1939

We wrote to Sam Hird hoping for his sagacious and perhaps divine quidance in this lead-off editorial blast, our last-ditch stand for the 1962 Alumni Fund Drive. But, here it is Mayday with no help in sight and a prostrate deadline. Our class currently stands seventh out of a possible seven in Group IV with 22% of our dollar objective received as of 4/24. We've always been a late starter for a photo finish. Maybe that's why Sam didn't answer our letter on "How to Motivate Giving." He figures we'll make it and he's busy changing lenses. Anyhow, Junie only has three golden retriever puppies left after last month's offer, and we know of two vice-presidents who have been broken to corporal. So it goes.

We've been bombarded with notices and clippings telling "us how O'Ryan and Batchelder, Inc., the nation's biggest transit advertising organization (Joe Batchelder, pres.) has just walked off with the nation's biggest prize in that field - the New York City subway account. (6,800 subway cars; 43,000 station posters; $25 million clams guaranteed to Jimmy Walker's heirs over the next ten years!) In fact, whenever your watery eyes wave over any subway, bus or trolley advertising posters in the U. S. A. there is one chance in three that Joe's outfit had their fingers in it. When approached on this coup, Joe informs us his son B. J. is a sophomore at Dartmouth and enjoying it immensely; that younger son is still at home (Peoria, Ill.) in high school and is president of his class (junior) and was voted All-Conference in both football and basketball as well as named on several All-State teams. Wife, Peggy, and nine-year-old daughter Ann spend all their time riding street cars using up old duebills. .

A terse clipping from the Times pictures Bob Catharine graying, urbane, and successfully qualified as the new president of the Federal Paint Co. of Newark, N. J. It seems a logical transition from his former position as president of the Tidewater Dredging Corp. of New York. There is no date on the clipping, but on the reverse side U. S. Steel closed on the Midwest Exchange at 71.

We've always been impressed with the informal, almost cheery, way the life insurance companies have of announcing promotions and new general agents. And then you invite their smiling faces into your office only to suddenly conjecture your immediate demise and its consequences. Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. is doing it with Bob Wehmeyer, who has just left Fort Wayne, Ind., where, since 1955, he has been on the home office staff as assistant, and later as superintendent of all agencies, to take up new duties as general agent for the State of Colorado under the name of Wehmeyer and Associates bedded down at 158 Fillmore Street, Denver 6. His wife, Bee, and their three kids will shortly "take up" residence there. We suggest you look up Dick Shaw when you get there. Bob, so you don't waste time meandering with the wrong political parties. HARVARD MUST BE STOPPED AT THE POTOMAC!

When John Evans graduated from Dartmouth in '39, he attended Drew Theological Seminary, and in 1943 was ordained a Methodist minister. He is now a Lt. Col. and Chaplain in the Air Force (our last address: c/o McGuire AFB, N. J.) and a two-time winner in the annual Freedom Foundation's Letter Awards Program. Last year he won a George Washington Honor Medal and $50.00 for his subject, "My Vote - Freedom's Privilege." This year on his subject, "What I Can Do for Freedom," he again will receive an Honor Medal and $100.00. And he plans to donate it to Dartmouth. We think this is pretty fine. The donation alone we know will be appreciated. But money won in this manner and given in this spirit does .double duty.

On the Montclair Community Hospital's newly elected Board of Managers we have classmate Skip Morse, director of purchases for Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp. In Providence, R. I., Jack Cumming was made president of Colonial Laundries, Inc., the third generation of his family to direct this crusade for cleanliness, which close observation will reveal has been anything but a hair raising experience. Jack is a past president of the Rhode Island Launderers and Cleaners Association, a director of the Massachusetts Laundryowners Association, vice-president of the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, and trustee of the Industrial Foundation of R. I.

The American Bankers Association announces the promotion of Kent Blatchford to assistant advertising manager, West, of their publication, "Banking." This means his headquarters remain in Chicago (probably in the Ambassador East) where he has served the publication and the association since 1959 after several years in the advertising and publishing fields.

And now a Wah Hoo Wah for Ken MacDonald of Mercer Island, Wash., who has been elected to the Dartmouth Alumni Council for a two-year term. The fifty-member Council is the senate of our alumni body, and Ken was chosen as a regional representative by alumni clubs in the Pacific states area. Ken has been a partner in the law firm of Mac Donald, Hoague and Bayless since 1948. He is a member of the Washington State Board against Discrimination, and a trustee of the Seattle Bar Association from 1957 to '60. He has been active in politics as a Democratic district leader and campaign manager. In the spirit of camaraderie it is only fair to state that Ken received his law degree from You Know Where in '42. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN STOPPED AT THE CHARLES!

We participated in a neighborhood viewing of colored slides extolling a kids' camp in the Adirondacks the other night. Brilliantly pictured in a cloud of dust sliding to second base on "Dad's Day" was Bob Barvoets. We understand he damaged an appendage. The January issue of "Apparel Manufacturer" carried a well written article titled "The 60's as we see them" by JohnMitchell. John was soothsaying about equipment for the garment trade, particularly air-powered equipment with greater flexibility. He devotes full time to his family business A. J. Mitchell Co., Fall River, Mass., developing and manufacturing for this field.

Chosen as general practitioner of the year by the Charles River District Medical Society: Dr. Charles Thompson. The citation read, "He lives to serve, and is known for his friendly cooperation with his colleagues in the emergency care of their patients." He lives at 1141 Walnut St., Newton Highlands, Mass., with wife Jean and five kids.

See you in the fall. Meantime, pretend there's prosperity and make our class look yar in the Fund regatta.

Dr. Seymour E. Wheelock '40 (r), who will join the Hitchcock Clinic in Hanover inJuly, at a recent meeting of the Denver Club with President Dickey, Thomas P.Campbell '18 and Louis T. Benezet '36, president of Colorado College.

Secretary, 1908 Coolidge Drive Dayton 19, Ohio

Class Agent, 70 Pine St., New York 5, N. Y.