1950

Hello, Mudda - Hello, Fadda - Hello Dere!

If the old traditions haven't failed, you have just sat through or will soon huddle miserably during sixty minutes of drenching drizzle in New Haven or Cambridge or New York. Let's hope the performance on the field rewards you sufficiently for the punishment of the elements. Meanwhile, here's some hot poop from ...

THE HITCHING POST

Less and less frequently news reaches us about the marriage of a Fifty whose bachelorhood seemed assured. Lacking some details, we are nonetheless delighted to deliver the devastating data that Dolph Cramer tied a nuptial knot last May 10 with Susan McAuley of Garden City. They're ensconced in the concrete jungle of NYC, 355 East 72, following a honeymoon in the Virgin Islands.

Another sparkling example of delayed action is the wedding of Wade Abbott and Caryll P. Gray in West Hartford, October 5. Caryll graduated from Colby Junior and was a stewardess for TWA. She's been a secretary for Blaikie, Miller & Hines in the Insurance City. Wade is prexy of the Abbott Ball Company there.

RATTLE PRATTLE

Remember the line from the 2000,-year-old-man routine, "Dere's ladies here"? Well, dere's two more, both July arrivals. Bill andJudy Cross have a second lass to join John and Tiff. The new babe is an Ail-American born on July 4, named Alexandra Haslam.

The Jim Melville's balanced the kinds of kids raiding their cookie jar with the birth of Elizabeth S. She has a sister named Nancy and two big brothers, George H. 2nd and J. Graham 2nd.

Felicitations, fellas!

INKADENTAL INTELLIGENTZ

Last June Don Hyatt was quoted in a magazine column which also included comments on other subjects by such prominent persons as Sen. Fulbright and AT&T's chairman. Don's argument for more leadership amongst his TV cohorts was made at a students' broadcast convention held at Dartmouth last spring. Don denied that improvement might come by giving the public what it wants, or thinks it wants. Said he, "The genius of Albert Einstein was not brought to fruition as a result of a Madison Avenue house-to-house canvass; no market research analyst knocked on his door with a request that he kick around a little gimmick called the theory of relativity."

Part Keese gave his readers a few autobiographical insights into his antecedents last spring in the Worcester Telegram, using parallels to famous writers' activities. Example, "Like Robert Frost, I went to Dartmouth." He revealed four progeny but concluded, "How I became a book reviewer, though, remains a mystery."

While catching up on classmates who have been in the public eye via written or spoken word, we see that Jack Newby has been a featured lecturer at some Rotary Club meetings, as well as prez of the Needham, Mass., organization. In business, Jack's Vice President General Manager of the Whetton Oil Company there.

There is an annual address list of alumni officers which emanates from The Plain each September and the number of 50's active in college affairs is always impressive. The current crop includes Fritz Jewett who was elected to a three-year term as member of the Alumni Council. Previously reported to you is our chairman's stint as veep for the Class Presidents Association. Frank Harrington that is. Bob "Crash" Mcllwain heads up the Dartmouth Society of Engineers and Phil See is scribe and money-bags for the Tuck School Association of Boston. Presidents of their local clubs include GerrySarno (Western Connecticut), Ken Clark (Memphis), and John Lotter (Milwaukee). 1950's serving as secretaries are Gene Carver (Northern California and Nevada in San Francisco), Dr. Don Russell (Central Connecticut in New Britain), Miles Mills (Iowa), Bob Burrill (Cape Cod), and among the many enrollment workers George Partlow leads the recruiter-interviewers in Louisville.

ATTAIN AND ACCLAIM

As more and more men scale the ladders of success in various ways, we expect to make this category a regular platform for tipping the hat and acknowledging the feats.

Bill Stone, a creative supervisor with the New York advertising agency of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc., has been named a vice president of that firm. Bill joined BBD & O in 1954. He is creative supervisor on the B. F. Goodrich and Chevron accounts. An automobile enthusiast, Bill is the author of "A Guide to American Sports Car Racing," published by Doubleday in 1960. He lives in New York City with his wife Erika and two sons.

Last May, Jim Hutton was made managing partner of domestic operations for brokerage house W. E. Hutton & Co. He's engaged in liaison work with Hutton's 20 domestic branches in addition to supervision of underwriting, syndicate work, and general sales. Jim is headquartered in New York and lives in Rye. He's a director of Magna-America Corp. and the Martin Land Development Co. Jim is the sole fourth generation member of a brokerage firm still under its original ownership. William E. Hutton started the whole thing in 1886.

Of even more venerable vintage is the Marvin Insurance Agency, Inc., in Deep River, Conn., where it has prospered for a mere 109 years! Reynold Marvin is another fourth generation descendant and leaves a Newark, N. J., post with Aetna.

TECH TALES

The aforementioned Gerry Sarno, by the by, was boosted by Bethlehem Steel to the job of contracting manager for New York last April.

Steve Flemer has hied himself back to the hills from Chicago. He's an architect in Waitsfield, Vt. Phi! Garran has taken an assignment with Alexander Proudfoot Co., a Chicago outfit, but his home address is West Peabody, Mass. Calls himself an installation engineer ... but installing what?

Don't know exactly what John Woodwardis up to either, but he's still an expatriate in the Philippines. Geologist, isn't he? SamRogers is an infra-red analyst for Burroughs-Wellcome & Co. He lives in Mamaroneck. Don F. Brown works for Raymond F. Kravis & Associates, Tulsa, as a petroleum consultant.

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