1937

We ran out of space for all that Bill Coe had put together for last month's column. So we will begin by simply reinstating the five column inches that were deleted. To wit:

More statistics: 95% plan to come to our 25th in 1962, 96% will (or would) send their youngsters to Dartmouth if they can (or could), about half think they smoke too much (interesting correlation shows that nearly half do not smoke at all), and 80% are Republicans.

Many, many notes! One from Furman Stanley "...I have four children: two boys, ages seventeen and thirteen; and two girls, ages seven and almost two. The oldest child has high hopes of entering Dartmouth in the fall. My time is split up - I'm not sure in what amounts - between my job as Dis- trict Plant Manager for the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, the Englewood District (the best in the state of course), as President of the Glen Rock Board of Education (I have been a member for the past five years), and as Commanding Officer (Lt. Col.) of the 65th Combat Area Signal Battalion (Reserve) of the Signal Corps. I think I'll survive." (Note for Furm - I just got elected to the B. of E. here in Westfield. In one week I have been to three meetings! I know what you mean by "pace"! - WGC).

Jim Risk reports he saw Walt Heer fromColumbus, Ohio, and the president of hisown printing company. Jim says, in part:

I like living in New York City but I grew up in New Jersey and some of my best friends still live there. It's not Walt Heer's fault that he has to live in Ohio. He was just subjected to the wrong influences when young. Pity. For the past few years I've been engaged in the coin business. We sell old coins to collectors and are sometimes called "Numismatists." This form of commercial activity has its merits even though you end up by learning more about human nature than anyone in his right mind could possibly want to know. On the credit side, we sometimes have to go looking for merchandise in Europe. As a result of all this travel, Numismatists become very cultured and worldly. This makes them happy to live on the East Coast.

One more from Norm Robbie, Union Carbide in New York, who reports he saw F. E.(Ed) Davis, executive of "News Week." Incidentally I saw Norm in Plainfield last week myself at the Tri-County Dartmouth Alumni Association inaugural meeting. He and I were the only '37ers attending. Many from other classes, 1912 to 1959.

From a variety of sources we have several newspaper clippings about Jim Gray. Just a few months ago we reported his selection as Georgia's outstanding citizen of the year. For a man who was born, raised and educated in New England, and who began his active news paper career in Hartford and New York City, this seemed to your secretary to be quite an unusual event. But now we find that this same transplanted New Englander has become Chairman of Georgia's State Democratic Party. In appointing the publisher of the Albany (Ga.) Herald to this important post, Gov. S. Ernest Vandiver commented, "Jim Gray is a stout champion of states' rights and constitutional government... his personal integrity and his uncompromising principles made him an imperative choice."

And finally we have word that Brig. Gen. Royal Hatch, Deputy for Air National Guard Affairs of Continental Air Command, will step into a new position as Deputy Chief of Staff, Personnel for U.S. Air Forces in Europe, at Wiesbaden, Germany, in early May. Roy has served with CONAC at Mitchel Air Force Base, Long Island, since March 1955. He entered the Air Force in 1941 as a flying cadet and today he is a Command Pilot with nearly twenty years' flying experience. After the war he joined the Air National Guard in Birmingham, Ala., and has been recalled to active duty three times, the last time in '955 when he began his current period of service.

Our faithful New Hampshire correspondent Bill Rotch attended Freshman Fathers Weekend in Hanover late in February. His letter deserves to be quoted verbatim.

Having just returned from a delightful and exciting Freshman Fathers Weekend at Hanover, a brief note to the class secretary seems in order, although it is likely someone else will mail you a more complete account. The college makes a big thing of it, and the fathers responded 400-plus strong. The '37 group didn't have an opportunity for a special get-together, but we all raw each other off and on. We skied at the Dartmouth Skiway, heard John Dickey, Al Dickerson, Bancroft Brown, and Ross McKenney speak; ate in Thayer; and reveled in dormitory life.

Al Mayer was there with his son Al Jr. Also Carl Erdman and son Lee (darn people who come up to you on the ski slope wearing dark goggles and expect you to recognize them) and Dick Sawyer with "Rick" - Richard P. Jr. Dave Rainey and Dave Jr. were much in evidence. My boy Pete and I ran into Bud Butterworth skiing with his son Mike. (Our two boys took rock climbing this fall for "rec"; they sure didn't have that in our day.) At supper in Thayer Saturday a goodlooking lad saw my name tag and jumped up to introduce himself as Fred Asher - son of 37's Fred. There may have been others; if so, I missed them.

Quite a group of us, including Will Brown and Pete McLane, Briggs Austin, Warren Chivers and Ted Hunter (technically I suppose the latter two are in '38 because of that year out for the Olympics) got together New Year's weekend when the DOC observed its. 50th anniversary. Staying at the inn that weekend was Vin Turecamo, up with his sons from New York for some Hanover skiing.

A note from the Aylwards this week indicates that the State Department is sending Bob to Hong Kong in June to take charge of the refugee program. A note from Harty Beardsley, now living in Montreal with his family where he is an executive with the British Newfoundland Corporation, says he expects to see us briefly later this week before leaving on a trip to Labrador. I have a news release and a note on my desk from Russ Stearns, who is entered in the New Hampshire Primary as a candidate for the GOP convention "favorable to Rockefeller," which makes him a die-hard or an optimist. Or courageous.

Another news item by way of Bill Rotch is an announcement that Carl Noyes is serving as New Hampshire Chairman for the i960 Cancer Crusade. After doing a bang-up job as Manchester Chairman last year, Carl will squeeze time from his duties as vice-president of the Merchants National Bank to keep The Crusade in high gear.

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