1941
Not everyone is fortunate enough to have a benefactor. Little did I think that one would appear out of the smog to come to the assistance of a class secretary. That is exactly what happened to me prior to the deadline for this monthly column. My benefactor hails from Pittsburgh, Pa. You all know him well. You guessed it! My nomination for the Man of The Month award goes to our amiable Treasurer, Stu Steffey. He just completed a business trip to the West, during the course of which he found time to contact a number of classmates to see how they are making out after almost 25 years out of college. Stu then proceeded to render to me a lengthy report of his results in this regard, without which I would have been almost at a complete loss for information to pass on to you.
One of the stops on Stu's itinerary was Tucson, Ariz., where he had the opportunity of having a very pleasant visit with Jim Bailey, one of the leading citizens of the Grand Canyon State. Jim has become quite a real estate tycoon, having prospered in land in southern Arizona. He is now helping small industry get started in that area. He has formed an independent company for that purpose, guaranteed by the Small Business Administration. This new company, Arizona Capital Corp., of which Jim is assistant to the president, has already financed ten or fifteen new enterprises. Just to make sure he will not have any time on his hands, he also is an active participant in church, community and local high school activities. And last but not least, Stu reports that Jim's daughter is a sure bet to reign as the queen of a future Dartmouth Winter Carnival. Soup Campbell, another Tucson luminary, specializes in selling "cool" cars to residents of the mesa. Thus it appears that there are no complaints from either of our two contributions to Tucson.
Smitten with the desire to return to the slopes, the "old snow plower" holed up in Aspen, Colo., for a weekend to attend a ski class conducting a refresher course. Admittedly Stu's first preference was for the warm fireside, so Mort McGinley, his host for the weekend, experienced considerable difficulty in prevailing upon him to try on the "boards" just for old-time's sake. Persistence is one of the principal keys to success of one of Colorado Springs' most prominent attorneys, so Mort won out. Reports around Aspen are that Mort has not slowed down any and that he has a host of friends in the area. One of his clients is a large ranch owner, so he is taking advantage of an opportunity to learn ranching, with an eye toward that in his latter years. Mort reported that Les Davis down at Cimarron, New Mex., is one of the foremost cattle and sheep ranchers in the entire West.
While in California, Stu gleaned bits of information about other classmates. In Berkeley, Bruce Brown is in the real estate business, is still a bachelor, and has a six-bedroom lodge at Squaw Valley, where all 41'ers are welcome. Bruce occasionally encounters Waring Carrington, a Berkeley neighbor, who recently returned from a brief sojourn in Maine. Waring is field representative of the C. J. Hendry Co. of San Francisco. John Tate is a financial officer of Standard Oil of California and has recently moved from Atherton to the San Francisco Bay area, across the water from DanaChase, Bill Clark and Joe Griffith, residents of the Stockton-Sacramento area. Holdenand Jane Higbee have moved near Menlo Park, where Holden is a professor in a local college, and which is Don Ross's base of operations as a salesman for Fox and Casskadan, when he is not skiing with Bruce Brown on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada. JackTrant, formerly of Salt Lake City, Utah, is now in San Francisco with the Kennecott Copper Corp. Although only a comparative newly-wed of several years, Jack already has one child two and one half years old and is going to be passing out cigars again very soon. In order not to leave Salt Lake City devoid of 41'ers, Jim and Ellen Eckels recently moved there from Ogden. They are building a new house in the mountains and Jim is a newly elected vice 'president of the Western Mortgage Co. Stu was unable to get in touch with Dr. Hyzer Jones and Myron Pollack but hopes to contact them when he is back in California next month in addition to Fred "hat trick," Maloon and Willard Miller.
Joe Loveland, of Westfield, N. J., is the new national sales manager of the Electrical Conductor Division of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Sales, Inc. Formerly assistant sales manager of one of its marketing divisions, Joe has been with Kaiser Aluminum since early 1957. Prior to that he held sales positions with General Cable Corporation and the wire and cable department of the United States Rubber Company.
Generally the first week of the 1962 Alumni Fund campaign was record-breaking. Ed Lanier and his 46 active assistants throughout the country are at this moment working hard to assure achievement of the 1941 goal of 536 donations in the aggregate amount of $15,390. In addition a limited number of classmates recently received a personal appeal from Dick Hill urging an increase in individual giving. Prior to the opening of the campaign, 1941 got a running start in the form of seventeen advance contributions. But that is only an infinitesimal beginning. If we are going to meet our share of responsibility to Dartmouth, everyone must dig now and dig a little deeper than usual.
Secretary, 84-39 126th St. Kew Gardens 15, N. Y.
Class Agent, 140 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass.
