1936

These June notes bring to a close another year of '36 history and the fourth year in office of your present secretary. While you have been reading these monthly notes about your classmates perhaps you have felt, as I have, that these are "golden days." This has been so. In the operetta, "The Student Prince," Sigmund Romberg glorifies the undergraduate days at Old Heidelberg, and many alumni feel the same way about their life in Hanover. However, the class record shows that these middle years are "golden for '36ers. We have many classmates who have in these years attained high honors in business, medicine or the academic world. Many classmates are in the confident junior level of their careers. Large and busy families are a blessing to most classmates, while civic and community needs are a constant magnet for attention and energy. We have had to face a few marital rifts, one scandal and two personal tragedies. We expected no felons, nor have we found any; not even any who sought protection from the 5th Amendment although a few might plead the 18th if it were still on the books.

We have lost only one man in four years through death. He was Earl McEvoy. However we lost one classmate who wrote that he wanted no further contact with the College either by mail or in person. On the other hand one classmate who had made such a declaration years ago wrote and asked "to be taken back into the fellowship." I believe this man has found that the door was never closed.

This is the springboard of life that will toss us all right into our 25th reunion two years hence. And, from what I hear, reunion chairman Al Gibney has his arms wide open to catch the greatest class that ever reunited on the Hanover plains.

A few corrections in this past year's reports need to be made. When I recently reported Jim Gidney's marriage I mentioned that he had a Master's degree in Psychology. Jim writes, "I imagine that old cronies like Ralph Cockroft and Clif England were both amused and amazed to read about that degree in psychology. 'He" doesn't know anything about psychology,' they will say, and rightly. My wife might well say the same thing. She is the one with the Master's degree in Psychology from George Washington University. Mine was romance languages. Currently I am working in history in my spare time with the hope of taking a Ph.D. in it." In the February notes I reported that O. P. Brown had married Mary Hart of Salem, Mass., in 1942 and that their oldest son is 17 years. Puritan virtues were pinched by this statement, and in an amusing retort from O. P. he suggests that I might like to list the children and their ages correctly, namely, O. P. III, 15; Stephen, 14; David, 12; Jonathan, 10; Mary, 9; and Jimmy, 7. O. P. wrote in addition, "Stephen was named for Steve Smith who you will remember was lost on the Navy destroyer, U.S.S. Ingraham, in World War II."

A bombshell from Chan Libbey is word of the birth of his first grandchild. Chan moved out to Montana from Lewiston, Me., 25 years ago and has had, as he says, "interludes of quiet desperation" amid some progress in ranching, Army service, breeding Arabian horses, building up the Park Coca-Cola Bottling Co., and raising three children. Chan writes:

I see Ben Stein quite often. Ben lives about ten miles out of town (Livingston, Mont.) on his ranch, and is incidentally State Senator from this county. We have ten acres on the Yellowstone, right at the "big bend" where the mountain men used to gather in the early fall to ship their hides to St. Louis, and would be most happy to take any stray '36ers fishing if they pass this way. I am also in the beer business so I shall know when a Dartmouth man passes through the territory by the raise in "per capita."

Out California way we hear that Dr. Stan Ogush has moved his office from Crescent City to 224 South Church St., Grass Valley; Joe Whitney has gone into business for himself in Apple Valley, Calif.; Sid Barr has left the old homestead in Haverhill, Mass., for the sunshine of Apt. 3, 919 South Sherbourne Drive, Los Angeles 35; Ren Ostrom has either moved the Morton Salt Company or moved himself from San Francisco to 1710 Trousdale Drive, Burlingame, Calif., and Bob Pumphrey has become a minister and is preaching at Pittsburg, Calif. Bob's graduation from Central Theological Seminary and his ordination makes him the second man in our class to become a minister. The first '36er to become a minister was Jim Lancaster who received his Bachelor of Divinity Degree from the Hartford Theological Seminary in 1939. Jim is the minister of the First Congregational Church at South Hadley, Mass.

Professor Al Frey's famous class in advertising at Tuck School heard two of our Phi Bete classmates, namely Al Flouton and Bob Prentice, at different times this year. Al, who is a vice president of Compton Advertising Agency in New York, discussed the agency side of advertising; Bob, on the other hand, discussed ways to evaluate agency work from the advertiser's point of view. As manager of marketing information at Lever Brothers Co. in New York, Bob has studied agency relations and methods of agency evaluation for several years, and is now a top authority on this subject. He has been invited to discuss his studies before Uniliver management in England and Holland this summer. His wife, Theo, is joining the tour on the Continent.

Dr. Chuck Richards (another '36 Phi Bete) writes from his home at 2323 Adams Street, Quincy, Ill.:

I guess there has been no very spectacular change since my last communication with the Class which I suppose was some years ago. I have been here in Quincy now about nine years, associated with a medical group of twenty doctors (The Physicians and Surgeons Clinic). I am the urologist for the group. This is a typical small midwestern town which we have grown fond of, and I suppose we'll be here forever. The older I get the less attraction the big cities with their frantic pace seem to have for me. I imagine that is my innate laziness coming to the fore. We have two boys, John age 6, and David age 4. They are both amply able to occupy whatever spare time I manage to scrounge from the pillpushing. In fact, at their stage of development (and my age) they are quite a handful. I should like very much to get back to Hanover sometime soon. It has been many years since I have been back. Perhaps we can make it for our 25th.

