1940

We swelter in New York, Chappie Went-worth stuns us with a card about skiing! In California, where everything comes king-size, he says that he is located right under the biggest ski development in the U. S. at Mt. Shasta. He is also only three hours from Squaw Valley where the Winter Olympics will be held. Both he and Percy Rideout are expected to be on various committees supervising said Olympics. Chappie has recently built himself a new house and a new plant for his Dunsmuir News.

Smock Thompson, when he finds spare time from his duties as president of Thomp-son-Hayward Chemical to be in Kansas City, devotes his energies to serving as president of the local alumni group, a selfless task when it is considered that he is surrounded by a Vassar wife and three daughters, aged eight, five and one, and has nary a Dartmouth prospect in the family.

Lt. Col. joe Bird has returned from England after three years. He is now commander of the Ninth Weather Squadron, which supports the Fifteenth Air Force, a part of SAC. He, Bertie, Joey eight, Steve six, and Debbie two find the weather at March Air Force Base in California a joy after the rain and fog of England.

Bob Tatgenhorst is a lawyer in Cincinnati and busy preparing his four boys for eventual admission to Dartmouth, with the hope that at least one makes it.

Dwight Meader, after having studied intensively at the Columbia University Graduate Executive Program, has topped that off with a three months' course at General Electric's Management Institute. Just like being back in college again! Quite aside from his job with General Electric in New York, he has been active as a consultant to the Government on pay practices which necessitates spending a great deal of time in Washington.

Professor Gard Ashley has spent the last two summers in Paris completing research for his Ph.D. thesis. This work was financed by two grants from Franklin College of Franklin, Ind., where he teaches.

Jay Weinberg has just started a new job. Tired of commuting from Pleasantville to New York, he has purchased a half interest in the Avis Rent-a-Car business in Westchester County. His office is now in nearby Fleetwood and he is managing to spend a bit more time with his family. Jay's interest in skiing has not diminished and he has even trained his eight-year-old to make the descent from the top of Mt. Mansfield in one piece.

A welcome letter from Bob Bunker in Ashboro, N. C., catches us up on his activities. He is concerned with costs and budgets for Klopman Mills, a subsidiary of Burlington Industries. The company has eight plants in North Carolina and Tennessee. He and Betty are busy bringing up their family of four children, three girls and a boy aged eight to one, but still manage to find time to pursue their active interest in sailing. Armed with a Dutch-built boat and trailer, they roam the area taking on all comers in races. This year they have competed in 31 races and they have taken ten first places and an unmentionable number of last places in addition to several dunkings.

Howie Sommer reports that his firm, Wolf Management Engineering Chicago, has gone international. He has several jobs in the Caribbean and is also developing and supervising a five-year economic plan for Tunisia to improve the general economy and encourage foreign investors to establish business enterprises there. In addition, he is working, for the Spanish government towards the improvement of that country's shoe industry. All of this obviously necessitates much travel on the expense account.

Lt. Col. George Sheldon is now stationed in Germany where he commands a unit boasting two young Dartmouth graduates, young enough to be his children. He guarantees that he is giving them tender and solicitous care. He is stationed in Frankfurt and would like very much to see any classmates who stray into the area. Another of our military classmates, Col. John Goodman, is now stationed in Charlottesville, Va. He is in the Judge Advocate General's Corps assigned as an instructor in the Judge Advocate General's School. After taking an advanced course at this school last spring, John was awarded all three prizes given for excellence: the honor for highest grade obtained in the military class by the Judge Advocate's Association; the certificate from the American Bar Association for professional merit in compiling the highest academic record in the class; and the book prize for his first place standing. He seems to still know how to study. After his graduation from Dartmouth, John received his law degree from Baylor University in 1948.

Bill Blake has just returned from a fascinating and productive year in Rome, Italy, where he has been writing up the results from a number of years of laboratory work in physiology. Since he is also actively painting these days, he found Italy a doubly desirable place for a sabbatical sojourn.

Jim Schaye is still holding down his merchandising job at Raymond's in Boston. He reports that his three children, Elizabeth fourteen, Jimmie ten, and Paul six, were getting older but that he has not aged one whit. Guess we all fool ourselves that way.

An article in the Denver Post discusses the interesting hobby of Dr. Seymour Wheelock. He is a connoisseur and restorer of old clocks. Since his interest in this field began some fifteen years ago when he was at Mary Hitchcock, he has collected and restored a couple of dozen early American clocks, which tick merrily all over his house. When he is not busy making clocks tick, he is making his young patients tick as a successful pediatrician.

Hope to see a good many of you at the Brown, Yale, and Princeton games.

Secretary, Hemphill, Noyes and Co. 15 Broad St., New York 5, N. Y.

Treasurer, 88 North Main St., Concord, N. H.