1928
The newest member of the Ski Hall of Fame at Ishpeming, Mich., is Charley Proctor His election was announced February 23 at a dinner following the North American Alpine championships at Squaw Valley, Calif. Charley is the vice president of the Far West Ski Association and a member of Olympic Ski Events Advisory Committee. He put on his first runners - cut out of pine boards as a 4-year-old at Hanover. "I didn't start at one of those up-to-date places," he said, "I learned to ski in our back yard."
He captained the Big Green ski team in 1927 and 1928, and won intercollegiate titles in jumping, downhill and slalom. He was a member of the American Olympic team that competed at St. Moritz in 1928. Charley is purchasing agent for the Yosemite Park & Curry Co. and director of winter sports at Yosemite National Park. He and Mary have two daughters, both attending the University of Colorado, and, naturally, each member of the family is an excellent skier.
D. Gordon Graham has joined Creative PR, Inc., as an account executive. This is a new public relations firm recently organized in New York. Gordon has been in public relations work for fifteen years, first with Columbia Broadcasting System and most recently with Edward Gottlieb & Associates, Ltd. , .
Moc Gray, superintendent of schools in Bristol, N. H., is governor of district 785 of Rotary International and is coordinating the activities of 32 clubs in northern New Hampshire and Vermont and the southern portion of Quebec province.
Johnny Scott was named general counsel of the Socony Mobil Oil Co. on January 13. He joined the company as an attorney after getting out of the Navy in 1945 and in 1956 was appointed associate general counsel. He and Evelyn have two daughters, ages eleven and ten, and live in Greenwich, Conn.
Rick Rickenbaugh has been elected chairman of the board of the Denver Better Business Bureau, which he helped found in 1951.
Among those fortunate enough to secure tickets for the Dartmouth-Yale hockey game and the dedication of Yale's new rink on February 21 were Art Gow, Jack Zellers,Sonny Middlebrook and Cal Billings. Dartmouth won the game, and the Ivy League championship.
Herb Adams of Laconia, N. H., has been promoted and transferred to the regional office of the U. S. Forest Service at Upper Darby, Penna. He will be responsible for forest fire danger measurements and other technical aspects of forest fire control in the seven national forests in fourteen eastern states. Herb has been in forest service work since he received his master's degree in forestry at Yale in 1930.
Hoyt Thompson presided at the Midwestern Mortgage Conference of the Mortgage Bankers Association, held in Chicago February 25-26.
Herb Russell, the Connecticut tobacco grower, is leaving April 1 for a trip to California to visit his daughter who is taking a job training course at the Emporium.
Ernie Wright's firm, the E. A. Wright Bank Note Co., has been printing the stamps for the new nation, Ghana.
Bob Clark has been promoted to manager of printing paper sales by the Strathmore Paper Co., Springfield, Mass. He has been manager of advertising and sales promotion and will continue in this capacity, but has turned over the day-to-day operations to other members of his staff and is spending most of his time on sales activities.
A card from Bill and Greta Cogswell in Paris lists Majorca as the number one spot on their extended European trip. Clark andAmber Harrington are also great Majorca boosters - they spent the summer there several years ago.
One of the most difficult jobs I've had to do since I've been class secretary is to write the In Memoriam notice for my close friend, John Flanagan, who died in the Bryn Mawr Hospital on February 28 as the result of a virus infection in the heart, after a five-week illness. This memorial will appear in a later issue.
There are no words to express the deep affection which members of the class and all Philadelphia Dartmouth men had for John. His work as head Class Agent, officer of the Philadelphia Alumni Association and chairman of the Alumni Interviewing Committee can be listed, but how can I describe the tremendous amount of time and energy he spent so effectively on promoting the welfare of the class and of Dartmouth? He and Vera had visited in Troy as recently as January.
John Phillips was in Hanover the first weekend in March for Freshman Fathers Weekend and saw Frank Hankins and his son Tim, Bill Marx and son Bill, Doug Pease and son Alan, Sam Dennis and son John. He also saw Frances and Jack Kenerson at the hockey game.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Class Agent, George M. Billings & Co., Inc. 36 Pearl St., Hartford 3, Conn.
