1926

In this great-white-cold season... post-football, post-holidays... news is scarce, and letters, clippings, even tiny tidbits, are extra welcome.

Particularly LETTERS... like this welcome word from that colorful comedian, dancer, and man-about-mid-New-England, "Red" Boyce. From Houston, Texas, on the letterhead of "Trevor Boyce Associates, Manufacturers Representatives, Corrosion Resistant Storage & Handling Equipment", "Red" writes: -

"I act as a Manufacturers Representative for three nationally known firms selling to the oil and chemical industry in the Southwest. I also am manager of a firm which fabricates equipment for the pulp and paper and chemical industry. We have a plant in Houston, and primarily we fabricate rubber lined tanks, piping components, rubber covered rolls for protection of the corrosive materials handled by these industries. Some large paper mills, headed by Dartmouth people such as International Paper Company and Champion Paper and Fibre Company have been very kind to me.

I am married to a girl from New York State, and we came to Houston after being in the South Pacific and in the European Theater during World War II. I had no particular reason to enlist, other than an innate desire to learn the hard way.

After leaving Dartmouth, I attended the University of Buffalo and U.C.L.A. and majored in Petroleum Chemistry and went to work for Union Carbide Chemicals Company. I was one of the original few technical men employed in their very first plant. This work and that which I am now performing is a far cry from being in show business. After hearing Elvis and other so-called performers today, I believe the whole bunch of them would have gotten the hook in a Green Key .Show.

Pictures I see from time to time of you and some of our other show you looking like young men - about the way you looked in College. On the other hand, during the action in the South Pacific, my red hair suddenly turned snow-white, it makes me look at least 75.

And this letter-of-correction from Allen MacDufiie: -

"The Class Notes in the November issue refer to the Springfield (Mass.) Republican report of an interview with me. The reporter was in error when he used the phrase "former lawyer" as I continue in the profession, being associated with Gordon, Brady, Caffrey & Keller, 120 Broadway, New York.

At the time of the interview I was working on a program of the private mortgage lending institutions to bring about a more equitable distribution of home mortgage credit - to help people in small communities and minority groups everywhere obtain home mortgage loans. This program, known as the Voluntary Home Mortgage Credit Program, was run by committees of lenders, builders, retail lumber dealers and realtors. Bob Morgan '24 of the Boston Five served on the National Committee and Res: Miner '21 of John Hancock was on my Regional Committee which served the area - Maine to New Jersey and Puerto Rico."

CLIPPINGS, Too. A news-release from New York reports that: -

Dr. Richard M. Haywood, associate professor of classics at New York University, has been named the new instructor for Classics Hi, the Legacy of Greece and Rome, one of the University's four "Sunrise Semester" Courses given via television, on Station WCBS-TV. He has previously appeared several times on NYU's"University" television series, and has also participated in radio programs.

A native of Lynn, Mass., Professor Haywood received a bachelor of arts degree in 1926 from Dartmouth College, and a doctor of philosophy degree in 1932 from Johns Hopkins. Before joining the NYU faculty in 1950, he taught at the Hotchkiss School and at Johns Hopkins. He and his wife, the former Margaret Rider Mobray, have a son and two daughters. They live at 16 E. 8th Street, in Manhattan.

The Newark (N. J.) "News" reports that: -

The Horticulture Society of New York, Inc., have announced their plans to establish one of the country's finest botanical gardens, on the Duke estate, near Somerville. Charles D. Webster, society president, visualizes the New Jersey project as the society's greatest challenge. At 51, after a successful business career, Webster retired to become the society's unpaid president. Born in lowa, his deepest interest is in broad-leafed plants and shrubs.

And TIDBITS: -

Bill Hughes, Director of Employee Relations for Socony of the Middle East, at Istanbul, Turkey, is now serving as Professor of Employee Relations at Istanbul University. Bill will be returning to the U.S. on sabbatical leave, late this spring. Ken Johnston is now the proprietor of The Mobile Kitchens of College Park, College Park, Md. Fred Wenck, as president of Chicago's Agate Club, oldest advertising club in America, had the honor of introducing guest speaker Richard Daley, Mayor of Chicago. When we asked for a picture, for use in this publication, Fred replied: - "None were taken; I had the photographers thrown out. After all, where I live (Wilmette) there are three political parties: Republican, More Republican and Most Republican. So just imagine what the neighbors would say, if I had my picture taken with a DEMOCRAT!"

Tidbits in both solid and liquid form were consumed in generous quantities when Tubber and Mary Weymouth threw a Welcome-West party for visitors Bob and Pensé Cleary. The consumer group included: - Carle andBetsy Blunt, Warren and Dot Fellingham,Dick Gun thorp (and sax), Al and EllenLouer, Mod Moderwell, Tom and GraceMurdough, Jim and Madeline Oberlander,Hank and Jane Parker, Art and Elaine Seibold, Fred and Ginny Wenck, and Del andBillie Worthington.

Ed Hanlon, our hard-working Class Treasurer, reports Class dues payments running slightly behind a year ago. If YOU are one of those who have let it slide, please write a $6 check to Dartmouth 1926 (NOW, while you're thinking of it) and mail it to Ed, at 6 Stanwich Road, Greenwich, Conn.

Trevor "Red" Boyce '26 of Houston, Tex. ismanufacturer's representative for three bigcompanies selling to oil and chemical industries in the southwest and also manager ofa firm making industrial equipment.

Secretary, 9301 Hamlin Ave., Evanston, Ill

Treasurer, 6 Stanwich Rd., Greenwich, Conn

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