1932

A new year starts. May I wish you prosperity and happiness; may you never have to use or clean an old paint brush but have a new brush for each painting task, however small.

I hope this column will be the item you look at first when you open the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Under a recent reminder from Hanover, a broader dimension is to be added. We secretaries are directed to give more consideration to "the general reader" and to the "alumni-wide readership." We are told that "the class newsletter is" the proper medium for routine matters limited to the interest of your class alone." I had thought that I was a catalyst - the intermediary, in your talking to the men of '32, but now you are reminded that you have the broader opportunity for talk to the men of ??, '31 and '33-'65 also.

Another Hanover standard is good: The more men the secretary can cover the better, but "the value of a name in print is ever so much greater if the secretary can provide some interesting and important news about the man." My meeting this standard depends on what you send to me.

During the summer: Harrison Harper was named a vice president of Dun and Bradstreet, Inc. He had been New York regional manager. Frank Westheimer, a chemistry prof at Harvard, had the pleasure of delivering the commencement address at Park School, Baltimore, from whence he graduated in '28. John Whiteomb, vice president, sale administration of Minnesota Mining and Mfg. Co. of St. Paul, was named president of the American Supply and Machinery Manufacturers Ass'n. Bill Lieson, executive vice president of the Valley Bank and Trust Company in Springfield, Mass., lectured at the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers. Our class agent, Al Boncutter,cutter, president of George C. Newell Co., Seattle, was elected president of the American Association of Managing General Agents. Looks like he'll be especially busy this year and will need some extra good help to get '32 out of the cellar in the Alumni Fund derby.

Bill Bucher was promoted to fund raising director of the Heart Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania. Fred Orner was appointed vice president, executive assistant to the trustees of the New Haven Railroad. A 30-year veteran with the New Haven, Fred had been the road's vice president of planning and research.

Morrison G. Tucker, executive vice president of the Liberty National Bank and Trust Company of Oklahoma City, was named chairman of the executive committee. We hope Charlie Mayo broke his '64 record of 58 giant bluefin tuna boated out of Provincetown. Let us know, Charlie.

The Richard T. Clarke Company of San Francisco has been elected to membership in the American Association of Advertising Agencies, recognition awarded to less than 10% of the advertising agencies in America.

Our president. Bo Wentworth, sends a post card from Guatemala saying: "Have had a most interesting trip through Colombia, Panama, and here with my married daughter ten days while Ginna baby-sits for the grandchildren on Cape Cod. Ginna goes with me to London in November." The peripatetic Went worths!

Dr. Hanford L. Auten, an ophthalmologist in Claremont, N. H., is in his spare time a Lieutenant Colonel and commander of the 21st Medical Service Squadron, an Air Force Reserve unit at Westover AFB, Mass.

Paul Leach, who survived the rigors of Reed Hall so many years ago (as did I), is now enjoying Tripoli, Libya, as evidenced in a good long letter. His son Rob married Lois Greenwell in Louisville last April and Paul hasn't seen her yet. Paul continues his ham radio with the call 5A3TP on 20-meter single sideband (whatever that means) and would be glad to "rag-chew" with any of you hams. John Marsh '30 who has been in the construction business in Tripoli since 1952, and Paul are forming a Dartmouth Club.

Jim North says "My life is still largely centered in General Foods (he is vice president at White Plains), with home in Wilton, Conn. Only son (Yale '62) is a physicist, working on his Ph.D. in operations research at Stanford, interspersed with forays into the musical world. He has developed a fine baritone voice, and although its genetic origin is something of a puzzle to Peg and me, he manages to participate in everything from casual groups on campus to some operatic roles in San Francisco opera companies."

Jim sent me a page from a BBD and O newsletter with a story on some TV programs sponsored by Liberty Mutual. These included an African safari. "Among those on hand for the shooting of the African phases of the show was Bob Mattox, assistant vice president and advertising manager of Liberty Mutual who himself bagged an impala and a wildebeest on the trip." And to prove the statement in part was a picture of Bob, smaller in life than the animal (I can't identify which) in death, with the big rifle in his hand.

Congratulations to William G. Allyn and Dr. H. Calvin Fisher for their elections to two-year terms on the Alumni Council. Bill is president of Welch-Allyn, Inc. manufacturers of surgical instruments and has been active in civic affairs as well as alumni work. He has been a member of the Skaneateles School Board, a YMCA director, president of the board of trustees of Auburn Memorial Hospital, a director of Blue Cross, Blue Shield and a trustee of Wells College. He is also a director of the National Bank of Auburn and the Shoe Form Company of Auburn.

Cal has practiced surgery in Denver since 1946, when he left the U.S. Army Medical Corps. In 1961 he was general chairman of the Colorado Health Fair and for this work was given the Colorado Medical Society's Award of Merit. He has served as president of the Denver Academy of Surgery, chief of surgical service at Children's Hospital and associate clinical professor of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. In 1958-60 Cal was president of the Dartmouth Club of the Great Divide and has been active in enrollment work.

High point of the Cappio summer was daughter Jill's marriage to Lt. James A. Gordon Jr., USMC, University of South Carolina '64. Son Jim '63 was an usher. Among the guests were Ben Burch and wife Dorothy, Tom Wells '63 and wife Rosemary, Bill King '63 and wife Mary, and Pete Norstrand.

Thus ends the first column of the new year. Over the months I will be sending each of you a handy-dandy return post card, on which you can record your latest happenings or ideas. But don't wait for a card, write me when things take place or whenever you want to talk to all the men of ??, "31, and '33-'65, as well as to the men of '32.

Secretary, 3154 Kenney Drive Falls Church, Va. 22042

Treasurer, 99 Lake Drive W., Wayne, N. J. 07101

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