1940
As you can readily tell from the happy smiling faces in this picture, a swingin' group of classmates enjoyed the second annual hoe-down up here on the Hanover Plain over the Brown weekend. This picture was taken at the tag end of the weekend, unfortunately after a few couples had slipped away or the group would have been even bigger. As it was, we had 61 for Saturday night's dinner, including progeny, both Dartmouth undergraduate type and pre-Dartmouth type.
It proved to be a fine weekend from all aspects - the weather was warm and sunny; the fellowship was so cordial that everyone was convinced by the end of the weekend that nobody looked any older or fatter or balder; and the football team provided a real thriller but a winner - who could ask for any better ingredients for a memorable time?
But the Executive Committee is not resting on their laurels! They are even now making extensive plans for a bigger and better fall reunion next year. The weekend of October 9-10 has been selected and the Lake Morey Inn at Fairlee, Vt., will be the location. Everyone in the Class will be getting reservation information in a separate mailing soon but for now block out that date on your 1964 calendar and plan to join the "fall reuners" for a pre-25th-whing-ding.
In the picture you will recognize Ruby Rainie but not Don Rainie who plays photographer so professionally; Jim and Eileen Moore and Jim Jr. '66; Jim and Miki Scott and Jim Jr. '65; Bud and Louise Hewitt; Gordie and Rosalie Wentworth; Staff and Ruth King; John and Betty Manley; Hugh and Joan Dryfoos and nephew Bob Dryfoos '67; John and Lois Moody; Fred and Ann Porter; Bob and Didi Gensell; Ben and Genie Bacon; Mickey and Jo Miller; Bob and Lee Lake; Larry and Genie Cate and Larry Jr. '66; Diz and Gina de Sieyes; Bob Williams and his son; Bob and Crosbie MacMillen; Stet Whitcher; Hodge Jones Jr. '66; Peter Eddy '66; and Rollie Hillas Jr. '67.
Others who were in the group for some of the time or who left before the picture was taken were John Moore; Bill and Joan Martin; Bill and Marion Hayes; Dick and Priscilla Handy; Seymour and Janet Wheelock; Dee and Barbara Jones; John and Fan Willson; Bert and Peggy Blake; Bill Bumsted; and John O'Shea.
As you can judge it was a fine turnout and since all of the above expect to be back next year you'd better get your own name in early to make sure of space at the third annual hoe-down.
Football stadiums seem to be a good place to see many classmates on a Saturday afternoon and the past two games have been no exception. At the Harvard game I suffered the end of the nation's longest winning streak along with Mickey Miller, Dick Handy,Staff King, Fred Porter, John O'Shea and Gordie Wentworth. If it had only been someone other than the Harvards who are bad losers but worse winners! This past weekend in the Yale Bowl another strong '40 delegation showed up including Diz and Gina de Sieyes; John and Lois Moody; Beezie and Ruth Smallwood; Bob and Didi Gensell; Ben and Genie Bacon; Eddie and Pat Miller; Bob and Crosbie MacMillen; Bob and Billie Dingwall; Welles and Ruth Seller; Bill Wrightson; Gordie Wentworth; Bill Martin; Bert Blake; Johnny and Betty Crandell; Joe Adams; Bob Clark; and Fred Porter.
Fred Pillsbury, attorney in Springfield, has been appointed by the Massachusetts Supreme Court to the five-member state Board of Bar Examiners, from which position he will establish qualifications for and examine lawyer candidates who wish to practice in state courts. Fred, an active trial lawyer, has taken a leading role in legal groups on the state and county levels. In August he was inducted as a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the highest honors in American jurisprudence.
Word has come via the Alumni Records route that Carl James has joined the staff of the S. J. Putnam Co., managing general agents in Wethersfield, Conn., where he will serve as a fire special agent. Carl has been in the insurance business since 1947, after a career in the Navy and WW II.
Keith Benson, another lawyer who has been going up the corporate ladder at Pickands-Mather in Cleveland, was recently elected a director of Interlake Steamship Co. Keith is also a vice president and assistant to the president of Pickands-Mather, an iron-ore and mining management firm which also is the source of Bill Duncan's bread and butter, in their Chicago office.
