1949

At this writing '49s are gassing up for the October 11 and 12 annual gathering in Hanover. The McGeans are stocking up for a gala luncheon for the class prior to the Brown football game. The freshmen are hunting a large supply of wood for the Dartmouth Night bonfire. The polishers are shining up Alumni Hall for the class banquet on Saturday night. The Golden Pick Axe committee is guarding the secret of the identity of the winner of the annual award. The New England trees are painting up the leaves with fall color. I hope plenty of you are planning to enjoy these amusements.

Dick Wallace married Barbara Ruth Markey in New York City recently. The bride is native to Dover, N. H., and is a textile designer. Dick is a store designer for Daniel Schwartzman Associates in Manhattan. Honeymoon: Bermuda.

Paul Petersen, of West Hartford, one of our big men in milk (vice-president of A. C. Petersen Farms, director of the Connecticut Milk Dealers Association), has taken on banking, becoming an associate director of the Connecticut Bank & Trust Company.

John Gallup does fancy stationery. In West Springfield, Mass., John was named production manager of the Strathmore Paper Company. He was formerly manager of product planning and market research. John has been in paper since 1955, with Strathmore and with Old Colony Envelope, advertising, sales promotion, and that sort of thing. He started working for money in New York City and Holyoke stores. Paula and the three children cohabit 233 Poplar Ave., W. Springfield, with John.

I regret to advise you that our classmate Ross Dunbar died last April in Wilmington, Del.

Dick Moulton has left the promised land. A vice president of the Dartmouth National Bank, Dick will shortly abandon that post and head south, with Virginia and the two boys, to Keene, where father will become assistant to the president and clerk of the board of directors of the Ashuelot National Bank.

John Everatt will, in November, marry Susan Jones of Holmdel, N. J. Susan is a product of Bryn Mawr, 1961. Her father, incidentally, is a partner with our JohnStearns in the investment brokerage Hayden, Stone & Co. in New York. John, Everatt, that is, is supervisor of agencies for the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America.

Dave Van Tassel, who is associate professor of history in the University of Texas, has won a Guggenheim for '63-'64. He will do a study on the influence of Einstein's relativity concepts on American thought. The inquiry will carry him to Washington, Princeton, and to Berkeley.

Jim Zafris is getting bigger in Boston money. This summer he was elected manager of the Massachusetts Avenue branch of the First National Bank of Boston. He has been with the bank since 1959. In 1961 he became an assistant branch manager. We observe a two-year cycle being set up. After Hanover, Jim became master of arts, international and regional studies program, Harvard. Jim's wife Joyce is a teacher in the Groveland, Mass., elementary schools. Groveland is where they live with two sons and a daughter.

From Fifth Avenue, the next block over from Madison Avenue, we learn that adman Bob Castle has been elected to the board of directors of Ted Bates & Co., Inc., one of New York City's big advertising agencies. Bob first joined Bates in 1957 after employment as an account executive with the J. Walter Thompson Co. He became a vice president in 1959 and a senior vice president in 1961. Bob and his wife and family live in Darien, Conn.

Jeff Mansfield has fingers in many pies. Some of them: advance gifts chairman for the 1964 United Fund campaign, Lowell, Mass. (nigh Chelmsford where he and Jean and their four kids live); vice president of the Courier-Citizen Co. (I think this is the paying job); Outstanding Young Man of the Year award from the Lowell Jaycees; president of the United Fund (present position

... the above chairmanship is apparently a tapering off); vice president, Salvation Army; junior deacon, North Lodge A.F. & A.M.; past president, Lowell Community Council; past chapter chairman, American Red Cross; past chairman, Visiting Nurse Assoc.; Secretary of the finance committee, town of Chelmsford; trustee of Lowell Institute for Savings and Lowell General Hospital; vestryman, All Saints church. Whew.

The Hanover editorial department slipped in a picture on me last month, of DickMenin receiving a Vanguard Award from New England Life. The release makes apparent that this is a very big deal. With only three such kudos passed out among all the company's hustlers last year, this is the company's heftiest pat on the back. You have to be CLU, Hall of Fame, Company Leader, and sell millions of dollars of insurance. Dick lives in White Plains and sells the policies in New York.

Well, off we go to Hanover.

Secretary, Dept. 90 Eastman Kodak Co. A & OD 400 Plymouth Ave. N Rochester 4, N. Y.

Treasurer, 182 Main St., Wenham, Mass.