1939

We certainly vote for fall as our favorite season, and we're not going to write a freshman English theme to prove it. The combination of fall colors and oak logs burning in our fireplace and crisp weather and football games is all pretty hard to beat. A year ago we drove up to Hanover to see the Holy Cross game. We took an older couple from this community who are interested in giving to private colleges. They had never seen Dartmouth. The weather and the College and the Inn co-operated beautifully. We entertained Herb West '22 and his wife for dinner Friday night. Orton Hicks '21 treated us to breakfast and the grand tour of the campus Saturday morning, and my old roomie Fred Upton and some friends joined us at the PTA barbecue for lunch before the game. We had such good seats that we sat with Snuffy Smith '41 and his wife to witness the victory, and we had them for dinner afterward. It was all very interesting. We got faculty, administration, an alumnus, and an athletic point-of- view, all in one wonderful weekend. It just might be an idea for someone else.

This is the winter our family has a problem staring us squarely in the face. It is the year our son John files his application for Dartmouth. We sincerely hope he makes it, but we hope we're man enough to take it if he gets turned down. It's easy to be objective about someone else's boy, but when he's your own, you just have to wait and see.

A letter from Bud Richardson's wife, Mary, brings us up to date on their doings. Much to their disappointment, they were unable to make Reunion but managed a trip to Hanover from Dallas in August. They lost their son Roddy in a drowning accident in 1956, just before his sixth birthday. Cindy Jane was born in 1952 and Mary Ellen in 1954. They were crushed when their remaining son did not make Dartmouth, but as Mary writes, "you cannot win them all." The boy has made the accelerated honors group at Texas, and our warm congratulations go to him.

Let's follow this system. Your secretary will use our Reunion Book as a guide. Incidentally, the Class will never be able to thank Jocko Vincens enough for the superlative job he did on it. As soon as any of you guys get promotions or additions or want to correct anything in The Book, please drop a word to Old Hank. He needs the news!

I don't know about you, but for relaxing reading in our bathroom, we always have a choice between Boots Hoskinson's National Geographic or Bert MacMannis' Reader's Digest.

We hear that the illustrious Dr. ChuckFarnum has some 16 mm. movie film shot at Reunion. Could it be spliced into the class movie that brought down Silsby Hall, or were we all funnier the way we used to be?

The Hartford Insurance Group has named Dick Baldauf staff training director for its Eastern Department. It's good to know they chose a good man to train their salesmen. Now if he can just use his English training to make the small print more intelligible for the rest of us, we'd appreciate it. Incidentally, Dick also teaches at the Evening Division of the University of Hartford.

Love will find a way. After reading MichaelEllis' glowing tribute to his wife, also named Michael Ellis, in The Book, we weren't a bit surprised to read in a recent New York Times why he sold the worldfamous Bucks County Playhouse to one Walter Perner Jr. "It was an all-year job to prepare 10 plays for a 20-week season. That amount of concentration left me little time for my family. Mr. Perner is not married." That's great stuff. Michael stays on as board chairman and is now more available to judge beauty contests and to fight the good fight against the Oxford University Tiddley Winks Society. Will there be a hit this year, Mike?

The Bristol, Conn., Press reports that famous Coach Joe Cottone "who has done a great job developing topflight players at Wethersfield High School" was selected to coach the East Squad in the seventh annual Nutmeg Bowl, which brings together Connecticut's leading high school football players. It must be interesting to coach boys you have had to cope with as opponents.

We have a bunch of new addresses. Col. Jim Feeley can be reached at Headquarters, FMFPAC, F.P.O., San Francisco, Calif. John Gaul has moved across town to 409 Franklin Ave., Wyckoff, N. J. It says here that Hod Mecklem is now at 606-2085 Bellevue, West Vancouver, British Columbia, but he wrote in The Book that he was leaving soon for Sydney, Australia. Who's right, Hod? Charlie Osgood has gone west to the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. We'd appreciate a report on the state of psychology on Waikiki, please.

Fred Doll has moved to 101 Old Mamaroneck Road, White Plains, N. Y., and is co-owner of a business in Miami Beach. Vergne Hoffman is now at 1220 Lynn Terrace, Highland Park, Ill. Chuck Maher has an interesting new address: D.T.S.M., Pan American, 6 Ave. 12-12 Zone 1, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Bob Nuffort has moved out of town to Route 3, Box 346, Wayzata, Minn. Col. Bill Parkhill may be reached at 208 Craig Court, Apt. A, Redlands, Calif. After Jim Parks won the loving cup for coming all the way from Casablanca for Reunion, he kept right on coming and is now at West Glacier, Mont. And with his ears, my good friend Hank Welton should be able to hear all that goes on in his new job as the head man at Menlo Park School and College, Menlo Park, Calif. The Dartmouth Marines must have a pretty good beachhead in that town!

Hey, Brooksie! May we have a report, please, on Brooks Brownfield? We'll be glad to give the wallpaper and the fabric all the plugs you want. With the models you use, though, who needs plugs?

We go to press too early to comment on the football season, but we think it will be great to see the name MacLeod in print again this fall!

Finally, gentlemen, the Alumni Council at their recent meeting passed a resolution that's good enough to stand repeating: "Resolved: That the Alumni Council, wishing to express its gratitude on behalf of the College and all Dartmouth alumni, heartily congratulates the Class of 1939 and its able leaders for their achievements in the 25- Year Class Giving Program. During the past year, co-chairmen Irv Naitove and Junie Merriam with a dedicated group of Class Gifts workers will have raised over $125,000 to bring 1939's giving since graduation to a total of $565,000, highest of any Dartmouth class on the occasion of a 25th Reunion."

Well done, all hands!

Col. Bob Loughry '39 (r) with RaymondBurr (Perry Mason) during the actor'svisit with U. S. servicemen in Vietnam.

Secretary, Box 38, Cashiers, North Carolina

Treasurer, 131 Briar Brae Road, Stamford, Conn.