1943

So what are you doing on a sunny March Sunday afternoon? Dartmouth 43's were in various states of repose. ... Your secretary was on the phone ... surprising classmates. Joe Koci was about the Lord's work, visiting the sick and preparing for his evening service at famous old St. Peter's in Philadelphia. His wife, Betty, reported little new about the Kocis other than Joe has been busy with his school in center city, Philadelphia, and expects larger enrollment next year.

Charlie Dorkey of nearby Ardmore was relaxing from his job as manager of Frankoweave, Inc., a Philadelphia manufacturer of automotive weatherstripping and plastic chair webbing. At the Philadelphia Dartmouth club dinner recently he saw Binnie Tower and during the past year visited Ben Edmunds in Portland, where Ben operates a department store, and Gil Augenblick in Maplewood, N. J., where Gil is a frozen food processor. Charlie is getting geared for his class agent role in the Alumni Fund campaign, and come to think about it, it's about that time of year. His wife, Peggy, is a regular reader of this column and says she has the magazine open to it for Charlie's perusal on his return from a hard day at the office. How loyal can a Dartmouth wife be?

Clark University has promoted Relly Raffman to the rank of Associate Professor of Fine Arts. Relly joined the Clark faculty in 1954 as -an instructor in music and in 1956 was named an assistant professor. In recent years, Relly has become nationally known as a composer and has had numerous works published. He won the coveted Ernest Bloch national award in 1959 for his "In the Beginning," a setting to music' of a Dylan Thomas poem. His "Triptych" was premiered at the Worcester Music Festival in 1959. Relly received a master's degree at Columbia in 1949, also studied under Bernard Heiden at Indiana University, and taught at Southwest Missouri State College.

Music runs in the Raffman family. Relly's wife Rita is a concert pianist who has performed as soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra and at the Worcester Music Festival. The Raffmans live at 209 Lovell Street, Worcester.

Frank West, former resident of Richardson Hall, now spends Sundays resting from an arduous psychiatry practice in Philadelphia. The West family, residing in Gladwynne, consists of Catherine, Janet, Frances, David and Thomas plus wife Maxine, who share the head of the family with the Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital, a private practice, and an assistant professorship of psychiatry at Hahnemann Medical College. Frank sees Charlie Webb at Rotary Club meetings and attended the medical convocation at Dartmouth last fall. Jack O'Donnell visited the Wests last fall. A former forester, Jack is now in urban redevelopment in Auburn, Me.

From the press.... Bob Bowman heads C. R. Gibson Co. of Norwalk, Conn., well known publishers and lithographers. Bob started with the company in 1940 in the order department and after Army duty from 1941-46 assumed several executive positions, becoming president in 1952. The Bowmans live in Darien.... Bill Glovsky, once secretary to Henry Cabot Lodge, and an outstanding tax lawyer, was unanimously elected alderman-at-large in Waltham, Mass. Active in Republican circles, Bill will fit in this duty between lecturing at Boston University and the New England Institute and membership on the tax committees of the Boston and Massachusetts Bar associations. . . . Warren Taylor, the featured speaker of the Salem, Mass., United Community Fund annual meeting, is a noted heart surgeon and an associate of Dr. Dwight E. Harken, a pioneer in open heart surgery. Warren's professional kudos would fill this page. ... Bud Kast, headmaster of the Short Hills Country Day School, has been appointed chairman of the Elementary Schools Committee of the Independent Schools Education 80ard.... John Bartemus has joined the Atlantic Companies (Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co. and the Centennial Insurance Co.) as a multiple line, special agent operating in the western New York state area out of the Syracuse office. John is the immediate past president of the Insurance Field Club of Rochester and for the past several years has been western New York special agent for the New Hampshire Insurance Co. ... Phil Bowie elected president of the Washington, D. C., Rotary Club effective July first.

The New York social whirl caught Bus and Pat Mosbacher having cocktails at Bob and Ruth Frothingham's in Rye. The group joined Jack and Lil Meleney to welcome Jim Oppenheimer and his new bride, Chris, in from St. Paul, Minn.

Ruth and I are shortly moving into a new home in Pottstown. We'll have a Dartmouth '43 open house in the middle or late spring. Tried the idea on several classmates, and a Sunday afternoon seems most convenient. More details next month.

Secretary, 414 Rosedale Drive Pottstown, Pa.

Class Agent, 315 Central Park West New York 25, N. L.