1943
There are certain advantages of being the Class Secretary and incidentally writing the MAGAZINE article in that your own news can take precedence over everything else. There are, of course, a few disadvantages but space will not permit me to go into that.
Provided any of you have sharp eyes, you may already have gleaned the fact that your editor was on the brink of fatherhood, this fact being buried in my material of last month. The great event took place on April 19, none other than Patriot's Day. This, I suppose, makes Mr. and Mrs. Stanton Priddy patriotic. Anne Bliss checked in at 4:36 a.m., and weighed 6 lb. 6 oz. with an overall length of 20" and obviously was the most beautiful baby born on that day or any other day. She is a perfect child, takes after both her mother and her father in that she sleeps most of the time like her mother and drinks the rest of the time like her father. If this schedule continues, I am not at all sure that she will have time to attend the Dartmouth winter carnival, provided that they are still having such an event when her stern father will allow her to attend such an affair. Both mother and daughter are doing fine and father undoubtedly will recover over the next twenty odd years.
I am sure that all of you have been kept well aware of the fact that this year we will not only have our usual Annual Alumni Fund Drive going on but we also are in the midst of our Capital Gifts Campaign. Only the more fortunate will be approached by both and I for one would suggest that regardless of whether or not you get a lucky call from the Capital Gifts group, you automatically send in your usual annual contribution. It is painless (as I used to say when I sold life insurance) and you'll never miss it if you divide the number of dollars by the number of days in a given year. The results are repaid many times over when you see what a wonderful job those who run the College are doing. So, let's all get behind Bud Silverstein and his agents this year as they work just as hard as anyone at the College.
Last month as I was running out of space, I mentioned several of our erstwhile classmates and briefly acknowledged their birthday card salutations. The first on the list was Dr. Paul Harvey Jr., who on April 12 married Miss Martha Toole. Miss Toole is the daughter of the late Dr. Toole, formerly of New Haven. She graduated from the Prospect Hill School in New Haven, Pine Manor Junior College and the John Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing. Paul is an attending physician on the staffs of the Hospital for Special Surgery and the New York Hospital. Paul received his medical degree from Harvard. The former comments came from a newspaper clipping out of the New York Times and Paul adds in his note that he is an instructor in orthopedics at the Cornell University Medical School. He reports that he is doing research and practicing at the Hospital for Special Surgery and that he spent eight months in 1957 in Ursalo, Sweden, doing research in bio-mechanics. During this time he got some skiing in at Abisho, which is somewhere above the Arctic Circle in Northern Sweden. His closing comment is that that type of activity is behind him and now he is tied down in New York with practice, research, and marriage. Little does he know about the latter. I, too, can remember my sailing days in Europe.
Herb Marx, as mentioned previously, is now in St. Louis and, since arriving in this area, has travelled up the Mississippi with fellow classmate Ralph Trovillion to visit another classmate, Derry Van Quackenbush and family at Warsaw, Ill., where the latter is a busy editor of the Warsaw Bulletin. Herb has also heard from Mort Pecter, who has a new Long Island home and counts three Dartmouth prospects among his children. Herb has been busy as he has also seen our rising hotel man and entrepreneur NormProbstein at one of his bases, the Converse Hotel.
Jim Kerley informs us, as mentioned before, that he now has four children: Vincent — 6, Mary — 5, Catherine — 4, and Joe — 1. With this group to support, Jim has formed his own engineering firm and is specializing in shock and vibration isolators of a new type. May-your venture be a very profitable one, Jim, and good luck to you and your family.
Jim Hooker reported as far back as February first and although we mentioned the fact last month, I would like to include parts of his nice letter. Jim has been in Pittsburgh for the last eleven years with Procter and Gamble. He is currently Territory Manager for the Food Department in charge of sales in West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania selling such products as Crisco, Fluffo, and Big Top Peanut Butter with Duncan Hines Cake Mixes and Jiff Peanut Butter to be introduced in the future. He set up this new sales office in September of 1957 and has been well occupied in organizing a new department. He reports that his family now includes three girls: Barbara - 10, Debby - 5, and Lynn Anne - one year old, and that there is enough to keep both Jim and wife, Lois, on their toes. Since Jim has not been back to Hanover since graduation, he plans definitely to attend our next Reunion. I hope that all of you plan the same.
Those in line for congratulations besides myself, of course, because I became a father, are the following: Philip P. Brooks Jr., as of March this year, was elected Vice President and Investment officer of the Central Trust Company. He was, prior to this, Assistant Vice President and Trust Investment Officer with the Ohio Citizens Trust Company in Toledo. I believe that this promotion' lands Philip in New York although my information is not too definite on this subject. Congratulations and best wishes, Philip.
Our hardworking Class Agent, Neil Silver-stein has been appointed District Commercial Manager for the Southern New England Telephone Company. He served previously as Commercial Supervisor at the company's headquarters in New Haven. Bud joined the Telephone Company in 1946 as a Commercial Representative in New England. There he worked in Hartford and at the company's headquarters in New Haven bebefore going to Middletown as Assistant Manager in 1951. He returned to headquarters as Commercial Force Supervisor in 1952, went to East Hartford as Manager in 1954, and took the headquarters position he now leaves in 1956. Bud is the father of four children, as many of you already know, and he expects to move from his present residence in North Haven to the Bridgeport area in the near future. There is a very nice article and a very distinguished picture in the April 4, 1958, issue of Bridgeport Post. Congratulations, Bud. It shows you work just as hard for the Phone Company as you do for us.
Ray and Judy Colby are still active in the entertainment field producing a program of baffling magic feats. Ray has built quite a reputation for himself and is active in state, national, and international magicians' organizations. He has been giving public performances since he was 12 years old (I don't recall any such entertainment during his collegiate years. The light was hidden under a basket). How about a performance at our 15th Reunion, Ray?
This closes my June efforts and I sincerely hope that you all will close out the month of June with your usual generous gift to Dartmouth.
Secretary,: 284 Summer St. Westwood, Mass.
Class Agent, 42 Homewood Ave., North Haven, Conn.
