1941

The time for your summer respite from the doldrums of this column has arrived. So here goes with my final salvo. Fortunately, I have a fair supply of ammunition on hand.

Last month it was Stu Steffey who supplied most of the material for this monthly report. This month the honors go to "bag-man" Bob Taft, who just one year ago was master-minding our very successful Twentieth Reunion.

Bob's taxing responsibilities in a very competitive business require him to keep abreast of trends and developments in marketing and advertising. Thus he came across two recent articles concerning two of our "Madison Avenue magnates," which he passed on to me, for which I am grateful. Lee Trudeau, a senior vice-president of Street & Finney, a New York firm establ ished sixty years ago and billing $10 million worth of business a year, and top account man on the Colgate-Palmolive Co.'s new product, clear plastic bags on a tear-off roll known as Baggies, has spent many weeks in the field over the past two years gathering market information for the test-product, organizing sales promotion and publicity campaigns, and introducing the product in new test-markets.

The other item of information concerns Vince Else, who was recently named administrative director of Knox and Reeves Advertising of Minneapolis, Minn. Prior to this appointment Vince was operating a real estate firm in southwest Minnesota. In this new undertaking he will be responsible for this agency's financial affairs, personnel-operations and communications.

The Bob Chisholms recently weathered a harrowing experience on the homewardbound leg of a thirteen-day tropical cruise aboard the Grace Line's "Santa Paula." Off Cape Hatteras the cruise ship encountered her worst storm in sixty years. Despite the fact that their cabin was at least fifty feet above water level, their portholes were covered with water. So they put what belongings they could in drawers and tied everything else down. At the height of the storm they could hear smashing and cracking sounds through the night, pierced from time to time with a shriek as the ship pitched and rolled. Despite the difficulties Mrs. Chisholm was able to eat the meals served during the storm. Their only casualty being a broken cosmetic bottle. Bob and his wife have chalked up their experience as a "funny" one, often related to neighbors in Poland, Ohio, and to fellow officers of the Carbon Limestone Co., of which Bob is vice-president.

Downey Gray, sales manager of the Alton Box Board of Louisville, Ky., is the new chairman of the Jefferson County Board of Education, a most appropriate assignment for the father of four children. In addition to being highly qualified for this undertaking by virtue of his parental "know-how," Downey gained experience for this all-important task in his prior post of vice-chairman.

At about the same time that President Dickey and Chairman Jack Dodd '22 were "stumping" around the country on behalf of the 1962 Alumni Fund, a couple of our silver-tongued orators were doing a little public speaking of their own. Ed McMillan, resident vice-president of the Boston office of the Merrill Lynch dynasty, spoke on the topic of "Who Are Today's Investors" at the first of three Stock Market Forums sponsored jointly by the Boston Investors' Information Committee of the New York Stock Exchange and the Boston Globe for the purpose of explaining the fundamentals of share-ownership and describing the objectives and methods of investing. Ed is a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce; a director of the Boston Sales Executive Club; and a trustee of the Museum of Science and the American Physical Therapy Association. What diversified talent!

Professor Charlie McLane, Chairman of the Russian Civilization Department at Hanover, traveled to California to address a dinner held by Northern California's Dartmouth Alumni.

Dick Wheeler, of Denver, Colo., recently joined forces with his brothers and sisters to give a fabulous Washington, D. C., party to his father, former Senator Burton K. Wheeler, to celebrate his 80th birthday. As so aptly put by a Washington society columnist, this fitting tribute to one of the most colorful men of our time "drew hundreds including some well-known figures dating back to the Roosevelt era. There were times when milling through the crowd you could almost taste the yesteryear."

Don Hagen, in his last Newsletter, expressed ten times more convincingly than I could ever hope for the real reasons why every 41'er should do his utmost to contribute to the 1962 Alumni Fund. Although everyone likes to be a winner, the least important of all motives for giving regularly and generously should be the desire to win the Green Derby. However, the Green Derby serves as a ledger upon which the record of what Dartmouth means to every one of us will be indelibly posted for time immemorial. There is now very little time left to prove our worth to the College and Dartmouth's worth to us.

"Thou Spirit of the Summer-time" has arrived once again to bring content to the hearts of the "little-ones," and the realization of long-awaited vacation plans. Thus it is my sincere wish that this summer be a joyous one for all.

Secretary, 84-39 126 th St. Kew Gardens 15, N. Y.

Class Agent, 140 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass.