1930
It seems as though we finished a column just the other day, but recently having been swamped by the demands of various domestic governmental bodies for the preparation of tax returns and reams of other gratuitous corporate information, the days must have slipped by faster than we noticed. Anyhow, as the first real touch of spring is upon us, we are looking forward to a trip to Hanover the first weekend in May to attend the annual class officers' meeting, where we will meet with the other stalwarts of our class in the hope of grinding out a plan or two for class activity within the ensuing months. And incidentally we are also looking forward to seeing our sophomore son briefly, if he can spare any time from books during this very short third term, which runs only about ten weeks from beginning to end.
As the year is about over, it is time to mention those who have served, in one way or another, in non-class activity this past year, to wit: Vic Borella as vice president of the Alumni Council, Alex McFarland and Buck Steers on the Board of Overseers of the Hanover Inn, Dick Barnard as secretary of the Mystic Valley Dartmouth Club and Herb Chase on its executive committee, Bill Keller as president of the Dartmouth Club of Greater Lawrence, Al Schumaker as secretary of the Dartmouth College Club of Ontario, Charlie Rauch as vice president of the Dartmouth Club of New Haven, LeeSturman on the board of directors of the Dartmouth Club of Rochester and two enrollment chairmen - Ken McDonald in district 26, Eastern Pennsylvania and Bill Smith in district 28, Delaware.
Truly we do appreciate the help provided by those who take a little time to phone or write us when they run into items which will be of interest to us all. Bud French can always be counted on to chip in, and this time it was to say that he had talked with Chuck Adams (who is retired, no less) and his frau, who were sailing from New York March 15 on a round the world cruise. Then he said that he himself would be leaving the next day to accompany the Dartmouth baseball team on its spring vacation southern trip, ostensibly to follow his son David who has had an outstanding record pitching for the Big Green, but probably inwardly hoping that Tony Lupien would call on him to display his old-time prowess in left field for an inning or two. Dud Day wrote us of his winter visit to Japan which had to do with some contract negotiations for IT&T, a successful trip but leaving him very little time for sightseeing. One highlight was running into Hank and Ruth Embree in the lobby of the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo. As you know, they had been on a vacation trip, which was to include Hawaii, Hong Kong, Bangkok, and a return to the States by ship.
Dud also sent a news brochure of the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Me., which carried a picture of an attractive miss - Nancy Ela, a senior and psychology major at Colby College and daughter of Rog and Anna Ela. For years college students have been spending summer vacations getting research training at the Jackson Laboratory, but for the first time two undergraduates, of which Nancy was one, went as student trainees during the winter months.
This year our auditors sent in one young man who hailed from Niagara Falls, so of course we asked him if he knew Ted Saunders, and found that they lived only a few blocks apart. Two or three days later he whipped out a "silver dollar day" flyer from Beir's, where Ted, as general manager, offered a silver dollar back for every $10 spent in the department store. (Note to any legal errata seekers — except on a few fair-traded items.)
Col. Ed Conklin, AUS (ret.) has assumed the management of a branch office of Birely and Company, Washington investment se- curities firm, in St. Michaels, Md. He has been with Birely since leaving the service at the end of the Korean war, into which he had been called back after lengthy service in World War 11. Otherwise Ed's career has been spent in investment circles, including associations with the Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company, New York, the Travelers Bank and Trust Company, Hartford, the Union Securities Corporation, all of which have undergone mergers and no longer operate under exactly those titles, and several other stock exchange firms in the Washington and Baltimore area.
Dr. Jim Cullyford is a member of the staff at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Denver. He has recently completed the mass casualties management course at the Medical Field Service School, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. This course is designed to emphasize to medical personnel that they must care for the greatest number of injured people in the time available during a post attack period. Instruction was given in the types of nuclear weapons and their .effects, the estimation of damaged areas, types of injuries which would result from an enemy attack and the probable methods of caring for such injuries.
Eggie Smith was elected president of the Albert Trostel and Sons Company, soon after the death of Al Trostel. Eggie had been executive vice president and treasurer since 1938. He is also a trustee of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. Pete Lillard sent an announcement from the Boston Herald of Hal Booma's promotion to a vice presidency of United Shoe Machinery Corporation, where he has been employed ever since graduation. Congratulations to both are in order.
Following the Alumni Fund kick-off dinner in Cleveland, Jack Childs, Secretary of '09, dropped us a line to report on EdSprankle who has seen fit to decline a promotion at the Central National Bank, Cleveland, and to retire. Strangely enough, on a flight from Cleveland about two years ago, we got into conversation with the personnel director of that bank, who intimated to us that something like that was a probability in Ed's case. Now Ed is said to occupy his time with a great deal of reading, including the Wall Street Journal, and extensive relaxation with a Hammond organ, taking weekly lessons. More power to you fellows who can retire at such early ages!
Pat Weaver gave a talk on the future of television advertising before a New York workshop of the Association of National Advertisers, at which a panel also discussed public service and documentary programs.
From the reminiscences of Prof. Bancroft Brown (about to retire) related in the Bulletin: "I remember having our All-American football star Al Marsters '30 in class. I gave the boys an hour exam one day, handing the questions out at the door. Upon looking at the exam one of the freshman fainted dead away. I asked Marsters to carry the student out, which he did, assisting him to his dormitory room. Then Al came back, took his seat, finished the exam in shorter time than anyone else and got a 92. I thought that was pretty good."
Any one who has a particularly interesting snapshot is urged to submit it for possible use, for we feel that since acting as secretary we have somehow lagged behind the field in the matter of getting pictures into the MAGAZINE, and we want to improve our batting average.
Now if you haven't communicated with Art Browning, it would be a good time to get it off your mind, for he has a major task this year in meeting the class quota, and all early gifts to the Fund help relieve the pressure of contracting so many near the deadline in June. Don't emulate the aforesaid Marsters who has been quoted as saying he liked to wait until the last day, because he then had had the pleasure of hearing from so many of his classmates from whom he would not have otherwise.
Secretary, 30 Boxwood Dr., Stamford, Conn.
Class Agent, New York Life Ins. Co., 51 Madison Ave. New York 10, N. Y.
