1935

Your secretary, along with Bankart, TomWilson, Bus Latimer, and our expatriated chairman, Bobb Chaney, complete in each case with wife, descended on Hanover last weekend for the annual college meeting of class officers. The traditional cocktail party, which Ruth and George Colton give, was in honor of a brand new addition to the Class of 1935: John W. Masland, Provost of the College and Professor of Government. John has had an outstanding record of accomplishment for the College. As Bobb wrote in the invitation to John to become an honorary member of the Class: it is our way "to express our gratitude to you for your many contributions and at the same time extend to you the opportunity of having a new and intimate Dartmouth 'home.'" The invitation was made by unanimous vote of the executive committee. We are most honored that John has accepted. He will have an opportunity to meet more of the members of his adopted class at our annual fall weekend next October 2. Incidentally, the provost is chief academic officer of the college, directly responsible under the president for all academic affairs.

Various other tidbits of information garnered in Hanover may be of interest to you. George Colton's son, Dick, a Wesleyan senior, just recently was selected for honorable mention for the award in history given by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. DeroSaunders was re-appointed to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE Advisory Board and Dave Smith was re-elected to his second two-year term on the Dartmouth Alumni Council.

Thirty-fivers turn up quite frequently in Hanover news. When the NCAA ski meet got rained out at the Dartmouth Skiway, Don Hagerman, headmaster of Holderness School, provided facilities for the cross country with snow he had saved for the occasion at Plymouth, N. H. Ralph Lazarus just returned from the Ford Foundation mission to Tokyo with the American delegation headed up by President Dickey. Sandy Brown had a display of his published works at the Cary Memorial Library in Lexington, Mass., as a part of its "Lexington Authors Series." Sandy's book on Count Rumford is going into Polish, Spanish, and British editions and he has had the honor of his technical works on Plasma Physics being pirated in non-copyrighted Russian editions. Don King has won honors from the American Scholar Magazine for his translation of Erasmus' "De Copia."

Louis Bookheim, Ted Harbaugh and LloydMarkson, with wives, have signed up for the Dartmouth Alumni College this summer. There are going to be Harbaughs in Hanover right around the calendar nowadays. Lou wants to study up on Aramaic to follow this "vox clamantis" business you read about elsewhere. Lloyd's motives are unknown, except that he is a good Brooklynite with intellectual curiosity.

Even in the crass world of commerce, '35 names keep turning up. Herb Knowles, divisional vice president of Carson Pirie Scott & Co., has just been named district manager of the Chicago wholesale division, which will bring him into Chicago from his old beat in St. Louis.

Another Chicagoan, Art Allyn, recently strayed down to Sarasota where he gave an excellent talk to the Dartmouth Club there on the problems of owning a major league baseball club (White Sox).

Last week was the tremendous Packaging Show at the Coliseum. I went through the United Shoe Machinery exhibit several times looking for Ralph Specht. His company pioneered in the use of hot melt adhesives which got quite a play at the show. Just got a letter from Ralph written right after the annual dance of the Bergen County, N. J., Dartmouth Alumni Club. Ralph has been quite active as a trustee of the club. The Chaneys, Cornwells, Spechts (both shoe and whiskey) and Bankarts enjoyed Frank's cocktails so much that: "Shelley Chaney had trouble telling Frank and me apart but was finally able to identify us by his white necktie and my blue one. Some time during the libation of cocktails, our neckties seemed to have been switched with the result that Shelley became confused, Frank got his wife mixed up with mine, Babs Bankart saw three Specht twins instead of two, and therefore, we felt it time to mix another round of drinks."

Word filters in via Naramore that JackDavis is still counseling at the Carson City High School in Carson City, Nev., "Among my other duties is that of supervisor of instruction at the Nevada State Prison. I still do not know just how I got into that position except that it could be connected with my dubious background, which was promulgated in New Hampshire dorm through association with some seedy characters." Young Jack is planning to go to the University of Idaho or Idaho State. Kathy, graduating from high school next year, is bound and determined to become a forester.

A tremendous Wah Hoo Wah is due TomLane for the successful completion of the Milburn McCarty Memorial Scholarship Fund. It is over the top at $25,000 and still growing.

Secretary, Room 703, 521 Fifth Ave. New York, N. Y. 10017

Class Agent, 5 Locust Lane, Wallingford, Pa.