1946

Happy New Year '46 — and may it be a big, healthy and prosperous one for all.

It's a pleasure to start off the column this year with an interesting letter from StanGates, which also gives me a sense of gratification and the feeling that this writing is worthwhile after all. Stan says, "Your reference to Grant Patterson's new address (Dec. issue) drew immediate response from me since I've been living on Hook Hollow Rd., Hemlock Hills, Novelty, Ohio, for over a year now. Didn't know Grant twenty years ago, but yesterday my wife and I met his family - due entirely to your choice of 'Most Distinctive Address.' Looks like he and I will attend the forthcoming Dartmouth Christmas luncheon program together."

Thanks for your letter, Stan, and I sure am glad that you and Grant got together. More on addresses later.

Dick Griebel is a hard man to keep up with - he moves too fast. In December I reported his election to president of ITT Kellogg Telecommunications Division. Now Dick has taken another great step upwards.

On January 1 he became president of Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Inc., the largest manufacturing subsidiary of Fairbanks Whitney Corp. In addition he has been named a vice president of the parent firm. Prior to his service with ITT, he had been manager of manufacturing at the Raytheon Co. in Waltham, Mass. Dick is also a senior member of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers, and a member of the American Ordnance Association, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, and the National Defense and Transportation Association. He is a director of Space Avionics, Inc.

Had a pleasant visit recently with WellesFendrich at our plant in Watertown, Mass. He and I both work for B. F. Goodrich - a fact incidentally which I learned through this column when Gus Gillaugh was writing same. Welles works and lives in Akron, Ohio, having left New York City to wend his way West. Good to see you, Welles, — stop in more often.

Research economist Bob Beetham has been appointed associate research officer of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and the College Retirement Equities Fund. Bob joined the New York organization in 1961 after serving"&s program director of the U.S. Council of the International Chamber of Commerce and as an instructor of economics at Dartmouth, Rutgers, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, and the Baruch School of CCNY. He is a member of the American Economic Association and the American Finance Association, and earned his M.A. at'Gplumbia.

Not long ago I had the pleasure of announcing an engagement - commenting on the fact that this is somewhat unusual for us old duffers. Well, it must be catching — I have now received word from Yonkers, N. Y., of the engagement of John Porter to Miss Jane Mary Tully. John attended Dartmouth and New York University and is with the First National City Bank. Congratulations to you both.

Don Barr has been elected assistant trust officer of the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co. in Providence, R. I. (For a minute I didn't know if you were a banker or a hospital administrator.) Don has been with Hospital Trust since 1950 and moved into the Trust Division in 1956.

Wonderful Christmas card, as always, from Patty and Ted Fajen. Your poetry is better than ever, Fajens, and your family looks great. Sounds like you managed to get around the country a bit in 1962 - come on back to New England for a visit in '63.

Two recent press releases about Dartmouth '46's working with other institutions. Walt Snickenberger, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at Cornell, was "caught" out in the Ohio territory, trying to convince a few young men in the Cincinnati area that there really are institutions other than Dartmouth in the East and that Cornell isn't too bad after all. Must be tough - selling against all the Hanover competition, but at least it's still the Ivy League. Come to think of it, you have girls up at your place, don't you. How did the Ivies ever allow that?

Henry W. "Hank" Parker, recently project engineer for a large construction company, has joined the faculty of Stanford University as associate professor of civil engineering. "Hank" has been working at the Spring Creek Tunnel project on the Trinity River at Lewiston, Calif., but as of lanuary 1, 1963 he will be teaching courses in engineering construction and administration at Stanford. Sounds like a nice change.

A new address change list shows that the Reverend Don Fitzsimmons - actually Lt. Fitzsimmons - has left his post as chaplain at the Naval Air Station at Weymouth, Mass., and now sports a Fleet Post Office address, out of New York City. How about a note, Don, filling us in on the transfer.

Also note that Bob and Connie Albrecht have left the Empire State for a new residence in Weston, Conn. Robert, aren't you afraid of incurring the wrath of Gov. Rockefeller - after all, we Greens should stick together. But it's nice to have you with us - welcome to New England.

You know, this unusual address bit is getting to be more fun all the time. So far, Ralph Smith of Skunks Misery Road in Locust Valley, N. Y., has won all the marbles. Being quite magnanimous about the whole thing, Ralph writer the following, "Thanks for the plug for Skunks Misery Road in the November ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Surprisingly, it's quite a main thoroughfare, and is not far from Horse Hollow Road, Chicken Valley Road, or Duck Pond Road. Our local liquor shop now stocks a pretty vile distillate labelled 'Skunks Misery Gin,' which usually makes a conversational gift when delivered as a hostess present more than a few miles from this area. I offer a bottle to the first '46 who tops my address in zoological disgustingness."

Well, there you are. If you want a bottle of Skunks Misery Gin, send your interesting addresses along to me and well see who's a winner. Thanks for your letter, Ralph.

I guess that's all for now. Actually the holiday season caught up with the Kimball family and we're sort of shaking our heads and wondering where the time went. Hope you all had as good a time as we did. If so, write and tell us about it - the mailbag is drying up.

See you next month.

Secretary, 12 Keniston Rd. Lynnfield Center, Mass.

Treasurer, 66 Argyll Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y.