1935

An interesting letter postmarked Balboa, Canal Zone, has just arrived from our old friend Harris "Swannee" Dawson. Dawson has been working in faraway parts of the world for the past several years for the U. S. Economic Aid Mission, and has recently been assigned by that organization to a new post in Panama. We will quote his letter in part:

There seems to be a real scarcity of Dartmouth alumni in Panama, but I have met one, under rather unusual circumstances. About a month ago I was taking a shower in the dressing room of the Panama Golf Club, and while soaping-myself, happened to mention to a friend in another shower that a certain hole here in Panama reminded me of a similar hole at Hanover. As I reached for a towel to walk out of the shower room, a short gentleman came over, also in a towel, and asked me whether I had attended Dartmouth. I said yes I had, and then he asked whether I had attended the Amos Tuck School. I replied in the affirmative and introduced myself, and he in turn introduced himself. He was, it turned out, Ernesto de la Guardia Jr., President of the Republic of Panama.

At that point, we began the usual "old home week" about our times at Hanover. It seems that the President graduated from Tuck School, class of 1925 and, of course, had had many of the professors I had had some eleven years later. He had known Dean Gray, Harry Wellman, Herman Feldman, and a host of other old timers at Hanover.

This meeting was just before the Princeton game, so there was much discussion about Dartmouth's prospects for an Ivy League title. I have since seen the President and we have both congratulated ourselves on Dartmouth's winning the title.

As to Panama, it is an interesting country, and has the unique problem of being an underdeveloped country, divided by a U. S. territory (the Canal Zone) which is leased in perpetuity. This fact has created numerous problems, based primarily on the great disparity between the standard of living of the two areas, and we, in the Economic Aid Mission, have as one of our objectives to aid Panama through technical assistance in raising its standards of living.

25TH REUNION

Ralph Specht, Chairman of the class' 25th Reunion scheduled for June of next year, reports that plans for this important occasion are beginning to fall into place.

Specht and the '35 Executive Committee had a meeting in New York last fall, at which time it was decided that full-scale arrangements and festivities would be in order, including a complete teenage and junior program at the time of the Reunion.

Ralph states that he and his key advisors are now working out an initial "plan of action," and that various committee heads to be charged with special duties for the Reunion will be announced shortly.

HERE AND THERE

Dr. Dan Reagan reports from Worcester, Mass., that he has been in the eye, ear, nose and throat business there since 1947, and that his two sons —Dan Jr., 18 and Bob, 15 - trounce him regularly in golf. Every August, Dan says, he and his friend Biddy Chase (manager of radio station WTSL in Hanover) go mountain climbing

Ralph Lazarus, president of Federated Department Stores, was recently one of the principal speakers before the National Industrial Council in New York City

Dan Kerwin, out in St. Louis, reports that his 17-year-old daughter Peggy has just been selected Miss Missouri Junior Miss of 1959, and that she will be in America's Junior Miss Pageant at Mobile, Ala., next month. "Peggy is a very good dancer and a darned attractive young lady, if I do say it myself," says father Kerwin proudly....

Big Willie Ogg, who has been out in the Mid-West with the Norton Company for a number of years now, has been promoted by his firm and moved back to Worcester, Mass., where he becomes manager of distributor sales. Ogg has been with the Norton Company since graduation in '35....

Dick Montgomery, ad tycoon with the Compton Agency's Chicago office, on a month's detached duty with his firm's New York headquarters....

Alvin Dodd and wife, of Devon, Pa., announce the engagement of their daughter, Sara, to Thomas A. Donahoe, a member of the class of '57....

Our classmate George Colton to be congratulated for guiding the Capital Gifts Campaign over the $13,000,000 mark.

'35 Selections

The following is taken from a Daily Dartmouth story reporting the "Senior Preferences" we voted in May of 1935.

Most respected: 1st Don Hagerman, 2nd Jack Hill, 3rd Bill Fitzhugh.

Most intellectual: 1st Bill Fitzhugh, 2nd Herman Hormel, 3rd Dick Lauterbach.

Handsomest: 1st Sven Karlen, 2nd Don Rogers, 3rd Don Fraser.

Plan for '35's 25th in '60

Secretary, 17 East 45th St. New York 17, N. Y.

Treasurer, 62 Prince St., West Newton 65, Mass.