1949
As this is being written, '49s are packing their kits for the November 10 gala reunion with each other at the spiritual hub of the universe. As it will have been edited in Crosby Hall, '49s will have been congratulating themselves for having taken the time and effort to come to Hanover when the house party festivities, the opening of Hopkins Center, and the Columbia game were all there to amuse them. As you read this, we will be telling those who didn't make the scene what they missed, how they better tune their schedules to an annual three-day Hanover holiday about this time of year.
The FBI and others have made great progress at stemming the tide of infiltrating Communists into the government. No one has been able to do a thing about the inexorable infiltration of the Dartmouth administration my members of the class of 1949. Latest inside man: Bob Evans, who became, in September, assistant to the Dartmouth director of admissions, joining BuckWeber, who established a beachhead in that office some while earlier. If it weren't for the admissions people's legendary thick skin, you would expect to get your son into this particular college by a mere wave of the numeraled beanie. Bob has been teaching English history, coaching, serving as public relations man, for the Shore Country Day School, in Beverly, Mass. Bob and Fran have infiltrated the Hanover school system with Eric, 12, and Anne, 10.
We sadly advise that you will find the obituary note of our classmate Pete Serafin on another page of this or a subsequent MAGAZINE.
On October 1 the first board of directors meeting of Rankin Smith Lashmet, Inc., was held with RankinLashmet presiding as president-treasurer. On November 1 the company, a merchandising consulting firm working in all fields of distribution, opened its office doors at 6776 Northwest Highway, Chicago. Rankin had previously been associated with Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company in Chicago and from 1952 to 1961 with the Curtis Publishing Company as an advertising sales representative in Chicago and Cleveland.
The lead time involved in bringing you news via this column is horrendous. This in the way of facts-of-life background for the following report, which by reader time will have achieved its denouncement, that Jim Zafris, in the recent past, undertook to get the Democratic nomination for Congress in the 6th district of Massachusetts. Jim's focus of attack was on the economic vitality and imagination required to get his part of Massachusetts back in motion, a successful competitor in the age of automation and falling trade barriers. Jim went to Georgetown and the School of Language and Lin- guistics after Dartmouth. Thence to the CIA, where he cloak and daggered till 1957. He moved into the banking business, Boston's First National, where he is an officer in the branch division. Joyce, his Radcliffe wife, is a teacher in Groveland, where they live and bring up James, Joel, Ann, and Peter.
Joe Gawrys is one of our military representatives. Joe was called back into active status for a year and was made Lt. Commander in the Naval Reserve this summer. He was commander of an air anti-sub squadron in the Atlantic, flying something called S2F-1 Tracker aircraft. Presumably Joe is back in his law practice in Lynnhaven, Va., by now. He and Alva have five children.
Gene Taylor has joined an Atlanta, Ga., law firm that was so happy to get such a good man they changed the firm name to get our boy on the masthead. It is Johnson, Oxford and Taylor, in case you want to instigate any action in Georgia. Gene did his law studies at the University of North Carolina Law School.
Roland Becker is big in grinding. Assistant sales manager of Bay State Abrasive, in Worcester, he has been appointed to two important committees of the trade association, The Grinding Wheel Institute. As a member of the standards committee he will be involved in the commendable campaign to standardize grinding wheel design. As a member of the safety committee, he will be involved in spreading the word about how to avoid getting blasted by an exploding wheel.
Another of the lads scooting up the old insurance industry ladder of success: John Harder. The Western Travelers Life Insurance Co. of Los Angeles has appointed him agency director. John has been with two other outfits, Paul Revere Life and Provident Life & Accident, before this new position.
Shifting to investment securities, W. R. Staats Co. of San Francisco has named our Daniel Dana Jackson a General Partner in the corporate finance department. Deke will finance your corporation on a moment's notice; try him.
Secretary, Dept. 90 Eastman Kodak Co. A & OD 400 Plymouth Ave. N Rochester 4, N.Y.
Treasurer, 182 Main St., Wenham, Mass.
