1942
Here once more, and all too soon, is the end of another reporting year - not that your secretary is complaining (can't you hear the sighs of relief?), but it adds to the evidence, which is mounting at an alarming rate, that time passes all too swiftly. It has been a grand year for the Class and the College - let us do all in our power to continue this trend.
Mike DeSherbinin was roughed up this spring while on assignment in North Carolina for several Massachusetts newspapers. Mike is owner and publisher of the weekly Amherst journal. While sitting in his car taking pictures of arrests being made in a restaurant in Williamston, the car door was opened and he was struck across the back of his right hand with brass knuckles. After treatment in the Williamston hospital and reporting the incident to police, Mike moved his headquarters to Raleigh, which he considered a safer location. Mike described the situation as "very tense in the south at this particular time."
Jerry Tallmer, arts critic for the New York Post, has been named to receive a Ford Foundation fellowship for travel, observation, and study of developments in the visual and performing arts. Ernest D. Grinnell Jr. has been elected as a member of the Alumni Council, succeeding Edwin J.Spiegel Jr., as representative of the southwestern states. Ernie is vice president and general counsel of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co., with which he has been since 1953. He is a past president of the St. Louis Dartmouth Alumni Association. DonWilliamson is seeking re-election to the Winnetka, Ill., school board. Don is president of Williamson Adhesives, of Skokie, a member of the Rotary Club of Chicago and the Union League Club. The Williamsons have a daughter and three sons. Luis Zalemea reports he has been named managing director of Empresa Colombiana de Turismo, the official agency responsible for tourist development in Colombia.
Gardiner Bridge has been named to a new administrative position at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. Gard has been appointed director of student affairs at Trinity, which he has served as director of admissions since 1956. Gard and Pat have three sons and live in West Hartford. He shared his experiences in the admissions field as principal speaker at a recent college-planning conference held at the Housatonic Valley Regional High School. Charles F. Herberger, associate professor of English at Nasson College, Springvale, Me., presided at the annual Maine Press Radio-TV Women's workshop in creative writing. Dr. RobertKlein, professor of pediatrics at Boston University and Boston City Hospital, spoke at a pediatrics meeting recently in Springfield, Mass.
The Class will be represented at this summer's Alumni College by the Harry BartLetts,Walter Haley and Loring Jones. This session, in which Professor Harold Bond will play a leading academic role, has all the aspects of a valuable and challenging experience.
A lecture by Chan Thomas to the Deke Alumni Association at the University Club in Los Angeles was recently featured in the Los Angeles evening Herald Examiner. In a brilliant and interesting presentation, Chan described his challenging concept of cataclysmic geology contained in his "tumbling earth theory." For more about the key role that the expanding land-locked portions of our terrestrial ice caps play in this theory, please contact Chan. Chan has established a remarkable, record in predicting major earthquakes by month, year, and location, as well as a reputation as an erudite, as well as entertaining, speaker.
Matt Bride, looking great as you can see, contributed the following: "I was promoted to New York Advertising Manager of Woman's Day (circulation: 6,500,000) on March 16. In my new job I'll be in charge of the sales staff in New York, New Jersey, New England, and New York City. Took a long time, but I finally graduated into management. Feels great!" Matt and Jeanne live in Ridgefield, Conn., with Stephen, aged 15 and Colleen, aged 13.
Again the writer journeys to the source for the facts - a once-a-year proposition. Date line: Hanover. Occasion: Class Officers Weekend, with your hard working officers and executive committee representative on hand and operating on all four cylinders.
Gathered for the festivities on this beautiful, bustling, and ever-changing (but somehow still the same) campus are Warren andMargaret Kreter, Dick Lippman, Bob andMary Kirk, Guy Swenson, and making the trip all the more exciting for me, my wife Bettie. Ad and Kiki Winship were on hand to greet us and, as we have found on other occasions, are charming and active hosts. Wally and Barbara Farr and Al and BobbieBritton joined us too and we are fortunate indeed to have these capable and gracious representatives on campus.
Most of the class officers attended a service on Saturday in the Hopkins Center garden court memorializing Dartmouth's World War II dead. We were joined at these services by Stan Wright's mother, Bob Wells' mother and sister, and Dave Dunlap's son, David '66. Also invited but unable to join us because of a rugby game was WalterJacob's son, a member of the freshman class.
You have read in this MAGAZINE and elsewhere of the many and wondrous changes taking place on the Hanover Plain. Many have been here to observe and enjoy them. A visit to the campus is heartily recommended. Many of these developments must be seen to be appreciated. You will find the College stronger than ever. The Dartmouth spirit is very much in evidence and a bold wide dimension added to many college activities. Each visit of your secretary to Hanover reaffirms his certainty that here is a cause worthy of our increased effort to sustain and promote. Come here and share with your family a revitalizing and wonderful experience.
The Class of 1942 officers invited relatives in Hanover of classmates who were killedin World War II to attend the dedication and unveiling of the Memorial Plaque,located in the Hopkins Center garden court. Left to right are Guy Swenson, treasurer;Ad Winship, executive committee member; Dick Lippman, newsletter editor; WarrenKreter, agent; Mrs. William K. Wright, mother of the late Stanley P. Wright; DavidDunlap '66, son of the late David Dunlap; Bob Kirk, chairman.
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