1930

I always get a charge from a trip to Hanover, even when the weather is miserable, as it was on the occasion of the meetings of the class officers. This was among the best of the series with a number of good speakers who delineated the fundamental changes that are occurring within the various activities of the college, curricular and extra-curricular. Many of these activities are in fields of knowledge that did not exist, or at best had only been predicted in our day, and the prospects of further discoveries in research seem to offer tremendous opportunities to the present day college student.

The realm of communication with alumni was stressed in one meeting, and while not pointed at our class, nevertheless touches on a problem confronting us, specifically, our showing in the 1962 Alumni Fund campaign. There was a time when we could always say that 1930 outshone all of its contemporaries in its achievements and its loyalties to the College, but last year we fell into next to last place in our group in Fund participation, and at the rate we are going at this writing, the same lowly state bids fair to eventuate again this year. Perhaps our communications to our classmates have not emphasized the real need to approach the problem of annual fund giving in terms of much more substantial gifts than sufficed even five years ago. Our class quota has roughly doubled since 1956 and we must think in terms of doubling our former gifts. Granted this is also one of the problems of inflation, but that is how it works out, and surely we all can see it in one way or another in our daily lives.

This matter was considered very seriously by the 1930 officers who traveled to Hanover for the May 4-5 meetings, namely, Charlie Rauch, chairman, Art Browning, agent, Hank Embree, treasurer, and your secretary. In addition plans were completed to hold the 1962 informal reunion, consisting of a cocktail party and dinner, after the Yale game, November 3, 1962, at the Yale Motor Inn, Exit 66, Wilbur Cross Parkway, Wallingford, Conn.; telephone co-9-1491, area code, 203. This is in accordance with the suggestion made last fall, that a location near New Haven be selected from which classmates from as far as Boston or Northern New Jersey could readily return home the same night, there having been the feeling that the costs and other inconveniences of remaining overnight, as required in most cases to be present at a Woodstock reunion, tended to keep attendance down. Charlie Rauch will send out a full scale notice of this meeting during the summer months, but for any who will want overnight accommodations November 2 or 3 reservations should be made right away. For late reservationers and others who may not succeed at the place of festivities, Charlie Raymond will include a list of motels in his next Thirtyteer, naming three or four in each direction from Wallingford.

Hank Embree was looking particularly fit after his trip to the Orient. He and Ruth had visited Hawaii, Japan, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Formosa; had met Kyosuke Fukuda '29 and his wife in Tokyo, and had spent some time with Frank and PaulineMcLaughlin in Honolulu. On one leg of the trip the Embrees had happened to be on one of the flights taken by a high officer of the Federal Government, and Hank will be glad to tell any of you in detail of the irritations and commotion encountered in flying in such circumstances.

He told us that Bob McClory had won the Republican nomination for Congressman from the 12th district of Illinois. Let us not put a whammy on this by thinking that it is a shoo-in; let us wish him success, and come fall, we may know if he was successful.

Nowadays, with the Turnpike to carry one around the old bottlenecks, fewer people drive through New Haven, but if you did and you saw a tall sedate gentleman pedaling a bicycle around the city, this would be our chairman, Charles E. Rauch, vice president of the Connecticut Savings Bank, making the rounds on behalf of the New Haven United Fund or some other charity. Charlie related to us that he couldn't cope with the motor traffic in New Haven, despite all that has been siphoned away by the Turnpike, and in desperation had taken his old bicycle down for the purpose of getting around to make his calls whenever involved in a charitable campaign. Stores the bike in the basement of the bank, rather than his own office.

During the weekend we also ran into two '31 bankers from Boston who reported that Lin Savage is still there with the New England Trust Company.

Howie Heimbach was a speaker in the program of the American Management Association's special conference on Managing Corporate Overhead. His subject was Coordination of Central Staff in a Decentralized Company, a case study taken from the experience of Rockwell Manufacturing Corporation where he is vice president-administration.

Ted Childs is at it again. The steel structure for Lenox Hill Hospital's new addition is up about sixteen stories and is moving so fast that it seems to a casual observer that occupancy might take place before the end of the year.

Newell Rumpf, senior vice president of the Harris Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago recently was elected to the Board of Trustees of Chicago Wesley Memorial Hospital, and within a month was elected to the board of directors of Clark Equipment Company, Buchanan, Mich. He has spent his entire business career with the Harris Bank, and in addition is an officer of the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry and a director of the Methodist Old People's Home and Provident Hospital.

Always one to vociferate his opinions, Dr. Fran Horn recently delivered an address in Keene in which he hit hard at the lagging state colleges in New England. He opines that New England is way behind the rest of the country in public higher education; the tremendous potential expansion in number of students, the responsibility to educate the average student as well as the high ranking student, and the lack of adequate state financial support combine to spell trouble ahead for New England education. Fiscal and management controls are putting New England state education into a strait jacket, and he considers New Hampshire the worst offender.

Harry Dunning has been elected president of Scott Paper Company, a promotion capping a career of 27 years with the Company, starting as an industrial salesman and advancing successively through more responsible positions in personnel, manufacturing and marketing; becoming a vice president, a director in 1955, and then executive vice president for marketing. In 1961 Harry supervised the marketing of approximately one third of a billion dollars of Scott products. Sincere congratulations upon your notable success, Harry!

Being president of a large organization is not always an unmixed joy, as Milt Mc-Innes will tell you, after presiding at the annual, and this time somewhat acrimonious, meeting of the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad, which has been running deeply in the red, to the apparent displeasure of a few stockholders.

We have expressed the sympathy of the members of the class to Bob Jordan, whose wife, Helen passed away April 22. A great many will remember her from attendance at reunions, and will understand the great loss that has come into Bob's life.

Bob and Mae Barker journeyed to Florida in April and on their return stopped off for a short visit with Rev. Wade Safford in his new home in Southern Maryland. They brought back the news that Wade recently had been honored by election as Dean of the Southern Convocation of the Diocese of Washington, comprising twenty-odd parishes, chapels, and missions in the two southernmost counties, St. Mary's and Charles, plus half of Prince George's County.

The New York group held a dinner at the Dartmouth Club on May 3 with a very disappointing attendance. Bill Fenton was an unexpected attendee from Albany and was joined by the following regulars; Al Allyn,Art Behal, Wally Blakey, Houston Boyles,Art Browning, Al Fisk, Ave Gould, FrankKindermann, Charlie McDonough, JimMitchell, Bill Reinhart and Ted Wolf. We ought to have had twice as many, another instance of less than adequate communication with our members. Art Browning was proud to tell that his son Reed, '60 who has been doing post graduate work in history at Yale, has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship and will spend next year studying in Vienna.

So, if you haven't done it already, remember the Alumni Fund now, and then (no pun intended) - Have a Wonderful Summer!

Secretary, 30 Boxwood Dr., Stamford, Conn.

Class Agent, New York Life Ins. Co., 51 Madison Ave. New York 10, N. Y.