1941
Again it is time for the young men's fancies to turn to spring. How young we are after twenty years of strife in the cold, cruel world is a debatable issue which in most instances only our wives are qualified to decide. Nevertheless it is already an established fact that with the approach of spring more and more "old grads" are making preparations for the celebration of the exodus of spring in Hanover.
The latest report from Reunion Chairman Bob Taft is that the number of classmates who have indicated their definite intention of being on hand for our Twentieth Reunion has increased to 75 and that another thirty classmates hope to be on hand - circumstances permitting. This means that the anticipated attendance for our Twentieth Reunion already surpasses the actual attendance for our Fifteenth Reunion five years ago when approximately 97 classmates journeyed to Hanover.
Dave McKinney has been appointed marketing manager of the Rossotti Lithograph Corporation, North Bergen, N. J. Since 1959 he has been production manager for the company, which designs and produces multi-colored packaging. Prior to joining Rossotti, Dave was marketing research and sales manager for the Metal Wash Machinery Corporation, Elizabeth, N. J. The McKinney family includes wife Constance and two sons, James Alan, 13, and Donald Lee, 9. They make their home in Murray Hill, N.J.
As the "Happy Warrior" used to say: "Let's get the record straight." Thus there is no time like the present for correcting two misstatements contained in this column in the last issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. John White does not live in Maine and he is therefore not a member of the Dartmouth Club of Maine. John, who is already definitely committed to being on hand for the Twentieth Reunion, lives in Madison, N. J. There promises to be a lot of high-priced talent on hand for reunion, such as John, who is assistant to the President of Fisher-Stevens, Inc. of Clifton: N. J., a direct mail addressing concern that services the medical professions and allied trades for the pharmaceutical industry.
While on the subject, on behalf of the Class Officers and the Reunion Chairman, I would like to make another thing straight for the record. ALL are urged to return for reunion and will be welcomed by every member of the class present - big or small, rich or poor. We hope that no one will stay away merely because he is not yet a vice-president or a member of the Board of Directors.
Now for my second correction: Reed K. McKenzie, who is a member of the present freshman class, is the son of the remarried widow of our departed classmate, Albert Reed King.
Some people write a lot but say nothing. This is not so with Merle Perkins and Robbins Barstow, two of our educators. Merle's 157-page-work, entitled "The Moral and Political Philosophy of Abbe de Saint-Pierre," has been jointly published by the Librarie E. Droz of Geneva and the Librarie Minard of Paris, where Merle presently resides. His book is an attempt to "find the intellectual heart of Saint-Pierre's moral and political philosophy" and to measure and evaluate its impact and importance. Robbins authored an article entitled "Where the Professor Stands" which appeared in the October 1960 issue of the "Connecticut Teacher."
Jake Gidney is working hard as a member of the committee now engaged in raising funds for the erection of the "Tom Dent Cabin" in Dartmouth's Gile Forest in tribute to Tom Dent who retired last June as head coach of lacrosse and soccer, after 36 years of service to the college. Jake, a certified public accountant, is a partner of Haskins and Sells, one of the nation's foremost accounting firms. Jake is assigned to the Buffalo office. He and Margaret are planning on making the June pilgrimage to Hanover from their home in Williamsville, N. Y., a Buffalo suburb.
Charlie Putnam of West Acton, Mass. was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Boston Clearing House at its 1960 annual meeting. Put is a banker who specializes in personal trusts. He is Investment Officer with the First National Bank of Boston and the Old Colony Trust Company, also of Boston. His fourth son was born last November.
Don Samuel of Scarsdale, N. Y., was recently elected president of the Energy Fund, a mutual investment fund.
Whenever Ed Fell and Lew Johnstone are in New York City on business, they make the Dartmouth Club of New York their base of operations. Ed, who heads a West Hartford, Conn., concern that promotes sales for book publishers, regrets that compulsory attendance at a business convention in Washington will prevent him from attending Reunion. Lew was elected to the Executive Committee of the General Alumni Association of Dartmouth College at its annual meeting held in Hanover last June.
The major triumph of the 1960 football season of the Big Green eleven was the performance of Al Rozycki, who was the individual standout and who earned just about all the honors possible for a player of his native talents. If it had not been for the Herculean efforts of one of our classmates, he might never have attended Dartmouth. Rozycki received scholarship aid from the High School Awards program of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Chicago. Stacy Hill heads up this program and he is now in the process of engineering its expansion. Stace is also a Director of the Chicago Association. Stace, another investment banker, is manager of the Investment Advisory Department of the Chicago office of Glore, Forgan and Company.
Another big gun in the Chicago Association is Ralph Johnson. Last August he was host to the Association's picnic outing on his beautiful nineteen-acre estate in Bellwood, Ill. Ralph is Secretary-Treasurer of J. W. Johnson Company, a canvas manufacturing concern.
Rich Fisher and Jack Devor are charter members of the newly-formed Dartmouth Club of New Canaan, Conn. Rich is vice-president and treasurer of the Hartford insurance and real estate concern of Herbert F. Fisher, Inc.
Out California way two of our brethren have been busily engaged conveying their impressions to alumni gatherings. Nobel prize winner, Owen Chamberlain, was one of the guest speakers at the 79th annual business meeting-dinner held in San Francisco last April by the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Northern California and Nevada. Bill Danforth presented his impressions of the last winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, to a luncheon gathering of the Dartmouth Outing Club of Northern California.
If many more classmates gain seats as officers of Alumni Associations and Clubs throughout the country, someone is going to cry "fix." Ed Martin of Wellesley, Mass., another banker, was i960 president of the Charles River group. Ed specializes in factoring and commodity loans for the First National Bank of Boston. Dick Tousley of Cohasset, Mass., is the vice-president of the Dartmouth Club of the South Shore. Working south a bit, to Providence, R. I., we find that Dr. Dick Sexton is a member of the Executive Committee of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Rhode Island. Dick is a plastic surgeon in business for himself. Dick tells me he cannot "save" faces. He can only "lift" them. Down in our nation's capital, George Flather is president of the Dartmouth Club of Washington, D. C. At least there is one place in Washington where Harvard men have not infiltrated. George is a senior partner in the Washington law firm of Garrett, Altmann and Flather.
The task of collecting and correlating the information required for the prospective new Class Directory has been made a lot easier as the result of the wonderful cooperation of the many classmates who have already returned the questionnaires that accompanied the last issue of "Dope from the Duckboards." I therefore want to close by thanking everyone for this cooperation and by assuring all that I will do my very best to get the new directory off the press in time for Reunion.
Secretary, 84-39 126 th St. Kew Gardens 15, N. Y.
Class Agent, 7720 Old Chester Rd., Bethesda, Md.
