1926
The 1963 Alumni Fund Report, provided in detail in the November issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, is a report of which all Dartmouth men can be extremely proud. New records were set in practically all of the Fund statistics - from total amount to various class records. 1926 was one of five classes to exceed $40,000, with a total of $40,913. This was 112% of our quota and put us in 26th position as to percentage, although in 4th position in dollar amount.
Participation (the number of givers) was disappointing - 82% of our scoring base for 41st position among all classes. However, our class can take great satisfaction in maintaining its record of achieving its full share in the Alumni Fund Campaign. Our hearty salute to Herm Trefethan and his many loyal regional sub-agents for a big job well done!
Our 37th August informal class reunion, attended by twenty classmates, and fourteen wives, was a most pleasant occasion. Class Chairman Hub Harwood has reported on this in detail in Gordon Chipman's "Smoke Signals," and any additional words in this column would be superfluous. We wish more of you could have been there!
Sidney C. Hayward, with us during the August reunion, had just returned from a 5-week combination pleasure and exploration trip to Labrador to obtain further scientific data about the rapidly dwindling Naskaupi Indians of Labrador. Sid has previously made many trips with Paul Sample - four expeditions to Newfoundland, three to Labrador, one to Iceland and numerous trips to nearer Canadian provinces. Together they have collaborated on government reports and articles and paintings for outdoor magazines. Sid reported excellent salmon and trout fishing. The data collected on this latest expedition will be added to Dartmouth's Polar Collection accumulated by the late Vilhjalmur Stefansson, famed arctic explorer.
Wow! What a wonderful report from Class Treasurer Ed Hanlon, as reproduced in our class bulletin "Smoke Signals." Very complete in every detail it shows that our class treasury is in sound condition. Our most sincere thanks to Ed and Evelyn Hanlon for the vast amount of time and energy given by them in this continuing responsibility as class treasurer(s).
Our hearty congratulations to M. Richard"Dick" Burlingame, recently appointed National Personnel Director for the entire Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company operations. Starting with the A & P in 1928, Dick has advanced in successive stages to this top post. This marks Dick's 35th anniversary with A & P. He and Edna have moved from Altoona, Pa., to The Scarswold, 143 Garth Road, Scarsdale, N. Y. Dick's office is in the Graybar Building, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York City.
High honor has been twice bestowed within the past few months upon Prof. Hugh S. Morrison, Chairman of Dartmouth's Art Department, and an authority on architecture. Hugh has taught at Dartmouth since 1938. In May Hugh was named by the College as the occupant of a newly established faculty chair at Dartmouth, endowed by the late Leon E. Williams 'l5 of Wagon Mound, N. Mex.
While teaching at the University of Chicago some years ago Hugh became interested in the work of Louis H. Sullivan and wrote a book that is still considered the definitive work on this "prophet" of modern architecture. The book won a New Republic Award, and a later one "Early American Architecture" won second prize in the Book of the Year Competition of the Society of Architectural Historians in 1953. The latter also won a White House Award in 1954 as one of the 200 best books in all fields published in the preceding five years. These two books, written by Hugh, were selected in August for the first permanent library of the White House - a library of "books about America by Americans." Further details concerning this may be found in this month's Faculty Column which tells about other Dartmouth faculty and alumni honored similarly.
"Fifty Notable Ships' Portraits at" Mystic Seaport" is the title of an illustrated catalog recently compiled by Richard C. Maloney for the members of the Marine Historical Association. Dick, for the past ten years Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Pennsylvania State University, spent much of the summer of 1962 at the Munson Institute of American Maritime History at Mystic Seaport. The 50 oil paintings illustrated in the catalog are the outstanding or notable ones in the vast collections at the Seaport, and includes paintings of ships, barks, brigs, schooners, yachts, and marine scenes.
Joe Batchelder, last May, became associated with the Boston office of American Securities Corporation. His address is 53 State Street, Boston 9.
Classmate Judge Edwin D. Steel, in Federal Court at Wilmington, Del., rendered a decision favorable to business and finance in early May when he ruled that formation in 1960 of Penn-Olin Chemical Co. by Pennsalt Chemical Corp. and Olin-Mathieson Chemical Corp. "didn't constitute an unreasonable restraint of trade" in violation of the Sherman Act. He dismissed antitrust charges brought by the lustice Department in January 1961.
Kermit S. "Nick" Nickerson has been named Acting Commissioner of Education of the State of Maine. Nick has devoted his entire life to the education of youth in Maine. Starting as a sub-master at the Winterport High School, he went on to become Superintendent of Schools in Waterville, Winterport, and Oakland, and in 1953 joined the State Department of Education, and in 1955 was named Deputy Commissioner of Education. Nick is considered the department's expert on legislative affairs.
Helen and I had a very pleasant Sunday visit in late July with Marion and BleeckerR. Williams at their summer home on the shore road at Madison, Conn. "Bleeck" is Executive Vice President of the Barco Corporation. Their son Bleecker Jr. graduated this June from the Colorado School of Mines. The Williamses summer at Madison from early April to early November, during which time the latchstring is always out for 1926 classmates.
Herbert F. Darling, owner and senior partner of Herbert F. Darling Engineering Contractors, was elected in June to Dartmouth's Alumni Council for a three-year term as member-at-large. Herb, a director of Colby Junior College, and of the Bank of Buffalo, and formerly president for two terms of the Y.M.C.A. of Buffalo, was named one of 10 outstanding citizens in Buffalo last year.
Anniversaries: - Horace M. Moderwell, assistant vice president of Harris Trust and Savings Bank (Chicago), recently marked his 35th year with that bank; and Lloyd M.Sanford, regional supervisor in the group division of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, recently celebrated his 35th year with Metropolitan.
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