1940
Spring is taking a long time to come to Hanover this year - except for those lucky ones who have found spring in the South. When one compares the pale faces of those of us who are mired in the schlump season with the golden tans sported by most of the returning students following spring vacation, it is all too evident how far behind spring is in New England. On their far-flung holidays on the beaches of Florida and California, or the slopes at Aspen, or the rugby fields of Scotland, or the varsity team trips below the Mason-Dixon line, the Dartmouth students are able to find the sun, and by their healthy tans give hope to the mud-bound Hanoverians that sunny days are coming.
Jules Wachs is looking ahead beyond spring to summer and has become the first alumnus to choose to study on the Dartmouth campus along with his son during the summer term. Because the eight-week fourth term will enroll well qualified high school seniors this summer for the first time, his boy Tommy has entered into that program, while Jules and Alice have completed plans to attend the first session of the two-week Alumni College. This overlaps the summer term by one week. Thus the Wachs clan, by supporting both of these new ventures in higher education, becomes the first Dartmouth father-son combination to matriculate the same term.
Annual elections for officers of the Dartmouth Club of the Hanover area were held last week at the annual banquet in Alumni Hall (how appropriate can you get?) and our own Seymour Wheelock was elected secretary for the next year. He is well versed in such duties since he functioned in that same capacity in the Denver Club before moving back to Hanover almost two years ago. Sey and Janet can be observed all winter skiing in good form down the nearby slopes, and the rest of the year playing tough tennis or bicycling around town, but they are also to be found two on the aisle at the heady fare served up to us by Hop-kins Center. Sey is also vice-president of the Hanover Historical Society and the area's leading authority on antique clocks, besides being the watchdog of the health of the children of Hanover.
Our man in Cincinnati, Herbie Landsman, has been named to the new position of vice-president of research and development and a member of the management committee of the Federated Department Stores. He will henceforth coordinate and direct the staff activities in connection with both current operations and long-range planning programs, and assist in corporate and visional management on development projects. Hope they give you time for lunch, Herbie!
Dr. Charles Pinderhughes, psychiatrist at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Boston, recently testified at a meeting on educational practices and minority groups before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Charlie's hope, which seems practical and so obvious, is that increased integration in education starting at early ages will do much to eliminate another generation of turmoil and unrest. He stated that "racially imbalanced schools in negro neighborhoods function as a mold which produces and perpetuates an unfavorable stamp."
A news clip just announced that PaulHurley was elected a director of the Quincy Trust Co., as a New Year's present. He owns the Hurley Insurance Agency and his list of community activities is as long as your arm, ranging from board of managers of Quincy City Hospital to president of the Community Chest. It would be hard to find an activity in Quincy that didn't reflect his efforts for betterment in some degree.
A recent letter from E.T. Browne brought some news about Jim McElroy whom Brownie had recently seen. Jim lives in Switzerland but his duties as representative of the Culligan Company necessitate a great deal of traveling around Europe. Because of the education requirements of his two teen-agers, Jim was moving from Villars to Lausanne but Brownie found he had left on another business trip by the time he knocked on the McElroy door in the new location. Brownie himself is moving his base of operations from England to Belgium since he has become vice-president-Europe of Merck International. He has become a monthly commuter between the home office in New York and Europe, so don't be surprised if he looms into your vision along the gay white way.
Jack Rourke is still producing and starring in TV shows in Los Angeles. He wrote that Robin and Beatrice Hartmann left USN cares in San Diego to attend his show recently. Jack also sees Fred Fuld from time to time. Jack is interested in organizing and planning for a group to attend the 25th Reunion in 1965 from California — if he doesn't contact you soon you write him and learn the details.
Speaking of traveling to Hanover, DonMcMahon wrote of the complications facing his family as they thought ahead to Brian's graduation here this June. In a short space of time in early June he and Mary have commitments involving their four oldest children from California to Denver to Kansas to Chicago to Hanover. I'm betting he'll be able to touch all bases and solve those logistics problems however. Don also reports on seeing Bob Welborn occasionally in the Denver area, and of spending a pleasant evening with Phil and Betty Dostal in San Francisco.
Another classmate with an undergraduate son is Hodge Jones, who has just been advanced to vice-president and actuary of the Guarantee Mutual Life in Omaha, Nebraska. He is a fellow in the Society of Actuaries.
Here are some new addresses for your little green book so you'll be current when summer vacations take you to various parts of our country:
Frank E. Agar Jr., 5131 39th Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn. 55417; Edwin P. Bartlett, 5054 Forest Road, Lewiston, N. Y. 14092; Eben H. Cockley, 32900 Creekside Drive, Pepper Pike, Ohio 44124; J. Dana Darnley, 24 Fairwood, Pleasant Ridge, Mich. 48069; William A. Halsey, 134 Mt. Auburn, Cambridge, Mass. 02140; Robert W. Jordan, 620 Poplar Creek Drive, Waukesha, Wis. 53186; Robert H. Lake, Wellington Road, Locust Valley, L. I., N. Y. 11560; John W. Little II, 150 East 81st St., New York, N. Y. 10028; Frank B. Reeves Jr., 18 Robert Circle, Syosset, N. Y. 11791.
Robert H. LakeNew Head Agent for the Class of 1940
Secretary, 5 North Balch St. Hanover, N. H.
Class Agent, Procter and Gamble Mfg. Co. 17 Battery Place, New York 4, N. Y.
