1944

Seeing how Nervous Nikita steals the headlines with his bomb-rattlings, it's only fitting that we feature our counter-weapon, Maj. Fred Hickey. Fred recently graduated with honors from the Nuclear Weapons Employment Officers Course at Fort Leavenworth; this course is designed to train general staff officers in the use of nuclear weapons. A graduate of both Dartmouth and the U.S. Military Academy, Fred also received his Master's in science from Georgia Tech. He, Emily and the two children are now at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs.

Elsewhere in the military, Col. HowieJohns is at Loring AFB as Bomb Wing Deputy Commander. There was a good picture of him in the Portland, Me., Telegram. He doesn't seem to have changed a bit. If it weren't for his beautiful seventeen-year-old daughter, Mary Ann, accompanying him in the photo, you'd swear the picture was taken twenty years ago in Hanover. Lt. Comdr. Bob Gilford is currently stationed in Alexandria, Va. Maj. GeneCallaghan is at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Ala., and Col. Dick Paul has it nicely arranged down in Coral Gables, Fla.

Bob Colwell was kind enough to send me a complete set of brochures on JoeGarry's Roaring Brook Ranch at Lake George. Very impressive layout, to say the least. Apparently Joe partakes of the weekly rodeos, even to the extent of riding those bucking broncos. Between him and DonPfeifle, '44s have got complete, year-round resort facilities.

Bill McElnea has been elected to the ard of directors of Nedick's Stores, Inc., another in his growing list of directorships. Since 1956 Bill has been a general partner in the investment firm of Van Alstyne, Noel and Co., members of the New York Stock Exchange. Bill's other directorships include Atlas Sewing Centers, Inc., Montrose Chem- ical Co., Kin-Ark Oil Co., One-Hour Valet, Inc., L. E. Waterman Pen Co., Ltd., WPC Enterprises, Inc., Air Control Products, Inc., and the New Idria Mining and Chemical Co.

Phil W. Brown has been elected general sales manager and vice-president of North and Judd Manufacturing Co., New Britain, Conn. Phil joined the company in 1946. He is also a director of North and Judd, Ltd., London and of Hook-Flex Canadian Ltd., Montreal. And, of course, Bill McElnea has been elected to another board. He is now a director of Nedick's Stores, Inc. in New York. Norm McWilliams has been transferred to Sprague Electric Company's new plant in Plymouth, N. H., as industrial relations manager.

Dick Ranger and Malcolm McLoud are throwing a Dartmouth party in Birmingham, Mich., this weekend, a non-fund-raising, non-job-assigning, B.Y.O.L. event. The B.Y.0.L. chivalrously invites you to Bring Yer O1' Lady. I'm hoping to get together with Russ Isner this week to look over some new bread making machinery. Apparently he's getting in some good golf this year, but modestly prefers talking about his new buttermilk loaf.

The Springfield-Monarch Insurance Co. has elected Ben Jones as vice-president in charge of Monarch agency operations. Ben has been a leader in the Monarch field organization for the past fourteen years, starting as a personal producer and rising through the ranks of management. His last field post was as the first in the company to be appointed regional sales vice-president. Ben first gained recognition as his agency's leading producer in 1947. Shortly thereafter he became the first in the company's history to sell over $1 million of live insurance in one year. In 1954, his first year as general agent in the Cleveland area, health and accident insurance sales increased 98% and life insurance production was up 139%. In ensuing years he maintained equally spectacular gains. Ben will move his home from Shaker Heights back to New England.

Jay Dinsmore is now making his home in Honolulu. Hawaiian native, John Peacock is operating from Hilo on the big island. The Washington, D. C., area is rapidly replacing Boston as the greatest concentration point for '44s. Tom Breen, with Industrial Agency, Inc. is now down there, living in Alexandria. Marsh Clark, who incidentally was married to Mrs. Vallary Willis Shepard of Greenwich in August, is now making Washington his home. The Don Burnhams, long Washington natives, have moved to a new home in Bethesda.

Dr. Frank Behrle is with the Department of Pediatrics at Seton Hall College of Medicine in Jersey City. Dr. Ward Weimer has skipped across the Sound and is now practicing in West Islip, one of the finest areas on Long Island. The Pennsylvania doctors have been actively on the'move, Gordie Vanden Noort in Bryn Mawr; Jim Deakins in Wayne, and Jim White in Chadds Ford.

The distinction of first board chairman from the class goes to Bill White who was recently elected president and chairman of Brewer Pharmacal Engineering Corp. in Upper Darby, Pa.

Win Martin, senior staff marketing consultant with Arthur D. Little, Inc. in Boston, is now making his home in Wayland, Mass. Down in Chattanooga, Hardie Caldwell was recently named to the board of trustees of the McCallie School. A vicepresident and secretary of the Tennessee Stove Works, Hardie has long been active in civic affairs and has had particular interest in the McCallie School where his father has served on the school board and where his eldest son, Hardie III is now a student.

Renshaw Smith is territorial sales manager for the Continental Can Company, living and working out of N.Y.C. Gil Frank, another New Yorker, is a stock broker with Reynolds and Co.

John Berry and bride Rae Van Orman were married in late May, honeymooned in Hawaii. Monty Sayce and his bride, Athena Anne Caragianis of Charlestown, N. H., married in July, elected to go to Europe for their wedding trip. They will make their home in the San Francisco area.

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