1930
Writing for this final issue of the year after so recently returning from Hanover where we attended the class officers' meetings held on a superb weekend, and with the background of a realization of the import of Dartmouth's many new facilities, it may be that this column will sound just like those of a score of other classes this month, for their scribes should also have been tremendously impressed. We attended a series of meetings and other events in Hopkins Center, as well as the dedication of the Nathaniel Leverone Field House; and how completely the Center has fulfilled many of the needs of the College is indicated by our sudden realization, on leaving Hanover, that we had not been on the northern side of the campus whatsoever, where, in other years, most of the meetings had been held. Charlie Rauch, Art Brownitig and Charlie Raymond also attended, while Hank Embree and Jack Rich found it impossible to be present. We four held a short meeting Saturday noon, deciding on two or three matters to be presented to the fall meeting of the Executive Committee.
To his complete surprise, Charlie Rauch received the award as class chairman of the year at the stag luncheon of all class officers Saturday noon. His citation appears with these notes. All of this is well said, for Charlie has never stinted himself, and we all owe him our thanks for his sincere efforts.
Charlie and Larry Widmayer hosted the visitors, plus Bob and Louise Keene and Aland Lucia Dickerson for cocktails, and a chance to watch the Kentucky Derby on TV in their rumpus room. Al always is interested in the Derby, perhaps in a nostalgic way, but we couldn't determine that he had any bets involved for he admitted only to indulging in "educational pools," most of which he wins, such as on the number of men in each entering class. At one of the day's meetings Charlie had announced that having edited 200 consecutive issues of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, he would be taking a two-month vacation this year, and we found that the Widmayers were busy making plans for a European trip this fall.
At about the same time we learned of the marriage of Governor Nelson Rockefeller to Mrs. Margaretta Fitler Murphy and we all drank them a toast to wish them well. Unless you are that rare person who never reads a paper, watches TV, or, like Harry Casler in Kuala Lumpur, lives in a remote corner of the world, there is nothing we could possibly add to our recording of this event that would be news to you.
Bob and Louise Keene have been trying to dispose of "The Keenes" for some time, and seemed to think a sale was imminent. They have built a new home on the other side of the hills, still in Etna, with a beautiful southeastern view. During the week Bob had been busy caring for several new-born lambs, and by Sunday he was out in some of his other acreage planting 1500 seedling trees.
We were distinctly disappointed at our New York class dinner on April 18 that only 16 men showed, despite its being the only dinner of the year, and there having been ample advance notice. However, let the names of the faithful who did attend be inscribed here, to wit: Al Allyn, Art Behal, Wally Blakey, Bob Blanchard, Vic Borella, Art Browning, Dud Day, John French, Ranny Hobbs, Charlie McDonough, Jim Mitchell, Russ Morrill, Charlie Rauch, Bill Reinhart, Scott Van Derbeck, and Jack Wooster. From California where he was on business. Bud French wired regrets at missing, but that he and Chuck Faye would have their own class dinner in San Francisco a few evenings later.
It was pretty much agreed that a more interesting format would be attempted in the fall, that we would obtain a speaker who had been prominent in Dartmouth football, and that the dinner would be held on Thursday evening, November 21, i.e., just before the Princeton game. A better menu would also help, as would pledges obtained from classmates that they would not tell any clunkers while on their feet during or after dinner.
Special mention and accolade is due Hank Embree for his efforts in producing an interesting statistic tucked away in one of the reports to class officers; namely that he begged, wheedled, cajoled, or merely just obtained from those who always chip in, dues from a larger percentage of our living graduates than any class between 1923 and 1952.
Random jottings gleaned from time to time include the rumor that Chick Pooler has retired as a vice president of Benton & Bowles and has removed to his acres in West Redding, Conn.; the appointment of Charlie Raymond as Director of Industrial Relations of BIF Industries Division of American Brake Shoe Company in Providence; the election of Fred Scribner to the board of directors of the Brown Company, Berlin, N. H., as a representative of the incumbent management which won a proxy battle over an insurgent group; the election of Harry Dunning to the board of directors of National Biscuit Company; Cliff Michel presiding at the annual meeting in Toronto of Dome Mines, Ltd. of which he is president; Sam Stayman participated in an invitational masters' pairs tournament spon- sored by the Sunday Times of London, and with his partner, Victor Mitchell, as the only American pair, placed fifth after standing second on going into the final session; Al and Lucia Dickerson's son Gregory is in his second year of post-graduate study in Athens, to be followed by two years of teaching there before returning to the States; at the Field House dedication, we chatted a moment with Ben Benson, Lebanon business executive, who appeared in the topmost pink of condition.
H. Kirk Jackson Jr., aged 6. son of our late classmate, Kirk Jackson, was one of the winners in the Easter gold and silver egg hunt conducted by the Stamford Yacht Club and toddled home with a prize bunny somewhat bigger than himself.
Win Stone, executive secretary of the Modern Language Association, has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1963-64 to permit him to carry forward his monumental study of dramatic performances in London, 1660-1800. Win is completing his six-year term of office with the MLA, but still holds the position of Professor of English at New York University.
Occasionally there is news that is distressing, one instance being the report that Milt Mclnnes, president of the Erie-Lackawanna, has a fight on his hands to retain the present lines of control, in the face of a movement to reconstitute management, resulting from the unhappy situation of very substantial deficits sustained in recent years, which the merger of the two preexisting roads did not alleviate to the extent anticipated.
The sympathy of the members of the class has been expressed to Eleanor Howe upon the sudden death of our classmate and friend Bill Howe, April 24, in Chevy Chase.
As to the fall activity, you saw in last month's issue the announcement from EdButterworth of our informal reunion to be held at the Woodstock Inn, Saturday evening, October 19, following the football game with Holy Cross. The annual meeting of the Executive Committee will be held there on the Friday afternoon. Reservations at the Inn should be made promptly, with September 9 having been set as the date after which reservations may prove to be impossible. As one of Ed's committee of 100, I urge you to write to the Inn now.
So, with whatever you do for summer recreation, be it golf, tennis (maybe a few still do), sailing, faltboating through Europe, fishing, or just plain old hamburg cooking in your backyard rotisserie, here are many good wishes for a happy summer. See you all in October.
Secretary, 3 0 Boxwood Dr., Stamford, Conn.
class Agent, New York Life Ins. Co., 51 Madison Ave. New York 10, N. Y.
