1931

The Claremont (New Hampshire) Eagle dated June 10, reported that "State Representative Arthur Marx of Langdon, chairman of the State Legislative Council, is the new president of the New Hampshire Mental Health Association." Art got his LL.B. from Columbia in 1934, and now has a general practice in this fine New Hampshire community not far from Bellows Falls. Art has been a selectman and a member of the school board.

Mai Pratt, instructor of math at Weymouth High (Mass.) was awarded a National Science Foundation Grant for summer study at the University of New Hampshire. This is the third National Science Foundation Mai has received. The first one was in 1957 when he attended the University of Colorado, and the second, last summer when he studied at Lafayette College in Easton, Penna. Mai is a member of the National Council for teachers of math.

Judge Jesse Strassberger of Norwalk, Conn., is president of the Norwalk-Westport-Wilton Bar Association. Last May he was designated as the Alumnus of the Year by the Fathers' Club of the Norwalk High School. Jess served on the Interviewing Committee for applicants for sometime - a most interesting job and one which helps the College very much.

The May issue of the Eastern Underwriter reports: "Presiding as moderator at the successful 'Meet the Press' panel at the annual convention of the New York State Association of Insurance Agents was Craig Thorn Jr. of Hudson, N. Y., past president of the association and present state national director. He handled the nine experts and press representatives expertly; kept the questions flowing steadily; and now and then injected a query himself. He also turned the tables on the newsmen by asking the experts to query the former." Up to your old tricks Beany.

Vic King has been reappointed by the Board of Education (Plainfield, N. J.) as its attorney for 1960-1961. Vic is president of the Union County Park Commission and has served as president of the Union County Bar Association. He was first appointed the Board's attorney in the Autumn of 1954.

Ernie Early '18 wrote Fred Slaughter as follows: "I managed to pick up a crumb on your William E. Little, which you might use in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE — he and his wife went to Europe this summer, chartered a boat from a fellow who didn't think fire extinguishers were necessary, or even bunkboards, and Bill was tossed out of his bunk and shaken up, and spent three days in a hospital in Sparta, with a touch of pneumonia. He bounced back quickly."

This news will be old stuff to Ken Fraser by now but nevertheless his activity is worth noting. In April Ken was guest speaker at a technical meeting held by the Merrimack Valley Chapter of the National Association of Accountants. His subject was "Money Managers." Ken is financial vice president of J. P. Stevens & Company, Inc., textile manufacturers. He graduated from Tuck School and has served as a member of the board of overseers.

A three-room camp, intended primarily for the use of alumni and their families, was erected at the Dartmouth College Grant in Northern New Hampshire this summer. It is located five miles north of Wentworth Location on Dead Diamond Road, approximately in the center of the Grant. It provides views of Mount Dustan and Black Mountain from an extensive clearing originally known as the Van Dyke Farm. A small crew of students headed by Eric Sailer '60 of Somerville, N. J., built the camp. Funds for the building and equipment were provided by Henry McCarthy '31 of Marblehead. More about this in the next issue I hope.

My first two columns have of necessity been top heavy with news about fellows here in the East since the only information I have received either from people directly or from the Alumni News Service has been about our Eastern classmates. It certainly can't be that the Eastern fellows are the only ones doing things and going places so won't you mid-country and westerners please come through with some material. I promise that it will be welcome and will be in the December issue.

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