1934

Coming home to Hanover and seeing a new generation take up the beginnings of a life-long Dartmouth association is always a deeply-moving experience. It gives you a tremendous spiritual lift, a comfortable feeling of confidence that the future is in strong and capable and sure hands. Indeed, we can report first hand that the Class of 1968 - 813 strong — is worthy of all the best of Dartmouth. We salute these fine young men and are proud that 15 of them are sons of 1934.

At the beginning of this academic year, we made what for us has become an annual pilgrimage to Hanover. Each year the journey is more rewarding; and more abundant is the harvest of experiences that make rich memories. New England never wore lovelier raiment. The journey over the mountains and through the valleys of Route 4 was a succession of splendor upon splendor - of rich, lush greens and deep reds.

The chill and misty mornings soon became jeweled days. Happy sophomores, looking long since to this moment, commandeered freshmen for the time-honored ritual of toting baggage and furniture. In the evenings, the new upperclassmen busied themselves with the business of rushing, swarming fraternity row in the glow of a magnificent harvest moon that hung fluorescently over the illuminated whiteness of Baker Tower. The stillness of the late night was interrupted briefly by the new generation marching across campus proclaiming to the hills the stuff that they are made of — "gear sixty-eight." Things that memories are made of. ...

Then came the melancholy moment of leave-taking from Hanover and that familiar feeling - the yearning to come back again and again.

THE CUSTOMERS ALWAYS (ALMOST)WRITE - Hank Werner (with a letter full of goodies that will make news for future columns) writes that he is off to Spain and promises a full report when he returns. ... Tom Beers, National Geographic Society vice president, reports he had "a wonderful visit" recently with Dick Bell, new proprietor of an old Staunton, Va., mansion who was en route to a surgeons' meeting in Kentucky. ... (Dick recently was elected president of the Virginia Surgical Society). ... Tom also ran into Bill Judd at a "Fathers' Weekend" at Mount Holyoke; Stu Anderson in Washington (Stu has retired from the Foreign Service) and Goose Goss at the Bethesda (Md.) Country Club. ... Tom, who has a son at Trinity, says his younger lad, Dick, is eyeing Dartmouth. ...

Faithful scribe John Foley passes along the happy tidings that Denny O'Brien, son of Mary and the late Jack O'Brien, was highest ranking member of the Holy Cross 1964 graduating class and "is on to bigger and better things." Denny won an award for being No. 1 student and also received a mathematics prize. ...

HONORS - Tom Cass elected to Board of Directors of Container Corp. of America, of which he is an executive v.p. ... ArtLeonard elected a trustee of Albany (N. Y.) Savings Bank. ... Dr. Bill Fischbach, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at U. of Cincinnati College of Medicine, awarded honorary doctorate of humanities by Ohio Northern University. ... Ted Gregory named Development Director of Quinnipiac College in Hamden, Conn, (great town, too).

... Dick Hayes, a leading citizen of Westfield, N. J., promoted to sales manager of Devro with responsibility for its sausage casing sales in U.S. and Canada. ... Ed Germann, now a professor at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ... Ted Thompson," appointed investigator with Warren County (N. Y.) Welfare Dept. ...

PRESS CLIPPINGS — From New York Herald Tribune: Frank S. Turbett, Internal Revenue Service Regional Director (Newark, N. J.), figures prominently in a feature column raising question whether one man or a seven-man syndicate held the winning ticket on the fabulous $132,232.80 twin double at Roosevelt Raceway. ... Boston Traveler: Profile of Nick Xanthaky, who "educates young people in the winter (as instructor in economics and accounting at Salem, Mass. State College) and entertains them in the summer" (as chief of Xanthaky Enterprises, operator of a big concession at Salem Willows Amusement Park). In his spare time, Nick also is secretary of the board of a helicopter manufacturing firm and is aiming for six months of graduate study in Greece next year. ... Cleveland Plain Dealer: A "Profile in Realty - Persistence is Key for John Anderson" - all about our John and his success as salesman-owner of John Anderson Co., Cleveland Heights real estate firm. Story says John quit smoking 10 years ago; that his Mary is one of the real estate firm's most successful salespeople. ... Boston Sunday Advertiser: Dr.Robert Moors (Bob) Smith, eminent Director of Anesthesia at Boston Children's Hospital Medical Center since 1946, hero of a feature story entitled "There Shall Be No Pain." Story quotes Bob on advances in anesthesia - such as refrigerator anesthesia and hypnotic anesthesia. ... Editor and Publishers: Leon Lindheim's weekly coin-collecting column which has been appearing in the Cleveland Plain Dealer since 1963, is now being syndicated nationally. E & P says Leon's personal coin collection "is valued in six figures."

NEWS NOTE — Ed Valier, vice president of L. C. Judd and Co., Inc. Florida real estate firm, has retired from Naval active reserves with rank of commander, according to story in Judd house organ. Commander Valier's favorite recreation? Yachting. ...

NUPTIAL NOTES - Bob Brown's young lady, Elizabeth, married July 16 to Walter Phillips Jr. ... The late Orv Dryfoos' daughter, Jacqueline, wedded July 2 to Stuart P. Greenspon, and son Robert ('67) to Miss Katherine Thomas, great-granddaughter of pioneer clockmaker Seth Thomas, on Aug. 31. ... And the N. Y. Times reports: Mr. and Mrs. Jerome A. Danzig "have made known the engagement of Mrs. Danzig's daughter, Miss Diana Palfrey Cooke Danzig, to Kenneth Gota Hohnberg." A December wedding. ...

The Dave Callaways announce the marriage of Nancy Anne to James Edward Tompkins at Darien, Conn., July 25. ...

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