1944
Won't be long now till '44's Roaring Twentieth. Hope you are all making plans for the Pilgrimage back to the Plain. To assist you in your pre-planning, herewith is Miller's Handy Check-off List, in plenty of time, so you'll have no excuse for not being there: (1) Arrangements for the kids: (a) Bring 'em — by all means, (b) Farm them out. (c) Sitters (great time to have Mother- in-law visit). (2) Green senior jacket - out of mothballs. (3) Business arrangements: plan to see those New England clients, customers, investment properties, what-have-you, early in the week of June 15, so you'll "just happen to be in the area" come Friday. Tell the Boss. (4) See Household Finance to arrange for that "Reserve for Contingencies."
Late word from your Reunion Committee indicates that plans are coming along well. Expected are upwards of 150 members of the class, with wives, dates (!), and assorted progeny swelling the throng to around 400. Good group. The group won't be completely right, "though, unless you and yours are there too. So, get your reservations in and as early as possible - so the boys can do their budgeting, housing, and other planning matters in an orderly fashion.
Reunion Committee mailings will have full details, but in thumbnail sketch: Friday, cocktails, dinner, Field House; followed by high-doings, music by a red-hot combo at tent; also a dance at Hopkins Center and a performance by Dartmouth Players. Saturday, class meeting (Red Rolfe '31, speaker); whilst the ladies will be given guided tour of Hopkins Center and kids provided suitable entertainment; Class photo; picnic at Storrs Pond; (Tennis, golf anyone?); Saturday eve, dinner at Thayer Hall, remarks from Thaddeus Seymour, Dean of the College; special dinner and entertainment arrangements for kids; followed by lots more action back at the tent. Sunday, morning-afters, brunch and farewells at Noop Browning's house.
And anything else you feel like doing in that wonderful part of the world.
We're expecting a lot of kids ... there'll be plenty for them to do and they're bound to enjoy it. So the more the merrier. We'll be staying in Wigwam Circle, one of the newest and most attractive dormitory complexes. And, since the '43's and '4s's will be gathering at the same time, our Roaring Twentieth bids fair to be on the stupendous side.
We who live west of the Alleghenies or south of the Mason and Dixon might well plan to include stop-over at Robert Moses New York World's Fair - check to see if your Old Roomie in the New York area can put your traveling party up.
Your correspondent doesn't have too much correspondence to glean for news this month. But a nice note from Howard Pennington, Big Tub-Thumper for the San Francisco Bay area, commuting from Lafayette to downtown SF. Reports having seen KirkBassett, presently operating an establishment for rare finery in Marin. Howie sees BuzzBeattie now and again in Seattle, and it seems that Buzz et ux Dadie managed to get over to Innsbruck to cheer your-favorite- team-and-mine on to the glory which time has proved rather elusive. Anyway, they should have got in some first-rate skiing on their own.
Dave Patterson has been elected President of the Binghamton (N. Y.) Steel & Fabricating Co., Inc. Formerly the vice president in charge of sales, Dave joined Binghamton Steel some eight years ago. He had been director of advertising and sales promotion for Servel, Inc. Before Servel, he was on the editorial staff of the Evansville Press in Indiana. Dave is presently chairman of the board of directors of the Associated Building Contractors of the Triple Cities and a member of the boards of both the Sheltered Workshop and the New York State Steel Fabricators Association.
Random-Notes-frorn-All-Over: AI Barrett qualifying for the President's Club, honor roll of Mutual Benefit Life Insurance for agents doing a superior job (nobody has endurance, like the man who sells you-know- what) ... Will Sporleder overseas ... Africa, is it? ... for Ford Motor ... Marsh Clark back in harness on Madison Avenue as drum-beater at Sullivan Stauffer Colwell & Bayless for Lifebuoy ... Win Martin in Zurich, Switzerland for Arthur D. Little. ... Mac McLoud joining me at J. H. Day Company in Cincinnati. ... Johnny Peacock, now assistant manager of Hawaiian Ranch Company, Pahala, Hawaii. ... Entrepreneur JohnEaton with a co-educational ski lodge near the Stratton area of Vermont. ... Headmaster Art Kiendl of Mount Hermon School figuring how to get the likes of your-son- and-mine into college.
In closing these scribblings, let me advise you to put your wife on the wagon for a month or so and save her whiskey-money for such upcoming requirements as (1) income taxes, (2) Dartmouth Alumni Fund Drive, and (3) our Big Reunion.
Secretary, 1105 Center St., Milford, O.
Treasurer, River Road, Cos Cob, Conn.
