1943
We're off and running into another year as recorder of deeds for '43, a fascinating group hovering around age 40 and spread out all over the world (and a little around the middle). This class is really coming into its own as a Dartmouth group after a slow start, and many of its members, witness their roles in every walk of life, are a great credit to the College and the Class. For instance, placing third among 1939-45 classes in the i960 Alumni Fund was a fine achievement, thanks to the determined efforts of George Munroe and associated class agents. With the Capital Gifts Campaign settled, next year we can confidently anticipate a first place, since more and more of us apparently are recognizing the responsibility of class and alumni participation.
The long summer hiatus has given your secretary a chance to recharge a battery. With a week off for good behavior, Ruth, Mary and I enjoyed Bill Cotter's charming Farragut Hotel at Rye Beach, N. H. Imagine the delight of the cool Atlantic on one side - and one of the McGuire Sisters rooming across the corridor. Dedicated secretary that I am, I called Bob Pelren in Concord. It's always that element of surprise! Bob told me the only guy he knows who never gets in hot water is the father of two teen-age daughters living in a house with one bathroom. Looked in vain for Bunny McCormick, who generally cruises the N. H. shore about August time. Sitting on the veranda perusing The Boston Herald I caught this: "Koslowski accounted for the day's most spectacular shot - a three-quarter number 8 iron into the cup on the 370-yard 16th for an eagle two." Next day Kos went to defeat along with JohnO'Day in the Brae Burn membership-guest competition.
Don Kingsley is moving west. From what we hear, Don and his family will soon be moving, if they haven't already, from their home in Yorktown Heights, New York, to Toledo, Ohio. The reason is that Don is now employee communications supervisor for Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation in Toledo. For the past six years he has been responsible for employee publications for General Foods Corporation in White Plains, New York.
Rev. Joseph Koci Jr., rector of historic St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 3rd and Pine Sts., Philadelphia, became headmaster of its affiliated institution, St. Peter's Day School for Boys. The school, established in 1834, later became a choir school in 1903, famed for its concert tours and recordings, many with the Philadelphia Orchestra. In a radical shift of purpose and emphasis, Joe hopes to double last year's enrollment of 34 boys in grades 4-9, thus making better use of existing facilities and helping reduce the financial deficits of a small, private school. Joe brings to the task previous educational experience at St. Andrew's in Middletown, Del., and St. Margaret's in Waterbury, Conn.
My Tokyo correspondent (with a yen for news) writes that Takanobu Mitsui is a stalwart member of the Dartmouth Club of Tokyo —"a Dartmouth man who never loses sight of his allegiance to the College... an unselfish worker on Club projects, and a wonderful friend to us all. As enrollment cochairman and executive committee member, Nobu was instrumental in the outstanding success of the Tokyo club this past year, which produced generous scholarships for two deserving Japanese along with the biggest Dartmouth social functions in the Far East." It's inspiring to hear of Nobu's Dartmouth loyalty.
A year's search by high State of Maine officials for a psychiatrist to head Maine's new Bureau of Mental Health led to our own Bill Schumacher of Westport, who assumed the duty on Sept. 1st. Down East papers proclaimed for the inquisitive that Bill will be the state's second highest paid official, the highest being (and cheers for Maine) president of the University. Bill will supervise mental health programs in ten state institutions, including three mental hospitals, and will direct a new program of community mental health services. Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and by the American Psychiatric Assoc. in mental hospital administration, Bill graduated from the University of Vermont Medical School and followed with long Navy duty at hospitals and naval centers stateside and abroad. He was physician-psychiatrist at Fairfield (Conn.) State Hospital, 1955-58, and engaged in private practice. The year 1958-59 was spent at Columbia doing graduate work in psychiatric administration and community psychiatry, and up to his recent change Bill was psychiatrist at Westport Sanitarium. Anne and he have two children, John and David.
From the press: Johnny Krol coaching football this fall at Waltham High.... Doc Fielding elected president of the Greater Boston Medical Society... . Phil Bowie, Washington realtor, elected to membership in the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, having qualified for the "MAI" designation of the institute - limited to less than 3000 members of the appraiser group.... BillJones, Thompson-Ramo Woolridge vice-president, having his "1959 Kenneth Edwards Address" published in the spring Journal of the University Film Producers Association. ... Brad Copeland appointed Clinical Associate in Pathology at the Harvard Medical School. Brad is also associate pathologist at the New England Deaconess and the New England Baptist Hospitals. ...Al Eisenman, typographer of Yale University Press, associate professor of graphic design at the Yale School of Arts and Architecture, elected president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts this past spring.
Walt DeLany, full-fledged Commander, USN, checks in from Hamburg, Germany, as liaison officer to the German Navy and attached to the American Consulate. With 14 years in sub service, Walt has commanded the "Cavolla" and the "Croaker," and en route picked up an M.A. in Education at Stanford in 1958. From 1958 to i960 Walt was in charge of the Navy BuPers data processing center in Washington. He and Anne have a daughter, Mary Anne, 15, and they all welcome visits from any classmates passing through Hamburg.
Gerry Shattuck is logging his eleventh year as a busy pediatrician in Portsmouth, N. H., with able assistance from wife Mary, director of social activities and check-writing. Son Tracy, 2, and daughter Meredith, keep them busy. Fred and Freda Richardson saw the Shattucks at the new Seacoast Dartmouth Association recently. Fred also reports JudWaldron in Portsmouth, Bob Wight in Kingston, and Leon (Barbary Coast) Chapman in Dover. The Richardsons, taking their travel agency very seriously, have been to Honolulu and Bermuda in the past year.
October 15 brings together the extinguished executive committee in Hanover, where we shall discuss great and serious matters. Feel free to visit the Lyme Inn if you are in the area that date. You may end up being elected secretary!
Secretary, 1445 Cherry Lane Pottstown, Pa.
Treasurer, 29 Ryerson St., Brooklyn 1, N. Y.
