1935

I have been looking more critically at the notes of other classes since taking on this job and I find most of them start with a "warmup" - an initial paragraph to get the Secretary in gear, the mud stirred up in his editorial crankcase, and his mind re-attuned to Dartmouth affairs. After a month of running a bassoon factory, or whatever else his mundane responsibilities may be, it takes a bit of readjustment.

It also takes a bit of remembering that news doesn't just happen. It may be created; in fact, may have to be created, as the P. R. fraternity well knows but as I forgot on a recent trip to Virginia. Frustrated without a Dartmouth directory, I passed through Winchester, Staunton, Roanoke, Lynchburg, and Charlottesville thinking all the while of the unknown and unused class-notes fodder lying at the end of all those local phone lines. But on returning home I find that none of these fair cities boasts any listed thirty-fivers so my conscience has recovered.

Just in case you-all should have the same problem our leader, Mac McCarty, aided and abetted by Don Cameron, is planning to reissue the old geographical 1935 directory which is now ten years out of date.

Returning home from Virginia it would be nice to report that I had a talk with Bob Linson in Hagerstown, Md., but I had no idea he lived there. Besides the town was so jammed by a Halloween parade you couldn't have got to a phone within ten miles. Will be back, Bob. Have eighty acres of prime industrial land there and looking for a buyer (Plug).

Maybe Bunky Knudsen would like to follow the lead of Mack Trucks and build Pontiacs there. It looks as if he'll need some other places. In the four years since he took over as general manager of the Pontiac Division of General Motors he has re-made the stodgy old Pontiac into the hottest car in the trade. There's a big feature article on Bunky in the current (November) issue of Esquire starting with a full-page color picture of him on page 106. It points out that "his division now ranks second only to Chevrolet on G.M.'s profit sheets," and has become top seller of all cars in the medium price field. "In fact, Bunky Knudsen has become a kind of mild-mannered enfant terrible of the industry. This year, as new-model time rolled around again, Bunky's competitors braced themselves, sure that Bunky would come up with something special. He did. Out from under the wraps at the proving ground came the Tempest."

As boss of a plant where he was once a tool chaser at $125 a month, Bunky now guides the destiny of some 14,000 workers (along with Walter Reuther, I guess), and meets a payroll of $85,000,000. It's quite a story. I commend to you the philosophy of Bunky's father, Big Bill Knudsen. He believed that "the genius of America was production and it annoyed him to see a new kind of snobbery which considered it more honorable to handle a telephone than a wrench; more socially desirable to dictate to a stenographer than to direct a crew of skilled mechanics."

The name of another '35 industrial mogul has come into the news recently, that is Ralph Lazarus, the president of Federated Department Stores, Inc. He was recently named recipient of the Green Thumb award conferred annually for outstanding contribution to boys' wear retailing by the Boys' Apparel and Accessories Mfrs. Assn. Ralph has been an outstanding and very lucid publicist, not only for his industry but also for American business in general. It is hard to disagree with his statement made at the Green Thumb luncheon, which over 500 executives in his field attended: "We must give the customer the merchandise she wants, when she wants it, where it is convenient and pleasant for her to buy, with services she desires but unburdened with unwanted services, and at prices she wishes to pay."

To descend to us more common folk, there was a big '35 picnic before the Dartmouth-Yale game which brought out quite a lot of the eastern stalwarts, such as Babs and Reg Bankart, Corinne and Bob Naramore, Val and Phil Hemphill, Ginnie and Tom Lane, Hortense and Dick Eberhart and Sven Karlen. Vevie and Cam Duncan came all the way from San Antonio, Tex., to visit their two sons, Bowie now a freshman at Dartmouth, and Cam Jr. at Taft. Ruth and Frank Cornwell were also in from St. Louis, Jim West from Boston, Dottie and Jim Higgins from the middle recesses of Long Island. McCarty showed up witli a very attractive TV actress from Texas. This Yale game picnic is really confirmed as an institution — if you couldn't make it this year start laying your plans for 1961.

