1945
Being a teacher, my organization is naturally orientated on the so-called academic year, September to June. This academic year is one of great significance to the Class of 1945, for its culmination is in June's 20th Reunion of our class. Reunion Chairman Joe Michael has carefully planned a get-together of great portent, one which will long live in the annals of Class and College affairs. Your presence is desperately needed to make this colossal extravaganza an unqualified success. Therefore, you, too, must orientat yourself to the academic year, planning with care for the event which lies a mere nine months ahead. To those of you who attended the 15th, no more reminder should be necessary. To those of you who missed that gala affair, now is the time to begin erasure of that frightful error - you too can be the life of the party. While I'll be reminding you of reunion plans in the future and while you will be contacted by our earnest and thorough reunion committee, I repeat, now is the time to make your plans. Be there when the roll is called.
Knox Armstrong has been appointed publisher of Chemical Week, a McGraw-Hill publication. Knox formerly was advertising sales manager of the magazine. After serving as a Navy officer in World War II he came back to Dartmouth and was graduated in 1947. He joined McGraw-Hill the following year as a sales trainee. Two years later he was appointed to the advertising sales staff of Chemical Week as district manager in the Atlantic district. He was promoted to advertising sales manager in 1960.
Charles Poore in the New York Times has written a very complimentary review of Evan Connell's new work, "Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel." Although "Robert Frost once said that writing free verse was like playing tennis without a net," Mr. Poore maintains that Evan's poem is a "heady and hypnotic mixture of free verse and even freer association." The result is "remarkable" and "remarkably fascinating." I remind you that Evan has written for many magazines and has published two novels ("Mrs. Bridge" and "The Patriot") and a book of short stories called "The Anatomy Lesson."
Chan Stein has been appointed Albany (N.Y.) County Clerk by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. It is expected that Chan will run for the position as the Republican candidate in the special election planned for November. We wish Chan the best of luck, for Republicans in office in Albany County are a rarity indeed.
Art Staub of Westfield, N.J., has been named a senior member of the medical service staff of CIBA Pharmaceutical Company, Summit, N.J. Before joining CIBA, Art was associated with the Westfield Medical Group as head of its pediatrics department.
Chad Ramsdell, just as his golf handicap was getting into respectable condition, has transferred his telephone operations from the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. to the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. in New York. Chad has accepted the position of Staff Engineer for the New York concern after having served as New England Tel. and Tel.'s Exchange Tariff Engineer for the last two years, and having worked for N.E.T.&T. for 12 years.
Jack Shakle, General Manager of the Waltham News-Tribune, Waltham, Mass., has been elected a director of the Waltham Federal Savings and Loan Association. Jack is also a director of the Waltham Chamber of Commerce, the Waltham Boys' Club, the Salvation Army, and is a Trustee of the Waltham Hospital.
Dorr-Oliver. Inc., of Stamford, Conn., has chosen Frank Carder as president of Dortech, Inc., a recently formed subsidiary. Through Dortech the parent company plans to expand services as process engineers and manufacturers of equipment for the metallurgical, chemical, food, and allied industries. Before joining Dorr-Oliver Frank was divisional vice president of the government products group of American Machine and Foundry Company. The holder of several patents relating to free piston engines, Frank is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Management Association. He and his family, including twin daughters and a son, live in Darien, Conn.
Last spring the Chicago Tribune's Joseph Ator authored an article on Gene Edson, Chicago pillow tycoon, which was a delight to read. Seems the pillow business is a highly sensitive one in which success depends upon the ability to forecast shape and color in a manner pleasing to the female eye. Women buy pillows like they buy hats in all shapes and sizes. Gene's success at this is indicated by the magnitude of his business. He sells 5 million dollars of decorative pillows a year. Into the pillows he puts 65 carloads of foam latex, his pillows consume 4,500,000 yards of fabric and 3 million slide fasteners. Gene was the originator of the zippered foam latex throw pillow.
BOXING THE COMPASS: Elmer Trumbull has been appointed to a full professorship at Colgate University and named director of the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Bob Allen, Public Relations of the Kendall Co., was recently surprised and, needless to say, pleased by being named "Boss of the Year" by the Beacon Hill Chapter of the National Secretaries Association. I sincerely hope that Leroy Cook has fully recovered from the mild heart attack he suffered late last spring. I'm sure he would appreciate a word from any of his old students who feel the urge to write. His address is Professor Leroy J. Cook, 40-50 Denman Street, Apt. 468, Elmhurst, L.I., N.Y.A June postcard informed me that "the peripatetic Rowans are at it again." "Moose" and family have returned to the East Coast and more specifically to 125 Hanover Road, Mountain Lakes, N.J. We will expect to see more of the Rowan family in the near future.
That will be all for this month. Your Executive Committee meets in October in Hanover to hear Joe Michael's latest embellishments on reunion plans and to consider other class business of importance. I will report on such activities in the near future.
At U.S. Naval Support Activity, Naples, Italy, Lt. Comdr. John F. Schaeffer Jr. '47,Chaplain Corps (left), welcomes his relief, Lt. Donald B. Fitzsimmons '46, ChaplainCorps, who became the new Assistant Protestant Chaplain there. Schaeffer is nowstationed at the U.S. Naval Air Station, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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