1941
Back in the harness again! Everyone looks forward to the arrival of summer with much anticipation and great plans for superb vacations. By the time Labor Day rolls around we all equally look forward to the arrival of fall with its accompanying welcomed return of the "little ones" to school and with the welcomed relief from the hot and humid "dog days" of August. Maybe it is because, for a change, I have a full bunker of ammunition with which to start my barrage of news about many of our classmates, but I too am glad to be back in the old routine of knocking out my monthly bit. So here goes!
Before long Bob Blackman's braves will be scalping the opposition in defense of their Ivy League crown. But an old familiar face will be missing from this fall's Hanover football scene - that of Snuffy Smith. Snuffy left Hanover on September i to assume his new duties as Assistant Commissioner of the Eastern College Athletic Conference, a position to which he was appointed by Commissioner Asa A. Bushnell in July. Rumor has it that Snuffy is being groomed as successor to the Commissioner when he decides to delegate some of his numerous responsibilities. As Assistant Commissioner of the Eastern College Athletic Conference, Snuffy will be Overseer of the largest college sports organization of its type in the nation. It presently has a membership of 115 colleges and universities from twelve eastern states and nineteen affiliated associations and leagues. From now on, when a referee or umpire calls a "raw one" against the Big Green, we can blame it on Snuffy because game officials for conference members are appointed by his Conference in football, basketball, baseball, ice hockey and six other sports. Not only is this a wonderful advancement for Snuffy, but I am certain that he is looking forward to this new assignment for another reason —no more headaches about meeting last-minute requests for football tickets from VIPs and from classmates. His absence from Hanover will also be felt when the time rolls around for organizing another class reunion. Nevertheless we all wish you lots of luck, Snuffy.
As Snuffy's departure from Hanover is for bigger and better worldly accomplishments, such news is good news. Such was not the case with the shocking news of Professor Dick McCornack's untimely death on May 14. Nothing that any of us could write or say could even begin to describe the enormity of this loss of such a good and a great man. Dartmouth could never replace him. We will never forget Dick but rather will always remember him as one of the most congenial persons we ever had the pleasure of knowing. On such an occasion as this expression to Barbara, to Dick's two children and to his parents, of the deep sympathy we feel for them on the loss of such a wonderful husband, father and son, seems so inept. We assure them however that as classmates of Dick, we will always share with them an immeasurable pride in having known him, lived with him, and admired him.
There never seems to be any respite from grief, even in the summertime. There certainly was not any for Bob Blake's family, to whom we express the deep sympathy we also feel for them on the loss of Bob on AuSust 4.
During the past two months, most of us "city slickers" flocked to the beaches whenever we had the chance, whereas some probably sought refuge from the heat and the office routine "down on the farm." But Don Hanks spent his summer on his dairy farm in the shadows of the Green Mountains of Vermont, south of Salem, N. Y„ feeding dry hay into the barn for his herd of fifty 100% home-bred cows. Don's formula for having the highest herd average for milk in New York State for herds of forty cows or more is merely the ability to do all jobs well. He is an expert at agronomy, dairy husbandry and farm management, the three major fields of science for dairymen. Don and his family are the third generation of Hanks on the same farm, which was originally 134 acres, but which Dan has expanded to six hundred acres by purchasing three surrounding farms since taking over the business after graduating from Dartmouth. He engages two fulltime hired hands for this momentous undertaking, but his chief labor force consists principally of himself, his wife Jane, and his three sons, two of whom are twins.
I will probably be accused of playing on words by turning from Don Hanks to Hank Palmer, who was recently chosen from a field of about fifty applicants, to serve as secretary of the Salisbury-Rowan, N. C., Chamber of Commerce for a one-year period. He is a carbide engineer and salesman for Kenna-Metals, Inc., which manufactures and sells tools and machine parts. Hank, "Petsey" and their three children have lived in Salisbury for six years.
Professor John Richardson, an assistant professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Boston University in June. John has been teaching English at the University of New Hampshire since 1946. When not in Dover, attending to his professional pursuits he, Mary and their two children spend their time in their home in South Berwick, Me.
Attorney Clinton Reynolds was recently elected treasurer and assistant secretary of the Paul Revere Life Insurance Company and the Massachusetts Protective Association, Inc., both of Worcester, Mass. Clinton joined the legal staff of these companies in 1948, was named assistant counsel in 19,51, and has served as associate counsel since 1957. Prior to joining these organizations he served as a law clerk to a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. He is a member of the American and Worcester County Bar Associations. Clinton, who lives in Worcester, is also politically active. He is a past president of the Worcester County Republican Club and is presently Chairman of one of his party's ward committees.
Another insurance company benefiting from the talents of one of our classmates is John Hancock Mutual Life, Charlie Rothermel, having recently been appointed general agent in Chicago for the company. Charlie began his life insurance career after graduating from Dartmouth. He is a life and qualifying member of the Million Dollar Round Table and a director of the Chicago Chapter of Chartered Life Underwriters.
I had better save some of my ammunition for next month, just in case it is not adequately replenished. It is a nice feeling to have a backlog to rely on, but that does not mean that I would not appreciate hearing from a lot of people as to what has recently transpired in their business endeavors and family affairs.
Secretary, 26 Broadway, New York 4, N. Y.
Treasurer, Room 2820 525 Wm. Penn Place, Pittsburgh 30, Penna.
Roy Rowan '41 is the new National Affairs Editor of "Life" Magazine. He was formerly chief of the Time-Life news bureau in Chicago. Rowan, who now has the rank of senior editor, took an MCS at Tuck School and then served in the Army for four years until 1946. Work for UNRRA in China and freelance writing and photography led to his joining "Life" in 1948 as Shanghai correspondent. He was bureau chief in Rome in 1949 and the next year he went to Korea to cover the war. Assignments in Bonn and New York followed, and then he went to Chicago in 1955, becoming bureau chief there in 1958.