The end of the summer was signalized for my family by a big clambake at Chatham, Cape Cod, where after a few beers I burst into the melodic strains of the "Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" and found, completely to my surprise, that the man at my side so ably seconding my efforts was Fred Atkinson. This was a far cry from flour milling in Indianapolis but between the two of us we held up the reputation of Dartmouth as a vocal college.

Another westerner who frequents Chatham is Sam Boggess, who owns and operates the Jordan Village, a vacation motel, as a summer refuge from the General American Life Insurance Company in St. Louis.

Reversing the trend, Charlie Sewall, once a Bostonite and now a regular Commander in the Navy, has been so entranced by the life in Minnesota that he looks forward to living there permanently. Charlie's career was written up recently in the Minneapolis Star. He is in charge of the reserve training program for "water sailors" at Wold-Chamberlain field and makes his home at Birch Bluff, Lake Minnetonka. Charlie's wife is the former Mary Butler, daughter of the former United States Senator from Massachusetts. On this post-election morning I am a little jumpy about former Senators from Massachusetts, but let it pass.

On the Army side, Joe Waters, like Sewall, is another refugee from the paper business. Joe has just been promoted to the rank of Colonel and serves as professor military science at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N. Y.

Noah Tobias was just born to Geraldine and Nick Jacobson at Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover on October 16, 1960. This is the fourth of the Jacobson tribe. Peter, age twenty, is at the University of Chicago; Antoinette, eleven and Nora, seven, are at the Norwich, Vt., grade school. Nick, gives his address as Inauguration Farm, Norwich, Vt., and apparently he intends to remain true to the name.

1935 Fund Contributors

466 Donors Total 25th Reunion Gift - $300,300.00 1960 Alumni Fund - $18,309.00 THEODORE M. STEELE THEODORE H. HARBAUGH Co-chairmen 25th Reunion Gift

