1926
It might have been Westbrook Pegler who said: "A columnist who doesn't risk making a few readers mad is half jelly-fish, half mouse." To prove that your Secretary is a higher species (a rat, perhaps) we list herewith those Grand-old-Class-of-'26-ers who hit their 60th birthday in the current college year. Last September, Bill Farnsworth, Skipper Smith; November, HenryAndretta; December, Jeff Robinson, ErnyStebbins; February, George Algar, HallyHall; March, Brant Wallace, Jack Kjerner; April, Warren Fellingham; this month, TuffyHill, George Snodgrass; next month, BobPatten, Jerry Meader. Speaking of next month, there's still time to mail Walt Rankin an "I'll be there" for Reunion, June 11-12-13.
Dr. George D. Snell, senior staff scientist of Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, was the 1962 winner of the Bertner Foundation Award presented annually by the Medical Institute of the University of Texas. Presentation of the award is a feature of the symposium on fundamental cancer research sponsored by the Institute. It is presented annually to a scientist who has made outstanding contributions to some area of cancer research. From way down East in Maine to way Southwest in Texas ... we quote the Houston Post:
Dr. Snell has studied the genetics and immunology of tissue and tumor transplantation for many years.
In his research in transplantable tumors, he has provided a background for using such tumors in cancer research.
Dr. Snell was born in Haverhill, Mass., in 1903 and was graduated with honors from Dartmouth College in 1926. Later he received a doctor of science degree in genetics at Harvard University.
He was a National Research Council fellow at the University of Texas in 1931-33 and has taught at Brown and Washington Universities and at Dartmouth. He joined the Jackson Laboratory staff in 1935 and was appointed senior staff scientist in 1957.
He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1952 and in 1955 he received the Hektoen Silver Medal of the American Medical Association for his original investigations. He has been a member of the allergy and immunology section of the National Institutes of Health since 1958.
Tom Murdough has been elected to the Alumni Council, as regional representative of alumni clubs in the Central States. He succeeds another '26-er, Henry Parker. We can't do better than quote the College News Service release:
Mr. Murdough joined the American Hospital Supply Corp., in 1936 after ten years with the Crane Co., New York. He has been sales manager, vice-president in charge of sales and executive vice-president, and became president of the corporation in 1954. .
He is a director of the Evanston and Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, an associate of Northwestern University, trustee- of the King Home for old men and a director of the Evanston United Fund. Mr. Murdough serving on the Executive Committee for the': Dartmouth Medical School Campaign for $10,000,000 in capital funds He has also been a director and vice-president of the Evanston Y.M.C.A. and president of the Hos- pital Industries Association.
"It isn't every day that a man retires after many years of service with one top advertising agency and a few months later is hired to fill an important position in another top agency." Thus spoke Printer's Ink, leading advertising trade-paper, concerning R. E.(Tommy) Thompson. Last May he retired as vice-president and associate creative director of McCann-Erickson. Eight months later he joined Leo Burnett Co., Chicago, as vice president and "'third in command in the creative areas." Printer's Ink tells us that Tommy.
a tall, handsome man with wavy white hair, was born and grew up in Hartford, where his father was a lawyer. His career in advertising began at Dartmouth College, where he managed the co-op store and wrote its ads. He came to New York after graduation, and for five months wrote copy at J. Walter Thompson, for the Simmons Co. At that point, he was advised to "get out of the ad business - you're not suited to it. ..." Luckily, Thompson ignored the advice and went to Williams & Saylor. Two years later, in 1935, he switched to McCann-Erickson.
During' his long stint at McCann, Thompson wrote copy for Ford, Chrysler (he's credited with the Forward Look ad theme) and, most recently, Buick. His best copy, according to his friends, is always written on pieces of paper which he keeps in his inside coat pockets. Said one friend, "Tommy's suits are a mess, but his copy is great. ..."
Johnny Heavenrich has been elected president of the National Association of Retail Clothiers. Mike and Inez McClintock are the co-authors of "Toys in America." GeorgeDouglas is chairman of the New Hampshire Federation of College Young Republicans. (We find that word "young" encouraging!) Ed Dooley made big headlines when he announced that he had refused the offer of appointment to a post of New York State Director of Physical Fitness... an offer predicated on his agreeing not to run for re-election to Congress.
In checking the statistics that serve as the basis for Alumni Fund class quotas, we note that '26 has now moved into the agebracket of "greatest individual giving power." Let's make our contributions prove that we belong there!
NEW ADDRESSES:
Carl E. Allen, General Motors Corp., 1775 Broadway, New York, N. Y.; Osmer C. Fitts, Box 543, Brattleboro, Vt.; James H. Jenkins, 30 Sutton Place, New York, N. Y.; Gilbert H. Robinson, 5315 Hidden Harbor Road, Sarasota, Fla.; Robert W. Rogers, 1518 - 12th St., Palmetto, Fla.; Lawrence Wolff, Frenkel & Co., 156 William St., New York, N. Y.; Hugh S. Morrison, 1 Weatherby Road, Hanover, N. H.; Tom J. Needham, St. John's Apts., West Ashley St., Jacksonville, Fla.; William F. Pitney, RR 1, Box 69, South Salem, N. Y.; James F. Sullivan, 21 Chestnut St., Boston, Mass.; Reginald E. Thompson, 420 Sunset Lane, Glencoe, Ill.
A 10th reunion picnic picture to remind 1927 of next month's 35th.
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