1937
At least three members of the class received satisfying reassurance that Smith girls really prefer mature men when they spent 48 hours in Northampton in late April as guests of their sophomore and junior daughters. The girls put on a good party: concerts, dances, classes, softball, and just strolling along paths lined with jonquils and budded dogwood. Despite a few callow youths from Amherst hovering in the background, it was the fathers who were the center of attention.
Martha and I watched a lacrosse game with Bill Cash, on from Minneapolis to visit his daughter Penny, and later we watched Penny guide the old man in a rather conservative version of the twist. We sat at the Pops Concert - nice name, that - with Russ Stearns and daughter Margie. Russ, on sabbatical from Thayer School, was just back from Atlanta where he has been spending a lot of time figuring out a computercontrolled system to keep track of empty freight cars and get them to where they are needed.
There must have been many other Dartmouth men among the 600-odd fathers. We had dinner with Dan Cotton '35 and his attractive daughter Liz, and held a reunion with Walt Averill '38 who spotted our ROTCH license plate. Sunday morning we listened to an exceptionally fine sermon by the Rev. Richard P. Unsworth, Smith College chaplain, and soon to be the head of Dartmouth's Tucker Foundation.
We spent much of our time in Gardiner House, where Martha lives. Another Gardiner House guest was one G. Mennan Williams. We inquired if he happened to know our classmate, Pat O'Sheel. "Know him!" said the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, "I certainly do. I was with him in Nigeria just a few days ago." Pat is consul in Kaduna in Northern Nigeria, and according to his boss "is very happy there and doing a great job."
Charlie Blaisdell's son Charles Jr. '65 had a rough experience in April. He was in the canoe with Clifford Gurdon '64 who was drowned when the canoe overturned in the Connecticut about a mile above the bridge. The canoe was swept away, and Gurdon was in trouble. Blaisdell attempted to help him, according to newspaper reports, until cramps forced him to loosen his grip. Blaisdell managed to make the shore, but Gurdon disappeared in the icy water.
Don McKinlay, described in Sid Hayward's bulletin as "the father of our National Enrollment Program," joined President Dickey this spring for a series of enrollment workshop meetings in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle.
In Washington the man to see is HalPutnam, newly appointed administrative aide to Massachusetts representative Joseph W. Martin Jr. Hal has been legislative counsel to Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, counsel to the Senate Small Business Committee, and has served for nine years as moderator of his home town of Needham, Mass.
Lynn Brown, city editor of The Dartmouth back when," died at his home in Wheatland, N. Y„ outside of Rochester on April 24. He leaves his wife, a son and a daughter.
. Next time you are in Hanover, if you are inclined to learn more and more about less and less, go up to the Shattuck Observatory where they have a seismograph sensitive enough to pick up the vibrations of waves pounding the Maine coast. It is one of a network of such instruments, capable of reporting distant earthquakes and atomic blasts. that Dartmouth has the instrument is thanks to Bill Heroy and to the Geotechnical Corp. ot Dallas, of which Bill is president.
Next year when the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., observes the Mayo Centennial general chairman will be Dr. Collin S. Macprofessor of neurologic surgery at the Clinic.
Harry Schultz' daughter Mary has been accepted by the St. Paul's School Advanced Study Progrm, a tribulte to her academic ability. She will spend SiX weeks this summer at St. Paul's in Concord, N. H., in an intensive study of Greek.
Fran Fenn, by the way, won m membership in National Life Insurance Company's President's Club, an award given for out standing client service and sales, and which carried with it an invitation to an educaMarch conference in Hollywood, Fla. in
Problems of the Common Market were taken m stride by a three-man panel in Haworth, N. J., recently. One of the participants: Al Gray, vice president in charge of clothing factories and clothing operations at Brooks Brothers. Al spends a good deal of time in England and Scotland, and should be a bit of an authority on Common Market problems and possibilities.
Secretary, Mt. Vernon St., Milford, N. H.
Class Agent, Alder Dr., Briarcliff Manor, N. Y.
