1940
By the time you read this the opening gun of the 1962 Alumni Fund will have sounded and our class will be off and running in our particular Green Derby competition. This year we have a new Head Agent, John Moore, who has made up a fine team of our classmates to assist him in his first campaign. But we shouldn't expect them to do it all. We all should help by becoming better informed about the role higher education is being expected to play in every aspect of our daily lives. Then we should become better informed about the outstanding job Dartmouth is doing as an institution of higher education. Then we should realistically and meaningfully perform as mature, responsible citizens must perform when a compelling and necessary call is sounded for support. A free society demands nothing less!
Notice of two new jobs for some of us indicates that an old dog can learn new tricks. Beezie Smallwood wrote a nice letter about his new set-up, which he assumed after much soul-searching and weighing of the pros and cons. He is now the special representative of the New York Good Roads Association, which is expanding their program for promoting the cause of good roads in the Empire State. Beezie had been sixteen years with General Crushed Stone Co. so has an enviable background of industry-re- lated experience to bring to the highway industry. This challenging new job will keep him traveling the whole state so he will be away from home much more than before but Ruthie will hold down the fort in Fairport just as before. Now you New Yorkers will know whom to curse when the frost heaves aren't smoothed out in time!
Another job change involves Les Nichols who has become the new executive secretary of the Kentucky State Hotel Association. He'll make sure you have a room for the Kentucky Derby if you write soon. Les should be a natural for the job since his previous duties as a public relations man have kept him traveling around the state so often that he has probably stayed in most of the hotels he now represents. He and Dorothy and the two girls were in Hanover for reunion last June and he looked as trim as when he was in the Tenth Armored Division.
Betty and Phil Dostal came to Carnival as planned and had a lot of fun getting back into the swing of collegiate things. Except now it isn't the "swing" of things but the "twist" of things. But that didn't stop Phil! Betty's alleged mystic powers over the weather man worked to the extent of having good flying days when they came and de- parted and a lovely blanket of new, soft, fresh snow while they were here. She has a contract with the Winter Carnival Board whenever she decides to sign up. They stopped in Madrid for a day or two on their way to Gstaad and other fabulous places and talked with Bill Harriman while there.
Evidence that some of the class haven't fully succumbed to a life of ease is contained in the announcement that Don McCaffrey made full Colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve. This news came from another Marine Colonel, Jack Fitzgerald, who knows what he says when he reports that Don has been an excellent Marine. Both colonels will be at parade rest during our 25th Reunion here on the Hanover Plain.
Fred Porter stopped in my office a few weeks ago on one of his usual periodic business trips through the North Country. He was also scouting snow conditions at various ski resorts because he had promised the kids they could come up to ski during their winter vacation. A subsequent call from the Bromley Area reported fantastic conditions and Fred and the two youngest were having as much skiing as they could hope for. He had seen some of the Rainie clan enjoying the same fun. When Fred was in town he left with me the January issue of Skiing which features a three-page spread on Charlie Goodwin who is known as "Bromley's skiing farmer." Not only does Charlie operate a 180-acre farm with 55 head of dairy cattle but he puts in a full day (during the season) as head ski patrolman of Big Bromley. By combining two such careers he really is a man "who has his cakeand can eat it too." Charlie's family consists of four youngsters - three boys and a girl - all reported to be better skiers than he. But then they don't get up at 4:00 A.M. to milk the cows before heading out to the ski hill. Our hats are off to Charlie who has found an ideal solution in a busy, productive life at Weston, Vt.
A neat touch is used by Jack Rourke in his correspondence. He has his picture up at the top of the paper as well as his address, so you have the feeling he's really saying the words you are reading. Except for a Jackie Gleason-like maturity in his jaw-line he looks as happy and bouncy as in the old days. Apparently the California sun and what sounds like a back-breaking TV work load are what he needs to stay young.
Down in Lincoln, Mass., Bill Halsey, architect and community planner, has announced his candidacy for the Lincoln Planning Board. During his six years of living in Lincoln he has served on just about all the boards and committees going, so it is hoped that the local gentry will see fit to put his wide experience to work on this board also.
Jim Kuhns, Dayton's leading entrepreneur, caught me up with some of his news. His oldest, Peter, who is also my godson, is at New Prep in Boston this year and looking over colleges for next year. They checked in at Hobart on a recent tour and had KarlBruch's freshman son guide them around. Jim sees Chuck Haskell in Dayton since they seem to alternate running all the Dartmouth affairs in that area. Jim and Faith have promised to stop in Hanover next summer when they take their three kids to various camps in New England and it'll be fun to see them again. They're one couple who get a lot out of life.
The mail bag is empty. How about a letter along with your Alumni Fund gift that John can send on to me? You'll be glad you did on both counts!
Edward Lamer Jr. '41 has been namedHead Class Agent for the Alumni Fund.
Secretary, 5 North Balch St. Hanover, N. H.
Class Agent, 2634 Haddam Rd., Cleveland 20, Ohio
