1941

Labor Day is here again and that makes me think of many things - things like leaves of brown, the baseball pennant stretch drives, excuses for getting to Hanover to a football game and above all Class Notes. For those not familiar with the copy deadline for these notes as established by the editors of this fine publication, this column was written prior to September 5. So you see we have to do plenty of advance planning. Bruce Friedlich telephoned me to say that the fall season is being kicked off in grand style with a Class Picnic in Hanover on October 17. That happens to be the day of the Brown game and all '41s within the vicinity are cordially invited to come to the Outing Club House on Occom Pond at 11:30 a.m. for our first get-together of the year. It's a do-it-yourself picnic, according to the organizers, so come along and bring your sandwiches and liquid refreshments.

There's another picnic being planned for New Haven on October 31 before the Yale game. We're hoping to get a big turnout for this one and details on time and place (not yet formulated) will be given in the Class Newsletter written by the eminent Ez Crowley. Look for it and join the party.

This has been a strange summer in that relatively few classmates have been seen or heard from by the Class Secretary. I haven't been much of a devotee of the World's Fair and unfortunately missed Dartmouth Day at the Fair. In so doing I missed a chance to see the large number of Dartmouth men that came from far and wide for the occasion. About the only '41 that I have seen regularly during the summer is Eddie Acker who can be spotted lounging around the Garden City Swimming Pool with his family most weekends.

However, the increasing influence and affluence of our fellow '41ers is reflected in the growing volume of newspaper items which come to me from odd and sundry sources. This is indeed helpful to me since I want to report on as many classmates as possible. At the moment there is quite a bit of interesting news. For example, a member of the Class of '18 sent me a clipping from the Boston Record American attesting to the continuing success of Ed Stone as a trainer of racing thoroughbreds. In June, the Devincent Stable's filly Luscious Lois (trained by Ed and named for his lovely wife) won the New England Sophomore Stakes at Suffolk Downs. We hope the summer was full of similar winners, Ed! And thanks to Mr. Ernest Studley of Rockland, Mass., for the news.

Jim Jacobs, who for the last 12 years was a management consultant with the firm of Robert Heller & Associates in Cleveland, joined the Bank of New York during the summer as vice president to coordinate the planning activities of the bank's departments. Since 1960, Jim's work has concentrated in the banking field in the areas of organizational planning and business development. With this experience he can draw on knowledge in all major fields of banking including administrative activities, commercial functions, branch operations, trust services and operating procedures. Jim got his Master's in Business Administration at Harvard and worked with the H.J. Heinz Co. for five years after the war.

Bill Banford, who was well known around the Davis Field House as the talented manager of the Big Green lacrosse team, is now superintendent of furfural products at Du-Pont's Niagara Falls plant. As reported by the Niagara Falls Gazette, Bill joined Du-Pont in the explosives department in 1941 at Kankakee Ordnance Works, Elmwood, Ill. He worked in Minnesota and Washington before coming to the Niagara Falls plant in 1945. Following various supervisory assignments in manufacturing and technical sections here he was appointed senior supervisor of furfural products in 1959. Bill's hometown was New Britain, Conn., and he presently lives in Lewiston, N.Y., with his wife and two sons. He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and is very active in civic affairs of his community.

From out of the Midwest comes the good news that the directors of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company have elected Bill Freeman a vice president of the firm. Bill, who has been with this company for 22 years, is general manager of CB&I's international division covering ten subsidiaries, two affiliates, and a large number of licencees throughout the world. Bill and Winifred and their three children, Carol, James and Margaret, live in nearby Hinsdale.

Word has been received that Tom Little-field was awarded a Fulbright Lectureship for 1964-65 and is presently lecturing in English literature at the Institute of Pedagogies in Jyvaskala, Finland. Tom went to Finland in August with his family from his post as associate professor of English at the State University of New York at Albany. In addition to his Dartmouth degree, Tom has his M.A. from Harvard and Ph.D. from Columbia.

Our chemistry majors seem to be making the news in many places. At the U.S. Rubber Co., A. William English has been promoted to Manager, Industrial Engineering at the Naugatuck (Conn.) Footwear Plant, and will bring his wife and four daughters from Woonsocket, R.I., where he was footwear superintendent at the company's plant. Bill is a native Nutmegger and has been in Woonsocket since 1956 so it's more than a promotion - it's a homecoming.

John Rog Ahlgren who is an account executive with the New York brokerage firm of Blair, Granberry, Marache & Co., continues to make the news through his work for the Republican Party, having recently been elected president of the 9th Assembly District Republican Club. Previously Rog was president of the New York Young Republican Club.

Charles T. Rothermel Jr. of Glencoe, Ill., was re-elected a director of Zenith Life Insurance Co. A chartered life underwriter, he owns Charles T. Rothermel Insurance Agency in Chicago. Before forming his own agency he was vice president of Moore, Case, Lyman and Hubbard insurance firm. In a relaxing mood he can be seen at the Skokie Country Club and probably still shoots a fine game of golf. With three sons and a daughter in his family there's always plenty of activity around home, too.

TWENTY-FOUR YEARS AGO THISMONTH - The varsity football team opened with a 35-0 win over St. Lawrence. Five '41s were in the starting line-up: Lou Young, Bob Krieger, Don Norton, Stu May, and Bob O'Brien. ... George Herman founded the Coke Co-op Plan in Woodward Hall and found it outsold beer 4-1. ... Bill Danforth presided over the first meeting of the DOC. ... Bob Thomas, president of the Interfraternity Council, announced that Houseparty Weekend would be on the Sewanee (remember them?) weekend, instead of Cornell. ... Jack Horner was the star of the Beta touch-football team. .... John Kelley was promoted to the first team after we lost to F&M. ... Julian Koenig, in his movie review column, classified Dorothy Lamour as "Phylum Erotica."

Dr. James McGaughey '41 (r) and Wendell Curtis '51 (l) accept a $1,190 checkto Dartmouth from Connecticut GeneralLife Insurance Co. as direct grant-in-aidfor six alumni employees. Henry Dawesrepresents the company.

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