1934

It may sound like the record is stuck, but again this month we are belting, away at this stuff looking out the window at the drifting snow — but from the Hanover Inn Motor Lodge looking through the snow over the peaceful back yards of So. College Street and its environs.

And for those of you whose nostrils just flared at the aroma of an expense account nibbling away into the heart of the sacred class treasury, be those informed that if there is such a thing as an expense account in this class, it's one of the best kept secrets of many years. Besides which our faithful keeper of the moneybags, Hank Werner, just returned from a week in Puerto Rico, during which he still faithfully clipped his way through many several newspapers to keep the notoriously indolent ye sec informed - and of course he would have first crack at any expense account racket.

As the result of said clipping, plus the help of Rollie Morton and the incomparable assistance of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE office there is quite a stack of material to help us with NAMES IN THE NEWS this month, for instance -

Ray Hulsart, effective January 15, became director of industrial relations for The New York Times. It says, "Mr. Hulsart joined the Times in 1953 as assistant secretary and has been industrial relations manager since 1956. He previously was secretary of Amalgamated Textiles, Ltd. and assistant to the general counsel of the New York Central Railroad."

Charley Strauss, who with twin sons at Dartmouth can use this promotion, was recently elected vice president in charge of advertising at McGregor-Doniger, Inc., well-known sportswear firm. He was advertising manager for three years prior to this promotion. The Strauss family resides in Stamford, Conn., where Charley is a trustee and lay preacher at his local church and a member of the interviewing committee for Dartmouth in his area.

Don Crowther has been made assistant vice president, group division, Aetna Life Insurance Co. Don joined Aetna Life in 1934 as a group insurance underwriter. He subsequently served as an instructor in the group school and as superintendent, group division. Appointed assistant secretary in 1950, he was advanced to secretary five years ago.

Clarence Davies has tendered his resignation as chairman of New York cities' Housing and Redevelopment Board. It says, "He reluctantly had decided to leave government service by April 1. Mr. Davies first entered public service in 1958 as director of Real Estate. He became the first commissioner of the Department of Real Estate. In 1960, when the Housing and Redevelopment Board was established to perform the functions of the committee on slum clearance and several other municipal housing and renewal agencies, he became its first chairman."

Tom Cass has been advanced from vice president to executive vice president, domestic fabricated products, for Container Corporation of America. Tom has been with Container Corporation since 1939 when he became sales manager of the Philadelphia folding carton plant. In 1947 he was transferred to the West Coast and was successively sales manager, division manager, vice president and senior vice president in charge of Western paper mills and carton operations. He was transferred to the Chicago executive headquarters of the company in 1960 as vice president in charge of all folding carton operations, the Sefton Fibre Can Division, and plastics.

Card Brown, since 1960 executive vice president of the Agricultural National Bank of Pittsfield, Mass., has been named president. The new president came to the bank in 1960 from the First National Bank of Lewiston, Me., where he had been executive vice president.

Arrnand Benoit has been appointed assistant to the vice president for manufacturing at Pitney-Bowes, Inc. He has been director of manufacturing liaison for Sperry Rand and also served as works manager and manager of manufacturing for foreign subsidiaries for the Underwood corporation.

All of which proves that our boys are doing pretty well and gets us to the point where we might have to speak a little fast to get through what we planned, a few matters of interest -

From HERE.... Art MacGregor has been appointed to serve on the committee of Natural Resources for the Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation. . . . NelsKrogslund is one of sixteen automobile dealers in the country cited for outstanding achievements in 1961. . . . Congressman PerkBass has announced his candidacy for the seat left vacant by the death of Senator Styles Bridges. . . . Jerry Danzig's lovely wife Sarah gets more newsspace out of successfully defending herself against one of the New York minions of the law than Mrs. Roosevelt got for giving the solution to the situation in the Congo . . . and Jack Childs '09 from the Garden Spot of America and the home of Art Moebius, Aurora, Ohio, tells us "On a mild, sunny day in December, Art batted a ball around the tennis court of a friend, capering much as he did in his youth. He is now a pathetic sight as he hobbles on crutches in and around Aurora, and has signed the Sedentary Pledge."

And THERE . . . and a reference to the above to Andy Anderson, who in challenge to Bill Gilmore and his return to tennis, points out that he is chairman and a regularly playing member of the U.S. Tennis Club of Cleveland. . . . Prof. Fritz Mosher is on leave of absence from Univ. of California to serve in Washington as staff director of a citizen's committee on foreign affairs personnel . . . and Bill Rench writes, after a considerable spell, an interesting letter which we will mostly save, but in his Dartmouth work in St. Louis he speaks of meeting Hugh Logan and Alex Jones, "who are leading citizens of St. Louis," and his work in interviewing, "to maintain the high quality set by the Class of '34," and his impressions, "my only concern is the fact that the young man of today is so immature." To which we, in perambulating the streets of Hanover and occasionally penetrating the dark recesses of the fraternity, would be inclined to say "Amen." But did you know that just -

THIRTY YEARS AGO . . . there was some trouble between Hitchcock and Gile. And an initial barrage of rotten apples from vantage points in one dorm led to retaliation with old bottles, glasses, and more durable hardware. Thirteen windows were broken and it was generally agreed around Hanover that the younger generation was fast going to the hot place . . . and "Hoppy" saw fit to apologize to Columbia for the conduct of the crowd at the then recent basketball game . . . but Harry Espenscheid and John Ellis were among those planning an Easter canoe trip from Burlington, Vt., to New York City. . . . Entertainment for the Green Key Prom on March 5 included the singing group, "The Snowmen," consisting of two broken-down baritones and C. S. Cotsworth'34. . . . Dave Beasley was elected president of El Centro Espanol, Dick Fowle was playing in the semi-finals of the college chess tournament, and Phil Sherman '28 dropped a cryptic remark that "Frankie Spain may be able to play baseball."

Which referred not to Mr. Spain's rare inability to come up with balls hit to his right, but to his excursion into the realms of pro hockey as we remember.

At any rate it brings us to where we can resume our rest and recreation and slip this column under the office door of that internationally famous editor, C. Widmayer. Perhaps it will atone for the many months we run late and start for him his week with a smile.

Secretary, 12 Berwick St. Worcester 2, Mass.

Treasurer, 120 Broadway, New York 5, N. Y.

Bequest Chairman,