1936

Don Stewart has been named editor and director of the office of publications at Northeastern University. In this capacity he will be responsible for the planning, preparation, and printing of all the University publications including everything from directories to course announcements. Don joined the University faculty in 1956 after serving as a publicity director for various large fund-raising campaigns for charitable organizations. At one time he served as an assistant to Bill Cunningham '19 and as a sports writer for a couple of Boston broadcasting stations. He lives in Wakefield, Mass., with his wife, and two daughters, Pamela Jean, three and Janice Louise, two.

Ed Hancock has been promoted from actuarial assistant to assistant actuary, according to the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company in Fort Wayne, Ind. John joined the company in 1941, when he became a member of the actuarial-general department. Prior to his Lincoln Life affiliation, he was associated with John Hancock Mutual Life in Boston. John was a member of Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth and later did graduate work at Harvard and at the University of Michigan where he received his Masters degree.

John Marsh has resigned from the Ansonia Wire and Cable Company to set up his own sales agency for the same company in Jacksonville, Fla. His new company will be the John L. Marsh and Associates.

George Conklin has been made a senior vice president at Guardian Life Insurance Company.... Clif Porter has joined a new law firm: Cahill, Gordon, Ohl and Reindel in New York.... Bill Bartel has been elected president of Ellington and Company, a big New York ad agency.... Don Sutherland has been reelected to the school board in Danvers, Mass. Don has been a Town Meeting member, Sunday School teacher, president of the Parent-Teacher Association, Scout Leader, Junior Achievement executive and Trustee of the Church, to mention some of his civic contributions. His son, Don Jr. is in the Class of '63 at Dartmouth. ... Ray Reitman's daughter, Meg, is a freshman at Skidmore. ... Dan Doan's daughter, Penelope, is a freshman at Lake Erie College.

Our class poet is again in the news. Samuel French Morse who is now an Associate Professor of English at Mt. Holyoke has received a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. This fellowship will begin this summer and will permit Sam to complete his biographical study of the late poet, Wallace Stevens. Sam did the basic research on this project on a grant from the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia a couple of years ago. Since Wallace Stevens' death, Sam has been literary adviser to the estate. In this capacity, he edited and wrote the introduction for "Opus Posthumous" published by Knopf and Company in August, 1957. Sam is a renowned poet in his own right. You can read his poetry in the New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar and Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.

The '36 evening dinner party at the Dartmouth Club of New York on March 11 was as successful as its advance billing. The invitatations, penned by Dick Morton, boasted "It'll be a great evening in town.... See the flickers of the Princeton football game ... sing to the scintillating Paul Lynch piano rhythms." And now it may be told that the evening ended with dancing by some of the younger members of the class, and a few couples even went on to the Stork Club in morning hours. Fifty-one people attended, as follows:

Jackson and Yumi Smith, Paul and Kathy Lynch, Art Wasserman, Gil and Fran Balkam, Bill and Pat Hoffmann, Norb and Pic Hofman, Bob and Theo Prentice, John and Betty Mallory, Don and Doris MacNeary, Dick and Madine Morton, John and Nancy Sawyer, Seymour and Miriam Sims, Ed and Jody Redington, Joe Davis, Bill and Mignon Spring, Bob Burr and Miss Shelia Ennever, Brint and Doris Schorer of Hartford, Conn., Pep and Ricki Minte, Fred and Ray Kneip, Art and Ethel Toan, Spencer and Jessie Johnson, Jacko and Ruth Morrison, Dave and Shirley Fox, Ed and Ruth Brooks, Gil and Ann Sykes, Kirk Liggett, Dan and Josephine Schwartz.

Kirk Liggett, our dean of class agents, will be in touch with you soon for "realistic" Alumni Fund Giving. This i960 campaign, the 46th in its vital and historic series, closes on June 30.

A Class of '36 gathering will be held in Hanover on the weekend of May 20. Class chairman Pete Fitzherbert is making all the arrangements for the party, so let him know if you can make it. The Executive Officers of the class will be having their meetings at the College that weekend so you can count on most of the following men to be there at that time: Cleaveland, Crangle, Florsheim, Hefler, Ingersoll, Macurda, Morrison, Morton, O'Connell, Reitman, Shorer, Spencer, Sykes, Towne, Weiss, Fitzherbert, Sawyer, Weston, Liggett, Gidney, Gibney, McKallagat. AH classmates and their wives are invited to this meeting and urged to select May 20 for a vacation in Hanover.

Jack Matzinger '36 with his wife Barbara, two sons, and dog, "on the run" in La Jolla, Calif., where Jack owns and operates the Ascot Shop, a men and women's apparel store.

Secretary, 16 Hickory Lane Darien, Conn.

Class Agent, 135 Glenview Ave., Wyncote, Penna.