1936
With these October notes we step off on the glory road (secretarily speaking) to our 25th Reunion in June 1961 in Hanover. Will you be up there when the roll is counted? Toward this end the class executive committee (see photograph accompanying) gathered late in May to begin work on our extensive Reunion program. You can have some fun trying to identify these lucky classmates and their wives who gathered on the staircase of the Hanover Inn. Al Gibney is General Chairman of our Reunion.
Summertime correspondence is piled high in the mail bag. Thanks to you all, the accumulated class news has set some sort of a record, a pleasant one for me, to have direct communications on hand from 31 classmates and indirect reference to 61 more. For example, here's a letter from Philip D. Mclnnis, mailed early in the summer. Phil is Deputy State Treasurer of New Hampshire.
Dear John: Have enjoyed very much reading your monthly column, and apologize for waiting 24 years to contribute my two-bits worth. Have lived with the same wife (Leslie) all these years and have two daughters - Nancy (21) and Susan (17). I have had present job for 7 years and have been mixed-up in the usual extracurricular activities — 7th year on Concord School Board, Church Treasurer, YMCA Camp Director, etc. I was fortunate to get appointed to a vacancy on the Alumni Council last year - two 3-day trips to Hanover each year and a chance to visit with Ken Lieber, Jim Tindle and Ed Chamberlain. Incidentally, I am tremendously impressed with the job that Ed is doing.
Have lived in a strictly feminine household all these years, but acquired a son last month. Our daughter Nancy married John Barto '52, with eleven Dartmouth men in attendance, including '36ers Jack Tenlon and Bill Macurda. A picture of the group was carried in the June ALUMNI MAGAZINE under the Class of 1952. John is a lawyer in the firm of Dudley Orr '29 and Bob Reno '38, and his dad, Duke Barto, was '29 - so you can see that this was strictly a Big Green affair.
I am sure that all other "silent" members appreciate, as I do, the contribution that you, Pete Fitzherbert, Kirk Liggett, Jack McKalligat, Joe Cunningham, Frank Weston, etc. have made. Hope to see you in Hanover for our 25th.
Budd Schulberg received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Dartmouth at the June Commencement. . . Louis Benezet, President of Colorado College, was commencement speaker at the University of Wyoming in Laramie ... Ed Andrew's wife, Pat, has been elected President of the Dartmouth Women's Club of Boston, a unique club founded in1930 to expand the Dartmouth fellowship and contribute to the scholarship funds... . The Class of '36 won the Green Derby in giving to the Alumni Fund for i960. Congratulations to Kirk Liggett, our head agent and his assistants who worked on the drive which ended so successfully on July 1.... Bill Hoffmann has been elected to the Alumni Council. Bill is Vice President of the Fidelity Union Trust Co. of Newark, N. J. .. . Rog Bayles has been made financial vice president of the Home Insurance Co. in New York.
Good news in the baby department comes from George and Carol Conklin with the word of Heather Jean's arrival on April 7. Dad is a senior vice president of Guardian Life Insurance Company. This kind of news is slowly being replaced by arrivals of grandchildren, although I have not heard from any new grandparents since Dug Porter and Chan Libbey reported their beautiful grandchildren.
Dick Treadway is working hard for the election of John Volpe, Republican gubernatorial candidate in Massachusetts. Dick is President of the Republican Club of Massachusetts and heads the "Volpe for Governor Committee." ... Don Sutherland has moved to Peterborough, N. H„ to become Director of Personnel for New Hampshire Ball Bearings, Inc. Don's son, Donald S., is entering the sophomore class at Dartmouth. Don says he has seen Bill Lee, Gage Aborn, HarryLowd, Bob Tyler and Dan Poor recently and all are looking forward to our 25th reunion. ... Red O'Hara's name popped up in a Drew Pearson column which Dick Spong spotted and thoughtfully sent to me from Washington. Red is a member of the law firm of "Tommy the Cork" Corcoran who recently made news Oliver P. Brown spent his vacation at Stoneboro Lake, Pa. O.P. has five sons and one daughter. The latter won a blue ribbon at the County Fair for an apron she had made Alex Chisholm is with Pickands & Co. in Marquette, Mich. ... Dune Newell, now a bank vice president in Phoenix, lives in Scottsdale, and spent a vacation at Brew Towne's White Stallion Ranch where he met Bill Martens ChuckBarnish is a public accountant in Huntington, L. 1..... Norb Hofman has left McCall's Magazine where he was general promotion manager to become Director of Promotion for Newsweek. ... Bill Gibson has been made U. S. Consul in Angola and is living in Luanda. ... Charles B. Thompson has moved from New York to Washington, D. C. He's been made assistant vice president of personnel for the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., a division of A.T. & T. Two years ago Charlie, his wife and two daughters moved north to Montclair, N. J. from Richmond, Va. where he had worked for Chesapeake & Potomac for years.... FredKneip is attending the Advance Management Program at the Harvard Business School. Fred is director of container sales for the Union-Bag-Camp Paper Corp. of New York and lives in Montclair, N. J Class executive committeeman Bill Macurda of Concord, N. H., has been elected president of the New England Fuel Dealers Association. ... The Leonard Florsheims are members of the Post and Paddock Club of the Arlington Park race track in Chicago.... Dick Knight, who has been an assistant professor of accounting at the University of Hartford, has accepted an associate professorship of accounting at Northeastern.
There have been a number of good '36 parties since last report. One of the most engaging was held at the Schorers' on Lake Winnipesaukee in August to which all classmates were invited. Brint & Doris Schorer put on a spread for guests including food, drink, boating, swimming and lodging. Lucky classmates attending were Pete and BarbFitzherbert, Harry and Rose Coronis, Boband Dot Keller, Brad and Kay Chase, JoeLivingston, Al Gibney, Dick and MadineMorton, Dave Fox, Paul Lynch, and Jackand Janet McKallagat.
As chairman of the Prize Committee, Brint Schorer beseeches every classmate to write him of their plans for swapping gifts at Reunion. Brint writes regarding prizes, "Let your senses leave you and swamp Doris and me with certificates for anything from Brooklyn Bridges to Fort Knoxes, so that all may have more fun at our Tremendous 25th."
The next big '36 party will be after the Yale game, October 29, at Gene Tamburi's Inn, The Yankee Silversmith on the Wilbur Cross Parkway at Wallingford, Conn. This delightful inn is about ten miles from New Haven. Nancy and I look forward to seeing you there.
A large group of '36ers were in Hanover last May for an executive committee meeting,together with their wives. Included among those on the stairs of the Hanover Inn wereChuck Aaron, Eddie and Mona Chamberlain, Pete and Barbara Fitzherbert, Al and EloiseGibney, Bob Ingersoll, Mardi Smith, Stoney and Maisie Jackson, Andy and Bertha Scarlett'10, Bill and Jean McLaughlin, Jocko and Ruth Morrison, Dick and Madine Morton, Bill andAbby Niss, Bob and Theo Prentice, Ray Reitman, Brint and Doris Schorer, Gib and AnnSykes, Gene and Kay Tamburi, and Bill and Mim Macurda.
Secretary, 16 Hickory Lane Darien, Conn.
Treasurer, 753 Upper Blvd., Ridgewood, N. J.
