1931
"Ask and ye shall have" holds true with you classmates and wonderful wives of classmates. I have asked for news, little or big, about yourselves or others and from fellows and gals.
All categories have been filled and it is truly wonderful to receive the news that has been coming in regularly and encouragingly.
Someone from Lawrence, Mass., was so anxious to be helpful that he (or she) didn't enclose an identifying note — simply enclosed a clipping which announces that Sam Groves has had another honor (responsibility) bestowed upon him. Some of you might not know it but Sam put in three years at M.I.T. after graduation from Dartmouth.
The news clipping states, "Samuel A. Groves, President of United Carr Fastener Corporation, Cambridge, will serve as chairman for major gifts — among the Institute's 9800 alumni in this area. The Second Century Fund seeks a minimum of $66,000,000 in new capital to underwrite major educational improvements as the institute enters its second century this year."
"When you want a job done well and promptly give it to a busy man" certainly holds true in the case of our Sam - congratulations and success to him in this endeavor!
An article from a Manchester, N. H., paper states that Bill Phinney is still in the public's eye with his law activities in that town. This time Bill represented the city in a water tax case. The article sounded complicated (taxes — no wonder!) and I got lost in the middle of the article. It was obvious the city needed someone like Bill to unravel the problem and I'll bet he did.
A nice letter from Ken Anderson advises that he has been in Indianapolis, Ind., for the last seven years. Too bad I was not up on this fact Ken before this. My company's headquarters are in your town and you can bet your boots the next time I visit the factory you'll get a call from me by phone or in person depending upon my time schedule.
Ken says there is a local but not too strong Dartmouth organization in his area and that during Christmas they had a very nice gettogether and invited about twenty seniors and juniors from local high schools to hear the Dartmouth story. He states, "There is no intense interest in Dartmouth in this area. The strong pull of the good colleges in Ohio and Indiana, plus the opportunity to get a cheaper education in a land grant school, makes our recruiting job all the tougher."
Gordon Derby and Blaine Miller are the two classmates he sees most frequently. "Gordon calls on our office as the local representative for the Commerce Clearing House and Blaine is president of the Excelsior Laundry, to whom I pay a vast amount of money each month." He further reports that his family spent a delightful weekend with John Chamberlin in Syracuse last August and that they try to work in a reunion at least once a year. Incidentally, Blaine is a past president of the Dartmouth group in the Indianapolis area.
For those of you who missed reading the "A Wah Hoo Wah for - " on page 14 of the February ALUMNI MAGAZINE which makes note of the fact that Ken was elected Executive Vice President of Research and Review Service of America, I'd like to have you know it now and to extend our 1931 congratulations to him.
A card from Hanover tells us that big old Dr. John M. Nelson has been elected president of the professional staff at Children's Hospital in Denver, Colo. With a personality like Dr. John's who could stay sick long. It's wonderful big boy - keep it up - the world needs men like you.
Chucker O'Neill keeps chuckin' them in from "Turkey Hill Circle" in Connecticut. He sent two articles, both regarding a difficult decision Charlie McAllister had to make as president of the Scarsdale Golf Club regarding the racial problem. Suffice to say Charlie made the decision and backed it up along with his board of governors.
Craig Thorne gets so many write-ups in The Eastern Underwriter that he keeps Ernie Early '18 busy sending me news o£ his doings. "Beaney" how do you do it? Don't you ever slow up?
Fred Slaughter said he was planning "a two-week combination business and vacation trip (it's completed by now) to California and during the vacation portion, which is scheduled for the La Jolla and San Diego area, I expect to check up on Cliff Power, Vance Dickerman and Bob Zimmerman. I will report to you whatever develops out of this potential miniature reunion." Hope you had a wonderful trip, Fred, and that you met up with the boys. Now keep your promise and tell us all about it.
Fred's letter enclosed a news clipping about Bob Biesel, vice president and a director of General American Transportation Corporation, being elected a director of the LaSalle National Bank.
At the last meeting of the Charles River Dartmouth Club the 31ers were the Boermeesters, the Lovelands and the Wolffs. We were a small group but we had a good time.
While on the subject of Club Meetings it is timely to report that we had a full 1931 table at the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston Annual Dinner as follows - Johnnie Boermeester, Jim Frame, Dave Loveland, "Cub" Miller, "Pete" Peterson, Ken Sampson, Mai Hall, "Hank" McCarthy and Shep Wolff. Our noble Johnnie Benson headed up the head table and the program as president of the Club. "Red" Rolfe kept him company up there.
Several interesting comments were made during dinner — one, the First National Bank of Boston is a mighty institution and we have THREE mighty thirty-oners as directors of it, namely, Sam Groves, Spence Miller and Adrian O'Keefe - two, "Cub" Miller has six grandchildren!
Ed Flynn was spotted by Sid Hayward in a hotel in Amsterdam. We sure do get around. If you had any fun on your European tour we'd enjoy hearing about it Ed.
Charlie Dingman of Princeton, Mass., was selected by the East Longmeadow Housing Authority as Architect for the town's housing project for the elderly. The news announcement emphasizes the fact that. "Dingman is a graduate of Dartmouth College and its School of Architecture."
Charlie Schneider, via Johnnie Benson's class treasury department, announces that his daughter Ann Marie was married last July. Ann and her hubby are stationed at Fort Bliss, Okla. Ann's two brothers, Charlie Jr. '57 and Tuck-Thayer '58 and Pete were ushers. Took a long time to get that one in the column Charlie — bet you thought it got lost by the wayside!
In the March column, I mentioned the fact that "Peanuts" Winslow was at long last to marry a lady from Montreal! In today's mail (3-7-61) Dr. Wallace H. Drake '14 was thoughtful enough to forward a news item in the Boothbay Harbor, Me., paper dated March 2 that reports on the wedding as follows:
Captain Eliot Winslow and his bride of three days, Marjorie Moore, were back in town getting their apartment ready in Boothbay Harbor. Due to the unexpected arrival of a shipload of oil for Central Maine Power Company in Wiscasset, Eliot had to interrupt his honeymoon to Florida until he piloted the ship out to sea. After waiting 52 years to find the one and only Mrs. Winslow, a boat load of oil had to keep him from the honeymoon. Of course, business before pleasure. Hope another tanker will not show up unexpectedly. He was married February 25, in Montreal, to the hostess who served on the "Argo" last summer. Now he is working for her.
Rumors are the bride will sail up the river on the towboat, "Balmy Days," while Capt. Eliot pilots the ship. This is a new kind of honeymoon. Better keep one eye looking back on the towboat, Eliot.
How could this column possibly have been ended better than with this world-shattering report! Thanks Dr. W.H.D. for your support!
It's astonishing and pleasing how many people other than 1931ers are helping out with information about you folks. In fairness to you all, however, you are wonderful, too - to date I have received an answer from EVERYONE to whom I have written. In addition, several wives have taken time out to tell about their families and it's terrific.
Next month's column will be a cinch to prepare and will be comprised of material from answers received from those to whom I have written, plus the nicest short note possible from Margaret Bean. Thanks and good-everything to you all.
Secretary, 36 Shaw Drive, Wayland, Mass.
Class Agent, Potdevin Machine Co. 200 North St., Teterboro, N. J.
