1943
Gentlemen, the month of February will be full of Dartmouth news for yours truly to report in the April MAGAZINE. I always have to pause when I think about what month I am actually reporting for as the ALUMNI MAGAZINE has the unique system of requesting that all articles for a given month be in by the 5th of the previous month. This delays things to a certain extent but at least it gets such characters as myself in print regularly even though the news is a month or two old.
The first big event on the February calendar has been previously reported and is about to take place as I sit and write this article. This is the dinner to be held the night of February 5 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York honoring Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins, President-Emeritus of the College. Reports from our New York classmates James Elleman and "Bus" Mosbacher indicate that there will be a large '43 turnout numbering some 15-20 whose names as yet I do not know. As we are having a cocktail party prior to the dinner, I will try to take notes feverishly before my mind becomes fogged with too many New York martinis so that I will be able to report this event as accurately as possible in my next article.
The other big event follows the next week in Boston as the Boston Dartmouth Alumni Association has its annual dinner at the Hotel Statler. The theme is "Dartmouth Family Football Night" with John S. Dickey, President, "Red" Rolfe, Director of Athletics and "Bob" Blackman, Head Football Coach, being feature speakers of the evening. Two undergraduates, Joe Palermo '58, last year's football captain, and Al Krutsch '59, captainelect of football for the coming year, will give us the local campus color, highlighting the past football season which was Dartmouth's best in 20 years. Here again we hope to have the largest '43 turnout as we have sent letters to some 67 classmates in the Boston area and plan to follow up this letter with personal telephone calls by individual members of the class. This should provide additional news for articles to come.
It seems that the good old New England winters of years gone by were far too severe for the general Dartmouth family as no births were reported, nor birthdays acknowledged as far as I am concerned. Fortunately for me, I do have some past news events to bring to your attention and I'll start with those who have recently travelled to the Hanover Plain.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Field from Groton Falls, N. Y., and Mr. and Mrs. William Stein and family from New York City visited the Hanover Inn during the month of December. We trust that these illustrious classmates and families enjoyed the winter scene that I know must have been present at that time.
In January I was surprised upon entering the Hanover Inn Coffee Shoo with my wife to find Ted Driscoll, Charlie Brown, and "Ez" Crowley '41 all sitting at a table looking very much as if they might have walked back to our undergraduate days and assumed their normal positions. They were shepherding a group of likely recruits for the freshman class for this coming year. This, I guess, means they are candidates for the Class of '62. If you don't think this didn't take a lot of arithmetic to arrive at such an astronomical figure, you're crazy. It was great fun to chat with them in this very familiar surrounding and at least pretend that we were much younger than we actually are.
Under the category of past news comes a clipping from the Claremont Eagle with a lead line as follows: "Magician Show to be Sponsored by the Lebanon P.T.A." (Lebanon, in case you have forgotten, is a small town four miles south of Hanover.) The show featured Ray and Judy Colby of Montpelier, Vt., on the afternoon of October 25 at the Hanover Street School. This comes as quite a surprise to me as the last time I saw Ray he was pulling pranks rather than rabbits out of a hat with his recording machine which he was then selling in the Boston area. It seems now that Ray is a partner in an office business machine firm in Montpelier where he currently makes his home with wife and four children. He is very active in the International Brotherhood of Magicians and is, at present, its territorial representative. This sounds very close to a union organiza- tion. What investigations have you been subjected to so far, Ray?
Another illustrious classmate is featured in a newspaper article on October 3 with a caption which reads "Mothers to Hear Dr. Schumacker." It seems that Dr. William Schumacker is now on the staff at the Fairfield State Hospital in Newton, Mass., and spoke at a public meeting of the Mothers' Club on the subject of the mother's role in the child's development. It sounds like a very important subject to me and one that needs a great deal of attention. Some interesting notes concerning Bill's past history were revealed and are as follows: He entered the Navy where he served his internship and saw duty aboard a destroyer. He then took psychiatric training, which included work at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, and a tour as chief of the psychology division of the Third Marine Division. Bill left the Navy in 1953 and, in 1954, came to the Fairfield State Hospital where, in addition to the staff duties, he is in charge of the Bridgeport out-patient clinic.
Congratulations are in order for Lee Romanow, fast rising young attorney in the suburbs of Boston. Lee, a few years back, moved from one of the larger firms in Boston to join a Mr. Sullivan in partnership in Natick. They have already made one move and just recently, the latter part of 1957, they expanded once again into new and larger quarters in order that they may take care of their ever-increasing practice. Best of luck to them both.
Also in line for congratulations is RichardD. Longacre who has been appointed a registered representative of the investment firm of Paine, Webber, Jackson and Curtis. As this information comes from an article in a Cleveland paper, I assume that he is working with a branch firm in that area. After Dick's discharge from the Navy as a Lieutenant Commander he was associated with his father in the furniture business at Medina, Ohio. Good luck in your new venture, Dick, and let us hear more about your activities.
Two belated acknowledgements of birthday greetings: Jim Donahue writes that he enjoyed our birthday greeting and states that he now lives in Natick, Mass., and has recently added to the family, producing a young son Thomas Michael in September, 1957. He is currently working with the Lincoln and Mercury Division, Ford Motor Company, as zone manager. Congratulations and thanks for your note, Jim.
Tom Keeler comes up with a short note stating that he has not run into any classmates as yet because he is in a remote part of the state. The remote part that Tom refers to is the town of Paris, the state is Texas. If my memory serves me correctly, Paris, although remote, is one of the wealthiest towns in Texas. Is that right, Tom? He mentions that he would like to see all of the group again. We certainly hope that he shall, if not before our 15 th reunion in the spring of 1959, then at it. Thank you for your brief note; if you get time we would like to hear more.
This closes my monthly chatter and, unless I have more news by March 5, there will be nothing to include from the class at large. So why not sit down or, better still, put your wife to work bringing us up to date on your local activities.
Secretary. Allied Research and Service Corp. 75 Federal St., Boston 9, Mass.
Treasurer, 636 Church St., Evanston, Ill.
