1941

Back in the saddle again! It just seems like it was yesterday that the weather was warm enough for the first trip to the beach, yet Labor Day is upon us already. Maybe one of these days some genius will devise a way of stopping the clock. Wouldn't that be wonderful!

Speaking of being back in the saddle and of the summer, breaking into headlines during the summer months is becoming a perennial habit with an economics major turned owner and trainer of thoroughbred race horses, Ed Stone. Since 1961 a quartet of "bang tails" has earned Ed over $100,000 in gross income. This success as a trainer inspired in Ed a latent interest in breeding. Now he owns four mares and shares in a stallion. Ed's goal for this summer was to have one of these two hopefuls win the New England Futurity at Rockingham Park in August. If I was a follower of the racing forms, I'd know how he made out. I am certain that Ed rendered a good accounting for himself, being particularly adept with figures, especially the racing odds.

Massachusetts appears to be a haven for "front runners." A recent winner in a race of a different nature, a "human" race, was Ray Hayes of Holden. In his victory over four other candidates in a recent special election for the post of selectman, Ray polled thirty-two percent of the total votes cast. He is not new at "politics," having been a candidate for the School Committee several years ago. Besides he is currently a member of the town's Republican Committee and of the Board of Trustees of the Holden Congregational Church. Ray's present civilian occupation is that of manager of the health claims department of State Mutual Life Assurance Co. of Worcester. In private life he and Mildred are kept busy raising three children.

Before leaving Massachusetts it is only fitting to report on the latest accomplishments of several other Bay State stalwarts. Col. Phil Hallam of Lynnfield Center recently graduated from the United States Air Force pilot instructor school at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, where he received specialized instruction in teaching pilots to fly the latest supersonic jet trainers. After graduation Phil and Phyllis returned to Vance Air Force Base, Okla., where Phil resumed his command of a Pilot Training Group. Bob O'Brien of Arlington is the new chairman of the central division in the Commerce and Industry Department for this fall's Greater Boston United Fund "People Helping People" campaign. Bob is also a director of the YMCA and the Massachusetts Safety Council, and a trustee of the Arlington Savings Bank.

This is election year for Les Overlook. The recently elected president and chief executive of Bohn Business Machines, Inc., was even more recently elected a director of that company. Les was formerly vice president in charge of marketing at SCM Corporation, known earlier as Smith-Corona Marchant, and prior to the SCM affiliation he had been national sales manager and secretary of American Photocopy Equipment Company. Bohn is the exclusive distributor in the United States of all Rex-Rotary duplicating machines, the Bohn Contex calculator, and many other duplicating supplies. Les, wife, and three children live in Greenwich, Conn.

The summer recess was not the occasion for a moratorium on class alumni activities. Unfortunately, after making the arrangements for a meeting of class officers in Pittsburgh in May, Lew Johnstone was forced to cancel this meeting the last minute because many members of our executive committee were unable to attend. However, Lew is hopeful of scheduling another meeting for one of the early football game weekends in Hanover this fall. Our 25-year Gift Chairman, Bruce Friedlich, journeyed to Hanover in May to represent the class at the Class Officers Weekend. Bruce is assuming a tremendous undertaking by volunteering for this new role in class activities. As our 25th Reunion is now less than three years away, I am certain that every member of the class has already given serious consideration as to how he intends to share in making Bruce's assignment successful and painless. The month of May also landmarked the first edition of "Dope from the Duckboards" by our new Newsletter Editor, Ez Crowley, another volunteer for a key role in class activities. I am certain that by now everyone has read Ez's inaugural epistle at least twice and that all agree that it is a masterful continuation of the informative and interesting editions compiled by DonHagen during his long tenure of faithful service. The burden of heavy business responsibilities compelled Don to forsake this undertaking, which he did with reluctance after much soul-searching. Ez is one hundred percent correct. Don. Each and every one of us sincerely appreciates the time and effort devoted by you to this assignment over all these years. We, like you, are extremely elated about being completely assured that the fine job done by you will certainly be perpetuated by your capable successor. Another instance of Ez's enthusiasm for his new undertaking was the fact that he too journeyed to Hanover for the Class Officers Weekend to get an on-the-spot briefing of the "do's and don'ts" for a newsletter editor. So let's all give him a regal send-off by returning the questionnaires annexed to his first newsletter. Actions speak louder than words and that is the best way I know of at the moment of showing our appreciation to Ez for volunteering for this assignment. As he so aptly wrote, the Newsletter is a vital link in the chain of class unity and the success of any newsletter is dependent upon the cooperation of all.

During the month of June, 1941 acquired two more brilliant feathers for its "class hat." When the Alumni Council met in Hanover in June to celebrate its Golden Anniversary and for its annual meeting, it elected George Flather, our legal illuminary from Washington, D.C., to its membership for a two-year term as a representative of Region V' (Southern States) and assigned him to serve on its Enrollment and Admissions Committee. As you know, George has been president of the Dartmouth Club of Washington since 1961. He has also served as a member of the board of directors of the National Capital Girl Scouts Council and since 1957 as a member of the District of Columbia Committee on State Fulbright Scholarships.

Don Knight is one member of the class who is figuratively (and literally too) up to his ears in paper work. He has recently been elected executive vice president of the Bulkley Dunton Pulp Company of New York. Don is also manager of the paper company's branch office in Kalamazoo, Mich., where he has made his home since joining the firm in 1946. He's been a vice president of Bulkley Dunton since 1955. Before embarking on his career with them he took graduate courses in marketing at Columbia and in pulp and paper technology at the University of Maine.

Finally 1941's role in the history-making 1963 Alumni Fund is a memorable tribute to the accomplishments of Ed Larner and his 72 hard-working assistants, each and everyone of whom was vitally responsible for our class achieving 109% of its dollar objective. Thus I would be gravely remiss if I did not conclude with an expression of sincere appreciation to all of them on behalf of Dartmouth, 1941, and our Class Chairman for their immeasurable contribution to Dartmouth's enviable pinnacle in higher education.

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