1936
In Nashua, N. H., Don Erion has been elected to the board of directors of the Nashua Trust Company. Don is general manager of the J. F. McElwain Company and is active in many civic affairs as previously reported. ... Al Gibney, who is chairman of our 25th reunion committee, is president of the Harvard Business School Alumni group in Western Massachusetts Dick Treadway is chairman of the Easter Seal drive for the Society for the Crippled and Handicapped in Mass. He also has been named president of the Republican Club of Massachusetts The dinner that the Touchdown Club of New York gave to honor Earl Blaik as coach of the year brought out Red O'Hare, DickMorton, Jack Kenny, Bob Prentice and other admirers of the former Dartmouth and Army mentor.... Dick Brierley, vice president of Archer, Daniels, Midland in Minneapolis writes in part, "... Our oldest daughter, Linda, has been accepted at Smith next year on the advanced placement program, so I am going to have an excuse for getting East a little bit more. I haven't been back to Hanover since my graduate year and am looking forward to getting up there." Dick has four daughters.
Dr. Russ Page passes on the news that his bowling team at The University Club of Washington, D. C., plays in a league with the Kiplinger team which has Bill Yelverton in the opposition. Russ also reports that Wendell Harding is doing an outstanding job as dean of the Vermont Junior College in Montpelier. Russ left the Leahy Clinic in Boston about ten years ago to set up private practice in the District of Columbia. He is an outstanding ear, nose and throat surgeon. He and his wife, Lorraine, have two sons, Russ age 15 and Steve age 12, with whom they do a lot of camping and boating.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer has placed veteran reporter Ray Dorsey at the head of a group of editors and reporters who will increase that newspaper's coverage of state and local governmental affairs. The paper says of this former English major and resident of College Hall, "... he has covered all major beats, including police, courts, and business since joining the Plain Dealer in 1937. He was City Hall reporter for ten years before becoming political writer for this newspaper in February 1956. He received his Bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and a Master's degree from Columbia University. Dorsey and his wife, Bettie, have a son Michael, 16. They live at 29707 Osborne Road, Bay Village, Ohio."
At a Capital Gifts dinner here in town last month we found a '36 table decorated by such distinguished personages as Dave and Shirley Fox, John and Betty Mallory, Dick and Madine Morton and Libby and Alex Jones '38. Dave Fox has a new assignment as personnel advisor at the General Foods Corp. headquarters office. This former Glee Club member keeps in fine voice in the New Canaan, Conn., Congregational Church Choir. Dave says he looks down from the choir loft upon Roger Bayles every Sunday.
Probably the only man in our class who lives in a town named after him is Seth Thomas. He has written us a nice letter from his home at 65 Walnut Street in Thomaston,Conn. Way back in 1932 and '33 Seth led theorchestra that played each evening in Commons to aid the digestion of the freshmen atdinner. Now I hear freshmen have cannedmusic. He married Mary Jane Delmarsh ofInlet, N. Y. (sister of Archie Delmarsh '33)Seth writes -
You ask, "What's with me?" Nothing, John, to brag about, or even write about. Life goes on on an even keel, so to speak. Mary Jane is a peach of a wife. Our oldest daughter, Penny, is a junior at Skidmore majoring in art. Our son, Seth Richard, has been looking at several colleges as he is a senior in high school and is going somewhere next fall. He has looked at Dartmouth carefully along with Williams and others. Our youngest daughter, Kate, will probably follow Penny's footsteps.
I am still working at Scovill Mfg. Co. (brass mfg.) in Waterbury, Conn., holding down a mediocre production job chasing orders through and trying to keep out of trouble.
Music is still my sideline, and if I do say so, I have a mighty neat little five-piece swing band that has been plenty busy since 1940 - a good bunch of fellows who know how to play very well and have a lot of fun too. Outside of that there are fishing, hunting (I get my deer each year), skiing, keeping three model A Fords running, and beach-combing at Martha's Vineyard where we have a cottage on the wild, outer oceanside.
Dr. Harry Lowd has been elected vice president of the Salem (Mass.) Hospital where he has been on the staff since 1942. After graduating from Dartmouth, Harry got his M.D. from the University of Rochester and followed this up with service at the Salem, Lynn and Massachusetts General Hospitals - and also the U. S. Navy. He was president of the North Shore Babies Hospital for eight years where he is still on the staff, as well as being a member of the staff of the Cable Memorial Hospital in Ipswich and the Mary Alley Hospital in Marblehead. His specialty is pediatrics; he has four children of his own to practice on and observe. Harry's father is Dr. H. M. Lowd 'Ol.
We haven't had a new '36 offspring to report for a long time. However, I can tell you about the bed bug that will have a baby in the spring.
A foursome working on the general Capital Gifts canvass in the Hartford, Conn., area are: (left to right) Dick Ellis '51, Brint Schorer '36, Peter Vosburgh '52 and Sax Zieman '35.
Secretary, 16 Hickory Lane, Darien, Conn.
Class Agent, 135 Glenview Ave., Wyncote, Pa
