1932
Bulletin No. 2 from the Marcus-Dewey-Gilmore triumvirate, just received, speaks hopefully of a gold (sic) and tennis tournament at our Glorious 30th on June 17-19. Your correspondent, definitely no tycoon, feels that on form he has little chance of making a good showing in the first part of the proposed competition but is willing to give it a try if assigned a suitable handicap. Every contest after all must have its contingent of cheerful losers. If you have not vet indicated your intention of joining the fun at this best of all Class Reunions there is still time to do so, even as you read this. Don Marcus's address is 1514 Beacon Street, Brookline 46, Mass.
Those of you who have not visited the campus in recent years will be struck with the marked changes wrought by the tremendous continuing construction program. At a recent Alumni Council meeting, as reported by Sid Hayward, Business Manager Dick Olmsted presented a summary of construction projects for the whole college amounting to $22 million since 1956, with another $6 million in progress or planned in the near future. The academic plant has by far the largest share of the construction costs, with athletic plant next, student and faculty housing. recreational and social facilities and service improvements making up the balance.
Speaking of changes, Miss Sara Butler Brown, daughter of Jim Brown, is Dartmouth's first undergraduate co-ed. Currently a sophomore at Middlebury College, Sara applied for Dartmouth's new eight-week summer term, in which for the first time women undergraduates will be enrolled with men students. Her application was the first to be accepted, according to Dean of. Summer Programs Waldo Chamberlin. In the past, seven women have earned advanced degrees at Dartmouth, but Sara will be the first woman undergraduate.
Sara, who is majoring in fine arts, has chosen a course in drawing and modeling and another in sculpture from among the 58 liberal arts offerings in the summer program. She said that her primary reason for applying for admission, aside from the sentiment involved in attending her father's alma mater, was the excellent art facilities offered in the new Hopkins Center and the program that has been developed for the summer term. She will transfer the academic credits earned towards her degree at Middlebury. Her father, as you may recall, is a doctor of dental medicine practicing in New London, N.H., and Sara is the second of his three daughters. Asked how Daddy felt about her historic first, Sara said, "He's pleased - very pleased."
In New York late in January Kidder, Pea-body and Co., Inc., announced the election of fourteen new vice presidents, one of whom is Bob MacLaury, in charge of the Block Department, Institutional Sales. Bob left us before graduation and later continued his education at Columbia University. He was in the Research Department of Lord, Abbett and Co. before joining Kidder, Pea-body in 1949. He is a resident of Broad Brook Road, Bedford Hills, N.Y.
From Detroit comes word that Tom Lott, partner in the law firm of Watson, Lott and Wunsch, was elected a director of First National Bank of Allen Park in January. Tom received his law degree from the University of Michigan in 1935. He is a former chairman of the Michigan State Waterways Commission.
Our October notes reported that in August Carl McGowan had been nominated by President Kennedy to be a judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and that probably the Senate would have confirmed the nomination before adjournment. That august but dilatory body failed to do so and on January 15 Mr. Kennedy nominated Carl a second time for the job vacated by the retirement of Judge Henry W. Edgerton.
Carl is a partner in the Chicago law firm of Ross, McGowan, Hardie and O'Keefe. He has been a member of the councils of the American Law Institute, which aims at law reform, and the U.S. Administrative Conference, which is concerned with government agency procedures. Most important to his career has been his friendship with Adlai Stevenson, which really began during the war years when Mr. Stevenson was a personal aide to Navy Secretary Knox. Carl served as administrative assistant to the Illinois Governor from 1949 to 1953.
Last fall Joe Byram kindly sent us an article about Ben Drew which has been languishing in the desk drawer awaiting a time when your correspondent would exert the necessary mental effort to brief it down for inclusion in these notes. On his magnificent 200-year-old colonial farm in Westford, Mass., Ben produces annually about 50,000 bushels of apples. He also grows peaches and pears. Being an astute business man, he has realized the great opportunity afforded by marketing his own products and has opened up an attractive new roadside market in which fruit from the Drew Farms is displayed in "country-style" containers for "country-fresh" appeal.
Ben's market is arranged for self-service operation. Portable shelves allow versatility in arranging displays and a central check-out counter accommodates two lines. Recently he added a cider mill and Sally Drew launched another phase of their marketing with her homemade jams and jellies. All of the items for sale are displayed with great attention to attractive packaging, purity, and wholesomeness. With one eye on his market and the other on his orchards, Ben is organizing his entire operation for a successful and profitable future.
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