1931
What with school graduations within many of your own families plus this traditional wedding time plus the wind-up of the College's annual Alumni Fund plus our 30th class reunion - with so many of these items coming to finality in this month of June, I wonder who could have thought up the expression "commencement time"? Concerning this year's Alumni Fund Drive, may I simply insert the statistic that as of the last report from Hanover we were running a fading seventh among the seven classes grouped in our Green Derby contest. It is my hope - and class agent Bill Wilson's fervent prayer - that we will again come through with our traditionally strong stretch drive.
A review of the current What's With Who in the Class reveals that Wes Dingnian has been elected president of the Central Massachusetts Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Wes has been a practicing architect since he finished at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. He is also serving as vice-chairman of the Wachusett Regional High School District Committee and as secretary of the Massachusetts Congress of Parents and Teachers. Wes's home town of Princeton, Mass., provided a neat editorial Ivy League flip in a recent publicity release under the heading "Princeton Man Heads Architects." Art Marx is now a representative in the New Hampshire State Legislature and was a recent speaker before the Claremont Republican Club on the meaty subject "What Republicanism Can Mean." In addition to being a former selectman and school board member, as well as a practicing attorney, Art is chairman of the Legislative Council and vice-chairman of the Executive, Departments and Administration Committee of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
Hank McCarthy, president of Bomac Laboratories in Beverly, Mass., has been elected a director of the New England Electric System. And speaking of systems, if you can find the occasion be sure to get Hank to show you his unique Green Hornet - a hunting and fishing truck or bus or mobile dorm with a multitude of original features. Having inspected it last year I am still not sure whether I saw the Monitor or the Merrimac. Judge Jess Strassberger was recently honored by the High School Fathers Club of Norwalk, Conn., as the "Graduate of the Year." Jess has been in law practice since graduating from New York University's Law School and has served as City Clerk and city prosecutor in addition to two terms as judge. He is currently president of the Bar Association of his area. Bill Mclntyre was recently made credit manager with Texaco in Minneapolis. His current address is Apartment 515 - 330 Oak Grove St., that city. Dave Hovey has become director of North Dakota's State Parks with a mailing address in care of the State Historical Society, Liberty Memorial Bldg., Bismarck. Whether related or not to his recent bank promotion, Bill Palmer has moved his residence to 1745 Camino Palmero, Los Angeles 46. Beany Thome was recently re-elected state national -director of the New York State Association of Insurance Agents. It would appear from past records that this is the only post the association could find which he had not previously held. One of the favorites of our class characters, Beany will be on hand as a member of our THIRTY-WON-DERFUL THIRTIETH reunion committee and true to his athletic background will be in charge of our big picnic and "field events" at Storr's Pond. Praise the Lord and pass the medication!
Proceeding further about Reunion, perhaps more for those of you who will be unable to make it this year: During Tuesday morning's Hanover Holiday session the panel and discussion on "What Have You Read Since Leaving College - and Why Not?" will include Chuck Mendell, our professor of English at Rollins College. Wednesday's morning panel and discussion on the topic "Issues of the 1960 Campaign" will have as a participant our John Martin, Michigan's Republican National Committeeman. Both of these sessions are extra bonuses in a three-day reunion program which has been planned by your committee to give you plenty of comfortable options timewise (after all, rushing around at our age is more of a trick than it used to be). And it is appropriate here to record a tribute to reunion chairman Ed Brummer and his committee for the excellence of their planning and organization. Their part has been well done - the rest is up to us.
With this issue of class notes I say "so long" as your Class Secretary. The assignment has brought me its own unique rewards, and especially the fruitful as well as delightful October Hanover meetings with the other members of your executive committee, and wives. These annual autumn rallies have brought me back in touch with many of you New England classmates - a rewarding adventure each time. I have enjoyed serving these past two years as your scribe for I am proud of my class and, like each of you who has read this far, I feel a genuine devotion to the College and the tine purposes for which it stands.
Secretary, 734 Keystone, River Forest, Ill.
Class Agent, 225 Jefferson Rd., Princeton, N. J.
