1946
Dear Gang - Lots of news this month, so let's go! First of all, it certainly was wonderful watching the Winter Olympics from Squaw Valley and Dartmouth certainly had its influence in the games. First, our own Malcolm McLane was U.S. Chairman of the Ski Games Committee and did an outstanding job in the overall coordination of the skiing. Secondly, Billy Riley was a statistician for the U. S. Hockey Team and one of the two U. S. Referees assigned to officiate in the International Competition (he refereed games not involving the U.S. Team). Brother Jack '44 certainly is to be commended for bringing our Yanks through to victory (as Hockey Coach) in all five games and a gold medal the first ever for America in hockey.... We were delighted to get the Forty-Six Tomahawk written by "Growler" Whitman and to say the least it was plenty newsy.... A letter this month comes from "Tiger" Vallely up in Portland, Me., who announces the arrival of Vincent Young Vallely on January 8 of this year. The new future Dartmouth boy was named after Ann's (the Tiger's wife) brother, Dr. Vincent Young '33. This makes four in the Vallely tribe with the boys outnumbering the girls three to one. Tiger also reports that he recently heard from Paul Davis who is now in California.... Several Sundays back I got a phone call at home from Sam Smartt from the deep South. Sam is Jim Kennedy's brother-in-law and together he and Jim run a warehouse business in Chattanooga under the name of Cherokee Warehouses. Jim and wife Dottie have four little Kennedys and life is good on Lookout Mountain. Also in the historical city, "Snuffy Joe" Davenport has been quite ill of late, but is now back on the road to recovery — In case you didn't know, Joe left Davenport Hosiery Mills some time ago and is now Assistant to the President of the Volunteer State Life in Chattanooga....At a recent dinner party we met Stan Matlock, well-known announcer for WKRC Radio and TV in Cincinnati, and it so happens Stan knew quite a few Cincinnati '46ers. He brought us up to date on the following: "Big Ed" Brunhoff is in Grand Rapids as a Manufacturers' Representative and is doing "very well." Clay Sikes is an M.D. in Cincinnati and practicing Internal Medicine and is doing all right in the "baby department" too, as he is the father of four. Dave Blankenhorn is also in Cincinnati and is doing psychological research (we think that's correct) and Bill Portman '45 has moved to Cleveland and is in business there.
'46's in the News - The Reverend Dan O'Connor is an assistant professor of religion at St. Lawrence University. Dan joined the St. Lawrence faculty in September '59 after much study beginning with work on his Master's at Columbia after Dartmouth. He then took his Bachelor of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary. He served as associate secretary of the New York State Student Christian Movement from 1947 to 1948 and was executive secretary of religious activity at Columbia University from 1948 to 1950. He was ordained in 1950 and served as pastor of the Paramus, N.J., Congregational Church until 1955. In '55 he went back to Columbia for work on his Doctor's degree before he joined the faculty at St. Lawrence.... Up in Providence, R.I., sixteen businessmen spent a day cruising on a U.S. submarine and among them was Lt. Cmdr. Pete Freeman of Providence. Pete, who is full-time Navy, was host to the Providence businessmen and evidently gave them a real show. After Dartmouth, Pete went to Annapolis and after graduating from the Naval Academy has been in the Navy ever since.... A clipping from Boston tells us that Bill Riley's boy, Billy Jr. is a hockey star at Medford High which means before long we'll have Rileys playing for the Big Green again - wouldn't it be terrific if Eddie Jeramiah were still there to coach him? ... Gene Cafiero has taken the big step—marrying Nancy Barnard of Arlington, Mass., in January. Nancy is a graduate of Tufts and the couple will reside in Weston, Mass., after a wedding trip to the Bahamas. Gene is now a Sloan Fellow at M.I.T....Charlie Fortunato has opened a branch insurance agency for the R. F. Dimock Company in Manchester, Conn. Charlie has been in the insurance business for some years and you can address him at 615 Main Street, Manchester....Danny Smith of New Hampton has been awarded a Sloan National Fellowship for study at Harvard. Danny has been teaching and working on his Master's since college and continues in his father's footsteps in the educational field. Congrats, Danny!...Up in Westfield, Mass., Rog Butler was presented with the annual distinguished service award recently by the Westfield Jaycees at their annual "bosses night" gathering. The engraved plaque to Rog read, "for outstanding community service through loyal, faithful and unselfish efforts resulting in lasting contribution to community and nation." Rog is in the real estate business and has been for the past thirteen years and his list of civic accomplishments would take up most of this column if we reported them. Among other things, Rog is a corporator of the Westfield Atheneum and the Woronoco Savings Bank. He is a director of the Westfield Chamber of Commerce and is a former secretary of the Westfield Association of Insurance Agents and in past years has run fund drives for the Boy and Girl Scouts in his area. Keep up the good work, Rog!
That's it - '46 up!
"Gus"
Secretary, New England Mut'l Life Ins. Co. 505 Third National Bldg. Dayton 2, Ohio
Class Agent, 2 Old Chimney Rd., Upper Saddle River, N.J.
