1942

Classmates' participation in local alumni club activities seems to be in a period of major growth. For those of you who missed the February Newsletter as well as the contemporary classes, we take time to quote therefrom: "The new president of the Dartmouth Club of Philadelphia is Dick Lippman, who with the help of a rigged nominating committee and a big payola was swept into office at the annual Dinner-Dance meeting held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, February 5. Attending the affair were John and Meriel Kelsey and Jim and Violet Dietrich, all looking happy, healthy and prosperous."

In New England, the Dartmouth Club of Central Connecticut is under the direction of Bob Smith who maintains an active program including the annual meeting during the College's Christmas vacation with Hanover representation (this year Will Volz of Bob Blackman's staff attended) when the club entertains potential undergraduates (a feature of more than incidental interest to enrollment chairman, Jim Mulligan); a family picnic in the spring; and a cocktail party in the fall. Through a program of participation with the Hartford Club, Central Connecticut's activities are further expanded to include President Dickey's visit to Hartford this spring and sponsorship of a Dartmouth-Yale rugby match. In business, Bob is vicepresident and sales manager of the Industrial Supply division of Smith and Klebes, a mill supply company in New Britain, Conn. Bob and Jane's eldest daughter, Mikey, is in her junior year at Mary Burnham in Northampton where Bob Rodgers' daughter, Terri, is a senior.

Baxter Laboratories, Inc., manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, has announced the election of Ralph Falk as senior vice president. In addition to this top post with the parent company at Morton Grove, Ill., Ralph is also president of a subsidiary, Baxter Laboratories of Canada, Ltd. After graduating from Dartmouth he served a little over three years with the Navy and later did graduate work at the University of Michigan where he acquired an M.B.A. degree in 1948. At the annual meeting of the Alumni Association of Northern New Jersey held at the Rock Spring Country Club in West Orange on March 29, Bert Englert was re- elected to a second term as president. The highlight of the evening was a thought-provoking talk given by Dartmouth's Professor of History, John C. Adams, entitled, "Marxism Its Challenge to the West." The balance of the club's program for the year includes sponsorship of a May reception for accepted freshmen and their parents followed on June 4 by the always popular family picnic held at Bill Blanchard's '30 in New Vernon, N. J.

Starting with the first of the year, John Corwlth has been on a special assignment for the Esso Bayway Refinery in the capacity of program administrator for the Social Science Lab being conducted at West Point. The program is one of management development through group dynamics for the plant's management personnel in a series of two-week sessions running to the end of June. John hasn't cadet stripes yet but does say the Thayer Hotel environment may yet add a strip on the middle. During his brief visits home and to the plant he manages to find time to keep up with his work in salary administration for Esso as well as head-up the local Dartmouth enrollment activity in Union County.

In York County, Me., Jim Erwin announced his candidacy for the office of state senator at a meeting of the Republican Committee in January. A prominent York attorney, Jim was formerly chairman of the County Committee and is currently a Republican State Committeeman for York County. Although a native of the New York metropolitan area and a graduate of Columbia University in 1949, he has for the past fifteen years been a resident of York and a partner of Sewell, Strater and Erwin since 1954.

The third annual meeting of the Family Service Association held in West Brattleboro, Vt., had as guest speaker, Dr. Hans Huessy. Following a very active career in the fields of medicine and psychiatry which has taken him from New York state to as far West as Denver, Colo., Hans has, since 1958, been psychiatrist and consultant for the Vermont State Department of Health in Burlington and the State Department of Social Welfare in Montpelier.

In a letter to Malcolm de Sieyes '40 from his classmate, Chap Wentworth, was a report of the sudden death of his brother, Hamp Wentworth and his wife, Christina, on February 2 when they were involved in a crash of Hamp's Beech aircraft on a takeoff at Reserve, N. Mex. Hamp had recently resigned as president of Longren Aircraft Company to go into private investment work and was living in Rolling Hills, Calif. They leave four children, ages twelve to three. Further details of Hamp's career will be found in the In Memoriam section of next month's issue.

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