1939

In about a month from now an estimated one-third of our class will pile their wives and kiddies into rusty old station wagons, point their noses toward the TENT and prepare to slurp up three or four days of the greatest nostalgia that can befall aging youths pushing the half century mark. Varying degrees of personal success will be leveled into camaraderie and when Sunday, June 22, arrives we'll wonder what hit us, but the answer will be easy. It'll be old age. So, to the wavering two-thirds of you, Bert says it isn't too late to make up your minds. Don't cross over the bar in the solitude of your homes. Join the Götterdämmerung in the TENT!

Apparently Pete Cardozo and Sam Haver-field don't want to cross the bar alone because Sam has recently married Katharine LaVerre Patterson of N. Y. C. in the Fifth Ave. Presbyterian Church. Pete married in April Miss Susan Strong of Larchmont, an actress appearing on TV. We get these social vignettes from the class secretary's greatest friend, Browny, who has the eyes of a clipping service.

Bob Blackman was in Dayton this spring grading the crop of hopefuls. At the luncheon we sat opposite a namesake from Springfield, Ohio, John Davidson '33 and hopeful son. John filled us in on his younger brother, our Dr. Alan Davidson, a transplanted Vermonter who has been living in New Bern, N. C., with wife and five children since he graduated from Duke Medical School in ophthalmology. During his army years he spent two years in Tokyo. His oldest son graduated from Dartmouth last year and now is in medical school. Son Andrew is at Chapel Hill. Alan took his younger kids skiing at Stowe this past March. They had never seen snow before. Despite his long residency in the Tarheel State, Alan is still a Republican. We hope he gets to vote.

Warner Kiefaber's son, Tad, graduates from Dartmouth this June and is immediately getting married in Hanover. This puts a cramp in Warner and Annette's reunion plans because impatient, tight old Warner isn't about to sit around there a week and wait for the rest of us to reunite. He's going to go home and get old the lonely way.

Back in the area of medicine and also back to the Tarheel State, we learn through the Asheboro, N. C., Courier-Tribune that Dr. John Fitzpatrick has been appointed to the Department of Pathology at Randolph Hospital. He has held similar posts at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, the VA Hospital in Pennsylvania, and in Danville, Va.

We recently wrote about Dr. Bud Stein becoming Chief of Surgery at Highland Park (Ill.) Hospital. Now we learn that Bud Adler is president of its Board of Managers, and Jim Garnett is vice-president. Also, that the board contains four other Dartmouth men from other classes. It's fairly apparent where to go when stricken in the Windy City.

While on the West Coast this spring we met a retired Princetonian from Buffalo who reported fine things about Dr. GeorgeSelkirk who is a prominent M. D. in that city at the Children's Hospital. So much for Hippocrates.

We just discovered a fat envelope of goodies from the Alumni Records Office so here goes: Bob Cushman, vice-president and general manager of the abrasives division of the Norton Co. is now a director of Worcester's Industrial City Bank & Trust Co. which just reported record earnings, deposits and loans. And now they have Cush! DaveSmith was elected to the executive committee of the Connecticut Republican Citizens Committee. Members of the Women's Legislative Council of Maine heard a speech by Ed Wakelin in Lewiston on "Recreation Business in Maine." Tom Burrell, who owns the Fall River Poster Advertising Company and is director of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, has been named a director of the Fall River Chamber of Commerce. Good man, Tom. Would make a good sitter at the TENT. Joe Cottone was named one of two head coaches for the seventh annual Nutmeg Bowl all-star football game to be staged in Bridgeport, Conn., next August under sponsorship of the Bridgeport Boys' Club and the Connecticut High School Athletic Coaches Assn. Walter Martinson married Doris Erickson in Quincy, Mass. Walt is a C. P. A. and president of the Quincy Taxpayers' Assn. (We do have versatility in our class. You can come to reunion and accomplish more than President Johnson in the Roman Forum.) Dan Dyer, or should we say Indispensable Old Dan Dyer, has been re-elected for the third time to the presidency of the National Sugar Brokers Association. His next step: President of Haiti.

Selected by Sports Illustrated as one of the nation's 25 Silver Anniversary All-Americans who have left football glory to establish a quarter-century of outstanding career achievement - Bob Gibson.

Winner of the Class of '39 Demosthenes Award for probably making more speeches in one year for a worthy cause than all the rest of the class put together - ArmandoChardiet. He has made over 50 speeches in the past twelve months on his never-relenting subject "The Crisis in Cuba."

Ralph Holben and wife Gudrun are living in Karachi, Pakistan, where Ralph has recently been assigned as Planning Adviser for money and finance of the USAID Mission. For the past two years he had been the economic adviser to the USAID Mission in LaPaz, Bolivia.

John Treadway, innkeeper of Williamstown, Mass., has been recently elected senior vice-president of the entire Treadway Inns Corp. and continues as director of the Eastern Division. This includes Gile, Streeter, Lord and Russell Sage which we earlier reported have been completely redecorated for "The Occasion" with monogramed mail chutes and flush toilets.

As we sail into the setting sun with only two more issues of "Class Notes" to write before earning our emeritus, we would like to turn serious for a moment and comment on our "Total Giving Program." Most of us think now, and most assuredly after June 22 we will feel that we, as a Class, are the greatest. The reasons are numerous and right. Unfortunately, these reasons are esoteric and aren't understood by others. Others can measure us only by efforts that are measurable: What percentage of the class participates regularly in financial support of the college? How much effort do we use to make the total dollars representative of what we really can do? Why do some of the classes younger than we, classes which attended Dartmouth during the war and had their service after we came home, why do they show up better?

Maybe we don't care what others think as long as we know we're the greatest. Maybe this competitive rat race measured in dollars and numbers is hokum - kid stuff. But if our statistics, like our class, showed up to be the greatest, we would probably be awfully proud. We would feel our oats and deride the also-rans.

That, gentlemen, is this secretary's swan song on the subject of class giving.

Secretary, 1908 Coolidge Drive Dayton 19, Ohio

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