1941
It is this time next year, folks, that we will all be converging on Hanover for attendance at our Twentieth Reunion. So that there will be no more confusion about the dates of this long-awaited event, here they are: June 16-18, 1961. The classes of 1940 and 1942 will reune with us.
It seems apropos to begin this report for June, the month of college graduations, with mention of two bouquets recently tossed to Dusty Rodes, President of Bradley University. The stockholders of the Central Illinois Light Company recently elected Dusty to its Board of Directors. General Motors Corporation has also appointed him President of General Motors Institute, the center for the educational activities of this gigantic company and a degree-granting college.
It is also quite coincidental that at a time when the vital issue of our national security is very much in the limelight we have a "scoop" on two of our distinguished military leaders. Colonel Frank Tomlinson is the new Vice-Commander of the Air Force Base at Westover, Mass. When I last reported on Frank's accomplishments, in October 1957, he had just returned from overseas service in Tokyo and Hawaii, where he was director of operations at Hickson AFB for three years, to assume the assignment of Deputy for Intelligence at Eighth Air Force headquarters at Westover AFB. Last December Frank was made Special Assistant to the Base Commander at Westover. His previous assignments, prior to serving in Japan for two years, were Air Attache to Copenhagen, Denmark; a member of the Intelligence Department at the Pentagon in Washington, D. C.; and at Langley AFB in Virginia. Frank, Dorothy, their thirteen-year-old daughter and eleven-year-old son reside on the base at Westover.
I wonder if General Jack Meyer had anything to do with Frank's recent promotion, Jack being Commander of the 57th Air Division at Westover AFB. I wonder also if modest Jack blushed at seeing his picture in the May ALUMNI MAGAZINE with the group of Rotarians he addressed in Holyoke, Mass., on the subject of the role of the Strategic Air Command in the "strategy of deterrence," that being Jack's first public speaking appearance since taking command of the 57th last fall. He introduced this talk with a short movie and then elaborated on the need for a deterrent power on dealing with a world power willing to trade millions of lives to gain her goal of world domination.
In addition to having gifted public speakers among our ranks, we can boast of a host of literary genii, one of whom is Merle Perkins. His most recent work, "The Moral and Political Philosophy of the Abbe de Saint-Pierre," has been jointly published by the Librarie E. Droz of Geneva and the Librairie Minard of Paris. This book is an attempt "to find the intellectual heart of Saint Pierre's moral and political philosophy" and to measure and evaluate its impact and importance.
Now to recent achievements in the world of every-dav down-to-earth civilian pursuits. Dan McMullen was recently appointed general agent in Miami, Fla., for the Washington National Insurance Company. Dan entered the insurance business as an agent with the Union Mutual Life. Then he worked for two years as a supervisor with the Travelers. In 1955 he was appointed general agent for Mutual Benefit in Des Moines, lowa. Dan must be very thrilled about being back in his old bailiwick, having lived in Florida for twenty years.
A little further North, Ed Walten was recently made Trust Officer of the First National Bank of Baltimore, Md.
Bruce Friedlich's infant company has already collared such handsome accounts as Shearson, Hammill and Company, a large New York City brokerage house, for advertising and public relations; and First Investors Corporation, Mutual Management Company, and the Montville Industrial Commission for advertising.
Mike Pollack is owner-director of the Read-well System of San Mateo, Calif. He has changed his place of abode from South Palo Alto to Los Altos Hills, Calif.
Walt Lipman has also embarked on a new pursuit. He is now in the real estate investment business in New York City. Last that I knew, Walt was an advertising salesman with the New York Times. He has also changed his place of abode from Bronxville to Port Chester, N. Y.
Last month's compilation of the many classmates active in alumni affairs already needs an addition thereto. Dick Tousley was recently elected Vice President of the Dartmouth Club of the South Shore of Massachusetts.
Two years ago this month I experienced the distressing embarrassment of erroneously reporting the death of Charlie Hadley of Lancaster, Penna. Charlie called me long distance a few days ago to inquire as to the reunion dates and to assure me that he would definitely be on hand. See you next June, Charlie!
This is the month of "finals" in various respects. First of all it is the final month of the 1960 Alumni Fund Campaign. On May 3 Pete Scott and his cohorts moved into second place in the Green Derby, close behind the heels of the Class of 1940. Come on, folks, do please not leave Pete in the lurch in his inaugural undertaking as Class Agent! Do your part for Dartmouth! Help put the Class of '41 in the lead and give your support to Pete by remitting your generous contributions before June 30th.
I had better go now before I am banished into exile, without the privilege of returning in October. Until then - and with best wishes for a wonderful summer for you and yours - FINIS!
Bert Anger '42 shown with an African buffalo which he brought down during his hunting safari in French Equatorial Africa.
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