1933

Now I know how all you fellows feel who have attained "Grandfather" status. Ginney and I acquired two grandchildren in five days! Our son, Jay, Dartmouth '62, and his wife Susan had a boy, Jeffrey Scott, on January 15 and our daughter, Barbara and her husband Hank had a girl, Gwen Meredith Griffin, on January 20. Pardon my pride showing! (Ginney says this is enough news for the whole column for one month.) This is old hat for many of you, but these are our first.

The Directors Guild of America has selected Paine Knickerbocker for that organi- zation's annual Critic's Award - commonly called "the Oscar of movie criticism." Veteran reporter, editor, and, since 1955, critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, Paine came to journalism through advertising. Just before moving into the city room he was assistant to the president of Mills College. "But I always wanted to be a critic," Paine said in a newspaper feature about him. "For one thing, I'm a film nut." He sees approximately four films a week, thinks they're becoming more interesting, and that movies provide an exciting new medium "because there are so many new things going on." He's the eleventh winner of the annual award chosen by the more than 2300 Guild motion picture and TV directors.

Loren Riggs is professor of psychology at Brown, where he has been since 1941. His son Doug graduated from Brown in '61 and has a master's from Northwestern. He married Sallie Kappelman in 1962 and probably is a pop by this time making Loren and Doris grandparents for the first time. They also have a second son Dwight. Loren has been concerned with experimental psychology and is a member of many professional societies in the psychological field and associate editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of American and also of Experimental Eye Research.

I mentioned Bob Ellis's 25th anniversary with his company last month. Bob and Helen have three boys and a girl. Bob Jr. is a senior at Miami of Ohio, Ken is a freshman at Dartmouth and Margaret and John have college to look forward to. Bob has been president of the Wilmette (Ill.) Recreation Board for 10 years and active in both Boy and Girl Scouting. Bob Estes and his wife Priscilla (Pan) are now in Louisville. Bob is counsel for the Major Appliance Division of G.E. (He is a Harvard Law graduate.) They have two boys and a girl. Think you'll be interested in this note he sent to me with his questionnaire: "Pan (daughter of John G. Nelson '13 and sister of John Nelson '38) won Audubon C.C. women's golf title. And in the Husband and Wife annual event we got low gross - just beating out Pee Wee Reese and his wife. Paul Hornung (Green Bay '62) did not compete in the event this time on account of not having a wife (but he is another illustrious athlete at the club). Pan is also the leading woman bowler in the club - but my team is leading the C.C. league primarily because I travel a lot. This gives you our frame of reference - not the problem of our dwindling gold supply, not the international balance (financially or militarily); not integration or segregation; not creeping socialism or world movements (neither Lewis or Birch). It still takes me 30 seconds to catch on to AuH2O on a license plate. "Rocky' to me could still conjure up a picture of a former prize fighter. Life in Kentucky produces these effects." Bob was to go to New York in October for a hip operation. Hope everything went well, Bob, and thanks for the wonderful letter.

Address changes sent to me from the Alumni Records Office for the College very often make me wonder what is behind the move. For example Gustavus Babson Jr., Avenida San Francisco 1516 Dept. 3, Mexico City 12, Mexico DF. I'm sure some of the '33 Gang would like to know what's cooking in Mexico, Gus, and I'll be glad to pass the word along if you'll let me know. Hary Wood moved from Jenkintown, Pa., to Chatham, N. J. (a neighbor), and is manager of United Parcel Service in New York City. He has been with U.P. since 1941.

Phil Byers moved up to president of the medical staff of some hospital! (Page Worthington sent me a clipping he got somewhere but whoever gave it to him forgot to tell him what hospital!) Maybe this half-baked report will rouse Phil to write me from Shawnee Mission, Kan., and tell me more. Jack Jennings has moved from Vergennes, Vt., to Tarrytown, N. Y., and is still with Simmons Precision Products as an engineer.

Thanks for Gay Miliums fine letter in which he reports his election to the presidency of the Virginia Century Club —"a more or less exclusive radio club the members of which have contacted at least 100 countries throughout the world and received confirmations of the contacts." He has tried to reach Clarence Albaugh (another ham no disrespect intended) but up to the time he wrote, he had been unsuccessful. Gay has been doing some writing for radio magazines too.

Bob Fox, our able class newsletter editor, will be moving back into the Boston area as a result of his decision to leave his post as Director of Public Relations at Worcester Polytechnic Institute for a new assignment as Executive Secretary of the Boston University School of Medicine Alumni Association. Prior to his WPI public relations job. Bob had been employed for 29 years by Humble Oil & Refining Co. - for the last eleven years with Humble-Esso as the fellow in charge of public relations and communications at the Everett, Mass., refinery. The Boston area should certainly welcome Bob's return; he was very active in Wellesley and Everett community programs.

It's rather interesting to note that of the nine members of the Board of Governors of the Dartmouth College Club of N. Y., three are '33—Sam Cunningham, GeorgeFarrand and Gene Schwartz. And mentioning Gene Schwartz reminds me that when I was in Hanover in December, I was looking at a display of rare books in Baker Library and there was a copy of John Galsworthy's "The Island Pharisees" - one of 4 or 5 copies in existence - which had been given to the College by Gene.

Dave Evans has his own accounting practice — he spent 15 years with Lybrand Ross Brothers and Montgomery and 10 years as comptroller of Research Corporation before establishing his own practice. He and Eloise have a son, Dale, who is a sophomore at Juniata College in Huntington, Pa., and a daughter Laurel who is 18. Dave has been finance chairman of the Rye District Boy Scouts and a loyal participant in local Dartmouth activities.

Bob Fairbank is one of several '33's who has or had two sons at Dartmouth. Bob Jr. graduated in '60 and is now at Wharton School (U. of P.) and Jonathan graduated in '62 and is at Western Reserve University Medical School. Bob and Dorothy's one daughter, Marianne, is Sweet Sixteen. Bob is executive vice president of Towmotor Corp. in Cleveland, is active in the Cleveland Y.M.C.A. - he is a trustee - and he is also trustee of St. Luke's Hospital and of the University School. He is past president of the Materials Handling Institute and presently a director. Lee Sanborn was elected president of the New York State Association of Secondary School Administrators in December. Lee is superintendent of the State School for the Blind. He and Agnes have three daughters. Barbara is a Junior High English teacher and Susan and Betsy attend Batavia High School.

There are still a lot of questionnaires lying around on desks and tables that should be returned to me.

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