Proceeds from Reunion Auction Ackerman, Harry S. Adams, Frank O. Aieta, James V., Jr.1 Allen, Frank L., Jr. Allen, O. Fay, Jr. Alter, Robert L.1 Anderson, Bartow P.1 Arthurs, Earl K. Atherton, Alexander S. Atkinson, Fred M. AuWerter, John T., Jr. Axelrod, Frederic Ayer, Robert B,1 Baker, Charles B. Bamford, Arthur, Jr. Bankart, Henry R., Jr. Barnes, Charles F. Bartlett, Francis H., Jr. Bash,lvan C. Batchelder, Henry D.1 Beach, Quincy P. Bear, Philip I. Beebe, Frederick S. Beiley, Murray R.1 Bell, John J. Belsky, Abraham H.1 Bent, John A., Jr.1 Benton, Charles, Jr. Berry, Charles L.1 Black, Nelson M., Jr.1 Blakeslee, William S., Jr. Block, A. Stanley Blum, Morton Boehm, Robert L. Boldt, James C. Bonner, Robert A., Jr. Bonner, "William W. Bookheim, Louis W. Bowman, Robert G. Bradt, William W.1, 2 Britten, Stanley H. Bromberg, Jules H. Brown, Charles H. Brown, Sanborn C. Brunner, Edmund deS., Jr. Brush, Allen S. Bryant, F. Leonard Buck, Henry R., Jr. Bunker, Forrest A.1 Burnkrant, Eugene G. Busey, Robert L. Butts, "William S. Buxbaum, David A. Cahoon, Oscar J. Calder, Otto J. Cameron, Donald W. Carlisle, Tyler, Jr. Carpenter, Richard E. Carr, Robert C. Car rick, B. Cramton Cary, Edward H., Jr. Chamberlain, George R. Chaney, Bobb Chapman, William J. Chase, Francis C. Chase, Howard L. Chollar, Robert G. Ciolek, Fabian S. Clark, Alan B. Clark, William B. Cline, Alvin B. Close, Daniel B. Colby, Ralph M.3, 1 Cole, Charles R. Cole, Lewis D. Collins, Robert H. Colton, C. Hall Colton, George H. Conklin, Albert R. Conathan, Philip A., Jr. Coppeto, C. James Cornthwaite, Schuyler E. Cornwell, Franklin J. Cotton, Daniel C. Couper, Dean H. Crane, Carlyle W. Croninger, F.Howard, Jr. Crouse, William D. Cummings, Paul C., Jr. Curtis, Ellwood F. Curtis, Mercer E. Cushman, Gardner C. Davidson, William W., Davis, Jerome G. Davis, Larry Deckert, Harry C. Deitel, Saul R. DeMasi, Americo S.1 Depinet, Fred E., Jr. Dewey, Homer B.1, 4 Diamond, Sidney A. Dickinson, James A. Dimity, William A. Dinneen, Charles M. Dodd, Alvin G. Dodge, John H. Dole, George V. Donnell, E. Fitz, Jr. Dorsey, Stephen P. Dow, Wallace W.1 Drackett, Charles M. Draper, Ernest M. Duncan, G. Cameron Dyer, Edward C. Eberhart, Richard Eckel, Karl A.1 Edwards, Chester W.1 Eisendrath, William B., Jr. Ellis, William H., Jr. Elsenhans, G. Edward Emerson, Galo P. Erwin, Russell L. Evans, Charles H. Fairweather, Owen Feinberg, Maxwell R. Feingold, M. William Fellows, Joseph E., Jr. Ferries, Harry S. Ferry, Robert R.1 Field, Ralph H. Field, Russell W. Fischer, Carl O.1 Fisher, Arthur B. Fitzhugh, William W., Jr. Fleming, Charles LeR., Jr. Foleyj Thomas F., Jr.1 Fraser, Donald W. Frederickson, Charles R., Jr.1 Freeman, Edmond T. Freeman, Richard B.1 French, Akin M. French, Charles W., Jr. Fulton, Cyrus L. Funke, Carl H. Gahagan, Will Ganzel, Charles W. Garth, Winston F. Geib, Wayne A. Gelof, Malvin George, Albert J. Gerson, Edward Giarla, Robert L. Gilbert, John E. Gilchrist, John D., Jr. Gillan, Charles A. Glavis, Johnson Goldman, David S. Goodman, Bennett E. Goodman, George E. Gow, Charles R., Jr. Greene, Lester Gregory, John B. Griffin, Hobart W. Grimsley, John MacA.1 Guyol, Philip N. Haas, F. Lowell Hage, Robert