1933

Beware - we've found a sure-fire method of extracting news from you guys and gals. You will recall that we hinted in last month's column that Hank Smith might have been the skipper of the scow that rammed the Queen Elizabeth. That sure brought a quick retort from Hank, "Fortunately, our ship, the Privateer, was not involved with the Queen, but we were hung up (Ed. Note - the word is up, not over) on a rock off Noank, Conn., and the Coast Guard had to pull us off." He disclaims being at the helm at the time, rejoices in the fact that the Coast Guard rescue "represented the return of a slight portion of our tax money" and says the trip was wonderful.

Hank apparently is a better salesman than he is a skipper for he reports the acceptance by Wood Foster of the appointment as Class Bequest and Estate Planning Program Chairman. Based on his college record alone, the choice is an excellent one. Since Hanover and Tuck School, he's been extremely active. In 1936, he received his LL.B. from the University of Minnesota and has been a partner for some time in the law firm of Oppenheimer, Hodgson, Brown, Baer and Wolf in St. Paul, Minn., where he resides with his wife, Elizabeth, and their four sons and one daughter. His oldest boy, Henry, is a member of the class of 1961 at Dartmouth. He holds or has held key positions in a score of civic, philanthropic and church organizations in St. Paul. He was a director and officer of the Central U. S. Ski Association and a delegate to the National Ski Association for eight years. For seven years, he held offices, including the presidency, of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of the Northwest. Wood has also been active in Dartmouth affairs as a member of the Interviewing Committee and has served the Class as a member of its Executive Committee. His main hobbies are skiing and canoeing for which he manages to schedule trips each year. Wood is a natural for this all important job which he has accepted with considerable enthusiasm and a real desire to serve the College and the Class.

Two more weddings in the Class family - Joe Ely's daughter, Charlotte Louise, the oldest of four children and a June graduate of San Jose College, was married on July 17 in Willows, Calif., to Richard L. Godfrey of Whiting, lowa. In a double ring ceremony in the garden at her home, Hillwinds, Dover Point, N. H., Don and Mugs D'Arcy's daughter, Jenifer, was married, on Labor Day, to Donald D. McKinnon of Toronto, Canada.

Recognition has been given to Miller A. Wachs, Chief of Components Development at Sikorsky Aircraft, by the Navy, which has appointed him to the Information and Education Standing Committee of the Bureau of Aeronautics - Industry Advisory Board on Reliability and Operational Design Requirements of Aeronautical Material. He was selected by the chief of research and development of BUAER on the basis of his extensive experience in the aeronautical field. Miller, who, incidentally, was born in Korea of missionary parents, went from Hanover to M.I.T. where he obtained his M.S. in 1935. His first employment was as an analytical engineer with Lycoming Motors in Williamsport, Penna., where he stayed until 1942 when he went with Sikorsky in Bridgeport, Conn., first as a stress analyst, then as chief development engineer and finally in his present capacity. Before assuming his present post he was project engineer on the YR-4, the world's first production helicopter. Miller has no worries about getting his sons into Dartmouth since he and his wife, Margaret, are the parents of five daughters.

Arnie Salisbury has been doing considerable speaking here in Massachusetts, in recent months, on the subject of "The Case For Capital Punishment," a topic of considerable interest in this state where the capital penalty is allowed. He rates as an expert on the subject as the result of his former position as Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts and Head of the Criminal Division of the Attorney General's Office. Arnie graduated from Harvard Law School in 1936 and was a clerk in the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court. He has had his own law practice for a number of years and has taught law at Suffolk University Law School and at Northeastern Law School, both in Boston. His practice is in Lawrence and his home in nearby North Andover where he has been a Selectman and a member of both the License Commission and the Board of Public Weifare. Arnie and Elsie have two sons, aged seventeen and thirteen.

Prof. Walter Bezanson lectured on Contemporary American Literature at the summer session program at Bucknell University. Walt, who was a dealer in old books in Boston after leaving Hanover, taught history at Yale and English at Women's College in New Haven. He obtained his doctorate at Yale in 1943 and taught English at Dartmouth and Harvard until 1947 when he went to Rutgers where he is now the Chairman of the Program of American Studies. His teaching career was interrupted by Navy service, as a Lieutenant, from 1943-46. In 1952, he was at Harvard on a Ford Foundation Fellowship in American Civilization. In 1957, he occupied the Fulbright Chair in American Literature and Civilization at the University of Liege, Belgium. Walt, his wife, Beryl, and their two sons, Mark and James, live in Boundbrook, N. J.

Had the good fortune to visit with Dick Goldthwait and his family in Wolfeboro, N. H., in September upon his return from a summer of glacial studies in Alaska. Dick has promised to forward a resume of his Alaskan activities in the near future. When received, it will be reprinted in this column. He and his family are looking forward to a trip to Europe next summer where Dick will be attending a geological convention.

Bob Fox's daughter, Susan, who graduated from Bradford Junior College last June with Jack Smart's daughter, Helen, and John S. Thompson's daughter, Judith, sailed in September for France where she will study French art, history and language at Reid Hall in Paris. John Meck, incidentally, is a trustee of Bradford.

1933 continues to be well represented in the undergraduate body with fourteen more sons being admitted with the class of 1963 this fall. This brings our total to fifty-five - our first '33 son being Bob Taylor's boy in the Class of 1955. In addition to the current freshmen, there are nine seniors, five juniors and twelve sophomores for a total of forty currently in Hanover. Fred Baldwin, Jarv Chapman, George Gates and Danny Rollins hit for the second time this fall, which brings to seven the number of fathers in our class who have had two sons admitted. The other proud and lucky fathers who will be reliving thirty years ago for the next four years are: Bill Bates, Sam Black, Paul Burtis, Keat Coffey, Johnny Faegre, Hunter Hicks, Gordon Hull, Whit Kimball and, insofar as we can determine, the first '33 roommates in this happy category, Win Hobbs and Bill (Haven) King. The above names plus those contained in our columns in this publication last February and March will give you the full story to date on '33 sons at Dartmouth. We repeat our offer to all you fathers, with sons in Hanover and desirous of having contact made with your sons by a '33er close at hand, to make the necessary arrangements.

Seen or heard of at the Holy Cross game: Sam Black, Jarv Chapman, Don D'Arcy, Norm Erlandson, Doug Kaplinger, Hal Mackey, Jack Manchester and John Meek. The greater weight up front and longer pre-season practice for the Cross seemed to spell the difference in this "upset."

More address changes:

James J. Doherty Jr., 8730 Woolworth Ave., Omaha 14, Neb.; Richard O. Haugan, 18643 Collins St., Tarzana, Calif.; Parmer B. Maxwell, 1544 W. 5th Ave., Corsicana, Texas; Lawrence C. Reeves, 9105 Quintana Dr., Bethesda, Md.; J. Raymond Silva, Pelham Memorial High School, Pelham, N. Y.; Chester Thomson, 19 Leather Stocking Lane, Scarsdale, N. Y.; Walter Watson, 10 Linmoor Terrace, Lexington 73, Mass.; Robert G. Freeman, 756 Brook Tree Rd., Pacific Palisades, Calif.

Charlie Mayo '32 (rear), captain of the charter fishing boat "Chantey," out of Provincetown, poses with a satisfied customer and the tuna he landed this summer.

Secretary, 80 Mooreland Rd. Melrose 76, Mass.

Treasurer, Young and Rubicam, Inc. 2 Park Ave., New York 16, N. Y.