1940

Since this is being written two weeks before the Brown game and the informal class reunion during that weekend, I can only speculate on that affair. However the plans sound good and if the elements co-operate as they did at the New Hampshire game (shirt sleeve weather) and Bob Blackman's stalwarts perform as ably as they did against New Hampshire, then everything will "come up roses." At this stage there are about thirty expected to gather on the Hanover Plain. A sizable group is staying at the Keene's and the rest are scattered around town. The first order of business is the Saturday morning preview of our reunion movies. If there is a demand for it the class films will be shown too. As I remember the last showing Hal Hillman was in the middle of a ski run when the fuse blew for the last time, so it would be good to get him off that hill.

The next order of business will be the class cocktail party following the game, and then a roast beef buffet at the Norwich Inn before settling down to serious celebration of Dartmouth's anticipated victory. Sunday morning is reserved for a tour of the Hopkins Center which has grown amazingly since you were here in June.

One of the pleasant functions of freshman orientation week is the reception given for advisors to meet their advisees for the first time. All the parents who have delivered their sons are urged to attend also which is the reason I saw Dee Jones for the first time in many years. In case you haven't seen the advertising tycoon from Chicago either for a while he is the handsome gentleman on the left in the accompanying picture. If he looks happy there with Bob Raclin you should have seen him last month as he and Barbara were introducing young Dewitt Lane Jones III to the campus. Dee will probably be back here in February for the Freshman Father's Weekend.

Others eligible for this club are five other classmates with sons in 1965. They are Johnny Case, Cliff Holmes, Bill Mercer, FredMiller and Jim Scott. With five sons of '40 in the sophomore class and Bob Joslin's boy in the junior class you are readily reminded of fleeting time and I am sure there is ample evidence elsewhere. It will be a big time four years hence when these six attend their sons' graduation and their own 25th Reunion in the same week!

The picture incidentally was taken and sent in by Jack McDonald who had rounded up Dee Jones, Bob Raclin, Syd Craig and Bud Raymond at the Chicago Dartmouth picnic last August to tell them about reunion. He also had seen Nick Turkevitch at a Dartmouth luncheon in the Windy City where Nick came last December from Houston, Texas, when he switched from being Director of Market Research for Continental Oil Co., to the same position in the D'Arcy Advertising Agency in Chicago.

There were three other classmates in town last month, two seen and one unseen by me. Calhoun Sterling and his wife were registered in the Inn over the New Hamp shire game weekend but efforts to contact them failed. However we did catch up with Bobbie and Jack Cowan who had brought their three boys up to Hanover for the first time and their first Ivy League game. Jack's employer, Spencer Kellogg and Co., was recently taken over by Textron but he expects no change in his own duties as district sales manager. A week or two previous Staff King dropped in at the house on his way to a convention at Lake Fairlee. It all sounded very business-like with golf games scheduled for two days and cocktail parties filling in the rest of the free time! I'm sure Staff sold more than his quota of meters for Sangamo Electric during the trip however. He and Ruthie move to their summer place on Winnipesaukee the day after their five kids get out of school and stay until the bell rings in the fall. This year Staff Jr. worked for Johnnie Lillis at his boat yard on the lake.

A nice letter from my old roommate, Bill Duncan, told of a week's trip to the Cape this summer and another week spent around Connecticut but no time for a swing up to Hanover. Bill and Lois have three candidates for carnival queens a few years hence. To accommodate their growing family he's about to start adding on to his house in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield.

The middle of September Gina and Diz sic Sieyes took their two boys on a week's holiday to the Virgin Islands. Once airborne the captain of the flight was announced as Sid Harrington which made Diz feel a lot safer. Sid took the boys up into the cockpit of the Pan-Am jet which gave them a great thrill.

Bob Marshall wrote in response to SamWilliams' newsletter invitation to the Brown weekend reunion that it would be too far for Traudy and him to come from Phoenix. Instead of stalking New Hampshire grouse as he used to do, he's enjoying the Arizona dove season.

A summer letter from John Fitzgerald said he had been filling in lots of buddies on last June's reunion names and faces. He had seen Don McCaffrey and had written JimTredup and Rick Davidson and phoned RedHerman. Incidentally, Johnnie, I hope you signed them up for the big one four years hence. The source of many of these letters has been Don Rainie who received them by way of thank-yous for the marvelous color candid pictures he took all reunion time and then sent to the people involved. The ones I saw were brutally frank in the too-bright sun of the morning-after but are wonderful to have to jog the memories of those two days of fun.

Another such note from Sid Phillips also told about a ten-day whirlwind trip to England that he and Jane took the end of the summer. His efforts to contact Brownie were fruitless because he and Joyce were on the Continent at that same time.

There have been several promotions and changes of jobs to record this month. For those of you who carry the new class directory when you travel, or try to keep a Christmas card list, or even just write to a former buddy you had better make changes therein as follows: Bob McElwain has been appointed district sales manager for the Baltimore area of Northeast Airlines operations; Roily Hillas, who has been in the insurance field for over 21 years, has been appointed sales manager of the special accounts division of the Allstate Companies in Skokie, Ill. He will be moving to Chicagoland from Wakefield, Mass., where he was manager of agency services for American Mutual Liability; Dave Dance has been appointed general manager of the Household Refrigerator Department at General Electric's plant in Louisville.

Keeping the movers busy have been:

Edwin P. Bartlett to 455 Aberdeen St., Lewiston, N. Y.; Morgan P. Dickerman to Box 423, Wilson, N. C.; Raymond S. Kantor to 75 Sunnyside Court, Milford, Conn.; Robert P. McElwain to 6603 Ei Glenbarr Court, Baltimore 34, Md.; John H. McMahon to 116 Lake Ave., Ridgewood, N. J.; Gilbert W. Moreau to P.O. Box 892, Naples, Fla.; William E. Sides to 103 Osborne Lane, Southport, Conn.; E. Webster Whitney to Box 5085, Dearborn, Mich.

Secretary, 5 North Balch St. Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, 88 North Main St., Concord, N. H.