1938

Jack Donovan Married

The rest is just a matter of details, like the water that follows after the dam has burst. The bride's name is Dorthe Rasmussen of Copenhagen, Denmark. This scoop comes from brother Charlie who indicated that Dorthe is a school teacher in her thirties. No more available now, but Jack should be writing it to us before we come back in the Fall.

A major move like this by one of the Class's leaders comes somewhat as a shock ... after all his great years of independence, freedom to roam alone . .. and all that sort of romance. Why does a guy give up all that inbuilt self-determination. Guess maybe because a foreign girl had something that just wasn't available in 50 states. Sure could be. Now we can recommend that J. Clark Barrett and Bud Walls visit the land of the midnight lights...if they want to risk getting married.

This last blurb of the pre-summer season is written in Hanover. Met here with the Baron von Pechmann, Art Soule, John McLane, Y. P. Dawkins, Scotford and Tanis to discuss our Twenty Fifth... the fun about it and the fund about it. The former is easy and seems well planned in the good hands of John McLane. The FUND part is a beaut, also resting in capable hands, Art Soule's.

It's a beaut because we are shooting at about a net of $140,000 to be given in a period covering three tax years. .. this year, next year and then through January of 1963. This comes on top of our great effort for the recent Capital Fund, and it will highly accelerate the pace of 1938's established pattern. This amount, added to our total class giving since graduation, will bring our gifts to the College to $500,000 since June, 1938. It will about equal the rate of giving of the three Classes preceding us.

Let's face it... this seems like a gigantic task right now. But I wish you could have been with us to hear Fran Fenn '37 explain how they have tackled a similar "impossible" goal. . . and they are exceeding it. We discussed this problem all weekend, and don't think that your pocketbook wasn't represented at the meetings. Arguments representing the interests of the generous givers to date were particularly strong, and plans to get wide class participation were outlined in detail. At times, we also discussed telling the College that the bogey was too high. Yet, the need appears so obvious to all of us. So, we all decided to go after the $140,000. It will be done as much as possible on a personal basis. You'll be hearing more from Art as we organize to carry out a soldierly task. We all are sure that if you will find the time to study and understand the problem, you will respond to the need.

Our learned classmate Hal Berman was in the news from Moscow in April when he decided to call off his series of lectures on U. S. law at Moscow University. What amounted to an officially induced boycott took place after he devoted one lecture to the U. S. Supreme Court's majority and minority opinions on the Subversive Activities Control Act, requiring Communist organs to register with the Justice Dep artment. Hal, who is a professor at Harvard Law School, went to Russia last fall to do research on Soviet law, his special field. His lecture course was the first an American scholar had been permitted to offer Soviet students in the social sciences.

"Where's Speck Holmes, and what's he doing?" Clark Barrett wants to know.

Larry Hull moves from Detroit to Cleveland this summer as a Shell Oil Sales Exec. Harry Connor from Dayton is shocked that Dartmouth is even rumored to be going co-ed somewhere down the road. The first cue is that a lady will attend the 1963 summer session. The Marine Reserve Colonel has three sons, the first to enter secondary school this fall. Harry has 26 years in the Marines and blames it all on Bob Foley and Chuck Blumenauer who chose Quantico in 1936 as the best place to spend that summer. For six years now, Harry has been Sales Manager of Gray Iron Division of the Dayton Malleable Iron Co.

Mentioned recently that Reno is active behind the scenes in the movement of World Peace Through World Law as conceived by Granville Clark and Professor Sohn of Harvard. Bob sent their book, and its say makes lots of sense. Seems general statements of disarmament by President Kennedy and our Allied leaders conform with the Clark-Sohn approach.

Fred Pickering is a sales manager at Elizabeth Arden in Gotham and the former lacrosser fathers four, Fred Jr., Tim, Lisa, and Andy.

Boit Wiswall is President and Treasurer of Consolidated Paper Box Co. of Somerville, Mass. They make rigid boxes and jig saw puzzles for the retail trade. Boit spends some time with Morgan Marshall on college affairs and is a wheel in the community as member, Town Finance Committee; director, Wakefield Trust Co.; trustee, Savi ngs Bank; chairman, Municipal Light Plant; director, Golf Club, and also active in box industry affairs. There are three younger Wiswalls: Andrea, Cynthia, and Debora.

Hanover is more beautiful than ever. Spring has blossomed fully with a bite in the early May air. New buildings are abund ant as are new faculty faces. The boys dress the same and roam the same paths. This week the Hums are being held in front of Dartmouth Hall. There are still bearded students, and the lights burn much later than when we were at college. The average boy, they say, studies till one A.M. As he goes to dinner in Thayer at 5:30, he pauses to watch the end of a Campus ball game, and the final run emotes great cheers from the fans.

The students are described as "very conservative," so you can compare that with our day. But the hills around are older with sameness. Despite what appears on the surface as much change I would think, that you would conclude after a week "slowed down" here that the ancient spirit of real Dartmouth prevails.

See you in the fall.

Secretary, 2945 Fairmount Cleveland 18, Ohio

Class Agent, 88 Grovers Ave., Bridgeport 5, Conn.