1947
A delightful memento was received the other day in the form of a certificate with a little green felt "D" stating that the addressee had been appointed a Latter Day Letterman as an award for ten consecutive or fifteen non consecutive years of support to the alumni fund. This really took on significance when it was noted that over 14,000 of these have been sent. It gave one a very warm feeling of both the loyalty and the belief in the support of our higher education which is so overwhelmingly prominent among Dartmouth Alumni.
This, our fiftieth anniversary of a very worthy cause, should remind you that if you haven't, do.
We have just learned that AI Gray Jr. (A. E. Gray) has been put in charge of Sargent and Co.'s Southern Division in addition to his duties as Eastern Division Manager of architectural hardware sales. Al, a graduate of Milton Academy, joined Sargent and Co. in 1947 and served as sales representative in various territories until his appointment as Eastern Division Manager in 1957.
Among our professional members we are pleased to note that Crow, Lewis & Wick, architectural and engineering firm, has made AI J. Schmidt a partner. Al joined the firm a year ago after having served with Epiel-Engineering as a project manager. During the past year he has been in charge of engineering on industrial, institutional, and residential building projects. Al lives with his family in Garden City, N. Y.
Bob Prochaska (Doctor, to you), now living in Stockbridge, Mass., has just been made manager of the polycarbonated research and development section at the General Electric Co. chemical materials department. Bob, a native of New York City, received both a master's degree and doctorate from Rutgers University. He joined GE in 1951, came to Pittsfield in 1955 as a development chemist, and had been a suit manager since 1961. Dr. Prochaska is married to the former Doreen Thackeray, a native of Ossining, N. Y. They have four children.
F. Richard Hill Jr. (1 Bellevue Ave.), Claremont, N. H., has become the first of the A. T. Hatch, C.L.U., general agency of the National Life Insurance Company of Vermont, to earn membership in the firm's 1964 Presidents' Club. The club recognizes outstanding achievement in client-service and sales among the company's nationwide field force. Membership also qualifies him for attendance at the organization's educational conference at the Americana Hotel, New York City, in October. Dick, who is prominent in city and state civic and community activities, also belonged to the Presidents' Club in 1962 and 1963. He joined the Manchester agency in 1960.
Was delighted to find an article on Grant Tinker (run six months ago in "Broadcasting") which contains some delightful biographical information. Grant mentions that when the war was over, the Air Corps gave him the choice of leaving the service or signing up for a three-year hitch, so he checked out and went back to Dartmouth. There he majored in English and was a member of the tennis team ("that didn't mean much: the New Hampshire tennis season is a four-day affair"). After college, he went to NBC in New York on a training program in network radio where he advanced to the position of operation manager. After leaving there, Grant obtained more experience at McCann-Erickson, War-wick & Legler and in 1959 joined Benton and Bowles as vice-president in charge of television programing. In November 1961 he became vice-president NBC network programs on the West Coast where he supervises such programs as Doctor Kildare, Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color and Jack Paar - to name a few. You might be interested to know that Mrs. Tinker is Mary Tyler Moore, the lovely feminine lead of the Dick Van Dyke Show, Wednesday nights on another network.
On moving to California, Grant joined the Los Angeles Tennis Club but complains that he gets there about as often as he did to the Weeburn Country Club in Darien, Conn.
Am pleased to say that George Bingham has put into actuality our memorial book program in which, through your class dues, a rare book is published and dedicated to the memory of each deceased classmate; we hope that this will continue until we are wiped out physically or financially.
The class executive committee meeting originally scheduled for April 3, was not held since it was deemed by our eminent chairman to be unnecessary due to the fact that we have all reached an age where one can get lubricated without having a formal meeting to get it off the ground.
The only announcement forthcoming from the committee is the great idea of Dartmouth Day at the World's Fair which will be held on May 23 through the good offices of Mike Pender, assistant to president of the World's Fair, and Dick Menin. Hope we will see as many of you as possible that day. In case you must have details, it is planned to convene at eleven A.M., Saturday, May 23, at the New England Pavilion of the World's Fair and children will be definitely welcome.
Before budgeting your trip to New York for this semi-reunion, do get your alumni fund check in the mail.
Secretary, Guard Hill Rd. Bedford Village, N. Y.
Class Agent, 201 Arlington Ave., Providence 6, R. I.
