1941
June is the month when newspapers, big-city and small-town, reserve most of their space for the well-deserved publicity for brides and graduates. Absent weddings and graduations to report on, the educators seem to have taken over this script as it fires its final salvo before going into hibernation for the summer months.
The National Science Foundation recently gave a $57,200 three-year research grant to Dr. Jerry Donohue, a professor of chemistry at the University of Southern California. Jerry will spend the first year of his three-year sabbatical leave from his professorship post, which he has held for six years, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, as a senior postdoctoral fellow. His research project will be on structural chemistry, determining how atoms are arranged in certain crystalline substances. He is also working on a one-year $11,000 grant from the Office of Ordnance Research to determine interatomic distances in molecules in crystals. He previously held a one-year Guggenheim fellowship at Cambridge University, England. The nicest part about this wonderful opportunity for Jerry is that he will be accompanied by his wife, 'Patricia, son and daughter.
Dr. Chet Williams, Associate Professor of Education and Director of Student Teaching at the University of Oklahoma, has had his color filmstrips depicting life in the Soviet Union under present conditions selected by the Society for Visual Education, Inc. for worldwide distribution, especially in schools. Chet took these color pictures in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev and Siberia, when he toured the Soviet Union last summer with the Comparative Education Society. They have the distinction of being 100% authentic, untainted by Soviet propaganda, and they will have the further distinction of being the first American educational filmstrip series dealing with the Soviet Union to be released.
Dr. Dusty Rodes, President of Bradley University, recently won for his nationally famous basketball team and for his Bradley students complete exoneration from any involvement in the betting on college basketball games reportedly taking place in the Peoria, Ill., area.
Another subject of recent investigation has been the cause of the recent plague of bank holdups on Long Island. Instructional series are being conducted by law enforcement agencies on procedures in averting bank holdups and on the quick apprehension of stickup perpetrators. At a unique security seminar sponsored for this purpose, Nassau County resident, FBI Agent, Brodie Bjorklund, recently instructed a large group of Long Island bank tellers on the most common techniques used by bank robbers, and warned them that alert tellers could thwart many holdups.
Turning from internal security to national security, we find that facet of communal endeavor leaking news of meritorious achievement by an ex-educator. Major Paul Badger of the Air Force was recently awarded the Air Force Commendation Medal for his accomplishments as officer-in-charge of a recent series of high priority test missions conducted by the Department of Defense involving precision timing, complex maneuvers and co-ordination with civil and foreign flight contract agencies. Paul is presently assigned to the 376th Bombardment Wing at Lockburne Air Force Base in Ohio as Chief of the Bombardment and Navigation Branch. He holds the aeronautical rating of Senior Navigator with over 2600 hours of military flying to his credit.
Air Force Major, Clayton Gray, has recently returned to the good old U.S.A. from Tokyo, Japan, where he has been stationed since 1956 as an operations officer.
As usual, present and former class officers continue to hold a place in the limelight. Former class secretary, Bob Harvey, has been named managing editor of Changing Times magazine. A specialist in insurance and family finance writing, Bob joined the magazine staff in 1948 as associate editor, and has been assistant managing editor since iota. Before joining Kiplinger's organization, he worked for the Washington Post, The Nation and Reports magazines.
Money bags," Stu Steffey, has returned to his old haunt, Pittsburgh, Penna., to assume the post of manager of the Slag Products section of United States Steel Corporation Stu joined United States Steel in 1946 as a commercial trainee. In 1947 he was advanced to salesman in the Pittsburgh District Sales. Eight years later he became assistant to the manager of this office. Stu is returning to his home town from Philadelphia, where he has been since 1957 as assistant to the sales manager in United States Steel's sales office.
Mouse Hall has just been nominated to serve as a member of the Executive Committee of The Dartmouth Alumni Association of Long Island for three years.
CHANGING TIMES: Fred Lynch, a neighbor of Bob Harvey in Washington, D. C., has forsaken the building business for a sales career in the Nation's capital. Bob Lempke is now Industrial and Public Relations Manager of the North & Judd Manufacturing Co., of New Britain, Conn., where he also resides. Les Overlock is National Sales Manager and Secretary of the American Photocopy Equipment Company of Evanston, Ill. George Guest is a wholesale lumberman in Townshend, Vt.
Thus I bid my adieu until October, parting with a sincere wish to all for a very pleasant summer, and with a final two-fold plea:
1. Please help me replenish my ammunition supply between now and then with lots of news of you and yours.
a. Please do not forget that this is the final month of the Capital Gifts Campaign. Help our Class - second to none - to get out of its number five berth in Group V of the Go-o-o Dartmouth Competition; and what is far more important, - help the College reach its ultimate goal in this worthy endeavor by making your pledge NOW to the Campaign.
It is with great sadness that we report, as late news, the death of Dick McCornack in Hanover on May 14, after three months' illness. Dick, who was full professor and an expert in Latin American history, was one of the really top men in Dartmouth's history department, and his death is a tragic loss in many ways. In his memory, the College is receiving gifts to establish the Richard Blaine McCornack Prize in Latin American History.
William F. Deal '41, a vice president of Slater Food Service Management, is the new general manager of the company's central region, with headquarters in Philadelphia.
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