1935

At the moment, Art Allyn's White Sox are 4½ games off the pace. By the time you read this it will be known whether the encouragement of the Class of '35 outing on September 10 at White Sox Park will have caused them to pull up their britches and clobber the Yankees who are down there almost out of sight, 19 games behind.

This is going to be quite a year for 1935. The regular fall meeting at Hanover is scheduled for the weekend of September 24. No White Sox; a football game with New Hampshire will have to do.

If through some aberration of your schedule, or distaff machination, you have not been able to attend either one of these frolics, you still have time to plan for the real McCoy, our 30th reunion, one year late, whic takes place in Hanover, June 13, 14, 15, 1966. Particularly if you haven't been to Hanover in the last few years, you should make definite plans to come. It is quite extraordinary what tremendous and interesting changes have occurred at Dartmouth since our 25th.

Congratulations are due Ralph Lazarus, the first member of the Class to receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Dartmouth, which was conferred upon him at commencement last June. Since 1957, Ralph has been president of the Federated Department Stores, Inc., the largest department store chain in the country. His manifold business and civic activities reflect great credit on him as an outstanding citizen of this country. The Class appreciates this honor. It is well deserved.

Also on the Hanover scene, it should be noted that George Colton has been named president-elect of the American Alumni Council. This educational organization serves colleges, universities and independent secondary schools throughout the country in furthering alumni relations and fund raising activities. Congratulations, George.

This summer I dispatched a roving representative of the Class, my eldest daughter, who had just graduated from Hollins, with three other girls on a 13,000 mile junket around the United States by station wagon. It was comforting to know that wherever they went there would be a stalwart 35'er who might have been awakened in the mid- dle of the night with a plaintive appeal for bail money. This never happened, but the girls did have a wonderful time visiting FredHaley in Tacoma. They were a little too old for a conducted tour of the candy factory but came home with glowing reports of Almond Roca hospitality and the wonderful location of Fred's and Dottie's house overlooking Puget Sound. I told them that BillLingley would also have good dope on camping out in Washington State, but they flew through so fast that it is amazing to me that they ever had time to look at the scenery, much less make acquaintance with father's old friends. As a result, no news from the junket. She has been demoted to cub reporter and banished to look for a job in Boston.

Another roving reporter, Bob Naramore, also traveled out west this summer. He saw Elinor and Dave Smith in Berkeley, then went on to Los Angeles, Houston and New Orleans. He and Corinne "left our hearts in San Francisco, our livers, kidneys and stomachs abandoned in New Orleans."

Let's catch up on some miscellaneous news. Dick Upton of Concord, N. H., has been named Chairman of the State Historical Commission by Gov. John King. They take their history seriously up in New Hampshire. The previous chairman resigned in a dispute over his budget.

If Dick has any trouble in this regard he can call on Hank Orcutt, who has just been elected to the Town Finance Committee in Wakefield, Mass.

Incidentally, Ken Kurson, who lives near Boston, may be interested to learn that his sister, Miss Sylvia Kurson, is greatly missed in our home town of Chappaqua, N. Y. I didn't know until her retirement was announced from the Horace Greeley High School that there was any relationship. Miss Kurson was long known as one of the outstanding teachers in our school system, a fact which was amply testified at a reception held for her and three other retiring teachers. Presented was a scrapbook of letters from former students from over thirty states, along with a check from the High School Alumni Association.

In connection with the recent Alumni Fund in which Bus Latimer achieved another excellent record for the Class, DaveSmith reports that he talked to Don Richardson, who has recently retired from Lockheed Aircraft, in part to be able to devote more time to his wife, Ann, who is quite ill. Dave also saw Bill Short, who, curiously enough, was also at Lockheed, although neither Bill or Don had seen each other at work in Sunnyvale. Gordon Studebaker is still with Scholastic Magazine. His son, John, graduated from Stanford and is at Hastings Law School in San Francisco, daughter Stacy is finishing high school. Years ago Dave and Gordon were both at Stanford Graduate School of Business together, but never realized that they had both been in the Class of '35 at Dartmouth.

Obstetrical news is getting a little thin nowadays, but Frank Van Kirk has a new son, John Arthur, who was born last December. Herb Van Doom reports no children, but says that his importing business is very good. Three years ago he went out of a retail business which he operated in partnership with his wife in Berkeley and now specializes in wholesaling of English and Portuguese china in the eleven western states.

Al Tacy has moved from Berkeley to Redding, Calif., "Great country to live in," he says, "boating, fishing, hunting, all fifteen minutes away." Dave also got a note from Fred Kayser, who has been all over the world as a regular Lt. Col. in the Army Engineers. Dave wrote him in Korea and got an answer from Ft. Belvoir in Virginia. Life in the Army still continues to be most interesting, says Fred. I wonder if OuterWhipple gets this reaction from the two of his five boys who are now with Uncle Sam, one in Germany and the other in Ethiopia. Omer himself is teaching semi-micro qualitative analysis at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo.

If anyone knows where Larry Somer is, let me know. Apparently he is no longer living in Redwood City or at his old place of business in Belmont, Calif.

Late Flash: Reg Bankart, formerly senior vice president of Compton Advertising, has joined Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles as senior vice-president. Reg was tempted by a number of opportunities elsewhere, but the advertising business holds on to its own.

Late, late Flash: Howie Kaiser and TomLane both sailed their own boats in the Vineyard Sound Race this weekend. Alas, neither boat distinguished its skipper, Lane's particularly being handicapped by a new member of the crew in the person of yours truly, but it was a good race in wonderful weather.

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