1939

Dr. Albie Hatcher died in Wellington, Kan., January 29 of a sudden coronary occlusion. Following Dartmouth and North-western Medical Schools and a three-year stint in ETO as a Captain, Army Medical Corps, he entered the Mayo Clinic as a Fellow in Obstetrics and Gynecology. He returned to Wellington to ultimately become medical director of the Hatcher Clinic and Hospital founded by his father. He leaves wife, Cay, and three children. Dr. MauriceCostin, who wrote us the details, has written the eulogy found in the "In Memoriam" section of this or a later issue.

Maurice also reported on the centennial dinner of the Boston Alumni Association which bulged with '29'ers. Moose Wyman and Endy Smith arranged a cocktail party for attending classmates (using their own vermouth, of course). He maintains he is kept busy with his surgical practice in Framingham and also with his five kids. He nevertheless has been in touch with all 20 classmates who attended Medical School at Dartmouth putting the bite on them to return to Reunion in June with "excellent" response so far.

For those of you who live in the far reaches of the country and plan to visit the New York World's Fair before arriving at Reunion, we've cooked up a little come-on. Saturday, May 23 has been designated "Dartmouth Day at the Fair" and you're all invited to the New England Pavilion at 11:00 A.M. to meet President Dickey, hear the "Injunaires," and see the Hopkins Center Players. Wives and children are especially welcomed. Then you can visit members of our class living in and around the area for the next three and a half weeks, just managing to roll into Hanover on June 18. In past years many of our classmates residing in this high rent district have obligingly mentioned on Christmas cards and other media of sincerity the desire to have you "drop in" and "pay us a visit." The "drop" may be far and the "pay" may be high, but we consider this such an unusual opportunity that we have published a booklet of classmates names and addresses residing within a 50-mile radius of Flushing Meadow. Each entry is graded as to the number of beds available, quantity and quality of food, kindness to kids, bitchiness of the hostess, and is available at SIOO.OO per copy, proceeds going to the Class Memorial Fund. This sponge deal will save you lots of money and will make money for the Class Fund. Just write to Irv Naitove, 1440 Stevenson Rd., Hewlett, N.Y., and ask for your copy of "Good-Bye Mr. Hilton."

Herb Hirschland, since 1959 group vice president of research and development for M & T Chemicals, Inc., has recently been elected a director of that firm. Herb joined M & T back in 1941 after receiving his Master of Science degree in chemical engineering from M.I.T. He began as a process engineer in the research department and has been active in research, production, sales, and commercial development assignments since. Before his appointment to vice president in 1959, he was director of the commercial department. Herb lives in Berkeley Heights, N.J.

We have been greedily reading an issue of Union Central Life Insurance Co.'s house organ logically called "Life," edited by HassWarrener, assistant secretary of the company, which was nepotistically founded by his relatives. He uses Cincinnati as a home base for intensive world travel after preliminary boning up on the native language. (He is currently in South America after three months of studying Portuguese.) He also is an expert wood worker and wood carver, an amateur photographer and water color artist, and an avid worker in church and civic affairs.

Also, in the world of print, pictures and commentary on the exploits of Dick Durrance appearing in Ezra Bowen's "The Book of American Skiing." (Lippincott—$17.50) Dave Long, a professor at the University of New Hampshire, has written an illustrated history of United States foreign policy from 1776-1963 titled "The Outward View" published by Rand McNally. And Assistant U.S. Attorney General Lou Oberdorfer spoke at a convention of the New Jersey Bar Association on the Federal Revenue Code. This was before Congress got popular and started giving us tax cut rebates.

Now Bert's Committee is getting popular by doing the same thing. The $80.00 per couple Class Tax is cut 5% to $76.00 if received by George Hanna, Reunion Treasurer, by May 1. Single persons drop from $50.00 to a bargain $47.50 and kids from $20.00 to $19.00 on the same peachy discount-for-early-cash plan. George's address is 5 St. James St., Keene, N.H. In addition to your check, the Committee needs your hat size. This is subterfuge and has no bearing on the surprise "reuniform" which we understand is so complete you won't have to pack a bag to bring along. (All wives are to be outfitted as Lady Godiva.)

Wes Goding of Weston in the good old State of Massachusetts has been appointed an assistant vice president of Liberty Mutual Life Insurance Company. Wes, who is manager of the liability claims division of the company with headquarters in the Boston home office, first joined Liberty Mutual in 1940 as a claims adjuster in New York. He subsequently served as claims supervisor and claims manager in the Brooklyn office before being transferred to his present post in 1957. Wes also earned his law degree in 1949 from the Fordham University Law School and is a member of both the New York and Massachusetts bars.

We are writing the Class Notes this month while on vacation in sunny Santa Barbara. Last night Cocky and I had dinner with Lynne and Dr. Kevin Fay at their new home perched on a cliff overlooking the city and the Pacific. Lynne is going to her 25th reunion at Ohio Wesleyan and Kevin, who is a dignified tall, lean and graying internist, is trying to get all of his patients well in time for his reunion. Their oldest son, Kevin Jr., is at college in Spokane; their 16-year- old son, Shawan, owns a 1949 Chrysler with 6000 miles on it, and their 14-year-old daughter, Sharon, is in the 9th grade. Dr.Frank Cline also lives in Santa Barbara and is a chest specialist with the State of California Health Department. He owns a sailboat and an island. We haven't seen him yet, but we'll try to report later on what he keeps on that island.

We talked with Bob MacLeod and wife Anne who live by the beach at Malibu and who recently had a beach party for area 39'ers complete with kids and dogs. Jeanand Howie Nopper came up from La Jolla. The publicized attraction was to have been Colby Howe giving a surf board demonstration. Since Colby has never been on a surf board, people congregated like flies. Wayne Shrodes, Wayland Avery, Dick White and Ralph Folsom arrived with their wives and dogs - but no Colby. He chickened out and went to Hawaii. Doctors Fred Worden and Dick Storrs were there. So were Don Bridge and Bob Willheim, who is advertising director of Sunset House, a mail order catalog company in Los Angeles. There were others, but we lost the second page of our notes. Incidentally, in this age of numbers we think we should pass along the MacLeods' phone number. Just dial I LOVE IT with Area Code 213.

Send your Class Tax checks now. Also, on behalf of Earle Seeley's door prize committee, send that gracious memento to HowieChivers at 75 E. Wheelock St., Hanover, N.H.

Jack Little, Dick Funkhouser, Diz de Sieyes, all '40, at the Club in New York

Secretary, 1908 Coolidge Drive Dayton 19, Ohio

Class Agent, 70 Pine St., New York 5, N.Y.