1938

Robb Kelley, who was named Secretary of the Employers Mutual Casualty Company in Des Moines, has written to straighten the record on himself and to post us on Jim Cooney and Gordon Hunter. Robb, now back in his home town, pointed out that he was named a Director of the company in 1955 and Secretary this year. He moved back to Des Moines from Philly in 1956. Jim Cooney, he writes, has gained a sizable reputation as an attorney out in the flat grounds of tall corn and tough football. Jim has won some im- portant cases for the railroads and insurance companies, and is quite a guy before the juries. Betch'a he misses the restless hills where he spent so much time out of doors. Gordon Hunter, a high school pal of Robb's, whom we used to see in Poly Sci Classes, is Administrative Vice President of Home Federal and one of those guys who "plays" in the Little League while the poor little tots warm the bench.

Bill Ganter, an outstanding member of the Class, died July 31 in Cambridge, Mass., after a long illness. He is survived by his wife, the former Ruth Hazelton of Hanover and two sons, William and Frank. The home address is 42 Danforth Street, Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Walt Dodd of Cohasset, Mass., has been named Assistant Vice President of the American Casualty Company. The new post will take him to Reading, Penna., where he can take up his interest in Boy Scouts and the Little League with Walt Jr.

Joe Stein must have a good feeling in his heart about his home town, Waterbury, Conn. He left it a long time ago to go to Dartmouth to pick up a Phi Beta Key in Sociology. Then he got an architect's degree from Harvard. Back in Waterbury recently Joe outlined his plans at a public meeting of the citizenry for a new grammar school, the John G. Gilmartin School. In addition, Joe has designed many other homes and other edifices in the Connecticut community.

We hear from Hanover that John Emerson made very fine progress at Mary Hitchcock Hospital and was discharged greatly improved early in the summer. Our informant says John headed back to the Coast for further rest.

Herb Rathbun, raised in Westerly, R. 1., where the Long Island Sound meets the sea and the fishermen look up at Watch Hill, is elected a Vice President of the Rhode Island Association of Insurance Agents.

Another sociologist, Eugene Miles Prentice Jr., makes the news. Miles has become Assistant to the President of Vermont College ... and how do you like that. Graduating from ten or more years in the insurance business, Miles will handle the business end of college work, plus some public relations and development duties.

Long ago Al Pettoruto showed his stripes in Hanover when he joined the Dartmouth Law Association and the Dartmouth Union ... and when he argued. Then he went ahead to get a law degree and put all of the preliminaries to work. Recently Attorney Pettoruto was named to the Zoning Board in his native Lawrence, Mass.

Val Cravens was recently named President of Pole Sprayers, Inc., a subsidiary of Osmose Wood Preserving Co. of which he is also a Vice President in Buffalo, N. Y.

It is usually about once a year that we have a new move for Y. P. Dawkins, that shy guy who "thimks" for IBM. Dawk was in the Ad and Promotion end of the "calculating" business until very recently appointed to head the marketing programs of the Data Processing Division.

Juvenile delinquency has reached the sad and shameful extreme of a national scandal in areas of New York City where gangs roam the streets to "get even" with real or imagined aggression of other gangs. In Chicago, maybe one of our own can help prevent a repetition of New York. Chuck Livermore is out there now as Executive Director of Chicago's Commission on Youth Welfare. Won- derful work, Chuck, and we are all very pleased with your course in life.

The Cleveland Club feted the 1963 Class at lunch this week. The boys had a chance to meet before they take off for the Hills. There were all kinds there ... potential Egg Heads and Block Busting Line Backers. You'd have loved the old Grad who said he'd give up his wife for the chance to do it again. And the kid who said he hoped he'd turn out as successful as one of us. But it was good .. . and there were some good boys. If Eddie Perrin is listening we want you to know that Cleveland has a halfback this year named Tom King who'll run circles around anything Perrin can find in Springfield. And as a freshman there's a quarterback from Braddock, Penna., who never played in a losing game. He's a tall, lean passer named Mark Rutkosky. Watch him grow and go, Eddie.

Secretary, 2945 Fairmount Cleveland 18, Ohio

Treasurer, Hunter Lane, Rye, N. Y.