1945

Stan Newton and I were the '45 representatives last month at the Boston meeting of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund Head Agents. Although neither Stan nor I have a great deal to do with this year's drive we were both tremendously impressed with the purpose and logic behind this year's goal of one million dollars. Cliff Jordan, Don Sawyer 21 and President Dickey spoke both of the amazing achievement of the capital gifts campaign and the necessity to continue Dartmouth's strides forward. And Don Sawyer emphasized again and again what is to be the basis of future alumni fund campaigns; the necessity of giving intelligently and realistically. Past campaigns have stressed loyalty to Dartmouth and the importance of giving; the results have been impressive. Future campaigns will stress the vital role that higher education will play in tomorrow's world and the responsibility that falls therefore on all who are able to provide the financial support so necessary to fulfill the educational destiny of this country. The responsibility, then, is yours as well as your neighbor's; it must not be shirked.

As you have probably gathered, this was quite a different type of meeting from the ordinary Dartmouth gathering. With a minimum of "Wah Hoo Wahs," this was a deeplyserious proposition. And it was, as I have mentioned, tremendously well received. I hope, rather I expect, that you will do your parts with intelligence and realism, for only through such an approach to Alumni Fund giving can the future of Dartmouth and her sister institutions be assured.

The annual spring meeting of the Class of 1945 Executive Committee took place in New York on April 23. As these notes have an April 5 deadline, I cannot report here on the meeting. However, look for such in the Tune notes.

"Dues News" for this month is thin but of wide and varied interest. From "Moose" Rowan of Chatham, N. J., comes a clipping from the New York Times with the notation that it is not everyday that a classmate gets his picture in said paper. The picture involved Paul Caravatt, Executive Committee member, and the fact that he has joined the New York advertising firm of Foote, Cone and Belding as a vice president. Paul was formerly with Ogilvy, Benson and Mather. Harry Hampton, who also sent this information along, imagines .that Paul "is up to his veepish ears in new problems, travel, and and headaches." And so he probably is.

While we're in the advertising field, Dick Simpson of Winnetka, has been named vice president and director of the merchandising department of Young and Rubicam's Chicago Office. Dick has been with Young and Rubicam for six years. Don Moore has left International Latex Corporation to join the staff of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company's Greenfield, Mass., office. Don lives in nearby Shelburne Falls where he is a member of the Kiwanis Club and coaches the Kiwanis junior basketball team. Chad Ramsdell has been appointed business manager of the Melrose-Wakefield offices of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. While in the greater Boston vicinity I will mention Earl Baldwin, lumber merchant of Lexington, member of the Hancock Men's Club, the Tandem Club, and the Franklin P.T.A. I hope you won't be "board" if I also mention that Earl has been planked in Lexington for ten years.

Frederick T. Hatch recently received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from M.I.T. Fred also holds a Phi Beta Kappa M.D. from Harvard. Congratulations, Doctor.

Now for the nuptial news of the month. You remember that I promised full details on John MacDonald's violation of Bachelor Club by-law A-1 as soon as the information was de-classified and released. Here it is. "Boston, Feb. 13; in the chapel of the Old South Church this afternoon, Miss Judith Baker McAvity became the bride of Mr. John A. MacDonald Jr." Standing by with mixed emotions were Bud Street and Bachelor Club Grand Sachem, Mo Frye. Congratulations, MacDonalds, and drop out to Concord one of these days. The Northfield, Vt., "News and Advertiser" informs us of the engagement of Miss Elizabeth Durning to Mr. John H. Field. No further information is at present available but this column will carry the details when they are.

Skipping around the country to pick up selected items of interest, we find: Maj. EvanGoltra, MacDill AFB Hospital, Tampa, Fla., with residence at 4720 Coachman Ave.; Dave Joslyn teaching English in San Diego; AceNewdick with Property Keepers in Fort Lauderdale; Win Sargeant, Manager, Personnel and Services, The Beryllium Corp., Nuclear Div., Hazelton, Penna.; Knowlton Levenick, Construction Supervisor for Pure Oil Company, East Lansing, Mich.; and Odvard Bergethon, General Manager of Reed Division, SKF of Philadelphia, Los Angeles.

It is with sadness and a deep sense of loss that I report the deaths of two of our classmates, John McDannold last November in Los Angeles, and James P. Miller of an accident on January 2 in New Orleans. A fuller report will appear next month in the obituary column of this MAGAJZINE.

And that is it for this month. Reread my opening lines, if you will, for this year's Alumni Fund drive is a tremendously serious matter. Dartmouth has achieved greatness in the past, but her future lies in your hands.

Middlesex School, Concord, Mass.

Class Agent, Bunny Bear, Inc., 210 Broadway Everett 49, Mass.