1934
Class Reunion - The 25th Hanover — June 18, 19, 20, 21
We caught up on some reading while spending a two-week vacation at Dorado Beach in Puerto Rico. In "Business Week" a picture of and an article by John Torinus, managing editor of the "Green Bay Press - Gazette" and I quote "Having grown up in Green Bay, I'm proud that our communityowned and operated football team has made Green Bay the best known little city in America." In "Sports Illustrated" a picture of and an article on John Clough, son of Bill Clough. John at 17 is an Olympic prospect. He won slalom and downhill races in leading Holderness School to its second straight Eastern Prep School Ski Championship.
My son Peter called me on the phone in Puerto Rico to tell me the good news about the Dartmouth basketball team winning the Ivy League Championship. Was pleased to pass this information to Irv Kraemer '32, a great guard in our freshman and sophomore years, who was vacationing with his wife Ruth. We spent many pleasant hours with Dotty and Roily Morton though never did get in a round of golf. Saddened by news of the death of Albie Booth we raised a toast to the memory of a great athlete and a fine gentleman. Roily had played football and baseball against the Yale immortal. Irv had guarded him on the basketball court.
Ran into a fellow who had known Don Bunting while Don was living on the island. Don is now Professor of Education and Research at the University of Florida. He was President of the Dartmouth Club of Miami and has done a lot of travelling in the Caribbean area.
New York City has had its share of distinguished visitors. Jean and Dick Herman with their daughter, Terry, were on from San Francisco. Dick Houck and Bob Engelman here at the same time celebrated with Jeff Jackson, Marty Dwyer, Dick Gruen and '34's own Grover Whalen - Bill Scherman. To compensate for this influx, a couple of Broadway's favorite sons have sent me cards from Florida and California, Bud Yallalee and Jerry Danzig respectively. While having lunch at the First National City Trust Company passed Charlie Goodfellow's desk. He tells me he will not be in Hanover in June because he leaves for a three months' business trip to South America. Plans to see Gus Gussenhoven before Gus comes North.
Gleaned from the morning papers that Henry Necarsulmer's wife, Betty, was chairman of a committee which ran a circus benefit to aid the James Johnson Community Center. Dick Wells' pretty wife, Helen, had her picture in the paper as director of the New Theatre Workshop at the Minnetonka Art Center. Both Dick and Helen are on the national board of Operation Towns Affiliates, an organization to promote understanding between cities and towns here in the United States and abroad.
Good news from the hinterlands. Bernice and Jim Wendell's daughter, Nancy, was married in February to Keith Holmes and will live in Ann Arbor, Mich. Bill Haist, President of the Sprague Meter Company, was elected a director of the City Trust Board of Bridgeport, Conn. Bill has been a member of the Easton Zoning Board of Appeals and. the vestry of Christ Church in Easton. From the "Hampshire Gazette" an article to the effect that Herb Heston, director of the office of development and public relations at Smith College, was a guest speaker at the Hampshire County Smith Club. His topic was "Facts and Fictions of Higher Education." Herb was a member of President Eisenhower's Committee on Education beyond High School.
Spoke to barrister Bob Allabough on the phone. He and Dave Beasley, with wives, are planning to drive to Hanover in June. Want to thank Bob Rodman, another of our legal lights, for his assistance rendered to me in a recent matter. We talked about Bill Baird, a partner in the law firm of Wells, Martin, Lane, Baird and Pedersen, in Omaha, Neb., and Bob Corwin, a partner in the firm of Frank, Thomas and Corwin in Dayton, Ohio. Bill and Bob both received their law degrees from the University of Michigan. Bill has a son who attends Oklahoma and two daughters, Marilyn and Jane. Bob's three children, Dorothy, Tom and Bill, are still of school age.
We heard recently from John Carney. He is with George Clark & Son, wholesale farm suppliers in Minneapolis. He and Josephine have five youngsters. Oldest daughter, Sarah, is at Manhattanville and daughter, Mary, goes to Wheaton. This is the alma mater of Stu Campbell's wife, Emily. Stu is a trustee of the New England Hospital and a trust investment officer with the Second Bank-State Trust Company.
Another proud father of five children is Russ Davis. In order of appearance, Hank, Kelly, Patty, Geoffrey and Deirdre. Russ has successively been a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army and in casualty insurance after graduation from Harvard Business School.
George Cogswell writes that he and June are bringing the whole family to Reunion. George, now sales manager of the Illinois Bell Telephone Company, was President of the Wilmette Little League. Looking forward to a lot of laughs when he tells us about some of his experiences in these far-flung fields.
One of Governor Rockefeller's recent appointments was that of Oscar Ruebhausen as special adviser on developing an atomic energy program for New York. This assignment calls for recommendations for the establishment of a state agency to plan and coordinate atomic development and regulation. Oscar was undoubtedly selected because during the war he was general counsel for the Office of Scientific Research and Development.
The final get-together in New York at the Dartmouth Club was the best of the three. The stalwarts, Les Reeve, Lex Paradis, Wil Maynard, Bud Yallalee, and Roily Morton were graced with the presence of the following attractive wives, Jean Ford, Dotty Krogslund, Lois Frankel, Barbara Smoyer, and Ruth Day. Their respective spouses were of course in evidence. Em Day was full of glowing reports of his recent trip to South Africa. Nels Krogslund is disappointed because Reunion is taking the place of his spring gathering. The invitation is extended for 1960. Bob Ford looks the picture of health again. In fact more tanned than some of us who had vacationed in the South. The center of attraction was Bill Embry up from Louisville to attend an Alumni Council Meeting. Stan Smoyer ran him a close second. He had eye witness accounts of all the Dartmouth-Princeton battles. George Copp and Marge are planning to go to Wilburton Inn at Manchester, Vt., the five days before Reunion. Perhaps some of the rest of you might be interested in taking a few extra days of holiday. George says the Inn has great food, is close to Hanover, and has a first class golf course in Equanok at its front door. Bob Smith will be back on his chartered boat cruising in Caribbean waters as you read this.
A quick trip to Washington, D. C., to pick up Liz and the children who were sightseeing. Ran into Gail Raphael doing the same thing. Called Perk Bass who had taken his family to Florida. Spoke to Ernie Barcella busily engaged on a special report for the class-book, to Stan Abercrombie erstwhile drummer in the Barbary Coast, and to StuBarber who is looking forward to seeing everyone at Reunion. Tried unsuccessfully to reach Bemie Cushman and Line Daniels. For the first time realized how many of us are connected with the Government. Also had dinner with John Monagan '33 and a nightcap with Dick Lyon '33 both of whom left this thought with me. Anyone who misses his 25th Reunion will live to regret it. They said theirs was one of the really satisfying things that had happened in their entire lives and all their classmates experienced the same wonderful thrill. I urge all of you who can possibly attend in June to make every effort to be in Hanover. I am sure that if you miss this once in a lifetime pleasure you won't forgive yourselves.
Lewis H. Blague Jr. '34 has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Charles Scribner's Sons Co., New York publishers. He was formerly an editor with the Dodd Mead Co. before joining Scribner in 1947.
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