1943
Resolved: I won't start off this year by mentioning Bob Pelren, featured for the last four years in this opening paragraph. First of all, we did not visit New Hampshire on Labor Day, when I usually call Pelren, and secondly he's growing old and shy.
This was a fine year for '43, capped by a sterling performance in our Green Derby Alumni Fund victory. All this from a class whom many had counted out as a some- what disorganized if not disinterested group solit up by war years. We are pointing for a big reunion next June; Jack Meleney and assistants are tying together the World's Fair and the '43 Reunion as two events of the year. Our esprit is so high that KellyCoffin produced a late-August newsletter sparkling with stuff from '43s proud of their class.
It's a peripatetic group - tough to keep up with them. Kent Hutchinson moved from Morristown, N.J., to Atherton, Calif., while carrying on for Chubb and Sons, insurance people. Kent is glad to be on the coast. JackTroster lives close by.... John Goode combined eight years with Fortune magazine with 8 fortunes of his own - ages 9 years - 11 months (twin boys last August), has moved them all to a large West Dover, Vt., farmhouse with a fifty-mile view. This news came with brochures of John's Novice Inn near Mt. Snow.... Conrad Young explains his new Omaha address as their new home just purchased. Connie has spent 16 years in life insurance with United of Omaha and is assistant vice president (agency).... Also with United in Omaha is Robert E. Williams as assistant regional director. Bob Williams, too long missing from these pages, was a Rood Club regular and an excellent trackman under Harry Hillman. Nice to hear about you, Bob. In our last conversation you were worried about the draft along with Paul Hanlon.
Jim Elleman has been elected vice president, Chemical Bank and Trust Company at its main New York office, 20 Pine Street. A distinguished honor for Jim in a highly competitive field. Shirley and he have three children, two boys and a girl, live in Morristown, where Jim is very active in Dartmouth enrollment. His district set a new record this year for acceptances in Dartmouth '67.
A modest report on an interesting career from Bob Kerwin, Pegasus House, London Wl, England: "There is not much to write about myself except that after some 14 years in Turkey, first during the war in the OSS, then as a graduate student, economist for the World Bank, Foreign Service Officer, and finally Public Relations Adviser to Mobil International Oil Company, I was transferred by Mobil to London in August, 1962. I am now government and public relations adviser on the staff of a regional service company which is responsible for co-ordinating the activities of Mobil affiliates in eight countries of northern and southeastern Europe (Scandinavia, United Kingdom, Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus). I travel a lot and would be glad to meet up with other Dartmouth types in any of these countries."
Jim Donahue, quiet redhead from White River, checks in from Seattle as general field manager, Lincoln Mercury Div., Ford Motor Co. Jim's territory covers Washington, Montana, Oregon, part of Idaho and all of Alaska. Sons James, Jack, and Thomas and daughter Susan join Mary and Jim as remote Dartmouth football rooters. Nice to hear from you, Jim, and success in your new job.
Two visits to St. Louis this summer let me stay at Norm Probstein's Bel Air West motel, although Norm and I missed connections both times. Well known in St. Louis, Norm operates an excellent motel (a waiter with hot coffee and newspaper wakens you in the morning) and this fall opens the handsome Bel Air East in downtown St. Louis complete with Trader Vic's restaurant.
Thanks for your comments on the May Sports Illustrated article about my late father's major league career. Amazing what a reporter can do to a fine career by taking facts out of context and arranging them to suit his own conclusion. For what purpose I'll never know.... Maybe Sports Illustrated should adopt a maybe, yes, and no Butts attitude. ... Thanks to George Barlow and Herb Harrigan for their advice.
News we love to print dept.: Gerson M.Rosenthal Jr. assistant professor of Biology, University of Chicago, is one of four winners of the Quantrell Award for Excellence in undergraduate teaching, the nation's oldest prize for outstanding college instruction. With the citation goes $1000 and the words: "Mr. Rosenthal soon became known to students and colleagues alike as a superior teacher.... He has had a major role in recent curriculum revisions ... is currently chairman of Biology III course, where he continues to display conspicuous leadership.... In addition to his scientific publications, he is working on a textbook of general biology.
..." After Dartmouth and the Air Corps Gerson took his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley and started at Chicago as a teaching intern in 1954. His wife Marcia (also a Ph.D.) and he have a son Jonathan. Congratulations on this fine award!
The news of Jerry von Wedel's death will be a shock to you. I met his wife Barbara and his children Randall and Diane last winter in San Juan. They seemed happy and confident that Jerry would pull through. His life was a lesson in courage to make our own problems nothing in comparison.
In closing.... Tipping our hat to AlEisenman for spending a Hanover weekend as one of seven judges, ALUMNI MAGAZINE Awards Committee, American Alumni Council. Al is Dartmouth's fine gift to Yale's School of Art and Architecture.... ChetRoche running for re-election to the Gardner, Mass., schoolboard.... Kenneth Cook studying French this summer at the Sorbonne in Paris.... Mike (Bunny) McCormick of Andover, Mass., active in Boston's United Fund drive.... Don Kingsley, manager of employee communications, Corn Products Co., New York, re-elected director, American Association of Industrial Editors. ... Robert Edwin Field, schoolboard candidate, North Salem, N.Y.
Secretary, 414 Rosedale Dr. Pottstown, Pa.
Treasurer, 159 Willow St., Brooklyn 1, N.Y.
