1938
We'd say that the favorable image of Dartmouth College was never at a higher peak ... even after the Dan Webster trial, if you'll tolerate a conclusion of a one-man survey with considerable retroactivity. This will have its corresponding effects with a run on the Admissions Office and tougher work for good, "young" Eddie Chamberlain '36. For example, the Christmas luncheon in Cleveland for grads and undergrads plus prospects broke all records. Where there is a usual peak of about 250, this year about 320 showed with many eating off the walls. Much of this is due to very effective enrollment planning by Wally Meckes about whom the Class of 1942 can be very proud ... a real effective guy and gentleman here in Cleveland. Yet, much credit is also due to the pre-eminent planning of John Dickey ... with the skilled and capable faculty and a greatly expanded plant. Some comes from a championship football team and from the favorable publicity that has been generated about the College. But we also think that a great deal of today's greatness of the College comes as a reward from the past. Alumni, who have had the four-year Dartmouth experience, are the ones who have responded from the "lessons" of yesterday to help make her greater today. There may be a humbling message for the College in this thought ... (although we don't want to get all excited about our self-wisdom). The message is that Dartmouth in the past has built something that is unique and priceless among only her sons in the quality and quantity that it projects. It is a love, loyalty, and spirit that only Dartmouth men have about their College. And it pays off in financial power for her perpetuation.
It is the quality that enables Dartmouth to stand aside and above all others. It is the quality that must be preserved in all future planning by administrative educators . . . for . . . the buildings, brick and steel; the programs, comprehensive and efficient; and the long-range plans for even more preeminence ... all will but rattle and reflect off the nearby Hanover Hills unless the boy's four-year experience continues to enspirit him with finding his individual self, his role and potential in the social world and his rightful place beside a "spirited" Dartmouth Alumnus in the great, wide world; so that he says with a feeling and a meaning that involves the mind and the emotions: "I'm a Dartmouth Man, Sir." ... Continued success to you, President Dickey, from the Class of 1938.
Well, you're out about 25 years, lover boys; and this is just a reminder to you and me that these are the dangerous forties. Writers say our vintage whistles fewer times as the girls go by, but much louder, when we do. It's the period when we see our brides getting older, but can't quite picture that image of ourselves. We lift weights and do push-ups, and swear we're gonna stick with a size smaller suit. Funny thing about life ... we always have to keep maturing ... and I'm sure we're all gonna.
Around the horn on names and news: Bill Stead is Secretary and House Counsel for Acme Steel, Chicago; The Rev. "Red"Harvey is Assistant Rector, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Morristown, N. J.; GeneWaggaman made General Manager of Motor Boating magazine and living in Greenwich, and Dawkins is promoted by me to pain-in-the-neck because he is doing such a good job with the News Letter and stealing all the news. ,
Win Mayo has been honored for his contributions to the "progress and welfare" of Leominster, Mass. Honored at a special Chamber of Commerce banquet up Northeast, Win was cited for acting as chairman of the board of library trustees; past president of the Visiting Nurses Assoc.; Leominster Hospital, Recreation Center; Boy Scouts; Chamber trustee; chairman of the Citizens' Traffic Committee, and a member of the Urban Renewal Advisor Committee. Swell job, Win. Unless you can sell something while you're doing all this, you ain't eatin' too well.
Our Felix Frankfurter, Hal Berman, author and lecturer on Russian Law, recently added Amherst College and Newark, N. J., as audiences. City Planner Doug Carroll, who once had trouble counting heads coming and going in Crosby Hall, counted millions of Chicago heads as the leader of a transportation study that is gonna make folks come and go safer, faster... and maybe cheaper.
Wendell Lake hit the cover of Business Week in December as top salesman for L. C. Williams Co. of Houston, Tex., although he lives in Marblehead, Mass. His son is a Hanover freshman, and Dad reports seeing Parker Brownell and Irv Stronach in Boston. Wen is going to reunion to "get some rest."
John Jameson writes from Houston that he's in the cattle, oil, timber, and rice "business." That's a lot of business. Sounds like he bought out Jesse Jones. All he needs is the wire fence business to stake out the state. There are two little Jamesons: Andrew, 13; and Dinah, 10. Hope he and Devlin get together. John wants visitors to call 606 W. Friar Tuck Lane.
Dick Farrington wants me to say hello to Sandy Mills for him. Dick is the financial boss of C. H. Schwertner, Philly building contractors. He's also father of Lynne, 15. He sees Howie Casler, and is going to take the whole family to reunion.
There's some left over in the shoebox, for a change. In a couple of days, too, I'm going up to the Victory Banquet for the Ivy Champs. Ought to have some better stuff next time.
Keep the Faith; and spread a little ... to boot.
Secretary, 2945 Fairmount Cleveland 18, Ohio
Treasurer, Hunter Lane, Rye, N. Y.
