1951

It's Labor Day. While the proletariat are enjoying beer, baseball, picnics, and all of the other benefits of umpteen paid holidays a year and the 35-hour work week, others of us are toiling in the vineyards of the Green to provide Charlie Widmayer with copy to fill his October issue (helped along, I should add, at least in my case, by G-and-T's).

Top billing in my book goes to GaryMansur, who was weak enough to consent to take care of the Reunion writeup so I could enjoy three more days of a vacation cut short because of work on a brief designed to make Sunday puritanical in Pennsylvania. Mansur was too modest to include mention of the fact that he was accompanied at Reunion by Marge Beddeos, a charming lovely and graduate of Fisher Junior College, who, he insisted, was his fiancee. If we are to believe the press, the knot was actually tied on July 9.

As for Mansur's Reunion writeup, I have one comment in self-defense. That is that I wish to apologize to all the members of the Class who are Protestant but not Episcopalians for discriminating against them by not including them in my jokes. Between now and next reunion, I shall industriously accumulate a collection on Presbyterians, Methodists, Congregationalists, Lutherans, Baptists, et al.

In addition to Mansur, other class members have been at work in decimating the ranks of that 15% who, according to Smallwood's directory, are, or were, still unattached. On May 6, Harry Berwick marched down the aisle in Holyoke with Beverly Pratt of Springfield, Mass. A school marm from South Hadley, Beverly is a Wheaton graduate.

Bob Pack took the fatal leap with Patricia Powell of Monterrey, Mexico, in that city on June 24. Pat is a Phi Bete graduate of Barnard doing graduate work at Columbia. On June 25 in New Canaan, Conn., it was Dave Batchelder and Laura Leonard. Laura joins the Dartmouth family by way of Bradford Junior College.

There's one more. It's an engagement as of the moment but should be permanent by the time you read these words in print. Judith Dietrich said "yes" to Charlie Hood. Her credentials include Wellesley, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Junior League of Albany. We also learn that Charlie has been nominated as a member of the Contact Club of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.

Marriage leads inevitably to the propagation of future Dartmouth men. Maybe by 1978, the College will be co-ed so that BobLeavitt's new daughter, Rosemary Allison, can make the grade. With a daughter already on the scene, Maribel and HarryJohnson took no chances .when they adopted a boy, Carlton William.

So now on to the problem of how (outside of the joint return and exemptions) to support one's wife and offspring. The Senate eventually got around to confirming Berl Bernhard as Staff Director of the Civil Rights Commission. From what the New York Times had to say about Berl's salary, our new Head Class Agent's first job should be to hie himself to Washington to make sure that the Civil Rights Commission does not expire on November 9, as it will with- out further legislation.

Fellow lawyer Dick Pugh has returned to Columbia, his law school alma mater, as an assistant professor of law. Dick had been associated with one of those New York law factories for a while. Also among the professionals, Giles Hamlin, general and chest surgeon, has joined the staff of the Olean (New York) Medical Group.

Academically, we're holding our own, too. Bill Pardee is now Assistant Professor of Crop Extension in the Department of Agronomy of the University of Illinois. Ray Mullin has been appointed librarian and faculty member in English at Berkshire (Mass.) Community College. Ken Woody becomes an Instructor in History at Wesleyan University (Conn.). Larry Green is now teaching English at Canton (Mass.) High School.

In the business world, we turn first to the money men. Sel Atherton has been named assistant vice president in the commercial section of the Agricultural National Bank, Pittsfield, Mass. Jim Culberson is now assistant vice president of the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company in Greensboro, N. C.

George Bissell has been appointed to the research staff of industrial specialists of Massachusetts Investors Trust and Massachusetts Investors Growth Fund. Charlie Russell has been named underwriter in the automobile, compensation, and liability division of the casualty underwriting department of Travelers Insurance Companies.

Finally, there are those who raise money for causes other than Dartmouth. AndyPincus has been appointed assistant executive director of the Morris County (N. J.) Community Chest. We're expecting to see some of that turn up in next year's Alumni Fund!

That's it for October. A week or two ago, I doubted that I'd have enough material. But Loye Miller has been hoarding a few goodies, and Alumni Records came through with another batch. November has me worried. though. In his scurrilous first edition of the Class Newsletter, Al Karcher suggested that you send the complaints to me. The type of complaints I'm interested in are marriages, engagements, births, promotions, new jobs, etc. Send the hangover complaints to Karcher.

While I'm at it, let me invite all '51's who come down to see the Big Green slaughter Penn in Philadelphia on Saturday, October 7, to a cocktail party after the game. The Dartmouth Club of Philadelphia is sponsoring a wingding in the Egyptian Room (that's right, among the mummies) of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, across South Street from Franklin Field. Unfortunately, I'll be in Hanover for the Club Officers Weekend, but Rollins-Chapel-bells-would-be-ringer Sam Roberts, and other '51's, will be on hand to make you feel at home in the City of Brotherly Love.

Three generations of Harts pose for thecamera. They include (l to r) BenjaminHart, age 3, Jeff Hart '5l, and grandfatherCliff Hart '21. Jeff is now an assistantprofessor of English at Columbia.

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