1927

Since the last issue of these notes was written, your secretary and his wife have been on a visit to the Virgin Islands, a spot which we heartily recommend to all who are looking for a place to get away from all cares and worries, and where ideal weather is guaranteed at just about any season of the year. We left in a blizzard, and returned to another, but in the meantime it seems that we missed a few weeks of really nasty winter weather, misplaced from January and February into March. From a couple of letters that I have received, it seems that we were in the midst of other 1927 travelers without knowing about it. Ted and DorothySelig were cruising the Caribbean on the Italia, and while on a tour of Caracas in Venezuela, discovered that they were sharing a cab with another Dartmouth family, Caroline and Bill Hastorf '34. Later, aboard ship, they found themselves having breakfast with a couple from Lynchburg, Va., and discovered that the two girls had been classmates at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Class of 1927, but had not seen each other since then.

Other visitors to the Caribbean were Ken and Ruth Murray, who, with another couple, chartered a sail boat and visited several of the Leeward and Windward Islands during a two weeks' cruise. Ken says that, while this was his first sailing venture, he heartily recommends it. He has recently seen Carl Schuster, looking fine and enthusiastic about sailing on Long Island Sound, and Bill St. Amant, serious about his new diet, and exhibiting a boyish figure which is the envy of his non-dieting classmates.

The many friends of Don and Betty McCall in the Eastern part of the country will be delighted to learn that they are returning to New York, where Don will be connected with the International Paper Company after May i. At present they are in Europe, and on their return they will be living at 40 East 78th Street. Their older daughter, Mimi (Mrs. James L. Armstrong III) is now living in Coral Gables, Fla., their son Fent is a senior at the University of Washington, and their younger daughter, Patty, will graduate from the University of California in Berkeley in 1961.

Lew Beyer was recently elected president of the Miami (Fla.) Association of Food Trades.

Joe Russakoff, who spends a few minutes of each busy day in his capacity as public relations director for the Advertising Federation of America, would like to remind all classmates who have any connection with the advertising field that he will be holding forth in the press room at the annual con- vention of the Federation, to be held at the Hotel Astor in New York, June 5 to 8, and will welcome any classmates. Joe also teaches at Baruch School of City College, having a graduate class in marketing, and at Queens College, with a class in advertising. Added to his duties as head of Vanguard Advertising, this makes for a fairly full schedule.

John Shaw writes that the one big thrill of his life was watching his son, Bob, pitch for the White Sox in the World Series. I'm sure that we can all appreciate the pride in John's heart as he traveled from Chicago to Los Angeles to watch his son perform, and I know that a lot of us shared in his pride, via television.

The Raytheon Company, Waltham, Mass., announced on March 29 that Paul Hannah, General counsel and secretary, had been elevated to vice president. Paul has been with the company since 1946, following his discharge from the Army with the rank of colonel. Before the war he was a junior partner with the law firm of Morris, Kixmiller and Baar. Paul took his law degree at George Washington University in 1933. Presently he is chairman of the Electronic Industries Association Law Committee, and belongs to several local and national bar associations.

Those of you who were at the fall reunion in October will be interested in a letter which I recently received from Ros Guyot. Ros says "Our trip East last fall was a real thrill to both Jean and me. I must confess that there were some reservations in my mind in returning for a class weekend reunion after 32 years. However they were soon dispelled after meeting each of you again and feeling that there was really no great interval at all." I think that this is typical of the reaction of nearly everyone who has come back to a reunion after a long interval of time - somehow the years seem to fade away, and without any effort we are able to resume the relationships that we had so many years ago. If you haven't been back for a long time, try it. I think that you will find that it works out just the same way for you that it did for Ros.

Ed Miner has resigned as president of Orange County Community College. He is the only man to hold the permanent appointment as president since the college was established ten years ago, and his resignation was accepted by the board of trustees with extreme reluctance. He took a one-year leave of absence in September to take courses in community college education, working toward a doctorate, and intends to do writing in the field of community college education. After graduation from Dartmouth, Ed received a Master's degree from Columbia University Teachers College in 1929, and has been engaged in educational work ever since.

Captain Al Lawrence has recently been appointed Academic Dean of the U. S. Coast Guard Academy at New London, Conn. To quote from a letter from Rear Admiral Evans, Superintendent of the Academy "I served with Capt. Lawrence in our old General Studies Department and have a great regard for him both as a scholar and educational administrator." As one who has had a chance to visit with Al a few times in the last few years, and to observe him in his contacts with the cadets, I can testify to the high regard in which he is held by his students, as well as his fellows in the faculty and administration.

While on a vacation in Nassau in February, Jack and Doris Sheldon received word that their oldest son, John Jr., had died very suddenly at home on Feb. 19. John had been under medical care for an allergy for some time, and it was presumably an acute attack of this which caused his death. He attended Culver Military Academy and after graduation, enrolled at Colorado College. While there he was seriously injured in a skiing accident, and returned to Muskegon, his home, where he had been attending Community College. His brother, Peter, is a member of the Class of' 1961 at Dartmouth.

The success of the Capital Gifts Cam- paign has given us all a new measure of the willingness of Dartmouth men to support the needs of the College in a generous and realistic way. Now that the Alumni Fund is again in full swing, I am confident that all members of the Class of 1927 will back up the efforts of Larry Scammon and his team of Agents to ensure our doing our full share in meeting the $1,000,000 goal.

Secretary, 29150 West River Road Perrysburg, Ohio

Class Agent, 89 Broad St., Boston, Mass.