1938
This column winds up activities until next fall. It seems hard to believe that the next one will be after the football season is well under way. By the time it appears, plans will have been finalized for the Brown Game weekend at the Lake Morey Inn; there will be a Pace Setter this summer giving the de- tails and enclosing a reservation form for rooms, etc. at the Inn. At the present mo- ment, it looks as though there will be about 75 members of the class, wives, and off- spring. Dan Bell has jumped the gun by re- questing a definite reservation already, but he will have to wait until we send out the proper forms.
Many members of the Class have, no doubt, made plans for the summer. JimBonnyman and Bob Forgan, combining Florida and Massachusetts, are contemplating an intellectual renewal at the College's Alumni College. I hope they are keeping up on their homework, as the pace is going to be pretty hectic once they hit Hanover Plain.
Ted Thome dropped into Hanover not too long ago with his second son, a young hopeful interested in medicine, and, consequently, the Dartmouth Medical School. Jim Briggs, the major domo from Damariscotta, Me., called. He has no "in" for getting lobsters at less than the going rate, but can offer accommodations, recreation, and lobsters at the regular price at his hostelry.
After much blackmail and overt pressure from Track Coach Ellie Noyes, Jack Donovan writes from the office of the Managing Director of General Motors (Norway) as follows:
"To set your mind at ease, this will confirm my whereabouts. After assignments in Egypt, India, and Hawaii, I came here four years ago and like it very much. The climate is a lot like that in Hanover and a wonderful spot for winter sports and fishing if you are keen on those sorts of things, which I am not. I was married a little over two years ago to a girl from Copenhagen, and Dorthe and I now have a lovely daughter, Barbara, who is almost 11 months old. I hope this information sets your records straight." That it does!
The big news in Worcester, Mass., these days is a drive by the Worcester Area Chamber of Commerce for 250 new members. Robert P. Hallock Jr., associate agency director of New England for the All-American Life & Casualty Company, has been named chairman of the New Members Committee of the Membership Sales Division. Hallock, a Worcester native, has been in the insurance business since 1938. From 1946-61 he was associated with the Massachusetts Protective Association and Paul Revere Life Insurance Company. He was director of the Sales Group Department from 1948-49 and superintendent of agencies from 1949-61. He was named to his present post in 1961.
As will undoubtedly appear in another spot in this august publication Robert B.Jones Jr. of Towson, Md., has been elected as a member of the Alumni Council for a two-year term, beginning in July. Bob is vice-president and general manager of Baltimore radio station WFBR. He has been with the station since 1953 and has been in the radio business since graduation. He has worked with NBC and ABC in New York, WIRL in Peoria, Ill., and KRMG in Tulsa, Okla. He has served the United Appeal, the United Cerebral Palsy drive, the Heart Association, and Kiwanis. He was president of the Dartmouth Club of Baltimore in 1959-60.
Unless the Federal Government closes them down, Philip Morris Co. is now graced with a new Director of Taxes in one Graham U. White, formerly of Price Water-house. Graham joined Philip Morris a year and a half ago as Manager of Tax Planning. In addition to corporate tax planning, he will now assume responsibility for the activities of the Tax Department.
The American Paper and Pulp Association is honored by the election of a new president in the person of Alexander CalderJr., chief executive of Union Bag-Camp Paper Corporation. Mr. Calder is also a director of the National Paperboard Association, Citizens and Southern National Bank, and Chairman of the Fourdrinier Kraft Board Institute. He is a trustee of the Institute of Paper Chemistry and the Bank of New York.
The USTFF has announced the choice of Jack Griffith, publisher of the Athletic Journal of Evanston, Ill., as chairman of the Public Relations Committee of that organization. Griffith has been connected for many years with the athletic publication field, and he will head up a nationwide committee of sports writers and college sports information directors who will advise and guide the USTFF in its public relations activities. In case you do not follow important sports organizations as carefully as your scribe, the USTFF is the United States Track and Field Federation. I wonder if this means a trip to Japan for Jack in the near future?
Needham's (Mass.) Civil Defense Director and the Survival Committee have been having a busy time of it. They have just published a booklet, which has been distributed to every home in Needham, entitled "You Bet Your Life." Representing the engineering profession on the committee is Charles W. Wycoff, who has devoted most of his life to the design of the kind of instruments that are used to measure nuclear explosions. In early nuclear tests, he used these instruments in shelters close to the explosions. He has been with the U. S. Corps of Engineers for 23 years and is presently chief of its planning and reports branch in Waltham. He has one son, now with the U.S. Army in Korea.
Ulster County, N. Y., was recently the locale for a seminar in a discussion of D.N.A., the substance scientists now believe to be the determining factor in heredity, according to the Ellenville, N. Y., Press (cir. 3,600). Leader of the discussion group was Dr.Richard Jones. Dr. Jones has been with the State University College at New Paltz since 1948. He received his master's degree in Botany from the University of New Hampshire and his doctorate from the State College of Washington, also in Botany. He has received fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the State University of New York. He has also published articles in numerous scientific journals dealing with various phases of Botany.
As far as this column goes, that closes up the shop for the summer. On the other hand, the Alumni Fund goes on unremittingly, and a prompt response to the appeals will make the bookkeeping that much easier. Now that you have your checkbook out, just up the ante a little bit. Every year the Fund hits new records; don't let this year be an exception.
Secretary, 12 Summer St., Hanover, N. H.
Class Agent, 12 White Oak Shade Rd., New Canaan, Conn.
