1939
As we were perusing the Newark (N.J.) Evening News for December 21, a habit we find ourself persuing with astonishing irregularity, we chanced upon a breath-taking headline, "Boy Wonder State's Top Golf Man." It went on to say that twenty-five years ago last September a chubby sixteen-year-old schoolboy from the Hollywood Country Club, Deal, hit the headlines with a resounding crash when he upset Johnny Goodman, 1933 National Open titleholder in the second round of the National Amateur championship at Brookline, Mass. This teenage wonder, Bob Jacobson, is now starting his first term as president of the New Jersey State Golf Association which includes nearly 100 clubs with thirteen scheduled tournaments a year. Not only is he the youngest man ever to occupy the NJSGA presidency, but Bob is probably one of the few '3gers who can claim a son, Arthur, well along at Dartmouth now. Bob was married in his junior year and Arthur also plans an early pre-graduation marriage. The article makes it clear that golf isn't everything in Bob's life. He has had a seat on the New York Stock Exchange for twenty years by way of an avocation, and when asked by the roving reporter for a bit of advice, he confided, "Play the back tees."
Turning next in our quest for wisdom to the Holyoke (Mass.) Transcript-Telegram we learn that Ray Merrick has been head of the Merrick Lumber Company since 1946 when he became the fourth generation to manage this venerable concern founded 1870 — A.D. of course. Ray started at the yard when he was sixteen doing odd jobs. During WW II from '42 to '46 and again from 1951 to '53 he was in charge of all lumber purchases for the Navy Supply Corps, or so says this revealing article with utter disregard to implications of pine-ola. A fifth generation in the person of Ray's eldest, Frank II, is working at the yard during the summer. He graduates from Williston Academy as did Ray, but will enter Princeton this fall to study law. Obviously renegade.
Cornie Miller has been appointed sales manager of Boating Industry Magazine, a Conover-Mast publica- tion. He has been with the magazine for the past eight years and was previously sales promotion manager. Prior to this he was sales promotion manager for the Pratt & Whitney Co. of West Hartford, Conn. Cornie has homes in Essex, Conn., and New York City and is a noted yachtsman in his own right. He has been secretary of the Pettipaug Yacht Club and is a past president of the Essex Rotary Club.
Changes of address just now catching up with us: Bill Buge apparently hanging his shingle in Cheyenne, Wyo. Offices in the Majestic Bldg.; home at 1109 Cactus Hill Road. Charlie Osgood now living at 304 E. Mumford Drive, Urbana, Ill. Lt. Col. EddyPalmer, Gastroenterology Service, whatever that is, Brooke Army Hospital, Fort Sam Houston 6, Texas. And in nearby Dallas where he can take advantage of Gastroenterology Service lives Warren Pinney Jr., oil and gas producer. Warren produces these useful commodities in room 810 Mercantile Bldg. His home is on 10153 Timber Trail, Dallas 29. Richard L. White, working for the Flintcote Company at 5500 S. Alamadea St., Los Angeles, specializes in what our Alumni Records Office either describes or misspells to us as "Instrumenstration." Since the Alumni Records Office seldom if ever makes a mistake, it is possible Dick has succeeded where others have failed in positively controlling, charting or otherwise indicating this previously haphazard zoological phenomenon. In which case you will be hearing more of our Richard, rest assured.
The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Santa Ana, Calif., branch office, announces proudly that Wayland Avery —only they refer to him as "Ave" - wrote over a million dollars worth of insurance covering lot lives during '59 in Orange County. This puts "Ave" in the top 1% of Prudential's sales organization which undoubtedly warrants a lot of buttons. He had overseas duty with the Marines in both WW II and the Korean War, worked for several years on the east coast in positions nebulously described by his present employer, is currently settled at 13702 Gimbert Lane, Santa Ana, with wife Jenny, eleven-year-old son Tom; daughters Chris, nine, and Kathy, eight. Then, totally disregarding commutation time, the announcement ends on the happy note "He can always be reached at his office (KI 3-8403) or at his home (LI 4-5315)-"
Moose Wyman, president of Wyman's Garden Centers Inc., Framingham (Mass.) is the third generation of his family to carry on the seventy-year-old nursery business. Moose has been president of both the New England Nurserymen's Association and the Eastern Region Association of Nurserymen. And, to show you what you missed, last December 14 at 12:30 P.M. over WHDH TV Moose discussed the ways your nurseryman can "Help you have a colorful Christmas both in and outside your home." And I'll bet he did.
Fulltime reporter Browny saw Andy Ruoff, orthopedic surgeon from Butler, N. J., in the audience of the N. Y. Dartmouth Club listening to an address by President Dickey.
The class of '25 publishes an annual report. Listed are its records in alumni fund giving, its many scholarship funds, its attendance at class and college functions, its unified willingness on repeated occasions. Reading it makes you feel like the tramp in the men's room at Carder's - this model has done much for the College.
Our class has certainly not qualified up to now as Truly Great in anything. We entered Dartmouth during the depression, we emerged on the eve of a war. If never Truly Great, I'm sure we're one of the Most Truly Rehabilitated - and tattooed.
Four years from now we're supposed to be at our zenith. We're supposed to rise up out of the quagmire like Grendel's mother brandishing Excalibur symbolic of our beneficence to Dartmouth on the occasion of our twenty-fifth reunion. Which, freely translated, means some of our predecessors have really sprung for fabulous gifts and the monkey will soon be on our back. Is there anything we can do now collectively, individually, or in a camel committee to get this thing off the ground ahead of time and make a decent showing? The names of your executive committee can be furnished on request, and our stanch treasurer's name appears at the head of this column.
Three former presidents of Bait and Bullet in the Madison River country of Montana in October. They are (l to r) Dan Holland '36, Ev Wood '38 and Dr. Henry Doremus '37. They have had a Bait and Bullet reunion every year for 22 years except during the war.
Secretary, 1908 Coolidge Dr. Dayton 19, Ohio
Treasurer, 15 Meridian PL, Huntington Station, N.Y.
