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As I walked down through the town today it was noticeable that the pace had accelerated. There were no students in town - that is still several weeks away - but most of the faculty and staff are back from vacation, another academic term is soon to start, and everyone on the street had an urgency and a purpose in his walk. The football team arrived in town Labor Day weekend and is hard at work on double sessions (the results of which will be evident by the time you read this). But most surprising (and somewhat disheartening) is the early turning of colors up in the hills - not widespread, but here and there a touch of orange or red, and so early as to herald a premature approach of fall.
Most of the above is designed to casually announce the fact that your secretary is now a resident of Hanover, N.H.I very happily succumbed to the lure of the hills and moved here in July, leaving behind fifteen years of Massachusetts living and B. F. Goodrich working. Needless to say (and though it would be a pleasant task I won't burden you with all the wonderful details) we are exceedingly happy here where we started our married life, and our children are completely enthralled with the town. Some people have told us that we are brave (or crazy) to bring four daughters into a town with 3000 students, but we are not anticipating any problems in this regard. My work for Dartmouth College is in the Office of Development and will be primarily concerned with corporate relations. Though I am still very much of a neophyte in this type of work it is already most obvious that it will be very interesting and enjoyable. More about our life and work and Hanover living in general, in later installments.
Now to the business at hand - and there's a lot of business. With hundreds of interesting and important men in the class it's not surprising that much has happened in the past several months, so best I start to report. With no thought toward listing in order of importance, nor categorizing - here goes.
The Kendall Company recently announced the promotion of Ed Johnson to plant manager at its plant in Griswoldville, Mass! Ed, wife, and two children are back in New England after a two-year recall to Marine Corps duty and a job with Kendall in one of their southern plants. He reports that his strong Boston accent was a big hit down South where he was frequently called upon to speak at public functions. Now that you're back in the north country, Ed, a slight Southern drawl might come in handy.
Dave Weld, New Jersey's biggest lumber baron, has been elected a vice president of Lawrence R. McCoy and Company. Dave has been active as Deacon and Elder in the First Presbyterian Church in Caldwell and is a past secretary of the Dartmouth Club of New Jersey in addition to being tremendously successful as the "Mr. Lumber" of his area. Dave and Jean have two daughters and a potential Big Green, Dave Jr.
One of the real pleasures of living in Hanover is seeing many of the alumni who visit here all through the year. One recent visitor was Gene Bokor, who was on his way through town with his son, heading toward a camping site in the Dartmouth Grant area. Incidentally, this is a great sport which is enjoyed by many of our alumni. Gene hopes that many of you will drop him a line this season, since the "Tomahawk" is a great dispenser of class news but can only be as good as its contributors. How about helping to make his job more interesting and a little easier, as well as keeping us up to date on your activities.
Another visitor to Hanover and the Kimball home was Walt Snickenberger, who, with Mary and their two boys, was here visiting his mother. Walt was taking a welldeserved rest before heading back to his arduous chores as Director of Admissions at Cornell. After seeing and hearing of some of Dartmouth's problems first-hand I can appreciate the difficulties he must encounter.
Bob Beetham has recently been appointed research director of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association in New York. TIAA and its companion association CREF are the organizations which handle insurance and retirement matters for most college personnel. so old RYK has become more familiar with them in recent months. Bob is a former instructor in economics at Dartmouth and Rutgers.
Staying on the academic side of things for awhile, here is a report on DonaldDrake. Don has been named principal of the Hopedale (Mass.) Junior-Senior High School, coming to that post from a similar one in Farmington, N. H. After Dartmouth, Don took his graduate work at Harvard and has been an educator for the past fourteen years.
Going down to Tennessee we have a report that Joe Davenport has been elected president of Volunteer State Life Insurance Company. Joe, along with old buddy JimKennedy, carries the '46 banner in Chattanooga, and has been very active in community affairs while adding new titles in business. President of Davenport Hosiery Mills until 1959, he went with Volunteer as assistant to the president and is now the top man.
And in a final report, which I am afraid is quite old, comes word that Dud Nearing has been elected to the board of directors of Reichhold Chemicals, Inc. Dud, who lives in Brooklyn, is comptroller of this company.
Well, I guess that has to be it for now - the only reason being that I've run out of space. Little did I realize when I accepted this secretary's job that I would be writing the column in Hanover but I am sure that being here will make it all the more enjoyable. So pour in the news, men, and we'll get it into print.
Best regards from the hills.
Secretary, 33 South Park St. Hanover, N.H.
Treasurer, 66 Argyll Ave., New Rochelle, N.Y.
