1940
One of the highlights of the alumni history of the College was the celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Boston Club on January 22. The story and pictures in the front section of this MAGAZINE capture the spirit and some of the celebrities who attended the gala affair, but they don't do justice to our class, which figured so prominently in the proceedings. Not only were fourteen men there, plus half as many wives, but two of the group brought glory to themselves and 1940 by being elected to high office in the Boston Association, the oldest Dartmouth Alumni Club among all the other 135 clubs. Duly elected president of the club in a short business meeting was Gordie Wentworth and his able vice president is to be Bill Squier. If that doesn't put club affairs in '40 hands nothing does! Both Gordie and Bill have had a series of posts in the Boston Club previously, building up to these exalted heights, and it's good to see that the Beantown alumni recognize a good thing when they see it!
Others at the table were Al and Martha Feeley; Lloyd and Peggy Blanchard; Howie Stockwell; Jim and Adele Schaye; Bill Halsey; Joe Burnett; Stet Whitcher; Larry and Genie Cate; Fred and Edith Miller; Chet Brett; Al Rosenthal; Bob and Crosbie MacMillen; and Rosalie Wentworth. There was much interested talk about the Alumni College in August, the class reunion in October, and the 25th reunion in June 1965. If the Boston group is a typical group all three events will be over-subscribed ... hope you are thinking along the same lines and have made your own plans to attend these meetings in Hanover. You won't be sorry, I can promise!
Hard on the heels of greeting Jim Schaye in person, came a clipping about his operation of Raymond's, one of the largest and most active in the promotional department store field. Jim is VP of this expanding store, which is going to the suburbs as well as enlarging their downtown Boston location. It's a well-known name in New England and the Boston papers and Big Jim wields a big hand in merging values and bargains - no mean trick that!
Hanover has been favored with the visits of several classmates this past month. Coming all the way from Minneapolis for the Alumni Council meetings was Stu MacPhail, who never misses a meeting of that august body and is a hard working member of its enrollment and admissions committee. Stu was able to arrive a day early so he and I had a day on the slopes to celebrate. We found a perfect mixture at the Dartmouth Skiway of snow, clear sunny weather and uncluttered trails. Stu takes his four boys on the ski slopes of Minnesota and Wisconsin the weekends he can spare from - his steel Warehouse business, which provides him lots of kicks.
Other visitors were John and Sue Knutsen, who were helping daughter Lois celebrate a mid-term vacation from House in the Pines. John is another frustrated skier from the hills of Ohio, who appreciates the more challenging slopes of New England. Although it had been a year or two since he had skied he came roaring back strong and was soon keeping his weight on his downhill ski, as in days of yore. They were going down to New Jersey to see their boy in his new prep school surroundings before getting back on the job of machine tools in Cleveland.
John missed seeing Abe Maxson, who was in town the same weekend, but they couldn't make connections and Abe didn't check in with me to see what other classmates were around the area.
The proof reader of last month's column put Mac Cross in the wrong state. It is still Danville, Va., which is far enough south for the Cross clan to pick up a legitimate drawl.
Speaking of last month's column, the mystery of Jim Kuhn's election bid is cleared up. He wrote that he ran for city council, and what's more won! Three friends rode into power on the same ticket so they are in control of the council and thus dominate Oakwood, suburb of Dayton. I always thought Jim had an identification with Boss Crump. When he has time left over from playing power-grab he goes to night school working on his M.B.A.
Bill Harriman has done it again! Moved that is. Just as I got him all settled in Somali, he wrote me that he was moving to Libya. A nice promotion with Sinclair makes it all necessary and instead of exploration manager in Somali, Bill is now general manager in Libya. In case you are making it to that part of the world this winter look Bill up at Sinclair Libyan Oil Co., Box 1068, 56 Sciara Damasco, Tripoli, Libya, North Africa.
A good letter from Bob Raclin has just come in, who confesses to a "mundane, routine kind of life," and it is anything but in the reading. He is resident partner of Bache and Company in Chicago and in the line of duty has to make calls on the European offices two or three times a year from Oslo to Madrid. Even on his own vacation time he has the European bug, as he and Jean are having a three-week holiday in Gstaad this month. Being a director of the Chicago Board of Trade and a hard working committeeman keeps him busy too. He has just been intimately involved in part of the liquidation of the Ira Haupt de Angelis vegetable oil scandal. Bob and Dick Babcock own a hunting dog together, which brings them together almost every weekend to shoot. Bob claims that his back half doesn't bring him the good results that Dick's front half brings to him! He occasionally sees SydCraig, Bill Rothermel, Bud Raymond, SoupCampbell, and Bo McDonald out in the Windy City. Happy landings, Bob, and make one of your stop-overs on the Hanover Plain.
The blanket invitation goes for all of you. When you can get back to Hanover we hope you will find a few minutes to give us a call or stop by to heist a few at the address at the top of the column. We might even have an extra bean in the pot, but certainly word of a classmate who's also around, that you can see too.
Our ranks were thinned by one last November when Dean Hanscom died. A more complete account will be found among the obituaries in this or a subsequent issue, but for those of you who might like to send his widow and three boys a note, the ad- dress is 4318 N.E. 42nd St., Seattle, Wash.
Happy Ground Hog Day and keep in touch!
Secretary, 5 North Balch St. Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, 78 School St., Concord, N. H.
