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As of today our class has five couples signed up for the first Alumni College, August 16-27. These lucky people really know a good thing when they see it and are fortunate to be discerning enough to become pioneers in this exciting new concept in continuing education. Becoming Dartmouth students again, who will be studying hard and playing hard too back on the Hanover Plain, will be Jim and Faith Kuhns, Sumner and Phyllis Peterson, Earle and Irma Reingold, Jim and Adele Schaye, and Jules and Alice Wachs. How many times have you said that you would like to have another chance to take a college course and to participate in a meaningful discussion about the subject? Well, that is exactly what these classmates and their wives will be doing - as well as attending plays and concerts, sitting in on seminars, playing golf, swimming in the new pool, and maybe even having _ a game of hall hockey in the dorm at night! A full program has been scheduled that is sure to please, and if you were too late to matriculate this year you'd better make your plans now for next year. Come reunion time we ought to put these ten learned people on a panel discussion, and hope that some of the glitter might wear off on the rest of us.
Attorney-at-law Steve Jewett has undertaken what sounds like a moon-lighting job with fringe benefits - the most obvious is that he gets his picture in the paper for doing it. Looking very distinguished, the Laconia (N.H.) paper shows Steve in black judges' robes as the Special Judge who handies Saturday cases and others on occasion. So, if you're the kind who kicks up his heels on Friday night you might consider moving to Laconia, where you just might get a more sympathetic ear on Saturday morning.
Visitors to Hanover keep beating a path to the Inn door, some of whom I see and some, I'm sure, who slip in and out of town without raising the 1940 colors for me to report. Janet and Lew Chipman came up for Carnival weekend and a look-see around their old stamping grounds. The good doctor looks hale and hearty and at graduation weight, and was having a ball trying half the ski slopes in Vermont on his way north from home base in Wilmington, Del. Seymourand Janet Wheelock joined forces with us for a miniature reunion, but the other 1940 medics in town, Schleicher and Storrs, couldn't make it.
Fred and Edie Miller were here over Carnival weekend also, but they were hard working chaperones for the Alpha Delts, where son Don is a junior. When the boys discovered Edie is a nurse they knew they had a good thing going for them!
The week after Carnival Bill Hayes drove in to attend Freshmen Fathers' Weekend with Bill Jr., who also happens to be one of my current advisees. This was a case of having to take a long, hard look to determine whether the two Hayes boys were brothers or not, so youthful looking is Big Bill. Maybe it's some magic lotion that Shulton, for whom Bill is' a sales executive down Ridgewood, N.J., way, manufactures.
Keeping the tally going for reunions with classmates on consecutive weekends were Buand Betty Hayden, who drove up from Washington, D.C., to watch sophomore son Bill broad jump in a dual track meet at the Leverone Fieldhouse. Bill has been extending his victory skein all winter, and ended up third in the Heptagonals at Cornell with a jump of 23 feet, so the proud parents were on hand to cheer him on to yet another win. Bu jumps around too - planning land developments in the capital city and environs. The Haydens expect to be back for the Princeton weekend at Lake Morey Inn next October along with Batchelder, Browne, de Sieyes, Dryfoos, Hewitt, King, Lake, Little, Manley, Moore, Martin, Rogers, Wentworth, Funkhouser, Whitcher, Bacon, Gensel, Bowman, Goulder, Scott, Rearden, and scores of others. Hope you're among 'em.
Jim Scott came up to interview this year's crop of Tuck students and found them a sophisticated, able group of job hunters. He was pushing CPA work in general, but Lybrand, Ross, Bros., and Montgomery, of which he is a partner, in particular.
The handsome gentlemen in the picture didn't journey to Hanover, but they did make the trek to the Dartmouth Club in New York City where they hoisted a few before attending to Jack Little's oil drilling fund business (notice the ad in the Alumni Register on the last page of this issue). Jack was recently made executive vice president of the Prudential Oil Corp., and Dick Funk- houser is a director of the company. Old Diz was probably there to find out how his brokerage outfit could sell a few of the shares to the investing public. When Dick isn't directing the fortunes of Prudential, he is vice president of the Ruberoid Company and president of Har-Tru Corp., in Hagers- town, Md. Incidentally, all three of these handsome men will be at the Lake Morey Inn next October 9 and 10. Will you?
Climbing up the telephone pole at AT&T at a fast clip is Bill Mercer. He no sooner gets settled into one demanding job than he gets tapped for a bigger one in another location. The latest one has necessitated a move to Dellwood Road, Darien, Conn., from where he commutes to the lofty HQ, where he hangs his hat in the office marked "Assistant Vice President, Personnel Relations." In this new job he will have responsibility for management research and training, college relations and appraisal, and employment methods.
A couple of letters this month from the distaff side of the ledger were welcome additions to the mail pouch and helped to balance the scarcity from the husbands. ZeldaGoulder reports from Cleveland that she had already started looking for a nurse for the three youngsters they'll leave at home when she and Dick come up for the fall reunion on the Princeton weekend. The oldest Goulder daughter is already east in school.
About a year ago when Ben and GeneBacon were skiing in Europe she broke a leg, which just came out of the cast in February. So, eleven months later they finish their vacation in proper style - except they're trying the sunny shores of Antiqua this time. Watch out for water skiing this trip, Gene!
The Alumni Fund is just starting up, and we've all had many good reasons presented by Head Agent Bob Lake and Class Gifts Chairman Hugh Schwarz why we should give early and give in a mature fashion. This will be the last regularly paced Alumni Fund, and Green Derby, before our 25th Reunion, so it behooves us all to look ahead and anticipate our obligations to that event by stepping up our giving this year. Whatever we give to the College, in any area of its activities, is credited toward our goal of $600,000, and for the majority of us the Alumni Fund is the familiar, regular channel. Perhaps some of our tax-cut money could be ear-marked for the Class Gift this year or the money we're saving by not smoking could be added in. However you find it, add it on to whatever you thought you were going to give. Remember, if, through habit, you are giving today the same as you gave nine or ten years ago, your gift is about one-third less in effective buying power. So, even by running in place, you are falling behind.
Secretary, 5 North Balch St. Hanover, N.H.
Class Agent, Procter and Gamble Mfg. Co. 17 Battery Place, New York 4, N.Y.
