1934
Class Reunion - The 25thHanover — June 18, 19, 20, 21
The months dwindle down to a precious few — April, May, June, I can spend with you - and in the meantime I had better tend to my knitting and correspondence.
Congratulations to Bill Emerson who was married to Millicent Carter Chamberlain on December 12, 1958 at Corona del Mar, Calif. Bill received his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1937 and is now with the American Potash & Chemical Company. Hope you are planning to introduce us in June.
My Girl Vendredi shows me a picture of Perk Bass moving into his new office, Room 241 in the House Office Building. The Second District Congressman from New Hampshire is well located three doors from the main entrance to the building. The same young lady offers me a copy of a recent issue of "The Radiator." It features a laudatory article about Hank Peirce who for 25 years has been one of the outstanding representatives of the Massachusetts Mutual in Indiana. Hank is a Life Member of the Million Dollar Round Table and a twelve-time recipient of the National Quality Award.
Heard that Gail Raphael was down in the Florida Keys where he caught a couple of bone fish but no tarpon. Gail had completed ten years as head of copy on American Airlines and looking for new worlds to conquer he joined Doherty, Clifford, Steers and Shenfield where he will be a copy supervisor. Bill Steers, the president of this agency, is also a Dartmouth man. Gail sent me a clipping about his college roommate, Bill Barnet, which appeared in the Albany papers. Bill received a richly deserved B'nai B'rith Covenant Award for his devotion to the cause of humanity. Bill who is president and general manager of Rensselaer Knitting Mill was cited for his many activities in the Albany community.
I see where Herb Hawkes is Vice-Chairman of the Geo physics Unit at the University of California. Herb was on the M.I.T. faculty before becoming a member of the staff at Berkeley in 1957. How time passes. When we were in Hanover, Herb's father was Dean at Columbia University. Today Jerry Danzig's brother-in-law, John Palfrey is the new Dean there.
I was in Baltimore recently and heard all about Jean and Dick Herman out in San Francisco. Circuitous but nonetheless welcome.
When the Cleveland Browns (football) were being scuttled by the New York Giants, Bob Griese's brother (a part owner of the team) offered me seats to the game.
Gardner Brown who is Executive Vice President of the First National Bank of Lewiston, Me., sent me a letter which I wish I could print in toto. Last summer he moved the family lares and penates to a lakeside home. The location is perfect for his chief hobbies, sailing and skiing. With his lightning class sloop, he won the New Hampshire State Championship. This should be a source of pride to all you former Dartmouth Corinthian Yacht Clubbers.
A post card from Alan Hewitt is sent from Los Angeles. He is out there to do some work on filmed TV shows and sure to be having better weather than we are in the East. This cold wave has some of us scurrying South. Betty and Henry Necarsulmer are headed for Nassau in the British West Indies. Marge and George Copp are planning to visit Norma and Bill Gilmore in Arizona. Dotty and Roily Morton have challenged Liz and me to a golf match at Dorado Beach in Puerto Rico. This is the Rockefeller development which has been grabbing all the headlines because of its superb location and new golf course.
Bill Wilson has been named president of the Spaulding Council on Nursing Education. As its name implies the purpose of the group is to encourage, foster and promote the education, training and supply of nurses for the care of patients. Bill sent me a clipping from the "Fourfront" which reveals the whereabouts of Dr. Em Day. Emmy who is Director of the Strang Clinic flew to South Africa at the invitation of the Medical publication, "South African Practitioner." During his month long stay he lectured and studied in Johannesburg and other cities and he visited Mozambique.
Ran across Irv Diamond who as president of the Luggage and Leather Goods Manufacturers of America directs the destinies of that important Association. Irv's wife, Doris, is a well known concert pianist and they are living in Scarsdale, N. Y., with their three children, Barbara, Renee and Robert.
Lex Paradis, an editor of our Reunion Year Book and booster of the prestige of American Airlines, tells me that our class poem was written by Al Kahn while flying over the Atlantic Ocean to Paris. Al was on a recent trip to the Soviet Union where he spent five weeks as a guest of the Soviet Writers' Union. Igor Moiseyev, leader of the famed dance troupe, gave Al a pair of Russian dancing boots for Al's wife, Riette, with this remark "Let us clasp hands and feet across the seas."
I have memos from two other European travelers of last summer, Herb Steyn and Don Sandy. Both had wonderful experiences and look forward to further trips in the future.
Congratulations to Terry, son of J. Clarence Davies. He has just been awarded a Phi Beta Kappa key in Hanover. Our almost class baby has had a most distinguished undergraduate career. The college also keeps me posted on the tine progress of John Bathrick's son, Dave, who accompanied the victorious rugby team to England during the Christmas holidays. Bets and Ed Bishop s son, David, is having a fine freshman year while Dad practices obstetrics and gynecology in Philadelphia. Ed also teaches these subjects at the University of Pennsylvania. Another freshman, Richard King, is the eighth member of the Jamie King family to have been admitted to Dartmouth. Jamie is with the Lederle Laboratories Division of the American Cyanamid Company at Pearl River, N. Y. Lives right around the corner from his old roommate, Bud McAllister.
On the stationery of Goodman-Segar-Hogan, Realtors of Norfolk, Va., comes a welcome note from Bob Goodman. Bob is chairman of the interviewing committee in the Norfolk area and has cornered the cream of the crop for us. He and Augusta and their four children, Bob Jr., Lynn, David and Beverly Alice are planning to attend the 25th Reunion. Bob has only two regrets; sorry to be so far removed from old friends and in spite of travels to Mexico and Europe he bemoans the fact that he hasn't seen enough of this world.
Dick Gruen's preliminary outline of '34's ONE-and-ONLY 25th was the best and most comprehensive we have read since Highmarks pulled us through the Introduction to Industrial Society. Even in those primeval days we had to have the assistance of Dick, the old Phi Beta, and here he is once again guiding us a quarter of a century later.
Secretary, 160 Broadway, New York 38, N. Y.
Class Agent, 1750 Elm St., Manchester, N. H.
