1947

As turkey season approaches and the cold weather sets in, we turn to news from television which should start to become more appealing as the winds howl more frequently.

Neil O. Russell, known to his 2,000 intimate friends as "Bing," has spawned his 12-year-old son Kurt right into the lead role of the new show "The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters." In addition to a degree from Dartmouth, Bing also has one from Spring-field College and still devotes a lot of time to his home town, Rangeley, Me., including coaching the Rangeley High School basketball team and acting as a registered guide and teacher of outdoor sports. Bing's main occupation is, of course, as an actor in television and motion pictures. Knowing the mortality rate of new TV shows, we certainly express all the best wishes for this one.

From Schenectady, N. Y., via public relations news release we have learned that Joe Lovell has been named manager of advertising personnel development for the General Electric Co.'s advertising and sales promotion department. Joe has been manager of that department's exhibit operation since 1959. He'll also be working with employee relations activities in the department and will administer the advertising and public relations training program. He joined GE in 1951. He and Theo and their four children live in Schenectady.

We have just been informed by Harvard University, a small school in Massachusetts, that John Schwartz has been awarded his master's degree in Public Health. This is all the information we have on John and certainly would appreciate more, so look forward to hearing from him soon. Another holder of a master's degree, this time in Business Administration, Joseph Mangelinck, has just changed jobs from the Humble Oil Company, where he worked for 15 years in the accounting, purchasing and planning departments to go with H. P. Hood & Co. in their Purchasing Department.

Speaking of job changes, David Holmes has left the London and Lancashire Insurance Company to join Jordan, Read and Company where he will supervise the underwriting and production of all multi-peril insurance coverages. After Dave left the Air Force he started with the New England Fire Insurance Rating Assoc. before going with London and Lancashire. He spent most of his time in Boston, with a four-year stint in Buffalo between Beantown assignments.

Walter Peterson, who has been Republican Floor Leader in the New Hampshire State House of Representatives, has just announced that he is going to be a candidate for Speaker of the House at the next legislature. Walt, a Navy veteran, operates a real estate business in addition to his legislative duties and raising two children at the Peterson home on East Mountain Road in Peterboro.

One of our traveling graduates, DickWetherhead, made a speech this summer at the Rotary Club in Springfield, Vt. Dick is a geologist associated with Socony Mobil and actually was only vacationing in Spring-field at the time of his talk. Dick at present is located in Libya, North Africa, and was pleasantly surprised to find his brother visiting from California in Springfield at the same time. His talk concerned the functions of a geologist in locating oil and in estimating the economic value in test drilling, etc., in the constant search for large sources of black gold.

Another one of our successful insurance men, Roy Brush, currently a partner in the Sammis, Smith & Brush Agency, has just been elected to the Suffolk County, New York, Association of Insurance Agents, which is the largest professional Fire and Casualty Agents organization in the county. Roy was born in Huntington and, after Dartmouth, graduated from the Agency Management School in Storrs, Conn., and the Travelers Insurance School in Hartford. He is married and the father of two children plus being very active in local affairs, serving as assistant Scout Master, as a member of the community band, and is secretary of the Smithtown Horse Show.

The Providence, R. I., Y.M.C.A. took notice of the fine job done by Townes Harris on the Alumni Fund and re-elected him Assistant Treasurer. By this time Townes should have the job fairly well under control and we can expect larger alumni contributions come next Spring.

Dune Macfarlen's going to have to get accustomed to a slight change of climate. Recently elected a vice president of the Prudential Insurance Co., Dune and wife Joan, two sons, and daughter will be moving from Jacksonville, Fla., where he was executive director of agencies in the ordinary life department of Prudential's South-Central Home Office, to Minneapolis, Minn., where he will be in charge of all sales activities for the company's seven-state North Central region. He is one of the company's youngest vice presidents.

Some time ago, we mentioned Commander Stephen O'Leary who has been skipper of the submarine "Corporal." We just received news that Steve turned over his command in order to go on the teaching staff in the Submarine School in New London, Conn. After graduating from Dartmouth, Steve served aboard subs from then until 1954. In 1955 and 1956 he attended the Navy Intelligence School and after that served two years with the American Embassy in Rio de laneiro, Brazil. He returned to subs in 1959.

President-of-almost-everything Allen Bildner, has just added one more by being elected to head up the Dartmouth Alumni Club of Morris and Essex Counties to which we extend hearty congratulations. A profile of Mr. Bildner's background since leaving Dartmouth may be had by sending a self-addressed envelope together with a SSO bill to ye ed. Ken Brown, who has been the Director of Safety Education for the Massachusetts Safety Council, has just announced the appointment of Kenneth E. Brown as Manager of the entire Massachusetts Safety Council operation. Certainly best wishes go with this recognition. And even at this late date they fall. ... Don Page has just married Eleanor Palmer in Clinton Heights, N. Y., with Al Burbank as best man and our own Bill Hallagher ushering.

The University of Connecticut has asked Doug Jordan to investigate and survey important sites which might possibly be buried by new highways and other construction projects and yet which have great historical significance. Doug, an archeologist, also serves as Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut and as Curator of its archeological collections. During this study he hopes to find time as to answer such questions as, "How Connecticut's Indians came to acquire and use brass arrowheads?" After leaving Dartmouth, Doug produced both a master's degree and a doctorate from Harvard and has worked in the archeological field throughout northeastern North America and Alaska, principally on Indian sites. Jordan feels there is much important archeological work to be done on Indian Sites in Connecticut, particularly in inland areas. Still to be determined, he said, are the sources of outside influences on Connecticut's pre-colonial Indians and the influences they had on Indians in other parts of eastern North America.

The brass arrowheads found in Connecticut and elsewhere in colonial America have interested Jordan for some time. "They are a beautiful time marker," he said, "showing clearly the time when Indians and colonists came in contact." The Indians, he explained, had no brass of their own and could only get it through trade. "Either a very smart Indian made them or a very clever colonial trader." To date no one has discovered who invented these unusual weapons. Before the arrival of settlers, Jordan said, the Indians relied on flint arrowheads. Within a few years after acquiring the brass arrowheads, they probably began to get firearms.

Jordan is skeptical about theories that Irish monks, Vikings, or Bronze Age Europeans settled in New England before the time of Columbus. He feels that no definite evidence has been found yet and that remains offered in evidence so far "are often so vague they could be almost anything." Despite stone carvings and other things found in Connecticut and elsewhere, Jordan said, so far no one has found any definite traces of a settlement.

More news to come next month but not enough, so please keep us posted on anything of interest to our obviously far-flung classmates.

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