1934
Seems only yesterday we neutralized the glue on a couple of stamps with a little gin and slapped them on the June material for this distinguished publication. We groan not, however, ever, this lovely month of the year because, if mother hasn't been dusting, the file is always full of tasty tidbits for the trade fresh, or almost fresh, from the center of all culture, Hanover.
Of course, parts of this chore can become grim, with this month particularly so for we have to write obits for two very fine guys, Steve Meigher and Pat O'Reilly, whose deaths were reported during the summer.
Philosophically, though, let's remember that it's now 30 YEARS AGO, plus a few days, that 664 bright-eyed youngsters (av. age 18.1) stumbled onto Hanover plain, slightly out of breath and bewildered ... but not so bewildered that 150 of them didn't know that by reporting to Chase Field for football they were automatically excluded from the affectionate attentions of '33 ... and Palaeopitus banned all hazing, they hoped, saying "number and burden of adjustments sufficiently great" . .. with Vox Pop vociferously decrying the "softening influences" under which these youngsters were being brought up.
If this pearly prose brings on acute nostalgia, we have just the cure for it. There's just about time for you to join us in Hanover, or at the Norwich Inn, on October 15 at which time '34 is having its annual gathering of the clan to settle momentous problems, brew strategy, and then after that first fifteen minutes really enjoy the place.
Way back in June, we had a few letters after closing down for the summer. Dr. Kirk Spitler enclosed an article by Dr. Emerson Day which certainly demonstrated the difficult and effective job which Em is doing in his field of cancer detection. In April, in San Francisco, these two gentlemen donned cap and gown to be inducted into the American College of Physicians. Kirk also hoped to make that big convocation at Dartmouth Medical School in September as he has been active in fund raising in the Cleveland area.
Shorty Thomas covered Nassau and Venezuela on his South America tour, but missed Gussenhoven and Briggs in each of these short stops. Shorty plans to be back that way, so the electric motor repair business must be flourishing.
NAMES IN THE NEWS... Meriden, Conn., School Superintendent George Magrath was awarded a doctor of philosophy degree in education at the University of Connecticut's i960 Commencement. Dr. Magrath, superintendent of the Meriden public school system since 1955, also has an M.A. degree from the University of Vermont. George began his teaching career in Sedgewick, Maine, has taught at Essex Junction, Vt., Sandwich, Mass., Hartford, Conn, and in 1947 was named principal of Meriden High 5ch001.... Dr. Seymour B. Dunn, dean of Gettysburg College since 1955, has been appointed acting director of development, an important coordinating, planning and fundraising post.. .. Still with the educators, the Time-Life award to Smith College for the organization and public presentation of its current development campaign for $23,000,000 was presented to Herbert N. Heston, Director of Development at Smith. This award is the highest honor of the American Alumni Council. . . . Armand A. Benoit has been named to the newly created position of director-manufacturing liaison for the Remington Rand Portable Typewriter Division of Sperry Rand Corporation. Prior to joining this company he was manager of manufacturing — foreign subsidiaries for the Underwood Corporation. Armand, with his wife and three children, resides in Fairfield, Conn. . .: Arthur J. Leonard has been elected to the advisory board of directors of the new Child's Hospital, Albany, N. Y. Art is vicepresident of Graves and Rodgers, Inc. ... Dr. Alfred Yankhauer, for two years visiting professor of child health at Madras (India) Medical College, is lecturing on his experiences. A specialist in pediatrics, Dr. Yankhauer was sent to India by the World Health Organization.. .. Ernie Barcella has received another award, for his coverage of the Nixon visit to Russia, a National Headliner's Club award for outstanding journalistic achievement ... and Bill Cahn, communications consultant and specialist in the field of written and pictorial communications - as we know from his . work on the reunion book, has opened an office at 36 East 57 Street.
Scanning the address changes for a few tips, you might be interested that Roily Wilson, Comdr., USN, is now at the U. S. Naval Observatory in Washington ... that George Tibbits is now at the U. S. Embassy in Asuncion . .. that Dick Poisson is at The Grier School, Tyrone, Pa.... and that DaveLuck, professor of marketing at Michigan State, is probably on one of those interestingly titled sabbaticals, with residence in Palo Alto, Calif.
This year Charlie Widmayer's annual shot of adrenalin to struggling sees tells us the MAGAZINE has won a national award for this section of the book, prima facie evidence that we all must be good, but other virtues are strongly encouraged such as promptness and brevity. With that kind of an excuse, we quit.
Herb Heston '34, Smith College development director, has won two awards. The Time-Life Award given by the American Alumni Council, and the Eminent Achievement Award of the American College Public Relations Assn.
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