Speaking of Chicago, since last May Roscoe Giles has been a U. S. Court reporter for the Northern District of Illinois there. He has had many top court reporting assignments in a variety of federal agency hearings in different parts of the country, as well as being one of the chief reporters for some of the nation's top court reporting firms.
Another kind of reporter is Dave Gibson of the Hartford Times. He is the medicinescience writer for that paper and has been recognized for his efficiency in the field by winning the 1963 press award of the Connecticut State Medical Society. Dave has covered a variety of desks during the thirteen years he's been with the Times while commuting in from Coventry to Hartford.
It's time again to bring your address books up to date. Check this list to see which classmate you can hoist a few with after your plane is fogged in and you can't make it home:
Robert Breech, 1581 Sorrento Drive, Pacific Palisades, Calif.; Grafton Burke, 47 East 67th St., New York City; Karrick Collins, 246 Evergreen Drive, Kentfield, Calif.; James Gibson, 9 Quail Ridge Rd., Rolling Hills, Calif.; William Holmes, 2212 Harris Rd., N.W., Huntsville, Ala.; Richard Smith, 2351 Leavenworth, San Francisco 33, Calif.; Hamilton Dawes, 278 North Hawkins Ave., Akron 13, Ohio; David Gibson, RD #3, Coventry, Conn.; John F. Gopdman, Staff Judge Advocate, Hq. Southern Area Command, APO 407, New York City; William Harriman, Sinclair Somal Corp., P.O. Box 16, Mogadishu, Somali Republic, Africa; Morris Harwood, 45 Brooklawn Rd.,Wilbraham, Mass.; Carl Maier, 33 Chimney Ridge Drive, Cromwell Heights, Morristown, N. J.; John Moody, 3 Ormsbee Ave., Proctor, Vt.; Kendall Newbert, 30 Three Ponds Rd., Wayland, Mass.; Edward Shaw, 25477 Water St., Cleveland 38, Ohio; Colin Campbell, Amcel Europe, S. A., 37 Sq. de Meeus, Brussels, Belgium; Walter Dance, 406 East Ninth Ave., Hinsdale, Ill.; Edward Doyle, Dorchester Towers Apts., Columbia Pike, Arlington, Va.; William Duncan, 1434 Warrington Rd., Deerfield, Ill.; Alfred Eiseman, 5 Hidden Hill, Westport, Conn.; Robert Kinsman, 5723 Graves Ave., Encino, Calif.; Scott Rogers, 2927 Weybridge Rd., Shaker Heights, Cleveland 20, Ohio; John R. Willetts, 7252 North Beach Rd., Milwaukee 17, Wis.; Kenneth Atkins, 2514 James Court, Topeka, Kan.; Richard Babcock, 1314 South Fleming Rd., Woodstock, Ill.; Victor Bloede, 12 Arbutus Ave., Catonsville 28, Md.; Lawrence Herman, 520 Beacon St., Boston 15, Mass.; Robert Jordan, 17410 Brooklawn Drive, Brookfield, Wis.; Martin Rubin, 603 Hightree Rd., Santa Monica, Calif.; George Sommers, Supt. of Schools, Central Regional High School, Bayville, N. J.; Derrill Trenholm, Hq. Strategic Air Command-DX1, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.; William Walk, 215 Liliuokalani Ave., Honolulu, Hawaii; Lee Brekke, 8940 Sagamore Rd., Leawood, Kan.; William Chapin, 16 Cazneau St., Sausalito, Calif.; Theodore Gates, 5810 Surrey St., Chevy Chase, Md.; Raymond Hotaling, 1211 Lakemont Rd., Villanova, Pa.; George Kimball, 21278 Lake, Cleveland, Ohio; Wilbur Smallwood, 4 Saybrook Drive, Colonial Acres, Glenmont, N. Y.; Richard Smith, 25 Main St., Weymouth, Mass.; Raymond Unangst, City Manager, American Airlines, Inc., Washington National Airport, Washington, D. C.
Class of '40 members, wives, and student sons at Bob MacMillen's Hanover home.
Secretary, 5 North Balch St. Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, 78 School St., Concord, N. H.
