1929

Hello, everybody! Everything seemed so sleepy and quiet two weeks ago when DukeBarto called from Washington for information about the Fall Reunion. We hope that by the time you read these notes you have made your reservations at the Norwich Inn for the Holy Cross weekend. If not, come anyway and join the fun. If you must sleep, you can improvise. Labor Day has come and gone - there's a chill in the air — the foliage is turning - and the pace is quickening. We cannot get off now — so, here we go.

Through a summer news release we learned that a congratulatory toast is due Paul Jameson, newly elected vice president for finance and administration of National Distillers and Chemical Corp. Paul, who has been secretarytreasurer of National Distillers since 1955, will continue as secretary. He first joined the firm in 1933 as assistant to the treasurer after three years in the credit department of the Chase Bank. He was named National Distillers' assistant secretary-treasurer fourteen years later. Paul Jr. is also in New York City - in the credit department at the Textile Banking Company.

After serving two terms in the House and two terms in the Senate of the New Hampshire legislature, Bob Monahan announced that he would not be back for the next session. No senator from his District has served three consecutive terms and Bob said, "I am not about to break that tradition." And so our illustrious classmate, who was the majority leader of the Senate, is back in the tall grass with the rest of us.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland announces the promotion of Elmer Fricek as Vice-President. He has served with the Bank since 1933, starting as a utility clerk in the check collection department. His old friends in Richardson Hall can take pride in the influence they shed on his early character.

And now that we have used a proper and judicious restraint, we want to announce that Bill Andres has been elected to the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College. This was the big news of the summer. We rejoice in this well deserved recognition of our classmate and chairman because we know that he will serve the College with great distinction. It means, of course, that we thereby lose our leader, who has done so much to bring renown and lustre to our Class. May his successor continue to blaze the trail onward and upward.

A note from Heinie Richardson informs us that he is returning to teaching - his first love. Heinie is teaching French at Brattleboro High School. His new address is 26 Lexington Avenue, Brattleboro, Vt. He reports that he saw John Davis in Brockton recently. John is looking younger by the hour. Dick "Tiger" Barrett journeyed to Chatham on Cape Cod early in the summer to discuss the general tax situation with the Retired Men's Association in the Fire House.

On another occasion the "Tiger" reports that "while meandering through the historic purlieus of Washington, D. C., with two daughters and camera in hand," he came upon F. Wellington Barto in an unexpected posture inspecting the blossoms of a tree. A picture was snapped of the unsuspecting Duke. It defies description unless one is discourteous. We are forwarding it to Hanover for the archives. Horty was standing guard nearby for all the good it did. In the evening, Barrett et als. dined at Panos George's "new boite, the Club Pigalle." Panos ("Mr. George") was present and "looking handsome and suave as usual." He gave the Barrett girls a thrill by having the orchestra leader dedicate a song to them and arranging for them to give a twist exhibition. Nobody should miss the Club Pigalle - "the atmosphere is delightful, the food superb and Panos is an impeccable host."

Jim Loeb has been appointed by President Kennedy as Ambassador to Guinea.

Dave Cogan has been elected as Henry Willard Williams Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. Dave is the author of more than 200 publications on the physiology and pathology of the human eye and has served as director of Harvard's clinical research center at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, the Howe Laboratory of Ophthalmology.

Ed Cogswell has joined the staff of R. M. Bradley & Co., a Boston real estate firm. He will represent the company in Wellesley, Framingham, Natick. and Needham. Ed and his family reside in Wellesley.

Ed How has been appointed materials manager of the General Electric plant in Niles, Ohio. Ed has been with G.E. since 1929 and has been serving as Sales Manager of the central region in Niles. He lives in Warren with his wife, Katherine, and son, Edward Jr.

Gerry Swope is the new alumni trustee of The Horace Mann School for Boys, in Riverdale, New York City.

Art Clow has been appointed as a director of the First National Bank of Jersey City. Art is also a vice president and director of the Western Electric Company, the manufacturing subsidiary of American Telephone and Telegraph Company, a director of Sandia Corporation in New Mexico, and Bellcom, Inc., in Washington, D. C. This column begins to sound like a Who's Who!

Ray Hedger, who is Vice President of Sorg Printing Company, reports that his son, Ray Jr., has returned to this country after a year's study at the Sorbonne. He will resume his studies at Muhlenberg College. Ray also tells us that Bud Foulks and his wife spent the summer in Europe.

Kingsbury Nickerson, president of the First National Bank of Jersey City, announces that Charlie Scott has joined the bank as a vice-president in business development.

Herb Ball, who is Secretary and General Attorney for Johns-Manville Corporation in New York, has recently completed a term as president of the New York Regional Group of the American Society of Corporate Secretaries. Herb presided at the annual meeting of the Society at Hot Springs, Va., in June, and will continue as a National Director, a member of the Executive Committee, and as a member of the Budget and Finance Committee.

Herm Liss has been elected President of the International Student Association of Greater Boston. This Association was formed in 1946, and provides a "home," so to speak, for thousands of overseas students in this area. The services rendered are invaluable in the field of international understanding.

John Sloan Dickey Jr. '63 has been awarded a grant under the International Educational and Cultural Exchange Program of the Department of State. Young John will attend the University of Otago in New Zealand where he will study metamorphic petrology. These grants are awarded to the most highly qualified students to study abroad for one year. The program is formulated to promote mutual understanding between this country and other nations through cultural exchanges.

We proved last week that we are not as old as we think. Your scribe and his wife, Ret, climbed Mt. Washington with two ten year oldsters, Jimmy Brennan and Neil Haggstrom, of Peabody, Mass. We camped in Tuckerman's Ravine where we enjoyed the rigors of winter in summer. The two boys were real mountain goats and should be excellent candidates for the Dartmouth Outing Club in a few years.

Hope to see you the weekend of October 19 in Hanover. 1929's flag will be flying high.

Edwin P. Felch '29 (r), Director of theBell Telephone Missile and GuidanceLaboratory at Whippany, N.J., receivingthe "Commander's Award" from Brig.Gen. John L. McCoy at Norton AFB,Calif., for work in designing and developing the Bell Command Guidance System.

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