1934

Due to the recurrence of a south-of-Ireland congenital disease known as "prevarication" we are left beating away at this chore with the usual ten flying thumbs, albeit looking out the back window of the Chieftain Motel at the lovely view up the Connecticut River, while all the rest of the '34 delegation, including our personal storm and strife, are engaged in many several outdoor, indoor, and spectator sports.

The occasion is, of course, the annual brain-washing of class officers, said by no means in a deprecatory way because this is one of the things that keep many of us alive in these somewhat less than soul-satisfying jobs from year to year.

Reading clockwise around the corner of the Chieftain there are in residence Stan andBarb Smoyer, Jack and Mary O'Brien, Gillyand Prudence Gilmore, Gerry and Bill Scherman, John and Mary Foley. Foley stands as the bulwark against the '33's who range the rest of the wing, which is natural because they've been in our lap for years. However, a nicer guy than Wes Beattie you'll never meet, and a better pick for Secretary of the Year, which he is this year, you'll never find.

Hank Werner, between other engagements, spent an evening in reporting that as a class we are in no immediate danger of foundering through financial malnutrition, even though a too sizeable percentage of the class keep losing the dues notices which he continues to send to them.

At these gatherings we get lectured on various things - like communications. Somebody tells you what you ought to do, the sees moan that it doesn't do any good, and Jack Childs '09, everybody's friend but particularly Art Moebius, gets up and tells us to get off our duff and everything will be all right.

It's even easier with '34's ye sec, principally because it's better to be lucky than to have a license to steal. Everything drops in your lap, for instance.

You remember Hafey Arthur. We used to pick up little items here and there about his progress, but were never able to put them together until he felt sorry for us and wrote a very complete resume of his activities which we will have to abstract:

Presently Canadian manager of Kyanize Paints, Inc. and handle all export business also ... left the teaching profession in 1946 when I resigned from the History Department at Princeton.

At Dartmouth during the war period I was coach of hockey, member of the History Department, and acting Director of Athletics for a time. After going to work for Kyanize, returned to hockey as coach at Tufts in 1950-51 at the request of a Tufts alumnus and Director, who was president of our company at the time (very smart move, Hafey-Ed.)- I had the distinction of starting hockey at Tufts and coached the team nine years.

With no indoor rink, no scholarships, and the destruction of the science of the game by the invasion of the bull-fight tactics of the professionals I became less and less content. "When business demands became more pressing, I resigned and Tufts discontinued the sport.

With wife, Lucy, spend most of the time rearing Charlene, fourteen, and Katherine, twelve, in mortal combat with the abominable "Stuff" on radio and TV. Some of our lectures should be preserved for them to use with their children.

Haven't deserted the teaching profession entirely —am the perennial chairman of the Paint Sales Training course which is offered by the N.E. Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association.

NAMES IN THE NEWS, this month. ... J. Clarence Davies Jr. has been promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General in the Air Force Reserve. He has held the rank of Colonel since 1950. ... Henry J. Peirce,CLU has been listed in the 1962 roster of the Million Dollar Round Table of the National Association of Life Underwriters. ... J. Howard McHugh, publicist for the Boston Celtics, received what to him was probably unwelcome attention when the plane carrying the Celtics and the Lakers developed landing gear trouble and a crew member unsuccessfully tried to correct it from the trio of seats occupied by said J. Howard, Frank Ramsey and Gene Guarilia . .. and, perhaps a repeat because we are away from our files of vital statistics and apt sayings, James J. Darling has been appointed to the newly created position of director of marketing for the International division of General Foods Corp.

That old telephone man George Cogswell recently received a fine promotion with the Illinois Bell Telephone Co., for which he is now general sales manager of the business division. George has been with Illinois Bell since 1938 and has spent most of his career in the company's commercial, sales, and marketing departments. He has been in charge of airlines and airport services for the company, and in 1956 he made a nationwide study of airline communication needs for the jet age. George and his wife June live in Wilmette with daughter Janet, 13, and son Tom, who will be a Dartmouth freshman next fall.

In the Sports Department this month we have some very chancy reporting to contend with. Seems there was a Dartmouth Alumni Slalom at the Dartmouth Skiway in March and a '34 team of Walt Crandall,Gilly Gilmore, Spike Fulton and Ed Brown challenged a '33 team, or vice versa, none of this as you will see being very clear. The boys finished strongly, but Ed Brown was disqualified either for hitting too many gates or tripping John Meek '33 and the scoring gets a little sticky. The whole thing has been turned into the mechanical brain at M.I.T. and if the brain doesn't have a nervous breakdown, the losers will keep the sidewalks in front of the Ad Building clear of snow during the entire months of July and August.

This kind of brings us not. only to the end of anything that's fit to print, but to the end of a very pleasant weekend here in Hanover.

In a fast windup, we steal a quote from somebody: "The winds of change flow across the Hanover Plain." And they sure as hell do - you ought to see the new Math building and the dorms down in back of Tuck School.

Most of the change has been good and some makes you pause just a little bit, but at least the change is clearly outlined for all to see. Picking another thought from the brains of our peers, the material we get during the Alumni Fund campaign, in addition to the useful envelope, if added up will compose a complete review and even a textbook of Dartmouth's purpose. So don't throw it away automatically — it isn't just asking you for money, it shouldn't have to.

And if you've read this far, you can throw this away - have a good summer.

Herbert N. Heston '34, director of development at Smith, announced at theannual alumnae gathering that the initial goal of $10,000,000 had been exceeded well ahead of scheduled time.

Secretary, 12 Berwick St. Worcester 2, Mass.

Class Agent, 1650 McDowell St., Sharon, Pa.