1934
HAZY, LAZY NOTES FROM A FADED,JADED SUMMER:
Call to Duty - Ye Olde Sec, heeding the good counsel of Ye Olde, Olde Sec, didn't wait until deadline day (Sept. 5) to start worrying about writing this column. No sir! Showing a lot of early foot, we started worrying on the Fourth of July and worried every single day thereafter until September 5 - then started to write these items:
Reunion Remnants - Regrets from many who couldn't make the "early 30th" reunion ... and for a variety of reasons.... BobBrown, Hod Clark and Frank Sweetser overseas (Bob in Stockholm, Moscow and Leningrad; Hod in London, Paris, Munich, etc.; Frank in Helsinki).... Wires or letters from Jake Edwards, Bud Hart, Frank Heath, TomHicks, George Kimball, Witt McConnochie,Max Palmer, Harry Stearns, Dick Wells,Wendy Williams saying they just couldn't get away Milt Spitz couldn't make it for health reasons.... Jake Jacobson because of new position (with J.P. Stevens & Co.). ... Art Leonard because of death of an uncle.... Bill Wilson for happier reason (he had to leave Hanover to attend daughter Deb's college graduation).... From one who did attend - Bud Powell (back in Hanover for the first time since student days) - a warm note saying Bud, Jane, Pam, and young Edgar had a "wonderful time" and that on leisurely trip home "you should have heard the ecstatic raves about their experiences in Hanover.... None of us will ever forget it.... It is stored away in our list of fond and happy memories."
Salute — To Gillie Gilmore and his gang for planning and executing such a successful reunion.... Names of all who attended have been shipped to Bill Scherman, world's greatest newsletter editor, for publication in Bill's next letter....
The big tip from Tipp City, Ohio, concerns our own Henry Allen. Henry, general manager of A.O. Smith Corporation's electric motor division since 1960, has been elected a vice president of the Smith Corporation. He first joined A.O. Smith in 1945 as an accountant, served as superintendent of the firm's vessel ship, and in 1954 became assistant comptroller of the corporation. He held the latter position until assuming overall charge of the electric motor division. His experience before A.O. Smith included three years as a teacher of industrial management at Detroit University.
Wedding Bells - For Al Levenson's daughter, Meryl, to Jay M. Weiss ... and Lt. Col.Ed Germann's daughter, Colette (Vassar '62), to one of her former instructors, Richard Claude, at West Point, N.Y., June 15 ... (which explains why Al and Ed couldn't make reunion).... Linda Marks Vogel, daughter of the late Alvin Breger Marks, engaged to Richard M. Felner of New York and planning a December wedding. . . . Pretty girl at our house named Andrea became bride of University of Maryland classmate ('62) Bruce Malcolm Kelleher way back yonder on April 20....
'67 Sons of Old Dartmouth ('34) - Larry Barcella, Bob Dryfoos, Robert S. Evans, Jonathan B. Furst, Mark Hallenbeck, Albert C. Hine III, Robert B. Johnston, William H. Judd III, Kenneth M. McConnochie, Stanley E. Neill Jr., and Bill Smoyer....
Congratulations! — To Ben Benoit, promoted to assistant to the executive vice president for products of Pitney-Bowes, Inc., of Stamford, Conn Dave Callaway, elected president of First of Michigan Corp., a securities firm.... Jack Chollar, named a vice president by Remington Rand division of Sperry Rand Corp. in Bridgeport, Conn.... Cam Day, appointed senior editor of "Sales Management" magazine. Cam had been managing editor of "Printers' Ink" since 1958 Dr. Em Day, Medical Director, guiding spirit and inspiration for new Strang Clinic to be opened this fall at 55 East 34th Street, New York City (more about this in a later issue of ALUMNI MAGAZINE - we hope).... Sam Fishman, elected new principal of Lincoln Junior High School by unanimous vote of Maiden (Mass.) School Committee.... Gillie Gilmore, elected to Dartmouth Alumni Council for two-year term.... Dick Houck, elected a Trust Officer of American National Bank of Chattanooga, Tenn.... Jack Iddings, named assistant manager of Griffith Branch of Gary (Ind.) National Bank.... Hank Peirce of Massachusetts Mutual Life, to coveted membership in 1963 Million Dollar Round Table of National Association of Life Underwriters for selling at least $1 million worth of life insurance last year.... Bill Scherman, positively the world's greatest newsletter editor, elected chairman of Dartmouth College Alumni Council's Public Relations Committee.... Harry Wallace, promoted to vice president of C.F. Hathaway Company.... Our boys are making good BIG....
Intelligence Report - Saw Oscar Ruebhausen during National Governors' Conference at Miami Beach, where he served as a top - and effective - strategist for New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller ('30)....
Travelogue — The Hank Werners off to Europe in mid-summer with son Tom to visit their daughter Patsy, studying Italian in Florence, and son Peter (Hotchkiss School '64), who had been visiting friends in Cannes.... Hopefully, Hank was trying to arrange for Peter to meet Jane Wallace (Harry's daughter), who also was in Cannes - on an American Field Service Scholarship. ... (Did Peter meet Jane? See next month's ALUMNI MAGAZINE.)...
Appeal — This column depends upon 1934 readers. We have the task of keeping it filled with newsy notes every month for the next five years and need your help to do it. How? Been traveling? Had a promotion? Been elected to something? Received some honor? Son or daughter just been married? Had a new grandchild? Seen a classmate somewhere in your travels? Tell us about it. Put it on a post card or in a letter and mail it to 681 Overhill Road, Birmingham, Michigan 48010. Zip it to us!
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