1932

In the March issue of these notes it was prematurely announced that October 1, date of the Penn game, had been selected for this year's '32 rally in Hanover. It now develops that suitable accommodations are not available for that weekend, and your committee is trying to work things out with Bonnie Oaks for the Holy Cross game on October 15. By the time you read this Carl Baker's Newsletter will probably have given you news of the firm date.

The Alumni Fund is in town again, and your correspondent recently tagged along with Head Class Agent Bob Reinhardt to a dinner meeting at the Hotel Sheraton Astor in New York, where Chairman Don Sawyer '21 and others outlined plans for the 1960 campaign. Highlight of the meeting was an address by President Dickey whose genial but straight-from-the-shoulder remarks left no doubt that the College needs every penny of the million dollars set as this year's campaign goal.

In our class, 43 men have answered Bob Reinhardt's appeal to serve as class agents. Your lazy correspondent, who never misses a chance to get something for nothing, begged some of the answering letters from Reinhardt, and the substance of the following notes has been extracted therefrom without permission of the copyright owners.

John Wright recently returned from a six-week-trip to Switzerland, Italy, Tunis, Germany and France. The first 17 days of this grand tour were spent with an American curling team competing against the Swiss for what "is called the Swissair Cup. John says, "We played our best, and brought home fond memories, but the Swiss got the Cup." Back in Chicago, John is now in the process of reestablishing his professional and business activities, the Curtis Lighting Co., of which he was president for over five years, having been profitably sold. He says that he is returning to the practice of law and at the same time giving attention to the affairs of a couple of companies in which he has a financial interest.

Chuck Adkins is planning to move about July 1, to Briarcliff Manor, N. Y., preparatory to taking up his appointed duties as Briarcliff College's new president. Until that time, however, he is busily engaged in carrying out a fund raising campaign for Wheaton which, he says, closely parallels the Dartmouth Alumni Fund Program on a more limited scale.

Dick Merrill is keeping himself busy as treasurer of Hayward Farms, Inc., at Milford, N. H., and working assiduously on his golf game whenever time and the weather permit. Dick says that he and Pat moved to New Hampshire in 1944 primarily to regain his health, and now they are both sold to the hilt on country living. Their home is in Greenfield.

Joe Carleton is in line for some sort of star commuter's award, traveling as he does 80 miles each way from South Dennis on Cape Cod to Boston five days a week. His nearest classmate neighbor, he says, is CharlieMayo who does his commuting by boat. Joe is accountant and lawyer for the Ayer Estate in Boston. He and Margaret have two sons who are Dartmouth graduates, a daughter who was graduated from Colby, and four younger children.

Dan Gage is now secretary of the Fidelity and Surety Dept. for Aetna Casualty and Surety Co. in Hartford. He says somewhat wistfully that none of his three children, who are rapidly approaching college age, will qualify for Dartmouth under its present program, unless the College goes co-ed a lot sooner than he anticipates. Dan, Eleanor, and the girls have their home in West Hartford.

Our final bit of news, concerning two more classmates, is from the Alumni Records Office. Jack Whitcomb, whose home is in St. Paul, has been appointed vice president of Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Coated Abrasives and Related Products Division. Chuck Riley, recently named Kiwanis Club's 1959 Man of the Year in Attleboro, Mass., has also recently been elected president of the Attleboro-Plainville Coal and Oil Co., with which he has been associated throughout most of his business career.

Secretary, 341 West End Rd. S. Orange, N. J.

Class Agent, 95 Browning Rd., Short Hills, N. J.