1938

Less than 90 Days to Reunion, and Art Soule says "Somethin's gotta give," if Old '38 is going to pick up the check that breaks the $500,000 mark as our 25th Anniversary gift to Indianville. We're running short, boys, so let's stretch a little. Remember, you can give this year and the first month of 1964, and it will be credited to the June Giving Program, and you get tax benefits for both years. Dig, men, dig. We need whatever will make cash ... green stuff, checks, art works, stock, bonds, etc. It's your way of helping us say: "Keep going, Dartmouth. You sure were good to me."

The Big Larry Hull and Momma Lucille have a beautiful new home in Bay Village, near here, and they sure know how to grace it. We had a ball there not long ago. We are amazed how that little blonde directs heavy male traffic till Saturday night at 10 hour. There's Lil' Larry's wrestlin' and hockey; Brooks' mechanics and train layout; Jeff's billiard club, and Little Norman, a human ball that rolls and rolls and rolls. ... Gee, I'm glad I didn't grow up to be a Mommy.

Now, we write about a competitor without advice of counsel. Jim Garvey has set up shop in Emporium, Pa., with Sylvania Products as a manufacturing cost-control Manager ... the eighth family uprooting to the fourth state. Ginny and the kids taking it well, with Mom as librarian at the local high school. Young Judy is at Sorbonne as a U. of Rochester exchange student. Jim is taking chem engineering at Cornell. Janice and Jane are in high school with little June plugging not far behind in grade school. Nice little company, Sylvania. It is Genera' Electric's faith in little business.

Boit Wiswall, a leading Wakefield, Mass., civic and social leader, is chairman of the Municipal Light Board at home. He is running the Consolidated Paper Box Co. of Somerville, a family of five, and many, many of the community affairs of the Cape State.

Eddie Perrin has been named a trustee of the Kingswood Preparatory School in West Hartford, Conn.; more fine work with youth from this big, big quarter.

John W. Smillie, M.D., Ann Arbor, Mich., reports that son W. George is a freshman at Kalamazoo College; while the other guy, Keith, is in grade school, with Fran, a sweet sixteener, soph at Ann Arbor High. The gang will be at reunion.

Another sawbones, Robert S. Pollack, M.D., "manages to pay taxes" in Hillsborough, Calif. In addition, he observes Mother being honored as the community's Leading Lady and son, Bob, leading the school eleven on the gridiron." Then there's swimming in the pool and riding down at the Carmel Valley Rancho. Tough taxes, I'd say. And why don't you stop at the Stevenson Corporation in Newman to see Kelly? The other Pollack kids are Vicki, Phyllis and Gwen who also "make noise and eat." Bob sees Slats of the Slattery Slickers and here's why he's going to reunion: "1 It's been too long since I was there; 2 I need a vacation; 3 I like Eastern beer; 4 I want to prove to wife and kids I went to college; 5 Twenty-five is my lucky number; 6 It's cold in San Francisco in June; 7 I want to see if they use all that red wood in New England; 8, 9, and 10: Have urge - must go. Will buy a trailer for six, and New Hampshire, here come the Pollacks.

"Dick Kieselbach needs a letter from a roommate. Then maybe he'll go to reunion. He's a researcher in Du Pont's Labs with an early American home down Delaware way. Patsy and Pete are the kids.

Pete Merritt enjoyed his four years in Hanover, and that's the reason lie gives for wanting to return to reunion. It's great to hear that Payson Hatch, a non-grad, will be at reunion. He's a town supervisor in Willsboro, N.Y., and is running a mineral wool mill there. Sons Edward and Living-ston finished at St. Michaels '60, and St. Lawrence '61, respectively.

Young Parran Dawkins will always be the rough-cut character with the shock of blonde hair and the green and white lettered sweater who made noises like me in Hanover Some people even say we might pass for brothers. That's O.K. with me. Well, I mentioned his great job with the Pace Setter Other news has him as Vice President of IBM's Eastern Sales Region for the Data Processing Div'n. (General Electric computers are also sold in the same territory.) Ole Dawk gives any competition a real fit. For his '62 chores he goes to Miami on one of those lush junkets where they honor IBM's best He and Frances have Linda, Derrol, Young P. III (Chip) and Pete, and they're all fine. The family bought 30 acres in Peru, Vt., near John Scotford's ski home. The skiing' clan is only a light blow from Bromley and only a few hills from Hanover. Linda attended Colby and is taking secretarial training. Derrol will enter Centenary in Jersey in the fall, while "Chip" is on the beam for Dartmouth as he enters High School. Little guy, Pete, has a namesake of some fame, the West- Point Pete Dawkins, and it looks now like he's headed in the Point's direction.

There's still some news in the shoebox; so you're assured of a column in May. Try real hard to get your class gift in, and good luck.

Secretary, 2945 Fairmount Cleveland 18, Ohio

Class Agent, Conn. Mutual Life Ins. Co., 140 Garden St. Hartford 15, Conn.