1937

Before I report to you on anything else, I wish to pass on two letters which I have been saving ever since early this summer. Both arrived just after I wrote the last column before summer vacation, which explains why they haven't appeared earlier. The first is a letter from Eric Rafter, one of our attorneys out on the West Coast. This spring, when the Glee Club visited Southern California, the Rafters acted as hosts for five of the boys. By luck of the draw, one of them was Tom Brooks '62, son of our own Larry Brooks. Eric sent me a color picture of the group as evidence of the visit. But since we can't get a print for the column from color prints, I am holding the photograph to add to my small collection which I will pass on to our next secretary.

Which reminds me that Halsey Bullen came by my house the other night to give me some prints of pictures he took at our last Reunion. Pictures like the one adjacent. Will all these handsome people be on hand in June? And do any more of you have pictures taken at earlier reunions which you would be willing to send to me? I would like very much to fill up an album with photographs like this.

The second letter held over from early summer comes from Bob Ewing, proprietor of Swim Queen Pools of Florida, Inc. at Hollywood, Fla. His letter reads like this:

In 24 years I've met real few Dartmouthers of our or any class - once upon a time saw Sherm Murphy asleep in a chair at Atlanta Airport during the war - have seen Art Ekirch at his home near Washington - saw Roge Allen a couple of times - period.

So — perhaps a story for your column: In Ft. Lauderdale recently I'd been attracted by a handsome store on exclusive Las Olas Blvd. featuring a "Down East" shoe cobbler from Maine cobbling a pair of moccasins in the window.

This began a long series of visits trying to get this Florida establishment to get their Maine headquarters to send down one pair of leather materials to construct moccasins of my size.

This took weeks of visits pleading with them to needle Maine into shipping the skins down for my mocs . . . eventually the proprietor and I discovered that we both were pilots. ... I then ventured that on all my visits he had looked familiar and I'd thought I'd met him somewhere.

More talk of flying, then of flying in New England and lo and behold, Dartmouth was mentioned and I find I'm doing business with Julian Leslie of our class!

Since then, more visits, more purchases of shoes, the long overdue arrival of my hunks of leather and their being cobbled into mocs. News today is that Julian has just bought a new Cessna plane. ... I fly its competitor, a Piper Comanche.

My spies in Cleveland tell me that we have a budding television personality being developed in the person of Warren Crumbine, vice-president of the National City Bank of Cleveland. It seems that Warren appears on the airways Friday evenings and Saturday mornings, explaining how his bank operates an electronic device for sorting checks. We understand that Crummy doesn't use "idiot" cards, but rather memorizes his spiel which he puts over in a dignified and convincing manner. How soon, Warren, are you coming to New York to expand your TV career?

Several short items which I have not reported to you before. Bob Areson, who practices as an internist in Upper Montclair, N. J., recently elected president of the Essex County Medical Association. DougButman, a senior physician in the Division of Medicine, has been named chairman of the executive committee of the medical staff of the Waltham (Mass.) Hospital. LansingMoore has become president of Corman, Ciangio and Faxon, Inc., New York merchandising and sales promotion firm. Lanny formerly was vice-president and account supervisor of Chirurg and Cairns Inc., New York and Boston advertising agency. Bob Marschalk had his name and picture in all the New York newspapers the other day with the announcement of his election to the presidency of Richardson-Merrell, Inc., the large pharmaceutical and chemical company. Bob started in 1937 as a sales trainee with this company (then known as Vick Chemical Co.), and has worked his way up with assignments as a corporate vice-president in 1952 and executive vice-president in 1957.

And still more of these quickies. Carl Ray, who was named vice-president for marketing of the Royal Mcßee Corp. last February, has now been elected a director of the company. Phil Robertson, elected president of the board of trustees of Franconia College, Franeonia, N. H. H. E. (Gene) Jones, appointed senior vice-president of Farrington Manufacturing Company in charge of Electralab and three other Farrington subsidiaries.

Enough for now. Have you sent Bill Rotch the material he needs for our Twenty-Five Year Book?

Secretary, 25 Old Stamford Rd. New Canaan, Conn.

Treasurer, 17 High St., Greenfield, Mass.