1949

As you know, we now have an agent in the flight to the "Moon" deal. Jim Flanders who quit the family lathe making outfit, Jones and Lamson of Springfield, Vt., and went to has a role in the Apollo moon rocket deal. Well, plans are afoot to include in the moon vehicle a Dartmouth package. When the thing impacts, out will roll this package. It will explode on signal and release a Dartmouth banner. (Green balloons will inflate and carry it aloft.) Underneath will fly a small pennant "Sponsored by Class of '49." The sound system will give out "Dartmouth's In Town Again," and the whole deal will be picked up on a TV system inside the capsule and be relayed back to viewers on earth. Flanders is managing the details of this scheme. His wife Susan is also collecting bits of personal memorabilia from class members who may want to land a little something of their own on this historic occasion. Just send it along, and keep it small. The Flanders, with Stephen, Geoffrey, and Nicholas, will keep their home in Springfield.

Harry Randall stood for the New Jersey Assembly last fall, as a Republican. Must have lost. Anybody with information to the contrary, get in touch with me right away. Harry has an impressive list of accomplishments: member of Westwood Borough Council; practicing attorney; trustee of Bergen County Bar Assoc.; past commander of VFW; assistant county counsel; director of Hillsdale National Bank.

Rog Atwood has been expatriated from Manhattan, where he was N.Y.Timesman, assistant national advertising manager, to L.A., where he will be advertising manager of the about-to-birth Western Edition of the Times. This sheet will hit the street late this year. All Far West '49's can now sign up for a first-class paper. Old Atwood participated in the founding of the Times International Edition, published in Paris. He went across last year and rounded up advertisers for it. Roger has been with the Times since '52.

Burt Proom has made it up a flight with Maryland Casualty Co. in Philadelphia, where he was raised from assistant manager of that office to Head Man. Burt is a graduate of the Maryland Co.'s insurance school and has received a degree called CPCU. He is a director of the Insurance Society of Philadelphia.

Warren Ornstein has signed up Joyce Hamlin of Lyndhurst, Ohio, in a contract of marriage. Joyce is a student at Western Reserve. Warren is a lawyer.

Pete Lord has made some rungs on the ladder of Noble and Westbrook Co., East Hartford, Conn., manufacturers of rapid production marking machines, whatever those are. He has become an officer, assistant secretary, and an operating wheel, assistant sales manager.

Dick Kearsely, one of our top agents in pediatrics, passed the word to parents of Chelsea, Mass., recently in what they call Parents Institute. It is an educational thing for junior high school parents. Dick is chief of the Children's Clinic of Mass. General in Boston. He is director, too, of research project having to do with behavior problems in children. After thinking it over carefully, I decided he would love to do sort of an Ann Landers' deal for our children's behavior problems. So just send the little devils' latest antics to Dick and in return for the data I'm sure he will advise you what to do, like swat him good behind the ear. Dick and Nancy have four of their own, which is probably where he gets most of his basic observations.

Jim Mytton in Golden, Colo.: "I'm with a geologic consulting firm, Knox, Bragman and Shearer, in Denver, after having been with the U.S. Geological Survey for several years. Hope to get in some foreign assignments with my new position."

Our Educational Project for the March issue of this magazine will be: the Jacksons of '49. You will remember that last month we cleared up the situation on the Reeds. (Please file these notes for future reference so we don't have to repeat.) First let's deal with old Kermit Hatfield Jackson. East Coast Jackson and Priscilla, his wife, were last sighted in Manhasset, L. I., he manager of the real estate department of J. MacCrate Co. Old Daniel Dana Jackson III has been elected vice-president of Lionel D. Edie Co., economic consulting and investment firm of San Francisco. He will continue his activities in San Francisco and additionally direct the national organization in matters of pension and profit sharing funds. If you would like to share somebody's profits or be pensioned off, see West Coast Jackson. Not to be confused with Midwest Jackson (Old Robert Wescott Jackson, i.e. Deke) who is one of our Chicago agents, inside man at the Lake Shore National Bank. Deke is assistant vice-president in charge of the consumer credit department. "My extracurricular activities center around assisting one of our Young Republicans getting nominated for State Senator. My family consists of Nadine, my wife, and two girls (Mary Lynn and the other I haven't cataloged the name of yet, Ed.), both at the hellion stage. Run into Rank Lashmet, John Loveland and Jack Tull occasionally."

Pete Bloodsworth says:

Ginny and I live in New Shrewsbury, N. J., with our children Linda, 9; Pete, 8; Susan, 6; and Carol, 1. Our location allows us to spend the entire summer on the beach ('49s are cordially invited to our cabana. Give notice). I am Eastern Sales Manager for Kaiser Steel. Gus Farnsworth is in the Oakland, Calif., office of Kaiser. I am having lunch today with Cal Titus. Tom McManus is our dentist. Saw Bobb Slattery at the Princeton game, and bump into Tom Swartz and Bob Pridham occasionally. For the second year a group of us have chartered a bus for the Princeton game. We meet at a saloon for preparation, board bus, which has waiter and drinks, arrive at game and hot bufFet prelude, see game, cheer winning Dartmouth team, get loaded on bus, roll back to starting point for dinner and dancing. Same device for Yale game.

Letter from John Cooley in Casablanca to Bud Hughes in N.Y.C.

Your letter found here on return from one of increasingly frequent trips to Algeria. Past five years I've been doing news work in North Africa, after various hitches of government and free lancing here and in Europe. At present I'm a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and, when I'm in Algeria, for NBC Radio. I do what writing I can on the side. My wife Edith and I have our home in Casablanca, but I travel frequently to Algiers and Tunis covering the Algerian war, and sometimes to Cairo and Lisbon. I occasionally have copy in the Herald Tribune and other papers which subscribe to the Observer Foreign News Service of London, for whom I write. I am trying to wrap up the last ten years in a book, but it's slow going. The last full year I spent in the states was 1954, with the Tribune. It's barely possible I'll make it back next year. Any '49s coming this way will find a warm welcome and plenty of sunshine on our doorstep.

Secretary, Dept. 90 Eastman Kodak Co. A & OD 400 Plymouth Ave. N Rochester 4, N. Y.

Treasurer, 182 Main St., Wenham, Mass.