1938

A good man prepares for his vocation diligently and then follows through to success. When he does a turnabout in a completely new direction there is usually something sad or great that is motivating him. Two of our classmates have made this Big Change ... and both following in the Way of the Lord as Christian Ministers. Their motivation was great. One is Bob Harvey and the other... Telfer Mook. We have talked some in this column about Bob ... seeing him in Hanover a few years ago with his sons ... and knowing how happy he was ... even with some poverty in many of the material things we might enjoy ... but really a rich guy.

We haven't talked much about Telfer, and we should. We might remember him as a kindly gentleman, a good tennis player, a tall, thin, Jersey boy from Pingry Prep in Elizabeth ... a big kid, like you and I, who wondered then what this man Hitler might have wrought on us. And that was long ago.

A decade ago Telfer Mook was a lawyer in Des Moines, lowa, apparently in a groove and on his way in the barrister business. He had prepared well for the law. He had attended Cambridge University in England after Hanover, and was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1942. From there Mookie entered the Navy and got his first taste of missionary work in the Mariana Islands of the South Pacific. At Tinian, he became director of education for the military government of the island.

Four years out of the Navy, Telfer was in Des Moines when he made the big decision to join the ministry. Today he is the Reverend Telfer Mook, Boston, India-Ceylon Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions of the Congregational Christian Churches. He prepared for his post with the American Board by spending eighteen months in India and Ceylon, returning to this country in time to assume his duties last June.

While overseas, Tel observed the work of the Board's many activities and devoted much of his time to a study of social and economic conditions in those two countries. As a regional secretary, he is administrative head of all work carried on among the Tamil-speaking people of the Jaffna Peninsula, Ceylon, of the Madura Mission in South India, and of the Marathi Mission in Bombay.

The Reverend Mook has made a Great Change for the Big Cause. With him in his work are his wife and four children.

The cold, cruel toll marking death in flight has rung the second time in 1960 for a member of the Class. First it was Navy Captain, Bob Carrol. Now it is Tom Richmond of 17 Oriole Avenue, Bronxville, N. Y. Tom had been a passenger on United's DC-8 from Chicago, which crashed into a TWA Constellation over Staten Island, N. Y., in mid-December. Tom was a great member of the Class and a fighting Marine Officer in War II. His obituary will run in the next issue of this MAGAZINE.

Sandy Mills did a great job for the College and Cleveland Dartmouth Men and young prospects just before Christmas. On the provincial side, we've told you what a goin' outfit this Cleveland gang is for the College. Well, they put on a good show at Christmas time. There were 235 Alumni, undergrads, 1965 Prospects and Dads. Red Rolfe '31 was the speaker from the College, and old Yankee Number 10 did all right... and we hope that Hanover's Toots Shor, Jim McFate, is tuned in. Jim, who manages the Inn, is more a member of everybody's class than Corey Ford, and he can't ever get off Rolfe's back. Well, as far as the Cleveland Alumni goes, the Redhead is the toast of our banquet circuit while we feel that McFate should do a little more practising over Inn coffee with Coaches Musick and Hamilton before he "plays" in West Leb. Anyway ... there was a good-looking bunch of prospects at the lunch and they were treated fine ... plenty of brawn mixed with a hell of a lot of brains.

Grover Harvey Fox, 36 South Golden West, Arcadia, Calif., is a great salesman with R. R. Donnelley and Sons of Chicago. His wife is Doris Kent Fox. Son Michael is a freshman at the University of California, Berkeley where he pledged Chi Phi. The younger Duncan is a junior in high school and a fair hand at basketball. Grover was best man at Jack Slattery's April wedding in San Francisco. Grover moved the family to the Coast in August. They are located only a mile from Santa Anita and the welcome is out for classmates.

A little guy, perhaps, but possessed of a great spirit and loved by those of us who have gotten to know him is Charlie Newman. Bud, as we called him back in Crosby Hall, has been named Personnel Manager of the Permacel Division of Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, N. J. He and Gertrude have two sons, Peter, thirteen, and Merrill, ten. The family visited Hanover this summer.

That brings me to a line that I hear at all of these Dartmouth food fests. It quotes like this "Do you think you could get into Dartmouth today with these tough requirements?" The obvious answer sought by the interrogator is, of course, "NO." Well, when I see the guys I went to school with, and know as much as I do of what they've done, I'm quick to say "Yes," even at the risk of continuing my reputation as one blessed or cursed with malarkeyitis. The Men of 1938 met the requirements of their day and they'd meet 'em today, if need be. So be it.

Johnny Duguid, Freshman Firstbaseman and Kool Karacter all the way, is "learnin' 'em" math as a faculty member of New Canaan High down Connecticut way. He got his Master's at Connecticut in 1956 and preps for bigger things during the summer at Clark University. Dr. David Bradley, medico, scholar, author, is teaching English for a year at the University in Helsinki, Finland. Good skiing, too. Howie Moulton is a hotelman, last heard of running the Lewis Bay Lodge at Hyannis, Mass.

There is another Democrat in the Class, and he wrote just to assure Martin King that he was not the only one. Besides he is raising a family of them. It's William P.Sherman. He writes: "I've been active in local Democratic politics for the last ten years, and my daughter, Ellen, fifteen, was an active volunteer this year in the local Farmers for Kennedy. Other Democrats are my wife, Marge, daughters, Barbara thirteen, and Jill, ten, and last, but not least, Bill Jr., whom we hope will be a good Dartmouth prospect as well." (No equal time for Republicans.)

This is being written on the Second of January, and we wish all of you a wonderful New Year 'n' Gawd Bless Yer Greying Hides.

The '39 group at the Dartmouth Regional Conference in Oklahoma City enjoyed the opportunity to get together. The quintet includes (l to r) Grover Spillers, Paul O'Brien, Ed Oppenheim, Dick Shaw, and Roger Stanwood, all from west of the Mississippi.

Secretary, 2945 Fairmount Cleveland 18, Ohio

Treasurer, Hunter Lane, Rye, N. Y.