1938

The Dartmouth plant-facilities-look is getting younger and there is a freshness in the architectural growth that is springing up on the Hanover Plain. Ted and Peg Hunter are contributing with their design of the new Mathematics-Psychology "House of study" down behind Baker. Near completion, the structure is colorful, spacious and comfortable appearing. Hopkins Center is now more than structural steel and wooden frames. It is quickly becoming a graceful and permanent neighbor between the Inn and the old Museum. John Scotford, who is a part of the Center and who will direct much of the activity there, has had a knot-hole fence placed in front of the construction. And, with the typical Scotford touch, he has caricatured colorful cartoons on the fence; each of which depicts an activity that will be sponsored in the Center. Two new dormitories occupy the playing ground just west and slightly below the Thayer School; pushing the campus further toward the Connecticut River. And from a huge desk facing the College President's office across the foyer Gil Tanis soberly and seriously carries on as Dartmouth's Chief Executive Officer. Gil is as pleased as a visiting alumnus with each new stone and step that is going into the greater Dartmouth. When he talks about the College his confidence and optimism are great. . . but he was a little down on son Billy's Little Leaguers who dropped an easy one to Windsor.

These are but a few observations of Hanover in July . . . beautiful days they were . . . calm and soft summer with Baker piercing starwise on the clear nights .. . and thoughts of you men who walked in her shadows on colder days.

Met Bobbie Reeve in the Inn Coffee Shop looking wonderful with praise about his trip to Europe with the Johnny Johnsons who vacationed this summer at Lake Tahoe up yonder a piece from San Francisco.

Chatted considerably with Jim McFate, who runs the Hanover Inn. Never went to Dartmouth, but has he got the bug! Tried to talk me into going back for another four years. Obviously, he could see that I needed it in comparison to the freshmen he sees daily, but when I told him my Marine Corps I. Q. he merely mumbled "Too bad."

John Emerson is back in teaching having accepted a post with a school in San Antonio, Texas, where he and Dan Marshall can stir up a Dartmouth tune. Send us the scoop, John.

Earl Ward and family vacated the Main Street of Hanover for some rest days on Lake Morey.

The New York Times ran a heading: "The First Woman Student Admitted at Princeton." She's Ed Meservey's wife, Sabra Follett Meservey, who will prowl Oriental Studies in the Tiger Graduate College. And that brings up an interesting bit. . . there are rumors all around Hanover that the College will go coed with a trial summer semester with the broads a few years hence. Dartmouth will be in town again all year round, it appears. Well, better not be too hard on this case until if and when the facts are presented to clinch or quash the rumor. Anyway, I haven't raised my daughters to shop at Tanzi's ... like their daddy used to do.

Readers of Sports Illustrated will be interested to know that Ray Ammarell has been named General Manager of that magazine. Ray has been business manager of Sports Illustrated since its inception in 1954. The post of general manager is a new one made necessary by the growth of the magazine. Ray joined Time, Inc. in the comptroller's department in 1941 and in 1948 moved to Time Magazine where he remained for six years. The Ammarells make their home in Briarcliff Manor, N. Y., where Ray is currently president of the Board of Education.

Dick Holt, who witnessed my hole-in-one on the fifth, should be doing better with Fenn Mfg. Co., Newington, Conn., now that defense budgets are up. Hans Barber of Boxford, Mass., has been elected to the Masconomet School Committee. Dick Gilbert has joined the Mead Corporation in Dayton, Ohio. Up-to-date on the Paul Urion clan finds Kathie a junior at Northfield School for Girls; Kim enters Hebron Academy, and like the rest of the gang, little Holly is a top sailor. The salty Urions are mopping up the Northeast in the Lightning Class. Al Wolff has joined the deanship ranks at the University of Bridgeport. Baronvon Pechmann has been named a vice president of the Aetna Life Insurance Co., and to think that the guy was worried about his company's reorganization the last we saw him. John Donovan with the initials GM has conquered another nation. It's Norway where Jack heads a new General Motors-Norwegian outfit in Oslo. He and Dave Bradley should meet half way to Helsinki. J. Clark Barrett complains about taxes on bachelors; putts in the high seventies; loves the Colts and Orioles and just smiles. The Sons of the American Revolution have Art Wheat as secretary of the New Hampshire Society and wife Marion and young Art keep the old man on the ball in the freight and express business up Manchester way.

Sandy Mills had Bill Jones and me to lunch at the Mayfield Club here celebrating Bill's move to Cleveland as a sales manager of the Tow Motor Company. John Llewellyn is president of the Chicago Malleable Casting Company and sons Parker and David are at Choate.

Jim Briggs has established a unit of the American Field Service Exchange Student Organization in Damariscotta, Me, where the tall squire runs Spring Meadow Farm as innkeeper. Jim does this with a certain feeling of nostalgia for he served with the Field Service and the British 8th in the last big show. There are four young Briggs: Jessie and Barbie on the distaff side and George and Jim.

Randy Royce is a stockbroker in Winchester, Mass. He and Ann have Cindy, Randy Jr., and Guy, and Pop sums it all up this way: "I can't find the dough to do all the exciting things there are around us and still support the educational institutions, insurance companies, hospitals and govern- ments which seem to surround us all like crows over a sprouting corn hill."

Top honors for the executive of the Class might well go to Bob Faegre. He is President and a Director of Minnesota and Ontario Paper Co., and a Director of Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis, Northwestern National Life Insurance Company and Employers Mutual of Wausau, Wis. Shirley and Bob have two daughters Mary and Shirl and a son Robert. The family usually vacations in Italy.

He headquarters in Lisbon, N. H., but covers New England and upper New York selling stationer's supplies. In his work George Allbright calls on George Kingsbury, and on Sunday he's a warden in the Episcopal Church and skis and swims with wife Carolyn, daughter Meredith, and son Jeff.

That's about it to start off the 1961-62 season, and from my corner it is awful good to be back talking with you fellows. Hope the summer was rich and good to you all.

Secretary, 2945 Fairmount Cleveland 18, Ohio

Treasurer, Hunter Lane, Rye, N. Y.