1936
Last night at the Hopkins' dinner here in New York over 2,000 alumni reaffirmed the spirit, purpose and fellowship that is Dartmouth. In the lighter vein, President Dickey described the dinner as the greatest Dartmouth "black tie" gathering ever held outside of Hanover. This goes for the class of '36 too. We were strongly represented. In fact, no younger class (and few older) had as many classmates at the dinner as 1936. My unofficial count of classmates and guests came to 67. When they say the Waldorf was packed to the rafters and fire exits we know what is meant. That's where '36 was assigned. Someone said Frank Kappler, assistant city editor of the New York World Telegram and Sun, who was the last '36er to obtain a dinner reservation, was handed a credit card for Nedicks out on Lexington Avenue.
As soon as the date for Hoppy's birthday party was announced Frank Weston, DinkGidney, Jack Kenny, Jack Smith and PeteFitzherbert started the ball rolling for the '36 turnout. Through the courtesy of DinkGidney, the Chinese Room on the fourth floor of the Waldorf was set up for a cocktail party before the dinner. This was a very successful and busy affair. Some classmates came from quite a distance. Jesse and AnneGait, for example, found a temporary lull in the baby business and came down from Dover, N. H. Ken Lieber came in from California, Jim Tindle from Philly, DickTreadway and Bob Ingersoll from Boston and Dick O'Hara from Washington. BarrySullivan was reported in from Washington too, but I didn't see him. Pete and BarbaraFitzherbert came down from Auburn, Me., with their guests Mai Dunlap who is Pete's partner in the insurance business and Miss Edith Leadbetter who is Barbara Fitzherbert's sister. The complete list of '36ers at the Hopkins' dinner will be printed in the first 1958 issue of Tithe which will be written soon by Jack McKallagat Jr. of 73 Bradstreet Road, North Andover, Mass.
Jim Fortune has been named district manager of the new Grace Line office in Baltimore. Jim joined Grace Line in 1946 after service with the U. S. Army Transportation Corps and was assigned to Grace Line's Terminal Piers as assistant to the terminal manager. Subsequently, he became assistant pier superintendent and later superintendent. In 1955, was transferred to the line's main office at 3 Hanover Square, New York City, as assistant to the vice president for outport operations, a position he has held until his recent appointment in Baltimore. The Fortunes have a new home at 104 Fairview Court, Timonium, Md.
In Boston banking circles the name John S. Sullivan means vice president of the National Shawmut Bank. John is a commuter from Andover, Mass. He has recently moved up from the methods division to the administrative division in this big bank. He began employment with this bank in 1957. In 1951 while an officer in the Shawmut he attended the Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers University. He has a masters degree from Tuck School. John and his wife, the former Evelyn Dwyer, have two children, a daughter Susanna and a son Michael. John is on the school board in Lawrence, Mass., a member of the school building committee in Andover, and a member of the United Fund of greater Lawrence.
Joe Davis of 70 Manchester Terrace, Mt. Kisco, N. Y., has been named director of sales development for Patent Trader. Patent Trader is the name of a weekly newspaper in Mt. Kisco and the publishing company for a chain of weeklies in Westchester County, N. Y. The post Joe is taking on is a new one, designed to coordinate the advertising and printing sales programs of the company and to initiate new business. Joe joined the newspaper in 1953 as advertising manager of the Yorktown Herald. He was first advertising manager of the Chappaqua Sun and later held the same post on the Brewster Record, another affiliate of the Patent Trader. Joe is a bachelor. He was a captain in both World War II and the Korean War. An important extra-curricular interest of Joe's is giving publicity to the magazine subscription business of Ken Turner '28 who is severely crippled by polio. Special equipment has been designed so that Ken Turner can handle subscriptions that come in by mail. In this way he helps maintain his wife and two children. Joe Davis has written an interesting story about Ken's progress. He will send a copy to you if you write to Ken's Friends, 70 Manchester Terrace, Mt. Kisco, N. Y.
Spence Johnson who is president of the Spencer Products Company of Ridgewood, N. J., sent me a picture from the N. Y. Times of Dick Hefler who has just been made a vice president of the American Potash & Chemical Corporation of New York. Dick will remain in the Los Angeles office. His home is in Burbank, Calif.
Chuck Daniels has been named assistant director of sales for the organic chemicals division of the American Cyanamid Co. of New York. He joined Cyanamid in 1936. He was formerly manager of the intermediates department.
Comdr. Dana Goldthwaite of the U. S. Marines has been transferred from Camp Pendleton, Calif., to the east coast. He makes his home now at 90 Webster St., Lynbrook L. I., N. Y.
A Republican from eastern Connecticut told me that Graham Beckel was on the Democratic ticket for membership on the school board in Lyme, Conn. The implication is that "Pop" was not elected in this Republican stronghold, but if I'm wrong, I hope he will correct me for we haven't heard from him in a long time. He is director for educational services of the Arthur C. Croft Publications of New York and New London, Conn. This is a firm that prepares and sells advisory services for public and private school administrators. Pop has three children. He is the author of several high school text books and has taught in the public schools of Westfield, N. J., and Queens College in New York.
Bob Button, director of Voice of America, prepares himself for his important speaking engagements with a fast squash match beforehand. At least this is what he did on January 29 when he was in New York to speak to The Society of Radio and Television Executives. Earlier in the winter, Bob spoke to the P. T. A. of Maplewood, N. J., and did a fine job on both assignments I am told.
Somewhere between the rivers Piscataquog and Contoocook in the town of Weare, N. H.. lives Joe Millimet. Joe has his own law firm, Devine & Millimet in Manchester, N. H., and has written this nice letter:
The change of address you refer to in your letter of November 21 is now about a year old. We moved to Weare last January. We do enjoy having a lot of room (about 75 acres), a few animals (three dogs and three sheep), a nice pond which is stocked at least twice a year with trout, courtesy of the State Fish and Game Commission, and which is also pure enough to drink in the winter and swim in the summer. We have lots of rooms and we are only 45 minutes from Mt. Sunapee, if any '36ers are wandering this way for skiing.
I think your records already show that we are also raising children: Madlyn, 14; Lisa, 10; Becky, 7 and Peter, 4. Contrary to the usual situation of Jiving in the country, it is Elizabeth who wanted to move and she is the one who seems to enjoy it the most.
About the only class mates I see fairly regularly are Bob Keller and Arthur Greene. I have done quite a bit of work for Keller in the last few years. As you know, he is a man of many interests, with several corporations including one called Kalwall Corporation, the manufacturer of the fiberglas roof for the new U. S. Pavilion at the World's Fair in Brussels. This is quite a remarkable building which has received a good deal of publicity, both in the engineering and architectural magazines, and also in the general press. Last summer, courtesy of Kalwall, I flew to Europe in a cargo plane taking part of the roof oyer. The airlift of this roof was, so far as I krew, the largest single commercial air freight shipment ever made across the Atlantic, and we had a very interesting two weeks seeing that all the joints were in place. You can read the word "joints" any way you want. Arthur Greene, of course, is also a lawyer, here in Manchester, usually on the other side, of my cases - not the ocean.
Research expert Tom Luey reports that statistics show more than a million women in the United States are overweight. He says these, of course, are round figures.
Don Robbins '36 at home in Fairfield, Conn., with wife Anne (Smith '36), Henry '6l, Nan (Smith '60), Patty, Laurie and Bruce. Don is Vice President and a director of the Singer Sewing Machine Company.
Secretary, 287 Rutledge Ave. East Orange, N. J.
Treasurer, 753 Upper Blvd., Ridgewood, N. J.
