1940
The big event since the last column was the Hopkins Dinner held in New York on February 5. Details o£ that dinner appear elsewhere in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, but it is of interest to know that the Class of 1940 was well represented. Yours truly, unfortu- nately, was not there as he was then enjoy- ing a vacation in the Virgin Islands with the Elmer Brownes and the John Moodys. Prior to the dinner, the Classes of 1940, '41 and '42 held a joint cocktail party at the Waldorf, ably hosted by Bud Hewett. He reports that all enjoyed themselves, although the drinks were a little difficult to come by due to the crowd. Attending the gala function, some with wives and some without, were: Austin, Burke, Carothers, Alex Clark, Bob Clark, Crandall, Ferguson, Dingwall, Dryfoos, Hew- ett, Lake, MacMillen, Ramie, McPherson, Rearden, Willetts, Sam Williams, Van Cleve and Wrightson.
It was announced by Federal Department Stores that they had created the new position of Operating Vice President and named six executives to those posts. Herb Landsman was named Operating Vice President for Research.
A newspaper clipping states that Reverend Larry Durgin, pastor of the Central Congregational Church in Providence, was the chapel speaker at the third session of the University of Christian Living sponsored by the Walpole (Mass.) Interchurch Council. Larry continues his brilliant and dedicated career as one of the Congregational Church's leading ministers.
A photograph in the Nashua (N. H.) Telegraph shows Lt. Col. James S. Timothy explaining the details of a model of the Army satellite "Explorer" to Senator Cotton of New Hampshire. It is comforting to know that someone in the Class of 1940 knows what's going on in the missile program!
Norm Lazare has been livestock farming for the past nine years in Pembroke, Ky., where he says that he has been battling the agricultural price squeeze. Norm and Betsy boast a son, Lewis age 5, and daughter Elizabeth age 2. Like many others, he bemoans the fact that he has seen no for many a moon.
Air Force Colonel Duane Treman is enjoying a tour of duty in England and he is making the best of his geographical location by taking frequent side trips to the Continent. He expects to be back in the States next year.
Larry Gate left Southern Advance Paper when Continental Can took that company over last winter and he is now controller and assistant treasurer of Schroeder Products Company, Boston, manufacturer of coffee concentrates and vending machines. This is a small company, and he is getting a big kick out of helping to build a business rather than serving a function for a mammoth concern. Larry reports that his wife, Genie, and son, Larry 13, are both devoted, golf enthusiasts. Further, the whole family joined the chubber ranks last summer while vacationing in New Brunswick's Bay of Fundy.
From Elkins Park, Pa., Al Gutman reports that he commutes to New York four days a week. He says that he sees Howie Zagor often, bumped into Chuck Bensinger skiing, and met 800 Hayden on the train recently. Al's three children, Jim 11, Paula 8, and Jane 6, manage to keep him on the go.
Ted Brecht starts his note by saying he has been married sixteen years, during the course of which three children have appeared on the scene, one boy and two girls He is in business for himself in Philadelphia as a raw wool dealer. His summers are spent at Bay Head, N. J., where Mac and Marilyn Cross had a house last summer. He also sees Chet Ferguson, who is equipped with an outboard motor boat (which appears to go at least 60 miles an hour) water skis, various blonds and a reserved seat at the Brielle Yacht Club bar.
Major Herb Condit is rounding out almost three years at Fort Devens, Mass. His wife Eleanor reports that their future seems a bit hazy due to the whims of Uncle Sam regarding reserve officers. The next fewmonths will reveal whether Herb is military or civilian. They are the parents of five children, four boys and a girl ranging in age from 13 to 3. All are constantly growing larger and more expensive and Eleanor takes grave exception to the individual who made the statement "cheaper by the dozen."
Mel Wax is a reporter with the San Francisco Chronicle. Formerly, he spent two and a half years in the same capacity with the Chicago Sun-Times and, for five years prior to that, he was with the Claremont Daily Eagle.
Harry Howard is vice president in charge of sales for Buttrick Patterns for America's dressmakers. He resides in Englewood, N. J., with Lenore and their two boys and two girls.
Dr. Art French reports belatedly that he has a fifth son who is now just over a year old. The other four are excellent skiers but the latter is a little slow in starting, probably because the snow and hills in Michigan where they are now living are somewhat inferior to those of Utah. Art says that they have three or four Dartmouth boys in medical school or in residency training at the hospital in Ann Arbor each year. The only classmate that he has seen is Dr. Dana Darnley who is a neurologist at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
Bud Smith is living in Birmingham, Mich., where he is a project director for industrial design with the firm of Giffels and Rossetti, architects and engineers. Last year, while on a business trip to the West Coast, he saw Clint Clad and his family in Pasadena.
Larry Boothby took his B.A. degree at Reed College in Portland, Ore., after leaving Dartmouth. He worked in the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington from 1942 to 1947 working on electronics. He was awarded five U. S. patents for research during this period. He now has had ten years of experience teaching in the field of high school science divided among three schools: Milton Academy, Putney School and the Emma Willard School. At the latter, he served as head of the science department last year. In 1952-53 he was assigned to Electronics Park in Syracuse, N. Y., working on a General Electric sonar computer and on high voltage power supplies for equipment for the atomic submarine "Seawolf." In 1954, he was given a Westinghouse Fellowship for summer study at M.I.T. At the present time he is on a National Science Foundation Fellowship at Harvard. In her spare time Larry's wife Frances has turned a hobby of silversmithing into an avocation and they run a silver workshop in Weston, Vt., during their summer vacations. Larry and Frances are the parents of two red-headed boys aged 11 and 6.
Keith Benson reports that he is chief counsel of Pickands Mather and Company in Cleveland. This important company is in the business of mining iron ore and coal and shipping on the Great Lakes. His business necessitates a good bit of travel in Canada on iron ore matters. Keith and Jean have two daughters, Karen 13 and Paula 10.
"At the Dartmouth party in Boston in February, Don Rainie saw Al Rosenthal, Bill Halsey, Chet Brett, Bob Austin, Stet Whitcher, Dwight Flanders and Gordie Wentworth. The latter three are all toiling for the First National Bank of Boston.
Jim Thomas is director of purchasing for Minute Maid Corporation in Florida. In his spare time he is secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Central Florida, a club which our eminent class chairman, Hugh Schwarz, formerly served as president. Jim, his wife and four children have enjoyed Florida immensely during the past two years after the rigors of winters in the New York area. Maybe after this winter, they will change their minds and return!
Red Jensen '39 had the company of five of his classmates at a recent get-together at his home in Longmeadow, Mass. L to r, front row: Buck Seeley, Red Jensen, Skip Morse; back row: Hank Britton, Al Ley, Mike Daley.
Creighton D. Holden '40, manager of the St.Clair Inn and Country Club, has been electedPresident of the Michigan Hotel Association.
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