1941
Did everyone have enough sub-zero weather and snow for one winter? It is nice for the young injuns shussing on the slopes of Balch Hill but not for us "old folks" trying desperately to eke out an existence in "suburbia." So here's hoping that March comes in like a lamb and goes out like a lamb.
Up Hanover way Snuffy Smith is looking forward to this coming summer with much anticipation, having reserved for himself the "difficult" task of overseer of all aspects of the co-educational aquatic activities at the forthcoming fourth term to be inaugurated this summer. This bit of information originates from a most reliable source,' Waldo Chamberlain, Dean of Summer Programs. Better keep a weather eye on him, Fran! While attending one of Dean Chamberlain's recent nationwide briefings of class officers on what Hanover will be like next summer, I had a very pleasant visit with Burt Hedin at the Dartmouth Club of New York. Burt, formerly in the banking business, is now co-owner of a mortgage brokerage concern in New York City. He commutes to and from work from New Canaan, Conn. The "old red-head" looked good. Just the same as ever. During his travels he has encountered Lou Young, heard a special farm program on the radio featuring DonHanks, and manages to keep in touch with his old roomies, pharmacist Milt Cunningham, Mayor of Hightstown, N. J., and Capt.Gus Schroeder of the Air Force. Burt must be a radar expert himself, because it takes one to keep tabs on Gus. Two years ago he was stationed in Texas. In December, 1961, he was transferred to California and since April of last year he has been overseas with a radar group.
Our diplomates are at it again. The surgical skill of Dr. Bill Clark of Mill Valley, Calif., recently produced a medical marvel at Marin General Hospital in San Francisco. In a three-hour operation he grafted bones from the hip of a 17-year-old girl to her little sister's arm, crippled by a benign tumor. According to Bill, this was the first attempt in medical history at such a major bone graft and the operation was a success. Dr. and Mrs. Bill Dignam, both natives of New Hampshire, and their four daughters recently left sunny Pacific Palisades, Calif., for a six months' stay in Switzerland, where Bill will conduct research at the University of Geneva in the field of hormones. Bill, a member of the staff of the medical school of the University of California, Los Angeles, as associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology since 1950, has been granted a sabbatical leave for this project so that on his return his students may benefit from his findings. Bill also has a private practice in Los Angeles. Dr. Gene Stollerman of Glencoe, Ill., a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and professor of medicine at Northwestern University since 1957 and one of the key members of its Central Society of Clinical Research, is conducting a series of seminars sponsored by his church congregation on "The Dialogue Between Science and Religion." He is chairman of his congregation's adult education program. Gene is also in private practice in Chicago.
From the midwest comes a couple of recent news items on two other classmates. Warner Bishop, recently resigned as president of Basic, Inc. of Cleveland, Ohio, a post which he has held since April, 1961. Warner joined Basic in March, 1961, as vice-president, sales. Before that he was vice-president of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. and president of two of its subsidiaries. Bud Martin, Missouri's motor tycoon, was recently elected to the board of directors of the Empire Bank of Springfield.
This is one of those months when I have to go "scrounging" for news. In this instance I am grateful for this opportunity because it has resulted in my picking up several news items, which, although perhaps a bit stale, I would have otherwise overlooked. My apologies, Hank Palmer, for being about nine months late in letting the folks know that your fair city of Salisbury, N. C., was named All-American City of 1962. Hank is executive secretary of its Chamber of Commerce. Also about the same time "Beryl Re- sources of New Hampshire" by Jim Page of Pike, N. H. as one of its co-authors was issued as a professional paper by the United States Geological Service. A year ago, GilStokes, an educator of Tabor Academy, Marion, Mass., was elected a Vice-President of the Dartmouth Club of Southeastern Massachusetts and the Dartmouth graduates in Yokosuka, Japan, were gracious hosts to Professor Charlie McLane when he visited Japan on the return leg of an extensive tour of Southeast Asian Countries. It is a good thing that he did not make the trip this winter. But eleven feet of snow would not interfere with Charlie's itinerary.
Now to get a bit more current - BobBarr and Jack Devor were among the 43 alumni present at the annual dinner and meeting held by the Dartmouth Society of Engineers in New York City in October. Dick Tousley and Jay Woodward attended the Society's Annual Boston meeting held in November. Jim Morgan of Cranbury, N. J., is the area enrollment representative for the Dartmouth Club of Plainfield. CharlieSchlenker was one of the two members of the Monmouth County, N. J., Dartmouth Club responsible for a well-attended, very successful party held after the Princeton game. Ed Little and his family frequently make the long trip north from Southern California to avail themselves of the facilities of the Dartmouth Outing Club of Northern California.
Next month is kick-off month for the 1963 Alumni Fund Drive. In January many of you received an appeal from Ed Larner, our Head Agent, to join his staff of class agents. Ed is most anxious to augment his staff in order to insure increased class participation in the forthcoming drive. I hope that everyone answered this appeal in the affirmative.
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