1933
Speaking of a bright orange ckin of a tree-climbing kangaroo, one of our classmates said it was the nicest birthday present he had received. One of his party had just caught it for him. You would, too, if you were the assistant curator of the American Museum of Natural History and had spent nine months in the jungles of New Guinea, one of the last unknown parts of he world, biologically speaking, in search of rare specimens. Hoby Van Deusen has just completed his third trek into New Guinea for the Archbold Expedition, which has the largest mammal research collection in the world. His party returned with 2,300 mammals, 4,000 reptiles, 50,000 insects and 18,000 plants. Van did most of his hunting at dusk with a lantern on his cap. The light attracted insects which attracted other species. The catch was made with either a nylon net or a shotgun loaded with dust shot, which kills but doesn't spoil the specimens. Native help was used and enticed, with money for the more sophisticated ones, and tobacco and newspapers for the others. No, they can't read English but they the newspapers for rolling cigarettes. We're hoping that Van will furnish us with more details after a well-earned vacation following this most profitable trip for science and mankind.
Bill Bates has been elected financial vice president of the Aetna Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., with which firm he has been since 1947, after leaving the post of investment officer of the Hartford National Bank and Trust Company. Bill is a director of the Family Service Society, the Hartford symphony Association and the Civitan Club, Bill and Eleanor live in West Hartford and have two children, Susan, a student at the Oxford School in Hartford, and William, a freshman at Dartmouth.
If some of you boys think you have it rough, think of the plight of Jeff Davis from whom we received a most welcome letter: "Three girls in college this year - Nancy, a senior at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill.; Barbara, in her first year at Lasell Jr. College in Auburndale, Mass., and her twin sister, Shirley, a freshman at Vermont College, Montpelier, Vt." Nancy is engaged and, after graduation, will be married to Cadet Frank Morgret in the Coast Guard Chapel at New London, Conn., and then stationed in Portland, Me. Jeff and Bea, along with son "Chip," have done a lot of skiing this winter. At Spruce Peak, they had a quick meeting with Bob Saywell. Later that same week, spent at Stowe, Vt., they ran into BillDormon, who apparently had been in serious training all winter, judging from Jeff's description of how Bill took Nose Dive and National as though they were small hills. He says Bill ate his sandwiches in the tow line to crowd in more skiing. Jeff was in Hanover last fall with five local high school prospects doing his enrollment chore for the College. He has been very active in Middletown, Conn., church affairs and as a member of the local school committee. Brother Davis closes his letter with - "Now, where's my pay?" Jeff, your only reward is in your Secretary's Hall of Fame for classmates who take pity and help him keep this column filled. Many thanks!!!
Another Connecticut news item. Congressman John Monagan spoke recently at the annual banquet of the Aquinas Club in Ansonia on the subject of "Morality in Public Life."
Dr. Henry Weitz, director of the Bureau of Testing and Guidance and assistant professor of education at Duke University, gave the opening address at the Fourth Invitational Guidance Frontiers Conference at Ohio State University early in March.
Harry Osborne of Cranford, N. J., was the high man among the ten aspirants for the three Republican nominations for the Union County Board of chosen Freeholders. Our thanks to Dick Baldwin, '42 secretary, for this good news.
The Reverend Father Theodore V. (Ted)Purcell was the subject of a feature article in the April 23 issue of the Daily Dartmouth. The occasion was the announcement of his return to Hanover as a visiting professor both at the College and at Tuck School next fall. At present, he is associate professor at Loyola University of Chicago where he teaches psychology, sociology, and philosophy. He will come to Dartmouth under the auspices of the William Jewett Tucker Foundation whose purpose is "to further the moral and spiritual purposes of the college." In the fall term, Father Purcell will teach Psychology-Sociology 38 which deals with the attitudes and behavior of working people toward their jobs, their unions and their workers. The middle term will be spent at Tuck School where he will teach, "Business and Society." Returning to the College again for the spring term, his course will be Philosophy 81, "Philosophic Problems of the Social Sciences." Ted is known as "the Packinghouse Padre" as the result of his widely reputed work in the meat-packing industry for almost four years in Chicago where he was in daily contact with the workers. His findings there became the basis for his book, "The Worker Speaks His Mind on Company and Union," which was published by Harvard University Press. May we wish you a most happy and fruitful year on behalf of the Class.
The April 26 score sheet for the Green Derby shows 1933 running fifth out of seven in our group. From the information you are receiving out of Hanover, you all know the basis on which this year's Alumni Fund is being run. The College sure can use any extra dollars you may have to keep it growing. In addition, you'll make your Class Agent, one Sid Stoneman, very happy. The deadline will be drawing near when you read this.
Unconfirmed reports have Bob Fairbanks sophomore son, Jonathan, in the winning canoe in this year's race from Hanover to the mouth of the Connecticut in exceptionally high and rough water. Our records do not indicate that this is a second generation pursuit.
Recent address changes:
Prof. David L. Hatch, 2420 Terrace Way Columbia, S. C.; John P. Pringle, Box 1621, Midland, Tex.; Jackson H. Taft, 25 Sara Ave., Marion, Ohio; Davidson E. Cook, 2209 Washington Ave., Silver Spring, Md.; Robert T. Cox, 2607 Hyperion Ave., Los Angeles 27, Calif.; Bertram R. Mudge, 47 Ames St., Sharon, Mass ; Louis A. Poitras, Rt. 2, Box 2830, Roseville Calif.; Richard E. Ryan, 551 S. Winchester, Campbell, Calif.
Secretary, 80 Mooreland Rd. Melrose 76, Mass.
Class Agent, 31 Milk St., Boston, Mass.
