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Junie Merriam has asked that we publicly thank each of the class agents and their assistants for the time and effort they devoted to the Alumni Fund drive last spring. Also, that we as a class are grateful to each of us individually who gave proportionately what we should have. The mere fact that we statistically ended up 56 th out of 60 participating classes indicates a void somewhere, and the search is on for the little Dutch boy whose finger will fit the hole in the dike. Junie writes that he will be making two business trips to Japan this fall. He didn’t say why, but he obviously has some client who needs yens converted to double entry.
At long last we have a college president in our fold. Dr. Ev Woodman has been elected president of Colby Junior College in New London, N. H., effective Sept. 1. Ev taught at Colby after graduation from Dart- mouth until the Navy tagged him during World War 11. He got his doctor’s degree in Boston in 1948 then taught at the Univer- sity of Illinois with a year’s leave as Ful- bright Lecturer in France at the University of Lyon and at Strasbourg. In 1952 Ev went to India where he later served as an attache at the U. S. Embassy in New Delhi. By 1958 he joined the Ford Foundation as an educational consultant to the Govern- ment of India’s Ministry of Education where he was loving those pale hands beside the Shalimar until his call from Colby this summer. His wife, Ruth, and four daugh- ters, Helen, 16; Ethel, 14; Dorothy, 9; and Deborah, 7; will swell the ranks of this feminine oasis to the Hanover Plain.
Bob Gibson will be Pacific hopping this fall, also. Toro is starting operations in Aus- tralia and Gibby expects to be commuting between Melbourne and Minneapolis stream- lining their marketing operations. If you want him to send you a stuffed koala bear, you can sometimes reach him at 8111 Lyn- dale Ave., So., Minneapolis 20, Minn.
From the desk of B. K. Ayers Jr. in Marsa El Brega, Esso’s man-made port for shipping oil out of Libya, and attached to an Alumni Fund check, comes the follow- ing:
Have been here for the past nine months in- stead of the short 30-day assignment it was sup- posed to be for assisting in the installation of a new and novel type of tanker mooring which will revolutionize the cost of deep water loading and unloading of tankers. We have been buffeted by the elements and by the usual run of unforeseen difficulties with a first of its kind.
Jean, my wife, and the children are settled in Wilton, Conn., after two years in Iran. They are building a camp on Lake Winnipesaukee and hope to enjoy it with the Herb Mattlages this summer. It is on Moultonboro Neck just opposite Nine Acre Island.
Sorry that I do not have any more news of classmates or future plans, but this desert certainly takes a lot of fighting just to exist, especially when combined with the stormy Mediterranean Sea which is supposed to be a quiet body of water.
Meanwhile back in Indiana and up in Massachusetts the Bell Telephone System has engineered a switcheroo that at least benefits the Allied Van Lines. Joe Urban, who has been vice-president for operations of the Indiana Bell Telephone Cos. is trad- ing jobs with Bill Mercer of the class of ’4O who has been vice-president in charge of public relations of the New England Tele- phone & Telegraph Cos. We don’t know who came out ahead, but Joe now lives at 1 Robinson Park, Winchester, Mass., and you can write him and find out.
Navy’s Captain Bart Jones has also re- cently moved to Winchester, Mass., and lives at 3 Marshall Rd. Now all we need is the welcome wagon and you two can split a beer.
We have followed with interest in these class notes the perambulations of Dr. Ar-mando Chardlet in his quest for Cuban de- mocracy. He has lectured at Yale since the summer of 1960, and now the Hartford Courant tells us he will head a new pro- gram of Latin American area studies at St. Joseph College this fall. We think our fiery friend is deserving of all the kudos he has received as a one-man army of understand- ing.
Another crusading classmate. Dr. CharlieOsgood, professor of psychology at the Uni- versity of Illinois and president of the Amer- ican Psychological Association is, to our knowledge, the first of our class to receive the recognition of an honorary degree from Dartmouth, a doctorate of Science, at Han- over last June.
Kent Blatchford has moved up to assist- ant advertising manager. West for Banking, the official publication for the American Bankers’ Association.
Mary Ellen and Bill Russell sent us a card announcing a new address; Sand Hill Farm, Sand Hill Rd., Peterborough, N. H., with the commentary that Bill is in the same job, in the same state, just a change in house. But he says it is a great spot for an informal class reunion. Takes courage. Also a summer postal from our favorite correspondent Browny postmarked Tima- gami, Ontario, and picturing the woodsy charm of Howie Chivers’ camp Keewaydin: “Peg, the two girls and I are enjoying the pine scented breezes. Our boy is a staffer at Keewaydin. Nothing like the invigorating north woods and the Chivers’ hospitality.”
As usual, we end in a note of fourth es- tate confusion fomented by the Pittsfield, Mass., Berkshire Eagle concerning the na- tionwide publicity accorded radio station WBEC owned and operated by Dick Jack-son. It seems the hallmark of WBEC was used extensively in the cartoon strip “The Jackson Twins” conveniently created from the fevered brain of Dick Brooks of West- port, Conn. We quote the Berkshire Eagle: “WBEC staffers were mightily intrigued, since a couple of months ago on the sta- tion’s Sunday program, “Pulse,” the creator of “The Jackson Twins,” Dick West, was interviewed. The interview was done by Dick Jackson, owner of WBEC —no rela- tion to the Jackson Twins. Mr. Jackson, a one-time cartoonist himself, knew Mr. West from their Dartmouth College days. Mr. Jackson lives in Greenwich, Conn., and Mr. West lives nearby.” (in Brooksport, no doubt).
Dan Marshall ’3B and the 9-foot marlinhe landed on a trip to Acapulco.
Secretary, 1908 Coolidge Drive Dayton 19, Ohio Treasurer, 25 Sound View Drive Bay Hills, Long Island, N. Y.
