1933
When two '33ers meet at a Dartmouth football game, it's not news, but, when two of them meet at church, that's something else again. Bill Sherman and your scribe did just that a couple of weeks back and a chatty reunion plus a subsequent letter were the happy results. The letterhead reads J. R. Motors, Inc., Somerville, N. J., and Bill explains that the company is run by HarryRobinovitz, the local Chrysler-Plymouth dealer for whom Bill has been selling cars since his moving there and buying a car from Harry. Bill was released from the Navy in 1946, taught in Cape May Court House, Manville and now Somerville . . . all in Jersey . . . with the car selling, a side-line. Says Harry is "a real big man in this town"
auto dealer, attorney, Lion and active in United Fund, Boy Scouts, the local equivalent of a high school boosters club and other civic activities. Reports that Harry had Doggie Julian down to speak to the "boosters club" and "Doggie really sold Dartmouth to a great many boys because of his dynamic personality and inspirational message." (If any of you are looking for a good speaker for a Dartmouth affair, Doggie is terrific.) Bill recently visited his old roommate, John Donovan, principal of the Concord, Mass., High School. Johnny proudly showed him his new $3,000,000 school, nearly completed, and its novel Foreign Language Laboratory. Both are members of the Ulcer Club, with John having to be rushed to the hospital in March for a series of transfusions. They both enjoyed a bland diet dinner at John's home.
Bill recently staged a basketball game, which netted $1,000 for the Heart Fund. His faculty team played one made up of Philadelphia Phillies baseball players. Brother Sherman has hung up his shoes and is a bench warmer as the result of one of his colleagues saying that he played zone defense like a policeman directing traffic. We'll be seeing more of Bill since his brother lives in town and his eighty-year-old parents live nearby. He spends his school vacations visiting them.
Another "good Samaritan" is Pete Grace, excerpts of whose newsy letter follow. Sorrowfully, he reports the death on April 7 of Dick Meyer, his school roommate and business associate, at the VA hospital in Chicago, following a delicate heart operation. A more detailed report will appear in this or a future issue in the In Memoriam section. The Class sympathies are extended to Dick's family and to Pete in this hour of sorrow.
Marty Kerwin and Bob (Robert S.) Turner, along with Pete, make up the St. Louis '33 delegation. Marty, the proud father of two large red-headed sons and one daughter, is sales manager for a tier rack manufacturer and covers a large territory throughout the mid-west. Bob is with Connecticut General Insurance, is president of both the local Dartmouth Club and the Big Brother Club as well as being active in church work and local politics.
Pete says his idea of combining Bmm. film taken at Reunion is not too practical, but he did send his to Ken Jacques in L. A. and Ken, in turn, sent his own along with Pete's to Hardy Macdona for a showing in Cleveland. Sounds like a pretty practical solution. Pete offers the use of his roll of 150 feet to anyone who might be interested. That's really being noble and brave. Pete sent a picture from Printers' Ink of Howie Wilson, unchanged in face (that's all we saw) since the fall of '29. The accompanying squib announced his advancement from merchandising manager to director of marketing for National Biscuit Co. Howie transferred to U. N. H. in '31 and subsequently received his M.B.A. at Harvard Business School. He started with National Biscuit in the grim days of 1934 as a shipping clerk at their plant in Leb., went into sales and worked his way up the ladder. Married to Lucille Lord, he lives in Floral Park, L. I. and has a girl, Sandra and a boy, Frank. Nice going, Howie.
Spent a pleasant evening in mid-April with Harv Bloomberg, Don D'Arcy and ArchieLade at the Boston Alumni Fund Dinner. Don's chest was well expanded, and rightly so, over the birth of his second grandchild, Patricia Anne Manning, born March 3 to Mr. and Mrs. Harmon B. (Pamela D'Arcy) Manning Jr. in Denver. Don is pinch-hitting for Class Agent, Sid Stoneman, who is on an extended tour of Europe. This is a good time to suggest to those of you who as yet have not participated in the 200th Development Fund that pledges or share designations are still in order. Suppose you all know that you gain a respite from being tapped for the Alumni Fund while paying your pledge, yet still get credit for Alumni Fund contributions while paying your pledge.
Have word of Johnny Faegre's election to the board of directors of Forman, Ford & Co., Minneapolis paint and glass firm.
Dr. Bill Likoff, who graduated as an M.D. from Hahnemann Medical College in 1938, was an intern and resident in pathology and medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Philadelphia and later a fellow in cardiology at Harvard, is currently engaged in one of seven research facets under grants from the Heart Association. Bill is cardiologist at Einstein Hospital and director of Hahnemann's section on cardiovascular diseases. His phase of the project is concerned with the ability of four groups of patients, some 600 plus, to handle fats. It is hoped that this research will develop a diagnostic procedure for the early detection of coronary artery disease before heart attack. Bill and his wife Eleanor have two daughters: Jane Ellen, 17 and Ina Joy, 14.
Lopey Rich was recently elected as a director of the Norwood (Mass.) Cooperative Bank. "The Mayor of Norwood" has served on the Board of Selectmen for ten years and was chairman of the local Industrial Commission for five years. Aside from five years in the Navy as a Commander engaged in mine sweeping operations in the American, European and Pacific theatres, for which he was awarded the Bronze Star, Lopey has made a career of printing. After Hanover and business courses at M. I. T., he was with the Norwood Press and rose to assistant to the Superintendent. In 1940, he was one of the founders and became Treasurer of the Boston Offset Co. Currently, he is President and Treasurer of the Beckler Press, which he acquired in 1955. As yet, no one has been able to convince him that "two can live as cheaply as one."
Dr. Dick Gerstell, Director of the Pennsylvania State Council of Civil Defense since 1951, has just completed a master plan for seven target areas in the state. He received his doctorate in philosophy at Michigan; was in research for the State Game Commission; spent four years in the Navy where he rose to Lt. Commander; participated in Operation Crossroads at Bikini, where the first atomic test was held; wrote a series of articles for the Saturday Evening Post on that Operation; and served as technical consultant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and as atomic adviser to other federal agencies before assuming his present important post. He and his wife, the former Vivian South-worth, have two sons, Richard III and Arnold, and live in Lancaster.
New addresses:
Wallis H. Ayres, Box 1101, Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.; Robert M. Estes, 506 W. Maple Ave., Hinsdale, Ill., Arthur E. Goodwin Jr., 4 Glenndenning, Houston 24, Texas; Melvin C. Hershenson, 340 Atlantic Ave., Marblehead, Mass.; R. Warren Loewi, 21440 Biscayne Blvd., No. Miami Beach, Fla.; J. Philip O'Brien, 2601 Parkway, Philadelphia 30, Penna.; Russell D. Shaver Jr., Box 590, Lewiston, Penna.; and Charles H. True Jr., 243 Warwick Road, Kenilworth, Ill.
Henry R. Rose '34 (center), Chief of theCivilian Personnel Office, U.S. Army QuartermasterResearch and Engineering Command,Natick, Mass., receives a certificate foroutstanding service rendered to the U.S.Civil Service Commission. With him are R.J.Healey (left), director of the Commission'sBoston region, and Major General C.G. Calloway,commanding general.
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