1940
The Class of 1940 was well represented at the Winter Olympics. Percy Rideout was in charge of the mechanical maintenance of the 35 km. cross country ski course. He had some 25 men serving under him and from all reports their job was extremely well done. Percy is now a peach rancher in Yuba City, Calif., where he lives with Jean and their two daughters, Tensen and Lucy. Another member of 1940 serving in an official capacity at the Games was Chappie Wentworth, who served on the jump score board. Chap and Percy did not meet, which is understandable when it is considered that one of them was in the middle of the town while the other one was out in the woods somewhere.
The most intriguing news that has come our way during the past month is the announcement of the appointment of John Powell as the new Yale University Security Director and Associate Dean of Students. It seems that the recent conduct of some of the Yale undergraduates has caused grave concern to the administration and they have decided that in order to set things right again nothing short of an F.B.I. man would do the trick. Naturally they fell upon John, who has been with the F. B.I. for seventeen years and who had most recently served with that austere body in the New Haven area. This appointment has caused much friendly banter back and forth with our Yale friends, one of the more sarcastic of which stated that "it takes a thief to catch a thief!" After graduation from Dartmouth, John was a teacher and athletic coach at Woodstock Academy and at Wilbraham Academy. He joined the F.B.I. in 1943. John and Marjorie make their home in Hamden, Conn., a suburb of New Haven.
Charlotte Wax writes that Mel was off on a three-week trip to London, Paris, Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, and Copenhagen reporting for "the San Francisco Chronicle" on the trip which Mayor Christopher of San Francisco was taking to Russia at Khrushchev's invitation. We hope to get some details of that trip in the near future. And, speaking of trips, two of our clasmates and their wives are heading for Europe in the near future. Beezie and Ruth Smallwood will leave momentarily for a trip to France to visit the family of a French exchange student who lived with them for a year while Karl andGinnie Bruch are going some time later. Both of them hope to see Elmer and Joyce Browne in England during their trips.
Jud Lyon is currently serving as chairman of two divisions of the branch of the State University of New York at New Paltz, N.Y. He is in charge of the Humanities and Art Education Departments comprised of about forty professors. The university is just about to embark on a building program which will see a new three-million-dollar Fine Arts Center. In his spare time he is also teaching world literature and the romantic poets. Jud's oldest boy is going to college this fall and his daughter to Northfield School while wife, Peggy, has earned a certificate to teach art. Speaking of sons of '40's going to college, we were delighted to learn that Don Tenney's eldest son, Alan, was accepted last December in the Class of 1964 at Dartmouth under the early acceptance deal.
Turk Lake, the manager of Procter and Gamble's New York buying department, is still living in Douglasston, Long Island, with his wife and two boys, now nine and twelve years of age. Recently he went to Hanover to interview Tuck School men and took Lee and their young son along so that they could ski. During their stay in town they visited Bob and Crosby MacMillen.
That great non-skier, Jack Willson, who lives in the deep snow country and never ventures forth to the slopes, continues to be the disdain of all ardent skiers. He is working hard on Dartmouth enrollment and has lined up two brilliant football players whom he hopes to have matriculate next fall.
Everybody is cheering the appointment of John Burnap as head agent for the coming Alumni Fund drive. As, in any undertaking of this type, he will need a lot of help from classmates, we know that all those who are asked will pitch in cheerfully. After the perfectly magnificent job that Jack did these last few years, John will have quite a record to shoot at. We can all be grateful to Jack for what he has done and to John for what we are sure he will do.
John Fitzgerald has been promoted to a full colonel in the Marines Corps Reserve. In the business world he is serving as real estate consultant for the newly formed Boston Patriots of the American Football League. And speaking of Boston, Fred Miller tells us that he is still controller of a couple of industrial insurance companies and a growing number of related subsidiaries. His company has just incorporated its sixth subsidiary.
And here is a welcome note from Gary Allen which we quote:
The 1940 Gilfordites are all fine. Ike and Hazel Weed have two energetic young skiers, Joanie and Teyck Weed. Ike's furniture business is doing very well. He is much more than a cabinet maker; he is a real artist who sells his unusual pieces all over North America.
The Allen family is quite large and very active. Lucile and I have five children - Phil, Francis, Tommy, Chris and our new family mascot, Barbara who is eighteen months old. Our oldest, Phil age sixteen, is a nordic skier and takes the Dartmouth forty-meter jump with ease. Our second son, Tommy, recovered from his ski break of last year and is racing again. Naturally, all the rest of the family skis too, with the exception of the baby and she starts.
Gilford, N.H., is a skiing community what with Penny Pitou our next door neighbor and Dick Taylor (Dartmouth Ski Capt. 1958-9) living on the next hill. Naturally, it has been a real pleasure to watch Penny Pitou grow up and to have helped her develop into a top skier. Ski coaching has been a hobby of mine since 1946 and I plan to keep it up as long as the old legs last. Currently I am interested in another young local racer named Jeff Stamfs. At fifteen years he has just made the Eastern Junior team which will compete at Aspen, Colo., in the Junior Nationals on March 19-20.
Besides skiing I work. After World War II I flew as an airline pilot for Pan America. My routes took me into Scandinavia, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland where I did a tremendous amount of skiing. After flying I worked in sales for quite a few years. However, I am now teaching Math and Science. I like working with kids so here I'll stay in education.
Last year at the time of the first Ivy League football game of the year in Hanover, we had an excellent class reunion. Many of us spent the weekend at West Wind Village in Webster, N.H., which is owned by Bob Austin. There on the lake he has a charming group of cottages, each with its own living room and fireplace. Because it was so successful, we have decided to do it again. The date will be the weekend of October 1 and cottages will be made available for eighteen couples for Friday and Saturday nights. The rate will be fifteen dollars per couple per night and includes breakfast like last year, plus maid service and kitchen help for dinner after the game. Webster is about one hour's run from Hanover. Bob is anxious to get the place all sewed up as soon as possible and therefore I would suggest that any of you who are interested write him at 342 Winter Street, Weston 93, Mass. It is a wonderful way to spend a weekend and to get together again with old friends from college days in a comfortable and beautiful location.
Secretary, Hemphill, Noyes and Co. 15 Broad St., New York 5, N.Y.
Class Agent, 2 Brooks Rd., New Canaan, Conn.
