1933
Congratulations are in order for GeorgeFarrand, a newly elected member of the Alumni Council. George joins Page Worthington, president of the Council, and SidStoneman on this most important alumni body.
Undoubtedly you read in last month's issue the report of the conferring of the Dartmouth Alumni Award on Jus Stanley. This was presented in Chicago at the annual dinner by President Page Worthington. Page writes that Jus had his family with him and that they were, naturally, very proud. Jus well deserves it for outstanding service to the College. Bob Ellis, Warren Schmid, and Jim and Lynn Alder were also on hand at the Chicago dinner.
Page also tells me that the next night in Cleveland at a Class Agents' meeting he had a very short chat with Hank McKee, BobSwander, and Bob Fairbank. I have reports from my grapevine that Page is doing a whale of a job as president of the Alumni Council and I am sure that we all knew that he would.
Wes Beattie has been having some fun with the author of "The Weird World of Wes Beattie" and reports that his "hopes of retiring on the proceeds of a libel suit are completely smashed." In the course of correspondence with the author, he told him of the publicity in the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE and also mentioned to him that Frank Gump was in Toronto and suggested that he might like to give him a ring. Report from Frank was a sad one. He had a stroke before Christmas and lost his speech and on top of that had a perforated ulcer which required surgery and to add still further complications had to have a kidney removed. Frank, we all hope that you are on the mend and we will be thinking of you.
A follow up on Gay Milius' report that he was going to try to get in touch with Clarence Albaugh via ham radio. He has succeeded in talking with Clarence and said that he hoped to get some kind of a phone tie-in with Bob Guggenheim and Stu Durkee the next time he talks with Clarence.
Hobie Van Deusen, assistant curator in the department of Mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History, has just left to lead a 7-month expedition to New Guinea to seek very rare animal and plant specimens. This trip is sponsored by Richard Archbold, research associate of the American Museum, and supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Explorers Club of New York. Van has participated in three earlier Archbold expeditions. He is looking for tree climbing kangaroos, spiny anteaters, woolly opossums, and some species of bats and giant rats. Of all things!
The Bill Okies have announced the engagement of their daughter, Louisa, to David K. Kown of Chatham, N. J., with a May wedding planned. Louisa is a graduate of Dana Hall and Wheaton; and Dave is graduated from Pingry School in Elizabeth, N. J., and Williams College. Congratulations.
Jack Wright is the newly elected president of the New Hampshire Medical Society. Jack, as you know, graduated from Harvard Medical School and is now a faculty member at Dartmouth Med. School. More congratulations!
Ed Jackson reports in from Atlanta where he is president of the American Service Company. He is on the executive committee of the National Association of Food Chains. Ed and Charlsie's daughter, Ceanne, is a junior at Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans. Their son, Stanley, is in high school.
Freddie Jackson is Development Officer in charge of fund raising for the University of Rhode Island. Catherine and Fred's son, Edward, graduated from the New York Maritime College of the University of New York and son, Richard, is a senior at Bowdoin. They also have a daughter, Nancy. Fred reports that he is working very hard trying to get Rhode Island graduates in the habit of supporting a state university. Fred has been on the job at Rhode Island for 2½ years and an endowment fund is under way. He has also started a Parents Fund and raised $20,000 to restore a 200-year-old house - the original building when the University was started in 1892. He is chairman of the Restoration Committee. He feels right at home at Rhode Island inasmuch as the president is a Dartmouth '30, and vice president and provist is Dartmouth '38. There are 3800 undergraduates and 600 graduate students with a continually growing enrollment and campus. The Jacksons spent a month in Europe summer before last visiting nine countries and having a change from their usual summers which are spent sailing.
Dick Jackson is vice president and general counsel of Fram Corp. I seem to remember that Wes reported in these notes some time ago of the problem Dick had in getting admitted to the Rhode Island Bar. He had to take his case all the way to the Supreme Court of the state where he finally got a favorable decision on the question as to whether he did qualify within the meaning of the rules of the bar which required that an applicant seeking admission "shall for 10 out of the preceding 15 years have been in the active general practice of the law." Finally the Rhode Island bar examiners agreed that his activities on the legal staff of the Boston and Maine Railroad constituted "active general practice of the law" and he was admitted. Dick has been active in the American Bar Association, Boston Bar Association, Bar of the City of New York, and Chamber of Commerce of Providence. In community activities he has been chairman of the Board of Appeals in Reading, Mass., member of the Reading Town Meeting, finance chairman of the Republican party for Reading, and you remember that he was assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1957 to 1961. Helen and Dick's daughter, Debra, is a senior at Hollins and daughter, Faith, a freshman at Connecticut College. Dick says he is getting his hand back in in the hockey department working with pee wee hockey players in Providence at the Brown Hockey Rink. .
Al and Catherine Jennings are the parents of 5 children. Alfred Jr. graduated from Holy Cross in '61, married Karen Johnson in August of 1963. He is now in his third year at Yal Lay. Son, Joseph, is a freshman at Boston College. Catherine attended Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass., for 3 years and is now attending the Chandler School in Boston. Mary Louise and Patricia complete their family. Al is plant manager for DuPont in the fabrics and finishes department at their Fairfield, Conn., plant; a member of the American Chemical Society and the Connecticut Rubber Group. He has been very active in Fairfield and Bridgeport community activities having been chairman of the Fairfield Community Chest, president of the Fairfield Rotary Club, on the board of directors of Junior Achievement of Southwestern Connecticut, board of directors of Family Service Society. He is also a past-president of the Bridgeport Chapter of the Dartmouth Alumni Association.
Cliff Johnson went on to Harvard Business School after leaving Hanover and married Bess in 1937. They have a daughter, Helen, and son, David. Cliff has been in the family business, H. A. Johnson Company, and has been president for a number of years. He has been active in Boston Rotary Club, Associated Industries of Massa-chusetts and member of the New England Citizens' Crime Commission.
The Alumni Fund is in the home stretch. Have you done your share?
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