1935

By the time you read this I hope the air conditioners will have stopped dripping on unwary city sidewalk walkers. It's just like medieval days in New York. Keep away from the walls or you will get the bucket of slops!

Also, by now, the Class of '35 will have held its fall meeting and informal reunion in Hanover. This is scheduled for October 3, the weekend of the game with Boston University. We were shut out for the Princeton weekend when Hanover is to be mobbed. Curiously enough, this fall marks the 50th anniversary of the dedication of Palmer Stadium at Princeton. I believe Dartmouth was the first team to play Princeton in the new stadium at that time. I hope we can put a tiger in the tank this time around.

Baseball, not football, however, is still the big news here, and you may have read about Art Allyn's reaction to the sale of the Yankees to CBS. Art, charging that the purchase was constitutionally illegal, has found himself in a minority with Charlie Finley of the Kansas City Athletics. A recent column by Red Smith in the Tribune was devoted almost entirely to Art Allyn's position, which was described as "the genuinely loyal opposition, alarmed that baseball may be inviting thunderbolts" from the Department of Justice. Meanwhile, Art seems to be doing alright with the White Sox who are currently leading the Yankees by ½ game.

Another athletic manager, who seems to be doing alright, is Harry Knott, the prowess of whose athletic daughters I believe I told you about last February. A recent Life Magazine section on "Olympic Girls" (31 July 1964) has a full page color picture of Sue, who has run the 400 meters faster than any other U.S. girl. "It is just dirty, hard work," says Sue, who looks as if she were enjoying it.

Less dirty, and less hard, is the news from George Hoke that Bob Collins, the old "Commodore of the Dartmouth Corinthian Yacht Club," is still sailing. Bob visited George in Little Sweden (Minneapolis) for a few days for a pipe fitters convention. Seems a far cry from sailing, but George says "after nearly killing us off with his energy we got him to knock off an afternoon to try out our 3 lakes chain (Calhoun-Isles-Cedar) instead of his own Hong Kong made, Norwegian designed yawl, which he berths at the fashionable Balboa Bay Club where candidate Goldwater has recently been hiding out from L.8.J." Charlie also reports that Dud Russell is back home in Minneapolis again with Archer-Daniels-Midland _ after having spent quite a few years of late in the flour milling business in Duluth.

Bob ought to bring that yawl around to Boston where Big Bill Ellis would be glad to build a wharf for him. The Boston Globe recently carried a profile of Bill outlining the tremendous job he did at Mayor Collins request in rehabilitating the Boston City Hospital. Bill has kept his hand in on the drums and the sax, he has continued his active interest in Dartmouth affairs, and with it all built the family company of W.H. Ellis & Son into New England's largest marine engineering and building company. He has also become one of Mayor Collins' most trusted advisers, and this fall will see a new Duke Ellis (William H. III) starting as a freshman at Dartmouth.

Ring the old fire bell for Texaco, Inc., for that good firm this summer announced that Ed Mitchell had been elected treasurer of the company. Ed only six months before had been named assistant to the vice chairman of the Board. His service with Texaco began in 1935 in the treasury department, fittingly enough, then he was manager of the company's operations in several countries of West Africa and Latin America. He was named general manager of foreign operations, Eastern Hemisphere, in 1962.

There is some excitement on the matrimonial front. Bunky Knudsen's daughter, Lisa Gae, was married last July to Mr. Henry H. Flint II, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Flint of West Long Lake Road, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Reg Bankart's daughter, Beverly, was married to Robert J. Sbrilli on 30 August. Ken Kurson's daughter, Carol Ann, was married on August 23 to Mr. S.A. Marglin at Waban, Mass. Bill Fitzhugh IV returned from the Dartmouth Danubian Expedition sporting a full beard. At this writing it is not known whether he will be persuaded to shave it off on September 19 to marry Miss Karen Lynne Dennison of Chappaqua, N.Y.

Ready for the lonesome trail and the five-day Desert Caballeros Ride out of Wickenburg, Arizona, were (l to r) Bud Brown, Fred Fuld and from the old Indian Piperanch Wally Dittmar '36, Roe Thompson '36, and Chuck Kettering '53.

Secretary, Hog Hill Road Chappaqua, N.Y.

Treasurer, 305 Grosse Pointe Blvd. Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.