1940

The Alumni Records office has kept a steady flow of news clips coming into my mailbag over the summer months which is good grist for this mill in the absence of direct word from those of you to whom things are happening. As a general rule the aforementioned ARO is so efficient that they ferret out any newspaper story about you and pass it on to me to spread the word. The moral is you can't hide your light under a bushel, so you'd better give me the facts yourself to insure complete accuracy.

Last spring Robert S. Weil became a big man in the cotton industry, and a cover boy on The Cotton Digest to boot, when he was elected President of the American Cotton Shippers Association. Bob is carrying on a family tradition since his brother Adolph was head of the same group a few years ago. Bob is now vice-president and treasurer of Weil Brothers-Cotton, Inc., a firm started by his grandfather 85 years ago. He and Virginia have three youngsters - a daughter in college and a daughter and son approaching college age. His activities are many and varied around Montgomery, Ala., which recognized him in 1958 with the Junior Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Service award for all his extracurricular efforts.

Another guy climbing up a ladder is Dewitt L. Jones out Chicago way, who has been named a director of Leo Burnett Company. Dee has been with Leo Burnett for twelve years progressing from account executive to account supervisor to his present duties as vice-president of client service. Dee and Barbara's oldest son is a junior at Dartmouth this year so the Joneses will have a big celebration in June 1965 with a graduation and a reunion within a week.

Speaking of classmates' sons in Hanover, the freshman class - they have to count up to '67 now! - harbors seven whose old man is one of us. I hope they will all be up here for Freshmen Fathers weekend in February because I haven't seen several of them since our days on the Hanover Plain. Those eligible for membership in the 1967 Dads' Club are Bob Clark, Johnny English, John Halpern, Bill Hayes, Rollie Hillas, Lam Kerins and Bill Sides. I've met a few of them so far and they are a fine group. In all, 1940 is represented by 22 undergraduate sons in the freshman through senior class.

A man with a new job is Jack Moody. He is ostensibly still a controller however, but now is with a group of nine companies owned by one man in the lumber, wood chip, and allied products industries. That word "allied" covers a multitude of things though, from timberlands and conservation to ski areas and camping developments. Moodo has been spending time since spring travelling around the six plants in Vermont, Maine, and New York and unraveling the inter-company relationships. He and Lois continue to live in Proctor, Vt., the marble capital of the world, which seems to be in the midst of this new empire he's with.

Chet and Ruthe Berry are enjoying a business/pleasure trip to Europe this month. The business part is for old Eastman Kodak, and the pleasure part is for old Berry's second honeymoon.

The first football game, that squeaker with Bucknell, lured Fred and Ann Porter, CalSterling and Bill and Pattie Squier back to Hanover. Bill spent the earlier part of the weekend presiding as president of the Club Officers Association, one of the big jobs in the alumni hierarchy. Bill had spent this past year in that post and as president of the Charles River Club. With Dartmouth's winning streak building up, alumni support in the football stands is running high too - let me know whom you sat next to.

Dick Funkhouser is currently busy building a new plant for his division of the Ruberoid Co. out in Missouri.

Another friend with a Maryland address is V. Carl Bloede, attorney in Baltimore since 1950. Carl returned this summer from a period of research at the University of Hawaii where he acted as legal consultant and authored or co-authored several sociolegal studies involving areas significant in the transition of Hawaii from territorial to state status. These important works covered such vital areas,as antitrust acts, legislative manuals, and uniform commercial codes. That's really being out on the frontier! Now that he's back stateside Carl will be legal consultant to the Maryland Legislative Council, and is pursuing the LL.M. program at Georgetown Graduate Law Center in the "spare" time left over from his law practice.

A nice letter from Hildegarde Snow brought us up to date on hubby, Sam. His ever-loving reports he's playing tennis again and looking mighty good on the courts as in the days of old. His winter activities include getting up at 5 a.m. Saturdays to coach a Pee Wee hockey team, so he has to stay in condition year round.

A phone call a couple of weeks ago from Greek Mahoney brought the news that he and Ann couldn't make the fall class reunion. They had had a visit from Lee andMarty Bassett over the Indianapolis 500 that started on Wednesday and when The Greek overheard Lee talking about sending laundry out on the following Sunday he decided to take the welcome mat off the front porch.

An airmail from Belgium brought us some recent history about Colin Campbell and his family. He has been in Europe a little more than a year with Amcel Europe, S. A., the European sales affiliate of Celanese Corp. He was recently made marketing manager for chemicals and while based in Brussels will oversee chemical marketing activities throughout Europe. Colin says that life in Europe these days is very stimulating and exciting watching the common market countries work out their problems. His son, Alan, entered Caltech this fall as the winner of one of the top Westinghouse Science Talent scholarships. Kit, with two years of Oberlin behind her, is heading for Europe too and voice studies in Hamburg. She is aiming for a career in opera. Colin wishes any classmates going to Europe would contact him if they get near Belgium. Sounds like a good life you've found for yourself, Colin.

I'm just catching up to the news of BobBramley's new position as vice-president and advertising director of the Covertext Corp. He and his company supply personalized quality book covers to a raft of schools throughout central New Jersey.

Secretary, 5 North Balch St. Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, 78 School St., Concord, N. H.