1936

The football season is in full swing andthis weekend, as I write these notes, the 1936 Class Executive Committee is meetingin Hanover coincidentally with the Brown- Dartmouth game. Class chairman PeteFitzherbert has a busy agenda for this meeting, and the minutes of it will probably bepublished later. Our 25th reunion plans arebeing developed. Reunion chairman Al Gibney has had 66 classmates volunteer to contribute their services to the big reunioncelebration and he has already set up thefollowing committees and chairmen: Hanover Coordinating Committee - Eddie Chamberlain and Stoney Jackson; Junior and Children's Program - Chuck Aaron; Men's Golf - Frank Weston; Food & Parties - GeneTamburi; Women's Golf — Elsie Weston;Liquor - Ray Reitman and Bill Macurda;Finance - Bill Niss; Room Assignments - Brew Towne; Class Book - Joe Cunningham;Prizes - Brint and Doris Schorer.

Cy Greene, who had been with Appleton-Century for twenty years, has switched to Henry Holt & Co.' to become their college field representative in New England and Eastern Canada. Cy, at one time or another, has seen most of our classmates who are in the educational field in New England, such as Dick Crosby at Colby Junior College, Russ Cappelle at Norwich University, Len Mead at Tufts and Sam Morse at Mount Holyoke. The Greene family consists of three children, Russell, Barbara and Margaret, and live at 36 Park Avenue, Whitman, Mass.... Herb Beskind who has been secretary and treasurer of DCA Food Industries in New York City has been advanced to financial vice president. In case you don't recognize this alphabetic company it used to be the Doughnut Corporation of America but it has broadened into so many food lines that the name has been adjusted accordingly.... John Van B. Sullivan, previously vice president in charge of time sales at WNEW, New York, has been appointed general manager of this leading radio station.... Bill Reed is merchandise manager for the Jordan Marsh Co. in Boston. His son, Spike, is in the Navy as was Bill during the late unpleasantness.... Roy Coppedge has been elected a director of the Manhattan Fire & Marine Insurance Company. He is president and a director of the National Distillers and Chemical Corp., a director of the Chemical Bank, New York Trust Co. and the Mallory-Sharon Metals Corp.... George Beyer, who' was formerly a product advertising manager at Lever Bros. Co., and at one time advertising manager of Cannon Mills, has joined Lennen & Newell, Inc., a large New York advertising agency, as a vice president.

Many newsy letters are in the mail bag and I'd like to excerpt from two of them. One is from Bob Myers, a lawyer in Lincolnland, Springfield, Ill. Bob writes:

I was married in 1948 to Louise Burno, who at that time was a newspaper reporter in Springfield. We now have three children: Peggy, ten; Jean, five; and Chuck, four. I do a little sailing, drinking, playing bridge, and a lot of work. Unfortunately I have not as much to show for the' latter as might be hoped. I am engaged in the general practice of law. About the most colorful legal matter I have had has been in the capacity of legal counsel for the wife of the Illinois ex-auditor who borrowed more than a million dollars from the state without mentioning this to anybody.

I see Basil Coutrakon, '36, both in the practice and socially. Basil is our referee in bankruptcy.

If any of our classmates come through Springfield, Louise and I will be happy to show them the delights of our city.

Bob Keeler, a lawyer in Cincinnati in the firm Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, writes in part as follows:

The news about the successful completion of the Capital Gifts Campaign is very reassuring. Out here we did reasonably well although two large gifts were responsible. We reached nearly $100,000. Cincinnati is not a very active Dartmouth community, which makes our showing better than it may look.

Today is an important day for me because my eldest, David, is off for college. He is going to Yale, which means that I lost the battle last spring. He has not been away from home as far as school is concerned. He leaves behind three younger sisters and a younger brother. Johnny is aged eight and I get another chance with him on Dartmouth.

Red Riley has been re-elected president of the Dartmouth Club in St. Petersburg, Fla. ... Lane Donovan is with Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith's Detroit office. He lives at 33 Fisher Road, Grand Rapids 30, Mich....John Proctor is Director of Technical Services of the Mitre Corp. in Lexington, Mass.... Bill Essex is back in the States, stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas....

niques, Inc. in Hudson, Ohio.... Dune Newell has moved to Phoenix, Ariz., to take the vice presidency of the Valley National Bank in their Trust Investment Division.... Benedict Jim Gidney and bride have settled down at 1715 East 115th Street, Cleveland 6, Ohio.... Bill Spring has moved from the Buffalo office of the Traveler's Insurance Co. to become head of their office in Yonkers, N. Y. Bill has two children, Mignonne, sixteen years old, who is at the Mary Burnham School in Northampton, Mass., and Bill Jr., who is ten years old and attends the Walt Whitman School in New York City. At the present time the Springs are living at 136 East 55 Street in New York, N. Y.... Jacko Morrison has been appointed to fill a vacancy on the Board of Education in Bay Shore, Long Island. Jacko has two children in the public schools there.

Dick Knight joined the faculty of Hillyer College this fall to teach accounting. He is an assistant professor of accounting. Hillyer is the school of Business Administration of the University of Hartford. Dick had wanted to teach for a long time and when this opportunity opened up, he took it, although it meant he had to resign his C.P.A. work in Boston. He. is presently commuting from Winchester, Mass., to Hartford. Among other honors, Dick has a Master’s degree in business from the Harvard Graduate School of Business.

Dan Schwartz is back in New York. He’s the new assistant director of the Montefiore Hospital. This is a 670-bed hospital, but it has pioneered in home care hospitalization whereby a nurse, doctor and social worker go, as a team, to treat the patient in the home. Dan and his wife and two sons live at 4320 Van Cortlandt Park East, New York 70, N. Y. Dan bicycles to the hospital. He says this is his only nod to the outdoor life he left behind him in Denver.

Our famed former Tithe Editor, Joe Cunningham, has been advanced to the post of Assistant General Manager of the Dairy Industries Supply Association in Washington, D. C. Joe is a six-year veteran with this national trade group of 425 dairy industrial suppliers. His fame in the association has been his stagings of the biennial dairy industries expositions each one of which has been bigger than a Dartmouth 25th reunion. In his new duties he will assume the supervision of research and technical standards programs plus other long range industrial relations developments. Before joining the DISA staff in 1953 Joe had held managerial posts with the National Coal Association, National Radio Institute and the British Purchasing Commission as well as several years of newspaper experience with the New York Daily News and the Washington Post. Joe is married to the former Margaret Slater of Baltimore. They have three children; Alan and Elizabeth who are teenagers, and Richard who is eleven years old. They live in Spencerville, Md. I am sure you will be hearing from Joe Cunningham again in his role as editor of our 25 year classbook.

Secretary,16 Hickory LaneDarien, Conn.

Treasurer,753 Upper Blvd., Ridgewood, N. J.