1930
We attended the New York dinner of the Alumni Fund agents a few evenings ago, which for 1930 approached being a preview of the class dinner scheduled for April 18, for nine of us showed, and had our interests in Dartmouth aroused again upon hearing from John Dickey of the important developments of this current "vintage" year in the College's history. Art Browning has sleeked himself down by about 35 pounds and is in the best of condition to start pounding out his pleas for this very worthwhile cause. Joining him at the table were Russ Sigler, evidencing signs of having been in Florida, Jim Mitchell, in high spirits at just having attained the exalted state of grandfather for the first time, Bob Barker, Russ Morrill, Bob Blanchard, Ted Wolf, John French, Charlie McDonough and this correspondent.
John French told us that his son-in-law, Barry Corbet '58, normally a skiing instructor in Jackson, Wyo., is a member of the American Mount Everest Expedition 1963 and the Frenches will be eagerly watching the news of this assault through May, the only month in the year when the mountain can be attacked with any hope of success. John and Ellie had recently, together with Vic and Eleanor Borella, spent a pleasant interlude with Carl and Carol Haffenreffer who took some time out from business while in New York attending an industry convention.
On March 23, Miss Sonja Margit Persson became the bride of Bruce McFarland in the chapel at Cornell University. Bruce, the son of Alex and Carol McFarland, will graduate next month from the College of Hotel Administration at Cornell, and then plans to enter the service. Soon after the wedding, the parents of the groom flew to Trinidad where they were to join some friends for a two weeks' cruise through the Windward Islands.
Rev. Wade Safford has accepted an invitation to give (and by the time this is in print will have delivered) a paper and to lead a colloquium on Teilhard de Chardin. S.J., at a meeting of the Council for Religion in the Independent Schools in the Hartford area. He says he is a great Teilhardian enthusiast, a philosopher who has furnished us with a most valuable clue toward the solution of the science-religion controversy, and Wade looked forward to this opportunity to present his thoughts on one of his favorite modern thinkers.
Si Chandler, executive vice president of the Connecticut Bankers Association, was a member of the official party of the Association on its 13th annual trip to Washington, during which conferences were to be held with federal banking supervisory authorities and with members of the state's congressional delegation.
At the annual Boston dinner of the New England College Hockey Association, Eddie Jeremiah was presented the fifth annual Sheaffer Pen Award for his many contributions to amateur hockey over the years. The presentation was made by Army hockey coach, Jack Riley '44. one of Eddie's former Dartmouth skaters. Eddie, long-time secretary-treasurer,. has just been elected vice president of the American Hockey Coaches Association, and has been honored by selection as coach of the 1964 American Olympic hockey team, an assignment to which he is looking forward especially since he had to turn down a similar offer for the 1952 games. The College has given him a sabbatical for the necessary time.
Sam Stayman was a member of the fourman team which won the men's championship of the American Contract Bridge League in St. Louis in March.
Jack and Lola Keating took a quick trip to Nassau on the Queen Elizabeth over the Washington's birthday weekend. Still some among us who ski - Dick and Gwen Bowlen have enjoyed extensive skiing this winter, and John French spoke of doing likewise on some of his own hills in back of his country lodge in Woodstock. This brings to mind that Hank Stein operates a ski resort in Aspen and that we have not heard from him in a long, long while.
Jack Rich was re-elected a director of Western Union at its annual meeting held in Los Angeles, thus commencing his thirteenth year as a member of its board. The Chase Manhattan Bank is sending BobBarker as its investment observer to attend the General Electric annual meeting in San Francisco. These instances indicate that Western corporate meetings are becoming popular, but not yet have we heard of any scheduled for Las Vegas.
Milt Mclnnes was riding around Jersey not so long ago, helping to dedicate a pair of bridges in Paterson and to remove some trackage in Passaic. It seems that the Erie-Lackawanna, of which he is president, had arranged to end 131 years of its tracks dividing Passaic's Main Avenue lengthwise, and suitable ceremonies were being held to mark the action which precedes a $14,000,000 downtown urban renewal plan. The dignitaries enjoyed a trip by special train from Paterson to Passaic, arriving on schedule, and were met by a cheering throng filling both sides of Main Avenue and what was left of the tracks themselves. A few days later Milt appeared before the Erie stockholders at the annual meeting and reported that even with an expected decrease in revenues for 1963, the road's cost reduction program was still expected to bring about a further substantial reduction in the deficit as compared with 1962.
We congratulate Dr. Bill Putnam of Lyme as New Hampshire's outstanding physician of the year, upon his having been so designated by the New Hampshire chapter of the American Academy of General Practice. It is not simple to capsulize Bill's attainments, but to mention a few, he is known as a most faithful doctor to the people in a score of New Hampshire and Vermont communities in the North country, he has held office in the state and county medical societies, he is medical examiner for Grafton County and regional medical examiner in Vermont, he has continued formal study in medicine by taking advanced postgraduate courses for some weeks each year since entering general practice, he has been very prominent and has held office in the general organization of the Congregational Church in New Hampshire, and withal, he and Mildred have brought up four boys and two girls, now ranging from 25 years down to 13, who have all been a great credit to them.
Now that this month's column has put you in a Big Green mood, it is an appropriate moment, if you haven't already done so, to get out the old check book and send your gift for the Alumni Fund along to ArtBrowning.
Secretary, 30 Boxwood Dr., Stamford, Conn.
Class Agent, New York Life Ins. Co., 51 Madison Ave. New York 10, N.Y.
