1935
Very little grist this month, and if I perpetrate a think-piece, Widmayer will wield his wiolet pencil. A couple of thirty-fivers have recently been full-paged in public prints, however. One of them, Neil Roberts, is President of the Denver U. S. National Bank, which loyal readers will recall is a "Mile High" (geographically, of course, not competitively). In a nationally syndicated ad for Minneapolis-Honeywell, Neil is pictured in four color process against the fortress-like background of his bank gazing down contemplatively on us sea level mortals. "We expect to make a substantial yearly saving with Honeywell centralized climate control," Neil says smugly. The payoff is then revealed as 5½ years, which would make it a tough go with our capital expenditures committee, not to mention our bankers. Good picture, though.
Even better is the shot of Jim West on the cover of the "Technology Review" for February 1963. This is the Alumni magazine of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Jim is Assistant Director of the Lincoln Laboratory. The cover shot billboards his work in helping to achieve the continuous quarter million gauss magnet facility, now called the National Magnet Laboratory, which opens April 30. This may be accomplishment enough, but it is nothing compared to getting a Dartmouth Class of 1935 reunion beer can featured on the cover of the M.I.T. Alumni magazine. For there it is, right on the foreground, sitting on Jim's desk, full of pencils yet, but with the "1935 Dartmouth" there for all to see. Why, for less than this, Widmayer, you'd be banished to Harvard forthwith.
Just to make the issue solidly Dartmouth, and 1935 to boot, there is a flattering review of Sandy Brown's biography of Count Rumford, physicist extraordinary, founder of the Royal Institution and discoverer of Humphrey Davy. Sandy is professor of physics at a sparkling teacher and an acknowledged expert on gaseous plasmas. As a hobby, he has long collected mementos of Count Rumford's remarkable career. The biography (published by Doubleday Archer, 95 cents) is one of the Science Study Series of excellent and authoritative paperbacks.
Len Bryant has been elected a director of The Marine Midland Trust Company of New York. Len is president and chief executive officer of Hooker Chemical Corporation and an officer and director of five Hooker subsidiaries and a director of three affiliates. As a new director of Marine Midland Trust, Len succeeds Thomas E. Moffitt, chairman of the board of Hooker, who is retiring and did not stand for re-election to the bank's board. Len and Ada have five children and reside in Smoke Rise, Butler, N. J. Son Robert is a Dartmouth freshman.
Jerry Spingarn has written me disclaiming the "Vox Clamantis" query I told you about. If it weren't Jerry, who the dickens could it have been? Maybe J. the B. himself?
In view of the greatly increasing emphasis on graduate work today, which Don Cameron has estimated may involve 73% of those who receive A.B. degrees in the class of 1963, you might be interested that 38.1% of our class are known to have graduate degrees. Even allowing for future 1962 dropouts, this is quite an increase, and I fancy our class may have been higher in this respect than many others of our era.
One Bill Fitzhugh '64, in a recent article for the Deerfield Academy "Scroll" wrote as follows:
"Until 20 years ago Dartmouth College was known primarily for the type of men she taught. These were men who wanted a good, but not exceptional education, and who were interested in outdoor activity. In the past 20 years, and most materially in the last five, Dartmouth has become a college of exceptional undergraduate education. This fact attracts a new type of student who has changed Dartmouth character." And who knows, he may be right at that.
Four people have written me about Ralph Lazarus' election as a Director of the General Electric Company. This is a signal recognition of Ralph's remarkable success as President of Federated Department Stores, Inc. - the largest department store group in the nation - a new responsibility for him and an honor for the class. Congratulations, Ralph.
It is hard to keep this fellow, Sel Hannah, out of the news. Described in a January 1963 article in "Skiing News Magazine" as "shrewd, possessing a sharp Yankee tang and varied skills," Sel says that raising a family has been his greatest pleasure but "they grew up too fast." Sons Frank and Sel Jr. are both at Dartmouth now, Frank being one of the stalwart sophomore members of Jim Page's ski squad. A story is quoted about Sel I hadn't heard when in 1946 he won the Frknconia Ski Club's open slalom. "That was amazing," said a spectator watching him flashing through the finish gate. "Why?" asked another. "He has won many races, hasn't he?" "Yes," replied the first man, "but he had an appendectomy three weeks ago!"
Cramp Carrick writes from Dewitt, N. Y., where he is manager of the Syracuse office of Ter Bush & Powell, Inc., a large insurance agency and brokerage concern. Apparently his wife, Ginny, is as active in selling books for Vassar as mine. This can become quite an avocation. "Two of our children are away at school. Patsy, 15, a junior at Abbot; Rick, 14, at St. Paul's as a freshman; John, age 10, in fifth grade at a local public school. The only highlights thus far is that Patsy seems to be able to keep on the Honor Roll and Rick was able to get a letter in Cross-Country as a freshman." Cramp is keeping track of the local Dartmouth prospects and in the summer spends some time at Tinmouth, Vt., on a working farm he owns.
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