1940

Unfortunately color photographs are not reprintable in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Otherwise a picture of our most ancient classmate, save one, would grace these pages. It seems that some of the Rainie clan were at Mt Killington doing a little skiing recently when all of a sudden, standing at the crest of the steepest trail a vaguely familiar figure came into view. With his stretch pants stretched tight and a cigarette drooping from the corner of lips, he looked for all the world like the owner of the place. On the contrary, it was Killington's best customer, Jack Moody, who spends most of his time on said mountain from Thanksgiving to Easter trying to preserve his fleeting youth. But Jack isn't the only one that maintains his interest in skiing. Bill Sinclair managed to separate himself from his medical practice in Cleveland long enough to spend a week in Aspen, while Dr. Bill and Jane Huffman, also from Cleveland, did their skiing at Boyne Mountain, Mich.

Beezie Smallwood's account of his recent visit with Elmer and Joyce Browne deserves some space. After a glorious vacation in France, he and Ruth stopped in London on the way home. At their hotel there arrived on Sunday morning the big company limousine with liveried chauffeur to drive the Smallwoods to the Brownes' country estate. They arrived at Widford to be greeted by Joyce and Brownie (relatively unchanged) and by their children who were indistinguishable from English children after only eight months of residence in the U. K. Well fortified with martinis and steak, all decided to return to London for a gala evening which I am told ended up with a few of the old songs. All of which proved the perfect ending for the Smallwood's trip which was their first real honeymoon after seventeen short years.

Lee Bassett informs us that he is already beginning to make the City of Cleveland and surrounding areas earthquake-proof in anticipation of the arrival of the George Mahoneys and Bill McMurtries '38 from Indianapolis for the July 4 weekend. The last time this happened they ruined Lee's health, disposition, finances, credit, and social reputation. Why he leaves himself open to this onslaught again is hard to imagine. Life must be awfully dull in Cleveland with Scotty Rogers gone. Lee had spoken with Jack and Helen Maynard in Riverside, Ill.

It may be a little late to mention this but the fact remains that John Willetts o£ Milwaukee is Chairman of the Alumni Council Committee on Enrollment and Admissions. At a joint meeting of the Trustees and the Alumni Council in late January, John spoke on the importance of an effective national program for interesting outstanding boys in Dartmouth. Amen.

Sid Phillips was so outraged at our censoring his last letter before sending it on to Hanover that I will quote the more pertinent parts of his latest in toto. On Northwestern University letterhead he writes the following on the subject of Jack McDonald's life:

According to all the girls in Evanston he is really a big man. For example, he has a luxurious umpteen-room apartment commonly known around here as the "snake-pit." The lighting is three shades darker than the S.A.E. basement in 1940 before the college closed it down. In order to keep Jack in shape, he and I recently took in a college wrestling match in Evanston between Northwestern and Kansas State. Since half of the future prospective Northwestern football team was visiting the match with the Northwestern coaching staff, Jack and I had a tough time sandwiching in the matter of considering an Indian future. However, it did not make much difference because our price was not right. The only other item relates to the fact that occasionally I get some Dartmouth transfers in either undergraduate or graduate courses and for the record they have all been really sharp.

Once in a while there is someone that you bump into quite frequently and yet it takes a letter to bring you really up to date on exactly what he is up to. Dick Bowman is a case in point. He had for the past several years been vice president and co-creative director of the highly successful young advertising firm of Norman, Craig and Kummel, Inc. in New York which landed twelve million dollars of new business in 1959. Last year he became the agency's senior account supervisor. Among his firm's more interesting accounts is that of the Jamaica Tourist Bureau which calls for extended business trips to that tropical paradise whenever the weather in New York becomes unbearable. Dick and Lee are living in Westport, Conn., with their three children Leslie (a girl) aged eleven; Bruce eight; and Eric six. They see the Bacons on a fairly regular schedule. The last planned meeting failed, however, when the family Bacon went off skiing to St. Margarite without the Bowmans who were detained by that all-inclusive word, "business."

Robin Hartman is still in Porto Rico and has been promoted to Captain, USN. He has recently seen Marine Corps Aviation ColonelAllan Feldmeier, stationed in Cherry Point, N. C., but passing through Porto Rico. Allan has four children, the eldest of which is at Taft.

Page Smith, professor of history at U.C.L.A., sought the democratic nomination for Congress from the 16th Congressional District in California. We don't know if he made it or not. We do know, however, that Howie Sommer was elected president of the University Club of Chicago.

The Haserot Company of Cleveland, food canners and coffee makers, announced the election of Henry Haserot Jr. as president and first executive officer. This old family business was founded in 1883 and last year had a volume of about twelve million dollars.

Bill Joseph is in Cincinnati doing "what I think are some very significant sculptures to adorn overly plain buildings that are springing up much too rapidly in our American landscape. In this day of increasing mechanization and tensions in everyday life, I think it extremely important that we have reminders of our cultural tradition. My style is in the more modern vein, but I have after many years achieved a flavor that I think is a more universal one. I have just started approaching architects in this connection and am happy to have a very good response."

Brig. Gen. John C. Meyer '41, USAF, World War II ace credited with 32 enemy planes, spoke to the Holyoke Rotary Club on March 15. Fifteen alumni were present. Shown are: (I to r) Ray Merrick '39; Lt. Col. Donald Davis, general's aide; Edmund Wakelin '39; Bert Kent '10; General Meyer; Arthur French '15; and Donald Fletcher, president-elect.

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