1933
Hereafter, no excuses will be accepted for not writing your secretary or Newsletter Editor at regular intervals. One of our brethren has made excuses completely taboo by writing to us on his honeymoon. Writing us from Florida, Gay Milius sent word of his marriage on February 28 to Mrs. Martha Estes
Kalkhurst, widow of former film star, Eric Kalkhurst and cousin of Senator Estes Kefauver. Gay speaks proudly, too, of a newly acquired twelve-year-old, five foot seven inch son who is currently at military school. He is scheduled to be transferred by the Navy from Washington in the near future, but will be living with his wife in Arlington, Va., until his change of station is made. How about you Washingtonians dropping in on the happy couple at 3445 South Wakefield Street and conveying your and the class's congratulations to them.
We have no new claimants to the Class Grandfather title yet, but the Alumni Records Office advises us that Ken Hurd has five grandchildren, two each born in 1955 and 1957 and one this past February. This could be a record in numbers, so, Ken, until we hear otherwise, we crown you "The Most Numerous Grandfather." Any challengers?
We mention above the Alumni Records Office as though it were "just another one of those things." Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, quite the reverse is true and we want to pay tribute to Mrs. Charlotte Ford Morrison, the Alumni Recorder, and to her staff for their complete cooperation and conscientiousness in making your secretary's job of writing this column and keeping the class records comparatively easy. Actually, Mrs. Morrison's office is the source of most of the material for this and other class notes. She is the "Secretaries' Guardian Angel." Our individual class record cards are now current, thanks to her and her co-workers for voluntarily checking and bringing them up-to-date. You can help her and your secretary in keeping them current by advising one of us of every important change in your individual and family status as it occurs.
Ted Purcell will soon join those more fortunate of our classmates who are lucky enough to live in Hanover. Ted, as you know, is a Jesuit priest and associate professor of psychology and industrial relations at Loyola University, Chicago. He is returning to Hanover, under the sponsorship of the William Jewett Tucker Foundation, as a visiting lecturer for the 1960-61 academic year. Our good padre will teach in the undergraduate departments of sociology and philosophy and lecture on industrial relations at the Tuck School. Presumably his teaching of sociology will find him working closely with George Theriault. Don't be surprised, therefore, to find a large percentage of 1933 sons in Hanover becoming sociology majors.
As you know, there is no limit to where you will find a '33er. Space is the newest destination reported for one of our classmates - Gordon Ferrie Hull Jr. — judging from the title of his talk, "How to Communicate and Navigate in Space," as guest speaker at the "Conquest of Space" conference on March 7 at Northeastern University in Boston. Dr. Hull is senior engineering specialist, missile system laboratory, Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., where he is engaged in the study of the fundamental physics of radar and missile systems. Previously, Gordon was a consultant and research physicist at the Lincoln Laboratory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1937 and was a member of the Technical Staff of the Bell Telephone Laboratories from then until 1944 when he went to Hanover and became a full professor in physics at Dartmouth. On leave of absence from Dartmouth, Gordon served as science officer and consultant for the Office of Naval Research in Washington and at the American Embassy in London and later as science attache at the American Embassy in Bern, Switzerland. He has authored and co-authored some thirty scientific articles and has lectured throughout this country as well as in England, Germany, Holland and Italy.
We saw Johnny Faegre at the Harvard-Dartmouth hockey game in Cambridge in February. While it's old news now, the Green took that game and subsequently the Ivy League title. Much of the credit is due to Johnny as is attested by the number of players on the team from his area and whose going to Hanover was largely the result of John's salesmanship.
Johnny spoke glowingly of the new Minneapolis Ice Center of which I gather LymeWakefield is president and the prime mover in its development. Dig out the February 16 issue of Sports Illustrated and you'll see a really proud father and a real cute daughter. Actually, Lyme looks more like the older brother. As the article indicates, Lyme has captured something for which we all wish - joint participation of the whole family in sports. Both daughters are accomplished competition skaters. You will remember that Lyme was the intercollegiate skating champion for four years. Another Wakefield sporting activity is horses. Last year, daughter Louise was a blue ribbon winner for jumping in the large hunter pony class at the National Horse Show.
Add Helen Jackson to your secretary's list of favorite wives for keeping us posted on Dick's crammed schedule of activities as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He is kept on the go continually, when away from Washington, visiting Naval and Marine installations here and abroad. His schedule is just as heavy when he is in Washington where he recently completed a two weeks' appearance on the Hill. But, his is no eight-hour day - more nearly ten and twelve hours on official business, followed by the many social engagements inherent in his job, which requires Helen's attendance, a good part of the time, too. Dick manages to get in some skating occasionally. The Jacksons had a Dartmouth-in-Congress party recently. Among the attendants were Congressmen: John Monagan, Tom Curtis '32 and Perkins Bass '34, of our vintage, plus Justin Stanley who was in town at the time. Dick returns to Hanover for Commencement to give the graduation a ddress to the R.O.T.C. groups. "Hats off" to another '33er for interrupting his normal career for service to his country.
From New Haven, where he is attending physician in obstetrics and gynecology at Grace-New Haven and St. Raphael's hospitals, comes word of Gerry Krosnick's appearance as the feature speaker before the Women's American ORT last February. Johnny Meek, who is regularly on the "steak and chicken circuit," spoke recently to the Washington alumni in connection with the 200th Development Fund. Did you notice in last month's Wah Hoo Wah column that Horace B. (Skipper) Shaw Jr. had been elected vice-president and treasurer of the Burlington (Vt.) Savings Bank?
Ten dollars sent now to Mel Katz, 125 West 41st Street, New York, N. Y., will assure you of accommodations at the Occom Lodge for our rump reunion next fall on Brown weekend, October 9-11.
"The cupboard's bare." Anybody got news to spare?
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