1938
Danny Marshall and Bob Egelhoff should be meeting somewhere in the shadow of the Alamo with or without the Rose of San Antone. It seeme Bob, a resident of Old Lyme, Conn., is also a vice president of the Texstar Construction Company which causes our top class golfer (argument) to visit Texas about four times yearly. Look each other up, boys, before you meet accidentally in some saloon. And this is not Bob's only job. Work also finds him as President of Lift-Slab Corporation of New York, New England Lift Slab and Eastern Lift Slab. That's a lot of Presidencies and a lot of Lift Slabs. Do I use it, Bob? Do you, when you get false teeth? The youngsters of Mary and Bob are a'comin'. There's Bob Jr., seventeen; Elizabeth, sixteen; Chandler, thirteen, and Brad, two. Folks: We Kings hope your mealtimes are more peaceful than ours. Living near the Egelhoff's in Old Saybrook along the waters of peaceful Connecticut River and the Big Sound is Bill Webster '39. Bill runs; a beautiful boatyard near New London. We saw him-recently in the New York Club where he was displaying literature on his yacht basin and the products it handles.
Another visitor to San Antonio is Ed Grace, who runs a metal advertising sign business in St. Louis with his brother, Pete '33. In his tour of the Gulf Coast, Ed reports that he found snow in New Orleans. So what! Bourbon Street is Bourbon Street come hail, snow, sleet or sun. Deke Don Boyle, spouse Louise, and Ed took in the grid show at Princeton as the Big Green wound up with a victory. Ed reports that Sox Calder and Dick Shoemaker showed very well in Tigertown; each looking as though they had just returned from the Bema with degrees. Boy, that guy Grace can dream. He says he also saw Rog Harrison '39 and Jack Kenny '36, both "fitter 'n' a fiddle." And, he says, Phil Harty has quit martinis and is cutting great strokes as Sales Manager of the Exolon Company, Tonawanda, N.Y. Like Howie Casler, Phil is doing much of his selling overseas. Before we give Ed Grace "The 30" he reminds us that lovely Adele (Ed uses this column to flatter the homefront) has presented the Grace lineage with two gorgeous gals, Mary Kay and Valerie; that he lives near Bob Woodruff '37, and that he wants "You-All to Call" when you hit the heart of America. He can be reached at 8 Godwin Lane.
John and Betty Kindergan, owners of John Jr. and Michael, are both Dartmouth and ski crazy. The family is sloping it on New England hills each week. Best of all, Johnny writes, young John has received early acceptance to the Class of '64. John runs a business bearing his name in the industrial building field. Two affiliates, Helend and Mijack Corporations, specialize in industrial parks for which General Electric early had become famous.
Where the hills meet the Hudson River and the broad waters sway gently and wash toward the distant Narrows lies Newburgh, N.Y. There, Joseph Fogarty is a leading citizen and a partner of the law firm, Dominick and Fogarty. Joe and Jeanne have a whopping batch o£ boys: Pete, sixteen; Tim, fourteen; Kevin, eleven, and Joe Jr., six. A big family apparently isn't enough activity for Joe. In the home town, he has been a Director of the National Bank of Newburgh, Red Cross Chairman, President of Community Chest, leadership in the YW and YMCAs and other business, civic and social groups.
Another class barrister can be located at 409 Woodward Dr., Madison, Wis. Don Stroud is a partner in the firm of Stroud,. Stebbins and Stroud, and like so many of us. who had four years of certain restrained emotions during the days of the snow and' sleet, Don has quite a family. The way he puts it is: "A wife and five children."...the former certainly is basic. Don hasn't gotten back to Hanover since graduation, but he is carrying on his Hanover training famously. He skis at Aspen, Colo., camps with the family; sails and has a home shop for woodworking.
Herb Christiansen, displaced Yankee and: conservative correspondent, seems to find: Pittsburgh and Marketing Planning with Gulf Oil much to his liking. Says he also sees Bud Devlin and Dick Tisdale in the steel center when not traveling nationwide for the petroleum firm. Louise and Herb have a young guy, Glen, now thirteen.
Fred Baker was another one of those good looking guys at Hanover who went SAE; always carried with him a strong sense of determination mingled with a sense of humor, and then put it to work when he hit the wide, wide world. So, he is now a vicepresident of the Irving Trust Company, N.Y. The job carries him to all the Southwestern states, but he's also busy at home where he and Janet play and plan with Brad, sixteen, Andy four, and Nancy, fifteen.
Jim McKeon is Marketing Director of the Soundscriber Corporation, North Haven, Conn. The February 1 issue of "Salesweek" features the aggressive philosophy Soundscriber employs to reach the markets under a column entitled New Products. Me thinks the products are office recording equipment, although the article did not describe the product... only the way it is marketed.
Bud Walls, a really solid citizen, walked from Hanover 22 years ago into the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company ... and the company has been mutually satisfactory ever since. Bud heads all Agency Operations as Superintendent of Agencies out of the home office in Hartford. A sports and high fidelity devotee, Bud is still single, but he adds: "maybe?" Give, boy. What's cooking? Did that Caribbean Cruise last year lead to something? Bud played a great part in the Capital Gifts Campaign which raised more than seventeen millions of dollars. He was Area Chairman of Central Connecticut.
I imagine Allen Drury's Book, "Advise and Consent," is old hat to Gerry Ullman, who recently completed a stint as Legislative Counsel for U.S. Senator Irving Ives of New York. Read it just the same. I'm sure Gerry would recommend it. Anyway, Barrister Ullman is attorney for the Ocean Freight Forwarding Industry in New York. Marcia and he have a boy and a gal: Steven, five, and Margie, two. The old man play? squash and "reads." Hope you get the Great Books of the Western World which Hutchins and Adler have produced. The Kings have begun all over again with the Homeric Poems.
Comes the following appeal from Bob Stearns: "I would appreciate it very much if you would mention something about the 1960 Alumni Fund in the next ALUMNI MAGAZINE. I am sending out thirty letters to prospective agents. From this number, I expect to get twenty workers. There should not be too much work for each man with this number. If anyone in the Class wishes to volunteer, please get in touch with me. In any event, I hope everyone will support the drive."
Bob has a tough job, coming as it does on the heels of our Big Payoff for Capital Gifts. Yet, let's try to continue with the great Dartmouth spirit of supporting the College. As one, I am convinced that the Great Ideals on which rests the hope for the Western World stem from Dartmouth and other learning institutions of her greatness.
Bob Stearns can be reached at 88 Grovers Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn.
Secretary, 8945 Fairmount Cleveland 18, Ohio
Class Agent, 88 Grovers Ave., Bridgeport 5, Conn.
