1940

Football games and reunions occupy a large part of the available news this month. After the Big Green's outstanding performance last Saturday in the Yale Bowl there is a firmer conviction that we can go all the way now after getting the bad one out of our system at Harvard. By the time this appears in print the season will be over and the chips counted and you can judge how cloudy my crystal ball was. The Brown game drew a goodly-sized group most of whom soaked up a fair amount of rain by staying to the bitter end of Dartmouth's romp. Among those seen in the stands or at our house afterwards were Stet Whitcher,Jack Moody, John Moore, Don Rainie, Dizde Sieyes, Staff King, Bob Lake, Fred Porter,Ron Woodberry, Bill ire, Ken Arwe,Powell Holbein, Bill Rearden, Fred Miller,Cliff Holmes and Bud Swenson. Joe Bird had to cancel out the last minute because of

"pressures of business" at Langley Field, Va., where he was keeping his weather eye focused on "Operation Skysweep" and other matters prompted by Mr. K. Most of the above group had their brides with them but their attendance in the stadium was not as exemplary as their husbands. They made up for it with unusual displays of charm and grace during the evening's festivities however.

The weather at Cambridge was ideal even if the final score was not. The only familiar face I saw there was Mickey Miller who had done what I was doing which was introducing young sons to the Harvard Pee-rade. Fred Porter and his family were up from Connecticut too but I missed seeing them. This past weekend at Yale both the score and the weather were co-operating to the fullest and a wonderful day in the Bowl was enjoyed by Diz de Sieyes, Beezie Smallwood, Jack Moody, Eddie Miller, Al Eisaman, Ted Gates, Sid Harrington, HughDryfoos, Fred Porter and some others I probably missed. No doubt Jake Powell was keeping things secure over on the Yale side, where his biggest problem was not keeping the goalposts intact but the TV cameras from being swamped by all and sundry who wanted to get in the act. Diz and Gina hosted a really superb weekend houseparty for the Moodys, Smallwoods and MacMillens just one of the highlights of which was a post game dinner party which included, among others, Pat and Eddie Miller and Peg and Bert Blake, recent converts to Connecticut suburbia from Garden City, Long Island. There's something exhilarating about an Ivy League stadium on a fall Saturday afternoon, and it doesn't all come from the tail-gate luncheon cocktails. If you haven't tried it lately bestir yourself from the TV set and make one of the treks —it will be fun to see you.

Several promotions are good news this month. In Nashua, N. H., Byron "Manny"Mansfield has recently been appointed Controller of the J. F. McElwain Co., assuming all the financial responsibilities of their operations. He is one of the first home-grown products to rise to a top spot in that huge shoe organization. He has been a director since 1960, after starting in the Purchasing Department in 1946 and becoming Purchasing Agent in 1958. Manny is also a Trustee of the Nashua Hospital Association and a Director of the local Red Cross chapter and the Nashua Trust Company.

Out in California, Scotty Rogers has been made a vice president of Parker Hannifin Corp., the parent organization in Cleveland of the Parker Seal Co. which he heads as president. Scotty has been East at least once since reunion when he spent four days in New York attending a sales conference, with time out for a couple of nights on the town. He is learning how to support two tennis stars in his family since both Scott and Gina are playing in, and often winning, junior tournaments around Southern California. Scotty keeps at least one hand in Dartmouth affairs ,by interviewing and enrollment work in West Los Angeles.

After thirteen-and-a-half years with Sylvania Electric Chal Carothers resigned to head up the sales of a small, incandescent and fluorescent lamp manufacturer in Hoboken. It's the Marvel Lamp Co. who will be signing his paychecks from now on. Chat's move to Morristown, N. J., takes all the '40's out of Byfield, Mass., since Maryand Rollie Hillas also left last month for the Chicago area.

Bob Weil wrote that his daughter, Virginia, who is a freshman at Wheaton (following in her mother's shoes) was to be a guest at Dartmouth during that rainy Brown weekend.

A few nights ago we went to the 25th celebration of the founding of the Hanover Consumer's Co-operative and there ran into Bob O'Brien who is now a director of the association. He and Ann left Puerto Rico about four years ago to return to Tunbridge, Vt., and a farm he had purchased while in school here. They have remodeled and restored the old farmhouse and are now raising sheep in that beautiful area which is the delight of all knowing photographers. Bob has recently authored a booklet on "The Beginnings of Tunbridge" in connection with that town's Bicentennial this year.

Sunday's paper carried a picture of Attorney Steve Jewett looking over plans for two million dollars' worth of school construction and renovations over in Laconia. Steve is a member of the Laconia School Board and chairman of the over-all building committee so is primarily responsible for the success of the program.

Since this will be your last chance to bring your directories up to date before checking through your Christmas card list you might want to know of these moves:

Myles S. Charlton, 60 Ferguson Ave., Broomall, Pa.; Lt. Comdr. Fred Ewing Jr., Glen Farms, Newport, R. I.; Clifford A. Falkenau, 12 River Rd., Severna Park, Md.; George G. Hoag 11, 1106 Somerset Lane, Newport Beach, Calif.; George E. Sommers, Franklinville, N. J.; Gordon K. Wentworth, 70 Old Farm Rd., Wellesley Hills 81, Mass.

To all of you a Merry Christmas.

Martin Rubin '40, Carl Funke '35 andVince Turecamo '37, New York stalwarts, were part of the large alumni turnout as new club quarters were opened.

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

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