K. Hale, Rode M. Haley, Frederick T. Hall, Albert J. Hallowell, Lamar, Jr.1 Halvorsen, Frederic H. Hamblet, Newman Hamilton, Douglas K. Hamlin, Frederick G. Hands, H. William Hannah, Selden J. Hannoosh, Raymond T. Harbaugh, Theodore H. Harriman, Benjamin R. Harrison,Huntington W. Harrison, John S. Harvey, E. Jonathan Harwick, J. William Hastings,. Phillip A., Jr. Haussermann, Charles L. Hawgood, William S. Hawkins, Henry C., Jr. Hawley, William H. Hayes, Charles R. Heckel, C. Willard Heller, Morris L. Henriquez, Edward J. Herman, Grant Hermes, Frank, Jr. Hetfield, Bertram C. Heye, Carl W.1 Higgins, James F. Hill, George F.1 Hilli, Paul A. Hinman, Edward B. Hinman, Everett E. Hinman, Howard D. Hirschland, Richard S. Hodges, Wallace R. Hoke, George P. Holden, James S. Holmes, Walter B. Holtorff, Arthur F. Hopkins, Stephen Hormel, Herman, Jr. Howe, John M. Hubbell, F. Wiley Hube, Richard W. Huck, Claude T. Hughes, James A., Jr. Hulett, Orren D. Huntley, James McL. Hurd, Richard P. Irish, John H. Irvin, James K.1, 5 Isham, Henry C.1 Jacobs, Bertram C. Jacobson, Nicholas B. Jankoff, Bernard R. Jewett, John F. Johnson, David L., Jr. Jordan, Loring P., Jr. Judd, David B. Kaiser, Howard A. Karch, Gregoire Karlen, Sven B. Kayser, Frederick P. Keane, Edmund Keenan, Albert J., Jr. Kenney, Richard L. Kent, Leon Kerwin, Daniel J., Jr. King, Donald B. Kingery, John C. Kingsbury, R. Putnam Kirchhofer, Lewis H. Klein, Harold C. Kline, Alan F.1, 6 Knap, Joseph D., Jr. Knode, Oliver M., Jr. Knott, Harry J. Knowles, Herbert E. Knudsen, Semon E. Koehler, Donald H. Kreer, G. Bowman Krieg, William L. Krivan, Sydney Kroner, Thomas D. Kugler, Robert M. Kuhn, William E., Jr. Kuhns, Robert W., Jr. Kurson, Kenneth M. Lafazanos, Konstantin Lane, Thomas H. Lansberry, George W. Latimer, J. Harris Lauterbach, Richard E.1 Lavers, Robert N.1 Lazarus, Ralph Lebeaux, Charles N. Lee, Derek A. LeSure, James S. Lewis, Robert C. Ley, Douglas L. Lingley, William S. Linson, Robert C. Lintleman, Richard C.1 Lionett, William F. Lippman, Nathan L. Loder, Halsey B., Jr. Lovegrove, Robert E.1, 7 Luria, Phelps P. Lyon,John B. McAvoy, Donald R. McCarty, Milburn McClarin, William W., Jr. McKearin, George S., Jr. McKnight, George P.1 McKnight, Richard M.1 McLellan, E. Robert McLister, Henry B. McMullen, W. Emerson McNeal, William H. McPherson, John A. Magel, John M. Maida, Robert H.1 Mallard, Douglas H. Mann, William H., Jr. Marantz, Leon A. Marchmont-Robinson, Harry Margulis, George1 Markson, Lloyd H. Mathers, William H. Mebel, Frederick R. Meehan, Richard V.1 Meyerding, Augustus S.1 Milesky, Samuel D. Millane, Robert L. Millard, D. Richard Mills, Clifford W. Millstein, Seymour Mitchell, Richard C. Montgomery, Richard K. Mook, Douglas C. Moon, Charles R., Jr. Moran, Ralph A. Moran, William H. Morris, Robert A. Morris, Roger S., Jr.1 Morrison, John L. Morse, Robert M. Moulton, Reynolds E. Mullen, John H.1 Muller, Henry N., Jr. Mumler, William C. Muzzy, Richard D. Naramore, Robert W. Nayor, Charles F. Neff, Edwin D. Neill, Robert E. Nevin, William McR. Niles, Louville F. Nims, Norris G. O'Brien, Edwin J., Jr. O'Connell, Joseph P.1 O'Daniel, Richard E. Offutt, Edward P., Jr. Ogg, Wilfred R. Orenstein, Harold