1933
How unjust can the turn of fortune be? Our Newsletter Editor, Bob Fox, is trying to accumulate enough news for another letter and two items that normally would he his automatically drop in your secretary's lap simply because of Bob's personal involvement in them. Understand, we're not complaining.
As is attested by the accompanying picture, Bob visited Hanover in mid-December, as a representative of the Esso Education Foundation, to present to the College a substantial and unrestricted grant under Esso's Aid to Education Program for the academic year 1959-60. Dartmouth has shared in this program four times in the Foundation's brief five-year history. Bob's company favors unrestricted grants because they permit discretionary use of the funds by the College to improve faculty salaries, modernize facilities, purchase equipment or meet other financial needs. Appropriately, John Meek, as Treasurer of Dartmouth, is shown receiving the check from Bob during the informal ceremony. Our salute to Esso, not only on this occasion, but for its continuing program of financial contributions to institutions of higher learning. Bob, in his capacity as public relations director of the Esso Standard Oil Company, Everett Refinery and chairman of the Everett (Mass.) Chamber of Commerce education committee, spoke recently to the Chamber on "Industry's Aid to Science Education." He has been connected with Esso since graduation, originally in sales, and currently is chairman of the Massachusetts Petroleum Council.
Dick Rocker confirms the sad news of Wilber Bradford's passing on in Denver on November 30. He reports that Brad had not been looking well for some time but had been active in business until recently. More details are given in the "In Memoriam" section in this or a subsequent issue. Dick was kind enough to represent the Class at the funeral.
He reports that, insofar as he knows, he and Wilson "Bill" Evans are the sole members of the '33 contingent in Denver. Bill is sales manager for William Ainsworth & Sons, manufacturers of scientific instruments. He and his wife, Katherine, live in Denver with their daughter, Judith, and son, David. Bill was an Army major during the war in Medical Supply. Travel, golf and home handyman pursuits are his principal avocations. Dick says that Bud Madden was in Denver for a while but was transferred to parts unknown. Our records indicate that Bud moved to Elyria, Ohio, in 1956 as sales manager for the Thew Shovel Company. We saw Bud at the Yale game a year ago, freshly shorn of a beard that he had grown for some celebration in Elyria. At that time, he promised us the low-down on a terrific practical joke that he had perpetrated on the Jarv Chapmans, Ted Okies et al. How about it, Bud? It was a classic. Bud and Anne have two daughters, Patricia and Susan and two sons, Wilson and Richard.
Back to Dick Rocker's letter ... "I did see one '33 man recently though - but I doubt if he knows it! December 9, returning from Salt Lake City, I looked casually at the debarking passengers as I awaited my flight. One distinguished, trim, but greying dignitary - the center of the group's attention, and looking every inch a 'Captain of Industry' - looked familiar. By the time I'd gathered my wits and placed him in memory, he had passed and I had to board my plane. I took my seat and noticed a ticket envelope left behind by the previous occupant. On it, confirming my recognition, was written 'E. J. Foley.' So, Ed, if you get to read this, let me say, it was good to see you - thanks for warming my plane seat!"
Dick writes on the stationery of The Mountain States Tel. and Tel. Company and is listed thereon as General Directory Sales Manager. This qualifies him as the only "Wolley Segap," insofar as he knows and our records show, in the Class. Any other claimants? He closes by saying, "I'm based in Denver, can usually be reached at my office, and stand ready anytime to buy a lunch for any transient '33ers who may be in town." Dick says nothing of himself, but we know that he served with the 87th Mountain Division, three years in the ranks and one as an officer and received the Silver Star, Purple Heart and Battlefield Commendation. In 1946, he wrote, "This Was Italy." He has been active in various civic affairs and has served as an assistant class agent.
Charles J. Chapman has been appointed vice president in charge of marketing for the National Carbon Co., a division of Union Carbide Corp. He joined the company in 1936 as a salesman and has been general sales manager since 1954. The Chapman family is currently residing in Darien, Conn., where Chap spends his spare time with boating and golf. Two younger Chapmans, Charles IV and Lawrence, are members of the Dartmouth classes of '61 and '63 respectively; daughter Sarah is not quite college age yet.
We have a short squib, without details, advising that Fran Harrington, vice-president and group secretary of The Paul Revere Life Insurance Company and The Massachusetts Protective Association, Inc., was one of twelve to receive the national "Distinguished Citizen Award" of the National Municipal League at its recent conference on government held at Springfield, Mass. Fran is another one of those modest fellows about whom we don't have much information. However, as this award will attest, he has been most active in civic and community affairs. Fran, too, has been an active but "behind-the-scenes" supporter of the Class and the College. He and his wife Jacquelyn live in Worcester. Their son, Francis, is Dartmouth '58 and their son, James, Hobart '61.
George Smith's good wife Scotty writes on their Christmas card that their two sons, Stephen six, and Donald five, are really giving them a whirl. Between times, George manages to keep up with his duties at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, Army Reserve and in community affairs. Recently they went to a dance with Cam Day and his wife Vera who live in Fort Lee, N. J. Scotty, who is the sister of Don Murray's wife, Arlene, says that the Murrays have moved into their new home in Beloit, Wis., where Don teaches Romance languages at Beloit College. Larry Reeves is back in Washington with Home Life after six pleasant years in Richmond and living again in Bethesda, Md. His son, Larry Jr., is an avid Dartmouth fan and is hoping to make Hanover his residence when he reaches the appropriate age in a couple of years. Larry is on the Washington interviewing committee for the college and had the pleasure of passing on Bob Hagan's son Tim and subsequently learning of his acceptance by Hanover. He reports seeing Cal Milans, Dick Lyons, Charlie Grob, Bert Thorstenberg, Jim Pimper and Dick Jackson.
Jus Stanley, seeking "a philosophical adjustment for the trip down what is no longer the far side of the mountain" and writing on stationery printed especially for him by one of his sixth-grade twin sons, reports that all is well with his family. Daughter Janet is a freshman at the University of Colorado and Melinda is a junior in New Trier High in Winnetka. Jus reports of seeing Hunter Hicks, whose son John is a freshman in Hanover. Don Wood and Bob Critchell, whose son Rob is at Williams.
New addresses: Gilbert W. Beebe, Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, Navy 955, Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.; Oswald E. Merkt, 360 Jefferson Road, Princeton, N. J.; Arthur E. Goodwin Jr., investment banker, Johnson, Lemon & Co., 900 Southern Bldg., Washington 5, D. C., 5419 Duvall Drive, Washington 16, D. C.
Bob Fox '33, public relations director tor Esso's Everett, Mass., refinery, presents John Meek '33, Vice President and Treasurer of the College, with a check covering a substantial and unrestricted grant to Dartmouth from the Esso Educational Foundation.
Secretary, 80 Mooreland Rd. Melrose 76, Mass.
Treasurer, Young and Rubicam, Inc. 2 Park Ave., New York 16, N. Y.
