1932

Reunion time is only a month away. Instead of rushing back to work on Monday, June 17, are you planning to pack the family into the old bus and head north for a couple of days with old friends and classmates? You owe it to yourself. Hope to see you in Hanover on June 17-19 for the greatest Thirtieth ever.

Much of our news this month has come in response to Bill Lieson's annual letter to the Class. This pleasant institution which Bill inaugurated a few years ago has

brought many interesting replies from classmates who don't otherwise correspond, and so has been a great boon to your secretary who likes to include news of as many as possible in these notes.

A most cordial letter from our Canadian classmate Alf McLaughlin relates that his company, Western Gypsum Products Ltd., was sold to British Plasterboard in 1954 and the McLaughlin family moved to Calgary in 1958. Alf has stayed on as manager in the Calgary area but reports that he is no longer active in running the company, having resigned as a director. He and Marianne now have two grandchildren by their daughter Dianne, who is living in Winnipeg. Alf's old home town. Their older son was graduated from Queens University last year and is presently taking his master's degree at Western University. They have a 14-year-old son at home.

Alf says he still enjoys reading the Newsletter and these notes for news of the Class. If any of us stray as far north as Calgary, the McLaughlins would be glad to see us.

Ben Cowden is a supervisory management analyst for the Naval Air Station at Barber's Point, Oahu, Hawaii. He sends a warm aloha from himself, Betty and the two boys and relates how John, age 11, played in last year's Mele Kalikanaku (Merry Christmas) Bowl Game in the Honolulu Stadium. Charles, age 9, is a member of the Pearl Harbor Swim Club and expert enough to compete in junior meets. He'says the family took a vacation trip to Japan last year and that they are hoping to visit the N.Y. World's Fair in 1964.

Ben is also a trustee of Jackson College, Hawaii's first Christian liberal arts college and second institution of higher learning. He recently played host to the president of California's Claremont College who was reviewing Jackson's accreditation needs. Ben feels that if such accreditation can be accomplished the evening courses offered by the College can be of great benefit to the military personnel stationed in Hawaii.

From Indianapolis Hank Kingdon reports a grandson, James E. Vande Bunte III, by their daughter Marie. Hank goes on to say that their son John, now 22, is in first year law at the University of Virginia and that only their daughter, 17, is left to go to college. Admitting that this may bode well for the pocketbook, Hank complains that it leaves him no chance to send an offspring to Hanover.

In Westport, Conn., Joe Boldt claims to be still knocking himself and the typewriter out, freelancing industrial and documentary films for the most part. Apparently the drudgery of literary composition does not frighten off their son Dave, who has just been made executive manager of The Dartmouth. (Joe reflects that they now have fancier titles than in our day.) Their daughter Deborah, 15, is a sophomore at Northfield and still hopes Dartmouth will be co-ed by '65. John, 14, is in junior high, with aspirations toward the Class of '71 at Hanover.

A brief note from Marv Chandler reported that he and Carmen were feeling fine. Their son Tom, a Dartmouth senior, was about to be married and son Dick, a Princeton junior, was playing some varsity basketball. Marv also sent us a clipping about John Sheldon's son Ted, who swam 50 yards free style in 23 flat and tied for fourth in an Illinois state championship meet.

George Hahn writes that he is hoping to join us with his family at reunion. Their son Alan, a high school junior, has just been elected captain of the cross country team and is also on the wrestling team. Twin daughters Ann and Wissa are attending Columbia School of Nursing. Oldest daughter Danda is a senior at Connecticut College and youngest daughter Tootsie is a freshman at the University of Penna.

George adds that he is continuing as visiting lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Medicine and as co-director of Gynecology and director of Pelvic Malignancy at Jefferson Medical College and Hospital. During the past year he resigned as director of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Methodist Hospital and accepted an appointment as consultant there. He also resigned as chief of Gynecology at Philadelphia General Hospital, but was appointed consultant-lecturer at the U. S. Naval Hospital in that city. He was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, honor medical society at Yale, and received a distinguished service award in the field of Medicine at the St. Matthew A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia.

Our friend Kenneth Beal, secretary of the Class of '99, has sent us an interesting feature article about a talk on the railroad industry given recently by Bill Kendall before the Sarasota, Fla., Ivy League Club on the occasion of a visit by Dartmouth's President Dickey. Bill is president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and the son of Warren Kendall '99, a retired railroad industrialist.

Dwelling on the grave disadvantages which the railroads suffer in over-regulation, heavy tax burden and unfair subsidizing of competition, Bill took the stand that the railroads are still the backbone of mass transportation and will thrive if given the necessary freedom of action. Hopeful signs which he sees are the recent court action against featherbedding and the President's statement that the railroads should be regulated under a freer competitive framework.

The industry itself, Bill said, is meeting today's transportation challenge with automatic freight yards, faster and more flexible equipment and better communications and traffic control. Leaving any forecast of the future of railroad stocks to the market analysts, he asserted that railroad management is placing its bets on progress, not decline. Future progress will depend, not on attempts to woo back passengers, but in exploiting the "natural advantage" of railroads in moving goods and material in large volume over long distances.

Secretary, 341 West End Rd. S. Orange, N.J.

Class Agent, 95 Browning Rd., Short Hills, N.J.