1937
This column will be quite short this month, simply because I have only a few items on which to report. I understand that Rog Allen has a goodly store of them, mainly returned questionnaires from his last Mint Bag, but he won't part with any of them. Since his forthcoming issues of the Mint Bag will be lending support to Boz Bosworth and his team of Class Agents, I guess I have no kick coming. While on the subject of Boz Bosworth, I would like to add a few words of comment on the Capital Gifts Campaign. By the time you read this, there will still be a sizable sum to be raised, with only a few short weeks to go. The device which Dartmouth counts on to put us over the top in this drive is the one which we have used in the past with such unique success - massive participation by us all. Each gift, no matter what the size, will help us reach that $17,000,000 objective, if only we all will give to the limit of our several abilities. With that in mind, we urge you once more to face the problem of making — or increasing - your gift or pledge right now.
Business Changes: Bob Marschalk elected to the Board of Directors of Studebaker-Packard Corp. Bob continues in his present position as executive vice-president of Vick Chemical Company. He has headed up their acquisition program for a number of years. By the way, Bob advises that he will be moving to New Canaan, Conn., around the middle of July. This will give us four '37ers in this town. Which brings us to mention Ben Eskesen, another New Canaanite, who left CBS a few months ago to establish his own office as a financial management consultant. Another close neighbor, Blais Blaisdell, over in Pound Ridge, N. Y., is no longer practicing law in partnership with W. D. Dunne, but is now handling his own practice at 230 Park Avenue, N. Y. Herb Butz is now a vice-president of Clinton E. Frank, Inc., the agency in Chicago which he joined in 1956. Paul Dickson left the Office of Development in Hanover on the first of the year to take a position as an executive assistant at Bell Aircraft in Buffalo, N. Y., where he is involved in long range planning. Paul continues to live in Hanover, commuting back and forth weekends between there and Buffalo.
Political Notes: A few weeks ago Hal Putnam was appointed Minority Counsel for the Senate Small Business Committee. For eight years Hal served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, after which he served as Assistant Attorney General in his home state. He will now spend his time in Washington, assisting the committee in preparing legislative recommendations to aid small businesses. Bill Breitinger, who occupies himself as a purchasing agent for Metropolitan Edison Co., is seeking the Republican nomination for a school board post in his home town of Wyomissing, Penna. In the past, Bill has served as president of both the Reading Optimist Club and the Wyomissing PTA.
Doctors' Column: Collie MacCarty, a member of the Section of Neurologic Surgery of the Mayo Clinic, and Associate Prof, of Neurologic Surgery in the Mayo Foundation, Graduate School, Univ. of Minn., was elected President of the Neurosurgical Society of America at their recent meeting in Hot Springs, Va. And George Andrews writes that he passed the Boards in Neuropsychiatry some months ago to qualify as a specialist in that field. As far as we know, George continues in his post as Clinical Director, State Hospital at Raleigh and member of the Clinical Staff in Psychiatry at U.N.C. School of Medicine in Chapel Hill.
Miscellany: Our class directory lists Lt. Col. John Ohlinger as being stationed at Shaw Air Force Base, Sumter, S. C. This is obviously not the case, for I have before me a copy of a translation of a letter addressed to John as Commander of the 6139th Operations Squadron, Misawa Air Base in Japan. The letter, signed by KOH-ICHIOZAKI, Chief of Aomori Prefectural Police, reads as follows:
I wish to take this opportunity to express my most sincere appreciation to you for your splendid assistance and cooperation that have been extended to us upon rescuing crew members of a Japanese boat, "Kaiyo-Maru," which was waterlogged and stranded because of stormy weather about 400 yards off the Shiogama shore, Misawa-shi, on 22 March 1959, in which you, from the standpoint of sublime love for humanity, have given willing consent for our request and dispatched personnel under your command in a helicopter, thus, through the most appropriate rescue measures, successfully rescued the lives of crew members who were being confronted by death.
The name of John Meston, as creator and author of the fabulously successful TV series "Gunsmoke," keeps popping up in the papers. But my best information comes from Dave Camerer who saw John recently, shortly before the Mestons set forth for an 18-month stay in Europe. I suspect that the chances are good that they will spend at least part of this time in Spain so that Bette can keep up her skill in the art of bullfighting.
Your secretary journeyed to Hanover on the first weekend in May to attend the Class Officers' Weekend. Present also were Rog Allen, Fran Fenn, Art Ruggles, and Boz and Marian Bosworth. After the business sessions were over we managed a brief lunch and visit with Paul Dickson and Jud Smith. The rest of our Hanover contingent were either out of town or tied up in operating rooms at Mary Hitchcock. I might add that we all came away deeply impressed with the strenuous efforts being devoted by the Faculty, Administration and Trustees to lead Dartmouth into the position of "pre-eminence in all things."
Secretary, 25 Old Stamford Rd. New Canaan, Conn.
Class Agent, 4285 N. Port Washington Rd. Milwaukee 12, Wis.