Tufts University has appointed Dean Leonard C. Mead to the positions of senior vice president and provost. Len has been a member of the Tufts faculty for twenty years, starting as an instructor in psychology in 1939. He went up the steps of professordom to become head of the Department of Psychology, and in 1953 was appointed Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Len is married to the former Jean Griswold of Rochester, N. Y., has two sons and a daughter, and lives at 10 Mt. Pleasant St. in Winchester, Mass.

Dr. Bill Stimson, who is Chief of the Medical Service at the U. S. Public Health Service Hospital in Seattle, Wash., writes from the Northwest:

I was transferred here in July 1957. The setup here is the same as in Boston except that there are more patients here and they seem to be sicker or I am losing my grip. We have a very active intern and resident training program and also enter into various aspects of student training with the University of Washington. This has been a busy but pleasant place. I have been doing a lot of sailing having found a chap with a boat who wanted someone to share the work with him.

Last Friday evening I enjoyed hearing our classmate Raphael Hillyer play with the Juilliard String Quartet." Tried to see him afterwards but learned that he wasn't feeling well and had ducked out promptly. Couldn't get word to him. I wanted to ask him how they all came out together when they played that quartet by Kirshner. Anything written after 1900 rather taxes my appreciation.

The family is well and of the same size and we do a lot together now. Am slowly getting the wife to accept camping and cruising. With spring obviously here some days we have the boat in operation, and it won't be many days before we are sleeping in a snug little harbor.

You'll be interested to hear a brief report on the White Stallion Ranch that Brew and Marge Towne bought in the fall near Tucson, Ariz. Brew writes, "We have had a wonderful winter in spite of the fact that we didn't get our remodeling done as quickly as we wanted, hence didn't open until the end of January. Since then, however, we have been pretty well filled up. We are planning to stay here permanently, and will be open all during the spring, summer and fall. Though it is going to be pretty warm in the summertime, our air cooling system will make it very liveable. We certainly hope that some classmates or other Dartmouth people will drop in and visit us."

Here are a few notes that will clean out the mail bag. Ernie Mecklin is assistant to the senior vice president of Crucible Steel Co. and lives in Washington, D. C. - Harvey Sevigney and Bill Lee got together at the Dartmouth Club meeting in Palm Beach this winter when Dr. Hopkins was there - Dr. Stan Osgood is an educational representative for Houghton Mifflin, a Boston publisher - Emil Hokanson is a Justice of the Peace in Milwaukee - John Eager is working on his Ph.D. in Pittsburgh - Bob Patterson took a skiing vacation in Europe again this year - Al Butler has joined the nation's largest advertising agency, The J. Walter Thompson Company, in New York City as an account supervisor. He was recently head of the Detroit office of Young & Rubicam, another big agency - Jacko Morrison has been elected chairman of the Long Island City Y.M.C.A. - Clark Sorensen has joined the Hooker Chemical Corp. of Niagara Falls, N. Y. He will be director of public and personnel relations, a position he formerly held with the American Machine and Foundry Co. in New York. Clark is an annual visiting lecturer on general management techniques and personnel administration at Tuck School. - Don Robbins returned from Africa on April 1 and on the 15th left for a six-week trip to the Near East with headquarters in Beirut. Don is a vice president of Singer Sewing Machine Co. and lives in Fairfield, Conn. He passes along the news that Dr. Dan Barker has moved to a new home in Fairfield at 140 Sunnieholme Drive. — Ed Brooks has been elected to the board of directors of The Columbian Carbon Co. in New York.

A news item that I had been holding for the month when there was ample space to report it, is the story of the '36 reunion at Gene Tamburi's Yankee Silversmith Inn which took place after the Yale football game last fall. There is not space now to list the 35 classmates, wives and guests who attended, but you should know that it was a gay gathering, after a sweet victory and one that will be repeated — both victory and party — after the Dartmouth Yale game in 1959. So keep your eye on this date when fall comes. As you know the first issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE is the October issue so it will be too late then to give you much advance notice about this reunion. Gene Tamburi provided a beautiful table of hors d'oeuvres and delicacies for all classmates at the Inn. Furthermore, he picked up the tab for all drinks whether classmate, wife or guests, which was way beyond the call of duty. I don't guarantee that you'll get free drinks in the fall, but I will guarantee you'll have a pleasant few hours. The Yankee Silversmith Inn is just off the Wilbur Cross Parkway at Wallingford, Conn., about eight miles north of the Yale Bowl. See you there in the fall.

Best wishes to you all through the summer.

At the time of the Dartmouth class officers' meetings in Hanover last month the 1935 executivecommittee tried out the Senior Fence before repairing to the Inn to discuss next year'sbig 25th Reunion. L to r: Milburn and Nell McCarty, Ted Steele, Ralph and Trudy Specht,Doug and Ruth Ley, John Wallace, Reg and Babs Bankart, Fran and Bobbie Chase, TedHarbaugh and Bob Naramore, with local '35ers George Colton and Don Cameron.

Secretary, 16 Hickory Lane, Darien, Conn.

Class Agent, 135 Glenview Ave., Wyncote, Pa.