B. Ostrow, Herbert H. Oughton, James H. Pacht, Rudolf Parachini, Joseph A. Parsons, C. Sanford Peirce, James D., Jr. Petke, Emil A. Petke, Walter G. Petrequin, James A. Peyser, S. Richard Pierce, David F.1 Price, George Price, Harry S., Jr. Pruden, Walter R., Jr. Quimby, Robert L. Radasch, Donald Ramsey, Edwin L., Jr. Rapf, Maurice Rauch, Marvin A. Rauschal, William, Jr. Raymond, Frederick W. Reagan, Daniel J., Jr. Reed, Fay A. Rees, Samuel, III Reeves, Bradley1 Reich, Edwin S. Reich, Robert E. Reynolds, Harris A. Richardson, Donald E. Richardson, Edward F. Richmond, Guilford H. Richter, Robert Riegelman, William I. Ritchie, Alistair E. Ritter, Harold F. Roberts, Neil F. Rockwell, John M. Rockwell, Landon G. Rogers, Boyd Rogers, E. Donald, Jr. Rogers, Keith P. Rogers, Maynard L. Rogers, Paul K., Jr. Roitman, Harold B. Rosen, Melvin H. Rosenberg, Benjamin Ross, John R., Jr. Rothschild, Melville N., Jr. Roundey, Robert E. Rounsavall, Robert W., Jr. Rowe, Howard B. Rubin, Jack M. Rule, Kenneth D. Russell, Dudley J. Russell, William L., Jr. Ryder, S. Remsen, III Sager, Irving Samara, Fred1 Sammis, Arnold F., Jr. Saunders, Dero A. Saunders, Donald K. Schneider, Richard C. Schooley, Wilmot H.1 Schwalm, Charles F. Scott, Norman P. Scully, Philip J. Seeley, Ralph H., Jr. Seessel, Arthur N., Jr. Serrat, William D. Sewall, Charles H. Shattuck, Leroy A., Jr. Shaw, Donald W. Shelmire, J. Malcolm, Jr. Sherwood, E. Allan Shoenfelt, James W., Jr. Sholkin, Joseph L. Short, William C. Shortell, Leonard J. T. Shuttleworth, Herbert L., II Siegener, A. Loring1 Skillin, Edward J. Smith, David P. Smith, Robert S." Somers, Arthur D. Sommer, Lawrence G. Sousane, Elias J. Specht, Frank J. Specht, Ralph L. Spencer, Gordon S. Spengeman, Carl vonG. Spingarn, Jerome H. Spring, S. Gardiner Stainsby, George N. Stearns, Charles H., Jr. Steele, Theodore M. Steffens, John H. Steinle, Duane E.1 Stem, Walter A. Stern, S. Richard Stone, Robert A. Stowell, Rand N. Swander, Dan C., Jr. Swift, Thomas G. Sylvia, Richard P. Tacy, Allen W. Thomas, John P. Thorpe, Donald C.1 Tobey, Charles W., Jr. Todd, Albert J., Jr. Tomlinson, F. Byron Tosi, Charles A., Jr. Upton, Richard F. Van Doom, Rutherford H. Van Kirk, Frank W., Jr. Varney, Charles, Jr. Wachtel, Perry Waggaman, Donald E. Wallace, John Walrath, William B., Jr. Washburn, A. Lincoln Waters, Martin J., Jr. Watson, Harold B.1 Webster, Kenneth W. Weddleton, George F.1 Weil, Adolph, Jr. Weitz, Louis E. Wertheim, Arthur R. Wertz, Gerald W. West, James M. Westby, Ralph N. Whitehill, Lynwood N. Whytlaw, Edward L. Wilks, William A., Jr. Williams, David D. Williams, Edmund O. Williams, John P. Wilson, Philip A. Wilson, Russell S. Wilson, Thomas E. Winkler, Charles H., Jr. Wise, Willard K., Jr. Wolff, Hugh W. Wolff, Jesse D. Wright, Calvin J. Wright, Frank J. York, Gordon B. Young, Robert G. Ziemen, J. Saxton Zimmerman, Albert J.

MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM:

1 Anonymous.

2 Income, William W.Bradt Fund.

3 Mrs. Colby.

4 Income, Homer B.De-wey Fund. K r> .. J . A . .7. . r r...

5 Father, Arba J. lrvin'02.

6 Widow, Mrs. ElinorG. Dicker.

7 Widow, Mrs. PhillipR. Owens.

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