1936
We went to press last month without listing the "active classmates with actives wives" who attended the 1936 Class Dinner at the Dartmouth Club of New York on March 7. This annual event (it's been annual for three years) was highlighted by the talk EddieChamberlain gave after dinner. Eddie was in a gay mood as a benedict should be, and gave advice on Dartmouth admissions as a director should. He pointed out the personal attention given to each application, and although there is an old gag that says "the thicker the file, the thicker the boy," all information that helps to bring a personality out of the folder is valuable. CliffPorter raised an interesting question, "What do you do if you have three daughters and no sons?" Herb Beskind needed a little help on the same topic.
The food and service provided by the staff of the Dartmouth Club won the approval of all. The meeting was held in the newly decorated Daniel Webster room. DickMorton was the guiding light for the dinner as well as the photographer. The following people came to dinner:
Norb & Pic Hoffman, Don & Doris MacNeary, Chuck & Mimi Sims, Gib & Ann Sykes, Art & Ethel Toan, Dick & Madine Morton, Spence & Jessie Johnson, Bill & Eleanor May, Bill & Pat Hoffmann, Fred & Lib Gonnerman, John & Nancy Sawyer, Roger & Lois Baylis, Cliff & Pearsie Porter, Paul & Kathie Lynch, Gil & Fran Balkam, Art & Lee Wasserman, Dr. Norm Simon, Joe Davis, Monroe Greenbaum, Herb Beskind, Jacko & Ruth Morrison and Eddie Chamberlin.
My old room-mate, Morrie Paine, withwhom I attended grade school and highschool in Waterbury, Conn., as well as Dartmouth, has just surprised me with the following nice letter,
Dear John, - Just got back from a week in Vermont - schools were out for the week here and that gives me a chance to do something with Hank. So we went to Woodstock skiing. It's been a real rugged winter this year but up there it's pretty - better to ski on than to wade thru. On the Ist Sunday I ran into Al Doolittle up on the top of Six (Suicide Six that is) looking very hale and hearty and not too different from back in '32 to '36 - only he was skiing down the steep side so our meeting was brief. A couple of days we went down to Okemo - a new development at Ludlow south of Woodstock of which we'd been hearing a lot. It is really a wonderful ski area 2 Poma lifts - the lower one about 1700' on a gradual slope that Hank could handle in fine style. The upper lift is long - over a mile — and takes you right up to the top of the mountain. View from there is terrific. There are about 4 ways down - 1 very gradual - 1 very expert and 2 in the middle with lots of interesting pitches. We skied in the middle. I ran into Bud Titcomb teaching some small fry from Perkinsville. Bud is an architect making his headquarters there, about 15 miles from Okemo. It develops he's president of Okemo and laid out the trails and architected the various and sundry lodges. It's sure a wonder- ful family area - with something for everybody. Bud says the best skiing comes late and last year they ran until April 15. While we were there the snow on the top was 9 feet deep so maybe I should take my skis when I go up in May.
I was glad to find that all Dartmouths haven't wound up in the canyons of New York. There are still plenty of them taking to the hills. Guess the above sounds like a plug for Okemo and Wood-stock which it is, because liking skiing I can't think of a better spot to get together with fellows like Bill Crangle, Bob Chase, Bob Densmore.
Dick Spong who writes the "Editorial Research Reports" from Washington, very kindly sent me a note which said, "All quiet on the Potomac - but did you see this (picture of Charles F. Venrick) in today's New York Herald Tribune? Good going for Chuck. Sorry I couldn't make the Hoppy dinner, but my daily piece pretty much rules out midweek jaunts. P.S. Budd Schulberg's play version of 'The Disenchanted' with Jason Robards Jr. is slated for a December Broadway opening." The picture of Chuck Venrick carried the caption "A.C.F. Industries Picks Railway Sales Officer." Chuck, who was formerly sales vice president for the Western region, has been made vice president in charge of railway sales for the American Car & Foundry Division of A.C.F. Industries.
As Time magazine says, "Names may be news, and this month the following names made the following news." Mat Marks having completed his year of absence to attend the National War College has returned to a high level post in the U. S. Treasury Dept. in Washington - Art Lynch has moved out of the city of Portland to Sea Cove Road, Cumberland Foreside, Me. - Dr. Frank Sornberger has left his home town of Corn- ing, N.Y., and joined a clinic in Danielson, Conn. Frank is married and has three children. Their new home address is R.F.D. Hampton, Conn. - Russell Mack is the new baby in the home of Ferris & Ethel Mack of Freeport, L.I. This makes three Dartmouth candidates. Ferris is editor of Garden City Books, a division of Doubleday & Co. Louis Benezet, president of Colorado College, attracted some Dartmouth prospects to a Colorado rally in Boston - Dr. Samuel French Morse, famous poet and lecturer, recent recipient of a $1,000 grant from the American Philosophical Society, has been made associate professor of English at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. —Jacko Morrison has been made assistant vice president of The Bankers' Trust Co. of New York-Pete Fitzherbert, chairman of the class of 1936, announces that the next meeting of the class executive committee will be held in Hanover on the weekend of May 16, 17 and 18. Four new men have been added to the committee, all of whom have expressed willingness to help (at their own expense) and all of whom have been active in other Dai'' mouth affairs. These men are Bill Macurda (New Hampshire), Bill Crangle (Upstate New York), Jacko Morrison (Long Island) and Jack O'Connell (South-Eastern U.S.).
The Dartmouth Alumni Fund campaign has started. Kirk Liggett has lined up a fine group of assistant agents again this year who are already at work. Hope you can help-
A 1936 class dinner at the Dartmouth Club, New York, brought out (1 to r) Gil Balkam, secretary-treasurer, Chilean Nitrate Sales Corp.; Spence Johnson, president of Spencer Products, Paterson, N.J.; Don MacNeary, trust officer, Irving Trust Co.; and Class Secretary John Sawyer, advertising manager of Co-ed Magazine.
Eddie Chamberlain '36 (1), Dartmouth's director of admissions, who was guest of honorat the dinner, with Dr. Norman Simon '36.
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