1940
Welcome back to the old stand! Hope your summer was as good as you had planned it to be - the kids winning all the ribbons at camp, you breaking par consistently, your wife raising the biggest vegetables and brightest flowers on the block, and your houseguests helpful and uncomplaining!
Hanover hasn't had such a busy summer in over 200 years. It was a thrill to help pilot the first summer term through its paces and gratifying to know that so many of the visiting students carry away with them warm spots in their hearts for the Hanover Plain and the Dartmouth experience. It was wonderful to have the Hopkins Center in full operation for the first summer too, and the orchestra concerts and plays staged by a first-rate repertory company were enjoyed by capacity crowds. Hanover thus becomes more of a tourist mecca with this new dimension added and several of our group took advantage of some of the offerings in person.
I'm sure I didn't see all of the 40's who were in town but these, among others, were around at various times: Kay and Sid Morley and their two daughters, Louise and BudHewitt, Charlotte and Mel Wax, Dorothyand Powell Holbein, Mevie and Eb Cockley,Loomie and Scotty Rogers, Dorothy andCharlie Goodwin, Olive and Perry Weston,Gina and Diz deSieyes, and Fred Porter. The Morleys were on the tag end of a New England vacation combined with collegeviewing for their oldest. Sid has been cutting his teeth for the past year on the stock brokerage business which has been quite a year on Wall Street. The Hewitts were also vacationing from hot and humid New York in hot and humid New Hampshire (the only difference was that ours didn't last as long). The Waxes were visiting in-laws across the river in Norwich on their way back from Europe to California. The Holbeins came over from upstate New York for a "Dartmouth Horizons" tour. The Cockleys and Rogers vacationed several days before picking up their children at camps. The Goodwins and Westons met here to attend the Dartmouth Club of Hanover summer picnic. The deSieyes passed through town on their way from Maine to Vermont to visit Lois and Jack Moody. And Porter came north ostensibly for business but really to check on the progress of the chalet he is building at Stratton Mountain Ski Club. It will be ready for the first snowfall and Fred would like to have you be his guest (paying ones of course) there some week. It will sleep ten, so that should take care of the largest family among us.
Speaking of visits to Hanover — it isn't too late to make your plans to be in Hanover for October 11 and 12 and the 1940 reunion. The Brown game will be another drawing card and the lure of a colorful football weekend ought to be enough to make you pack your bags right now! There will be a class meeting Saturday morning and a dinner party following the game so even if you can't be here for the whole weekend plan on attending that day's activities. We have filled the Lyme Inn, and Occom Inn in Hanover and those who have sent in for tickets have gotten the word about time and place of the various events. I hope any who decide late to come will contact me for details, or else meet in Fred Porter's room at the Hanover Inn at noon. Try to come!
The newly created post of central area sales manager for Spencer Kellogg has been won by Jack Cowan. He'll cover territory from Pittsburgh to Montreal and will stay based in Buffalo where he has been district manager. Jack is the president of the Buffalo Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association.
Flying high these days is Bob Krone who was recently elected vice president for personnel of the McDonnell Aircraft firm out in St. Louis, Missouri. Bob first joined McDonnell in 1941 as an industrial trainee after completing his M.B.A. studies at Tuck School. He was named director of personnel in 1960. McDonnell was the prime contractor for the Mercury spacecraft which carried Shepard, Glenn, and company on their missions. Bob's company is also prime contractor to NASA on the two-man Gemini spacecraft.
Ray Unangst has recently been named city manager for American Airlines in Washington, D.C., from which vantage point he probably collects lots of complaints from the traveling public because of the distance to the Dulles airport.
This week and the start of the secondary school year finds George Sommers in a new and vital position. He was appointed earlier this summer as superintendent of the Central Regional High School Board of Education in New Jersey. He has been teacher and principal in different locations and our hats are off to another classmate who has made it to the top of his chosen profession.
A short note from Bob Breech professed to only a "routine" life made more enjoyable by pursuing it in sunny California. He and Mara took three of their kinder to a ranch near Santa Barbara for some horseback riding just before school started. It was good to hear from you, Bob, and I trust you are already making plans to lead the western delegation back to Hanover for our 25th.
Another West Coaster has been heard from - Bill Holman, who must qualify as the "latest starter" of our class with three children 4, 2, and 1 years old. Bill and Emily are building a new home in Seattle to house their young children. Last March while vacationing from his law practice they went to a ranch in Palm Springs, Calif., where Scotty Rogers and his family were also living the life of ease. Bill has just been elected President of the Dartmouth Club of Western Washington — another classmate who puts in long hours for the good of the College!
Hank Rosen has moved his business from Boston to Cambridge (129 Franklin Street) and hopes some classmates will allow him to introduce them to some very fine dark beer just around the corner from his new address. What're you doing after the Harvard game?
Our friend, Bill Harriman, didn't stay in this country too long. He returned from Spain late last year and is now settled in Somali Republic. The trouble was he tried living in Texas and that's enough to send anyone to the ends of the earth. While he was stateside he wrote a great tome about the petroleum geology of Spain where the search so far has been to no avail. Hope the results are more readily apparent in Africa, Bill.
Must save some news until next month. Don't forget to wave in the football stands this fall and help the Big Green on to another great year! Remember the second annual 1940 gathering at the unofficial homecoming game - Brown in Hanover, October 11 and 12. See you then!
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