1940
Although we receive no direct news from Tack Rourke, frequent newspaper clippings keep us well aware that he is still thriving in the broadcasting business. Jack recently produced a 19-hour telethon for Station KTTD, which raised about $130,000 for the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation in California. And speaking of newspaper reports, a clipping from the Chicago American shows a picture of our eminent and somewhat bald classmate, Sid Craig, President of the Chicago area Dartmouth Alumni, ogling two beautiful and very young ladies at the Dartmouth Club reunion party commemorating Hanover Holiday.
Joe Armanini is living in El Cerrito, Calif., and is sales manager for the Rolls Royce-Jaguar division of British Motor Car Distributors, Ltd. in San Francisco. A note from his wife advises that he recently had a nice visit from Bill Hayes who gets to San Francisco occasionally on business from New Jersey where he is with Shulton, Inc., makers of men's toiletries under the name, "Old Spice."
Bill Coulson returned to the U.S. for good in September, 1955 after nine years in Brazil. He spent several months in New York on his return and then headed for California where he went to work for Morehouse Foods, Inc. in Los Angeles. Last fall he was promoted to the position of Vice President and General Manager. His family includes wife, Jody, Bill 11, Cindy 9, and Christina 7. Both Bills have been very active in Little League Baseball and recently Bill the elder was elected President of the local Community Chest. He gives us more second hand information about Jack Rourke, stating that he met him at one of the local gatherings where Jack acted as M.C. and did his usual wonderful job.
Art Mountrey reports that he is spending twenty hours a day commuting from Chappequa, N.Y., to the Big City and working the other four. He has a very interesting 15-year old daughter, who shows occasional possibilities of becoming an adult. Art is a vice president and account supervisor at the Compton Advertising Agency where he has been working for seven years. Like many of us, the children have him doing things that he has never done before. Art has become a skier and is on the slopes every weekend with the family.
Scott Dillingham is selling text books for the Macmillan Company in western New York. Scott and his bride have two children, Sally 10 and Walter III, 4.
Dick Kenney has been in Sacramento, Calif., for two years in sales work with the Univac Division of Remington Rand, selling electronic computers and punch card equipment. He reports happily that he is only 113 miles from Squaw Valley, the site of the i960 winter Olympics, and that he, like Art Mountrey, has recently taken up skiing and can now manage to descend the mountains in one piece.
Gardy Friedlander (we think) sends a card from Milwaukee saying he has no hair and no ulcers. It is also interesting to observe that his card had no signature! We note that he married Mary Banning some years ago, a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins and far more intelligent than he. In addition to taking care of three children, Peg 9, Gardy 7, and Tom 4, Mary still finds time to keep busy teaching at Downer College in Milwaukee and acting as a consulting physicist. In competing with Mary, Gardy serves as Vice President in charge of manufacturing of Phoenix Hosiery Co. He is President-elect of the local Mental Health Association and working hard for the Boy Scouts. For fun and business he flies a Bonanza to North Carolina and Virginia, where the company's plants are located. Gardy sees Bill Kieckhefer and John Willetts regularly in Milwaukee.
Powell Holbein is living in Syracuse, N.Y. He gives us the belated news that in November, 1956, their second boy was born as a sequel to the older boy 10 and a girl 8. In January, 1957, he left Esso Standard Oil after sixteen years to undertake a job in commercial-industrial real estate work in that fastgrowing community. He enjoys his work very much and is looking for any classmates who are interested in buying real estate, be it for a factory or a peanut stand. Powell is active in the local Dartmouth group, being enrollment chairman, a job in which he receives much help from Jim Scott. He sees Cal Serling from time to time on the squash court at the Syracuse University Club.
Ken Elliot sends a note from Wheaton, Ill., where he reports that he spent a pleasant evening with John and Betty Willetts and Bob and Didi Gensel, who were out from New York on their semi-annual trip to the Chicago Furniture Mart. It was a great shock to learn that Ken's wife had died last summer. Ken's mother has been living with him and taking care of the three children.
On the very official stationery of the Wolf Management Engineering Company comes a very official notice to the effect that we will be interested in knowing that Mr. Hal Sommer was recently elected Vice President and a member of the Executive Committee of Coopers, Inc., world famous manufacturers of jockey underwear in Kenosha, Wis. Despite his added responsibilities, Mr. Sommer will continue as managing partner of the Wolf Management Engineering Company in Chicago, in addition to his newly acquired duties at Coopers, where he will spend only a portion of his time.
Thurston Terry advises us from Denver, Colo., that he has been flying with Overseas National Airways since 1951. He has been on a military contract, flying from California to Japan most of that time, but his company is starting charter operations in the Atlantic this summer so he expects to be moving back East shortly. In spite of the fact that he has flown some 200,000 miles a year, he manages to see very few Forty's.
Page Smith is still living in that extremely improbable land of sunshine, smog, starlets, oranges, etc., known as California. He teaches Colonial-American history at U.C.L.A. and has just finished a book on the role of the small town in American history. Further he is working on a book on the classic problems in American history and new fields of study therein, and on a biography of John Adams.
Ike Weed recently had an exhibit of his contemporary American furniture at the Carpenter Art Galleries in Hanover. Ike has been designing and building furniture in Gilford, N.H., for the past ten years and has previously shown examples of his work in many museums of the country. He reports that his fellow Gilfordite, Garry Allen, has been doing a great deal for the junior skiers in those parts in organizing ski teams and taking them to meets around the area. Ike saw his old room-mate, Commander Joe Huber, in California last June. Joe is currently stationed in San Diego and last January the old die-hard finally broke down and got married.
Smock Thompson reports from Kansas City that Whit Miller took his boys to Aspen skiing over the Christmas holidays. Smock is working hard in Kansas City on Dartmouth affairs as local secretary and spearheading plans for the glee club concert to be held there this spring.
Pres Joyes has been a vice president of Commonwealth Life Insurance Company of Louisville, Ky., for two years. He is active in Republican party affairs in Kentucky. He has been married going on ten years and has two daughters, age 8 and 5.
Will Flohr announces the arrival of Kirby Elizabeth, born on January 23. This the first girl in the family after two sons, John 14 and Will Jr. 11.
Bob Dingwell has been elected vice president of the Charles W. Hoyt Company advertising agency. Prior to that time he had been an account executive for eight years.
Bob Hartman is the public relations man for Admiral Gallery, the Commandant of the Tenth Naval District and Caribbean Sea Frontier with headquarters at San Juan. Bob has been commuting between San Juan and Trinidad as adviser to the U.S. delegation to the Joint Commission for West Indies Federation. He finds his new job quite different from the two prior years spent in the Antarctic as public information officer for Operation Deep Freeze. At the time of his note, Bea was awaiting the arrival of their fourth child, the other Hartman children were Ken 7, Johnny 5, and Holly 3.
In the last issue of the class notes, it was mentioned that Herb Lansman had been made a Vice President of Federal Department Stores. This was obviously incorrect and it should have read Federated Department Stores. Our apologies for the error.
Herbert Landsman '40 has been named Operating Vice President for Research by the Federated Department Stores, Inc.
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