1943

With filing of income tax returns, appearance of onion grass, April showers, I know that spring is here. And with it George Munroe ambitiously heads us for that $13,130.00 goal. Sometimes I'm inclined towards preaching, if you haven't already discovered by now, and seeing the interim reports of gifts from our classmates, I'd like to suggest, not too mildly, that some of you get off that two and five dollar bit and send in a gift worthy of men nearly twenty years out of college. George is too modest to come out and say it but I shall. We need serious and active support by everyone, including those thirty '43s who haven't given Dartmouth anything since as far back as 1950.

The "Newsletter - 1943" has reached you by now - bright and peppy with excellent artwork. Kelley Coffin's game of Name Your Classmate based on biographical info from the Green Book and Aegis should challenge your memory. Liked his questionnaire: "Done anything- out of the ordinary lately? If not, done anything in the ordinary lately?" This group is constantly changing and we must be brought up to date.

Bob Stokes avoids commuting and enjoys life in Sandy Hook, Conn., where wife Caroline and daughters Nancy and Barbara share his two acres and 160-year-old home. Bob is with S. Curtis and Sons, Inc. in manufacturing folding cartons and plastics used in packaging. On the side Bob sings tenor in the church choir, is active in Rotary and Naval Reserve, and still manages to play some shinny hockey in the winter.

After a two-year swing into the midwest (Toledo, Ohio and Lambertville, Mich.), Don Kingsley decided he was a New Yorker at heart and now resides at 2890 Springhurst Street, Peekskill, N. Y. Don works for Corn Products Company in headquarters at 717 Fifth Avenue, New York City, as Manager of Internal Communications. On January 15, 1961, the Kingsleys welcomed son Todd Wood: their current family status is two boys and three girls.

While in Philadelphia last week I climbed into the Ivory Tower of the Philadelphia Inquirer to pay Herb Harrigan a promised visit; he was on his day off, but I saw Herb's name in bright bold letters along with the other journalists who compose the Inquirer's editorial page. Herb doesn't know this fact, but circa 1947-48 I was a paid book reviewer of the Inquirer. Anything in those days for a dollar to supplement a teacher's pay. Even made the New York Times ... and then I retired.

All of us are waiting with bated breath. Did Bob McQueen get elected to the Short Hills Board of Education? Is John Kimball still the Town moderator of Topsfield, Mass.? I feel left hanging in the balance. I get the press clippings of their campaigns but never hear the results. John is a Lt. Col. in the Marine Corps Reserve and probably should be getting close to his twenty years now. ... Lots of '43s are still active in reserve components. Back in 1945-46 those twenty-year retirement lures looked far off, but time has passed quickly.

Nice letter from Bob Krumm: "I saw JimElleman and Bob McQueen at the winter meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Morris and Essex counties a couple of weeks ago. Jim has been most active and helpful in our area. I see Bob frequently during the golf season as we both butcher the same turf. Pres Brooks was in town from Cincinnati a few weeks back and we had dinner together up town. I also talk to Don Taylor in Providence very often. Bud Kast is about to move into a new physical plant with his Short Hills Country Day School. He has done an outstanding job as headmaster there."

Early in May I hope to join Mosbacher,Munroe, Coffin, and Kenny in Hanover for the Class Officers Meeting. It's always fun to get back there, and those of you who haven't done so in recent years should make the effort to revisit the scenes of former glory!

EDITOR'S ADDITION: Class secretary Charlie Donovan deserves Special mention this month. He has recently been promoted from assistant to the president to vice president in charge of sales at the Berman Leasing Company, one of the largest in the heavy truck leasing field. He has been associated with Berman in various capacities since 1955, and before that was with the National Lead Company and the Hill School. Congratulations to you, Charlie, and every success in your new post.

Is this the coming answer to Eddie Jeremiah's cry for hockey players? Dr. DaveHoffman '43 of the Mayo Clinic with four sons who are active in the Rochester,Minn., juvenile hockey program: David, on the John Marshall High School team;Peter, a Midget player for the Elks; Michael, a Bantam player for the Firefighters;and Mark, 8, who is just getting started as a Pony. The two older boys played on thecity team in the Minnesota state tournament.

Secretary, 414 Rosedale Drive Pottstown, Pa.

Class Agent, 315 Central Park West New York 25, N. Y.