay who lives at 304 East Wisconsin Avenue, Neenah, Wis., and occupies himself as trust officer and attorney for the National Manufacturers Bank of Neenah. Now down to Knoxville 20, Tenn., where Dr. VincentYoung can be found at 404 Blount Professional Building; then directly east to Raleigh, N. C., and Howard Porter, Jr. at Beechwoods Lane, R. D. 1. Then we swing northeasterly to Belle Mead, N. J., where William A. Sherman lives at another R. D. 1 on Amnell Road. Still traveling northeasterly we come to Francis H. Hoge on Mount Holly Road, Katonah, N. Y.; and the farthest northeasterly we are going this month finds Dr. KimballFlaccus operating as a writer and teacher at The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, N. H.
Os Skinner, '28 Secretary, sends me the program for last autumn's initiation of The Society of the Sigma Xi, the Ohio State Chapter, containing the name of Richard P. Goldthwait as president-elect, Harold E. Burtt '11, a member of the board of electors, and Dr. John Turkevich '28, professor of chemistry at Princeton and speaker of the evening. This, of course, is a further well-deserved honor for Dick Goldthwait.
You have probably heard the good news that Parker T. (Pete) Hart has been named by President Eisenhower to be United States Ambassador to Jordan. At the time of his appointment, Pete, who is a career diplomat, was Consul at the U. S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, and before that Pete had been assigned to U. S. embassies in Austria, Brazil and Saudi Arabia and had spent four years with the State Department in Washington, specializing in Middle East affairs. Page Worthington sends along a copy of a letter from Pete, stating in part, "I wish I could believe that I might have home leave for our 25th Reunion next June. However, I am afraid it is not in the cards as I will have been at my post (and a pretty sensitive one) not more than three months. I shall greatly regret not having had the chance to see my classmates for this would be my first reunion since our 5th." We are extremely proud of you, Pete, but will regret not seeing you in June. However, our regret will be tempered with the assurance that our country's affairs in at least one portion of the Middle East are in your capable hands!
Two other appointments of interest are (1) that of Robert L. Dickson of Montclair as administrative vice-president of Walter Kidde & Co.. Inc. of Belleville, N. J., and his election to the board of directors; and (2) the appointment of Frederic A. Birmingham, an editor of Esquire Magazine for the past sixteen years, as director of editorial and promotional activities in men's fashions by Playboy Magazine. Fred is the editor of two current books, "Esquire's Fashion Guide," and "The Esquire Drink Book," and is the author of a book on the art of writing to be released in the spring. While he is a veteran lecturer before college and community groups and has appeared frequently on TV and radio programs, his writing in the form of advertising copy and short stories has also won prizes and recognition, and his free lance work has appeared in magazines here and abroad and in newspaper syndication. Congratulations to both Bob and Fred on these well-merited appointments.
Two elections of interest were reported recently in the press. Richard K. Lyon, prominent Washington, D. C., attorney, was elected chairman of the Commissioners' Youth Council, which has been conducting a successful campaign against teen-age delinquency. Dick has previously been vice-chairman of the Council. In Cleveland Robert L. Fairbank, vice-president of Towmotor Corp., was elected president of the Material Handling Institute, Inc. Bob had been first vicepresident of MHI and was formerly sales manager of Towmotor. Congratulations to you two, too!
In Hanover, Archer Hudson has retired from the firm of Hudson and Ingram, and the business will be conducted by Charles Hildreth Gray, A. I. A., and Gordon R. Ingram, P. E., Architects and Engineers. From Bath, N. Y., comes news that Dr. Dunham Kirkham, section chief of internal medicine at Bath Veterans' Administration Center was transferred to Sunmount VA Hospital. A quick rundown shows that he married Elsie Holmquist of Vinalhaven, Me.; he has three children: Katharine, now at Marlboro College in Vermont; David, now in Woodstock, Vt., School; and Margaret; Dunham joined the VA Center medical staff in 1949 and in 1950 was recalled to active duty by the Army and assigned as chief of medicine at a station hospital in Korea; he returned to Bath in 1951 and remained until 1953 when he went to the Marshall Islands as a district director of public health for the Department of Interior. He returned to the Bath VA Center in 1955.
Sit right down and plan your Reunion trip now! Norm Crabtree, for instance, has the right idea and is bringing his whole family from England. The dates, in case you have forgotten, are 6:00 P.M., June 12, through noon dinner on June 15. It'll be the Greatest!
Robert L. Fairbank '33, vice president of theTownmotor Corp., Cleveland, O., is newPresident of the Material Handling Institute,a trade organization composed of 86 companies in the handling equipment field.
Secretary, 217 Goundry Street North Tonaw anda, N. Y.
Treasurer, Quechee, Vt.
