1933
Your Class was second only to '23 in attendance at the Annual Dinner of the Boston Alumni Association with the following faithful present: Paul Cleaves, StanColla, Norm Erlandson, Bob Fox, Sam Gass,Will Jaquith, Tom Maskilieson, John Meek,Johnny Scanlon, Sid Stoneman, Jim Walker,Jim Woods and yours truly. Archie Lade bought a ticket but couldn't make it at the last minute. We all got some inspiration from Jim Walker's dad, '04 and 81 years young, whose presence added to our enjoyment.
Sid Stoneman discretely made no mention of the Alumni Fund on this night of fun but we feel a plug for him and his "vineyard workers" is in order here. The 1961 goal is one million clams. Our Class quota is $22,920. Last year it was $16,740 against which we raised $9,354 when a lot of you fellows were still paying on your Capital Gifts pledges. In 1957, before the Capital Gifts campaign started we raised $15,159. Sure, we've got a long way to go', but here are a few poignant excerpts from a recent letter of Sid's to his agents: "There are many who should be brought on, or back on, the rolls . .. there are probably many who could be giving more than they have in the past... many of us give what we gave last year without regard to changes in our own financial picture and the needs of the college." May we urge that you give it some real serious thought and send your checks in pronto to lighten the loads of Sid and his volunteer aides.
Tris Metcalfe was elected president of the board of trustees of Yonkers Public Library on which he has been serving since 1958. Tris, who is office manager for National Carbon Company, has served as president of his local Community Chest and as District Commissioner of the Bronx Valley Council of Boy Scouts. His hobby is model railroading and we understand that he has an elaborate HO system in his basement. He and Kay live at 21 Puritan Avenue in Tuckahoe, N. Y., and have two children - Susan and Tris III.
Pete Hart's name was sent to the Senate on January 20 for promotion from Class One to the Class of Career Minister in the U. S. Foreign Service. As you know from our previous writings, Pete has devoted his whole career to the Foreign Service, much of it in the Near East and Southern Asia. Our hats off to him on this further step up the ladder in the service of his country.
Norm Erlandson's daughter, Margaret Ann, was married on January 28 to Peter Ellis Brightman who is doing his stint in the Army Signal Corps. As a recent graduate of Dartmouth, Peter had no trouble in convincing Norm of his ready acceptance into the family. As head of L-S Distributors in Watertown, Mass., Norm's days are spent selling and directing the sale of materials handling equipment, made by Lewis, Shephard Co., in this area. Originally, he started, fresh out of Hanover, with the Simmons Co. in a sales capacity and then transferred to sell directly for Lewis, Shephard. He and the late Ralph Colby '35 became associated in L-S Distributors in which, Norm, of course, continues. He is active in many community and church affairs and is always on hand for anything Dartmouth, unheralded, but always pulling more than his weight — a typical example of the many devoted, hard core alumni working for the College without any expectation of reward or glory. From 1943 to 1946, he served with the Navy as a lieutenant. He and Margaret live at 101 Woodlawn Avenue in Wellesley Hills. In addition to the aforementioned Margaret Ann, who followed in her mother's footsteps and graduated from Smith in the class of '60, they have another daughter, Dorothy, presently at Mt. Holyoke.
Another one of you guys got the message. This time our thanks and one of this scribe's brass rings goes to Gil Beebe for a most interesting three page letter. Space limits the coverage it deserves so we will highlight it here and pass it on to Bob Fox in the hope that he can do it justice in the Newsletter. Gil has been concerned with statistics ever since leaving Hanover, serving over the years with: the National Committee on Maternal Health; the Milbank Memorial Fund, the Office of the Surgeon General and currently with the Division of Medical Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council. In 1938 he received an M.A. from Columbia and in 1942 a Ph.D. His present connection took him and his family on a two-year tour at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan to study the effects of radiation, a research study sponsored by the Japanese National Institute of Health and his own organization. His experiences both professionally and socially with the Japanese were most interesting and rewarding. While in Tokyo, he arranged to meet Tony Martin, professor of literature at Waseda University and very active in radio, TV, and newspapers as an authority on English literature.
His tour with: wife, Ruth; Al, sixteen; Beatrice, fourteen; Brian, nine; and Chris, seven, began in July of 1958 with a boat trip to Hawaii, where they stopped for ten days and continued by water to Japan. Their departure from Japan last summer found the family leaving Kobe by ship and arriving at Marseilles, France with many stops enroute. Gil had to follow by plane but managed to work in several interesting detours enroute. As a complete family again, they toured Europe by car, making their own schedule, avoiding tourist hotels and traveling without reservations. After four weeks on the Continent, they spent a week in England, separating again in September, with the family returning to the States via La Liberte and Gil going back to attend a UN-WHO seminar in Geneva, which included a most pleasurable drive to return the car to Marseilles. Back at 1322 Stafford Road, Hollin Hills, Alexandria, Va., they are looking forward to returning to Japan for the Academy in a couple of years and using the experience of this trip to make the next one even more rewarding and enjoyable.
Mel Katz (remember him - he's the guy you're going to advise well in advance about Brown weekend next fall) made a fast business trip to Paris, Barcelona and Lisbon and then went to Aspen, Colo., to join his family there for skiing. Accompanying Mel's letter was a picture of "The Skiers of the Week," Mel's three children: Ginny, age fourteen; Bob '62 and Bill '60 (currently in his second year at Tuck), receiving the award from Sepp Uhl, instructor at the Aspen Ski School. Bill is a ski instructor in Hanover and plans to enter military service directly from Tuck. Bob is a member of the ski patrol and a partner in the Hanover Advertising Agency, a student venture. With Mel, Ruth and' the boys all ardent skiers, Ginny has been wedded to the boards since age six.
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