For the first time Dartmouth and Princeton will meet on the football field in Hanover October 10. Since the word was first announced the Hanover Inn and all the local motels have been sold out. Nevertheless, we are planning a sort of "semi-reunion." Secretary Sid Hayward's office is prepared to furnish lists of larger motels in Concord, Manchester, Keene, Brattleboro, Rutland, and points in between. Now is the time to make plans for this unusual occasion.
Spence Johnson, former member of the Town Council, was a candidate last month for the Board of Education in Pequannock, N. J., and a rotating faculty fellowship, named for Lou Benezet, its former president, has been established at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colo. While released from teaching and other campus responsibilities, the fellows are expected to spend most of their time on the campus developing projects directed toward improvement of undergraduate teaching.
At its fifty-fourth annual dinner the Poetry Society of America gave the Arthur Davison Ficke Award to Samuel French Morse, of Milton, Mass., who, last we heard, was professor of English at Mount Holyoke.
On advertising row in New York City a new firm, West, Weir & Bartel, Inc., a merger of Donahue & Co. with Ellington & Co., opened with Bill Bartel as chairman. Formerly he was president of the Ellington organization.
Bob Ingersoll writes from Hollywood Hills, Fla., he is enjoying practice there "in a relaxed and informal area" and has been to two Dartmouth gatherings, met L. C.Judd and Ed Nilsson. "We fish, boat, golf, swim - don't have to shovel snow," Bob says.
Also recently transplanted to warmer clime is Joe Jayne who has opened a new real estate business, mostly in acreage and investment property, in San Diego, Calif. New member of the grandfather class is Bob Murphy.
Ed Hyde is senior partner in, what he refers to, as a small medical group taking care of Norwich University and surrounding community of 4,500. He still finds time to enjoy hunting, fishing, sailing, and skiing in season. As with all of us, he finds the practice of medicine "interferes with my hobbies and with a son in Hamilton and a daughter heading off to college next year, the interference is increasingly necessary."
Also in the Northland, Dan Sutherland, personnel director of New Hampshire Ball Bearings, Inc., is serving as a member of the Governor's Advisory Committee on Vocational Education. His wife, Virginia, is Sunday School superintendent and he sings in the choir and is a deacon in the church. Daughter, Virginia, is a sophomore in high school and sons, Donald and James, are a graduate student at Tulane and a sophomore at Dartmouth, respectively.
Harry Eisberg is chief of Orthpedics at Chelsea, Mass., Naval Hospital, after relieving Dana Goldthwaite who now has the same job at the Naval Hospital in Oakland, Calif. "Glad to be back in New England; feel at home again," writes Harry whose oldest daughter, Karen Ann, is at Royal Victoria College, McGill University.
From the Mid West Steve Stotzer reports he sees Charlie Harrison, Art Davidson,Steve Stiles, Emil Hokanson, Herm Nunne- macher and Bob Frank often and they are prospering. Two graduations, daughter Lynn from Hood College and son Lawrence III from Hotchkiss, are on the June schedule for Larry Marx.
Dune Newell, who is manager of the trust department of the Valley National Bank, Phoenix, Ariz., and treasurer of the Dartmouth Alumni Association, writes that Duncan III is at Eaglebrook School m Deerfield, Mass., pointing for Dartmouth; and daughter, Julia, is in the sixth grade, but proves "a mother can bequeath charm to a tomboy daughter."
Currently president of the Division of Engineering Psychology of the American Psychological Association is Leonard Mead who attended a research symposium in Baden and a conference on illumination in Vienna last summer on a research grant from the National Science Foundation.
Moscow visitors Kendrick Wilson '36 (l)and Bob Oelman '31 in Kremlin-territory.
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