1938

And so, after a long, dry summer in New England, another ALUMNI MAGAZINE season begins. There is always a sameness to the items which perforce appear here - different names, places, and companies, but a constant relation of promotions, changes, and sometimes tragedy.

Elsewhere in this issue you will find the obituary of Frank Davenport, whose sudden passing came as a shock to all who knew him. Herb Bayer was kind enough, as one of his best friends, to do the notice for me.

Among those more or less missing throughout the years since graduation, as unfortunately is pretty much true of service people in general, is Vining Sherman. Herewith an account of himself:

Having completed just a bit over one month as a retired officer, I can report that, hectic though this adjustment is, it is thrilling, especially when one can return to the ancestral home in the country as I have. It has been a distressingly dry season, but there has been one good thing about this — it has been great for the extensive roof repairs which we have been making!

Yes, I left my dreary desk in the Pentagon on July 1, and that same night we planted the flag here in Plympton (Mass.) where I am going to make my permanent home. We hope to get to Hanover this fall, and I'll certainly look you up.

A great part of my effort these days goes to the challenging necessity of finding employment where I can make a significant contribution. Somewhere, between Providence and Boston there is an outfit needing the likes of me. It's like running for office. And a great way to meet people.

My wife, Marion, and I are having fun actually implementing all the plans for this house which we have stored up all these years. It is thrilling to be able to work on your own place after years of fixing up houses of others.

My daughter, Diana, is entering Mount Holyoke this fall. All of us are thrilled about this. Things being what they are today, this is practically the equivalent of making the women's Olympic Team! My son, Vining Jr., is a sophomore in high school, and among other things he has his eye on Dartmouth.

From the Dartmouth College News Service come several bulletins of the new honors heaped on members of the Class. YoungP. Dawkins Jr., of Mount Kisko, for example, has been elected to the Dartmouth College Alumni Council for a three-year term as a representative of the Dartmouth Class Chairmen and Presidents Association. Dawk is still with IBM and is a member of the board of directors of the Committee for Economic Development and the Greater New York Safety Council, and has been active in fund-raising drives for the American Red Cross and the United Epilepsy Association.

The Alumni Council now is graced with the presence of Robert L. Manegold of Milwaukee for a two-year term as a representative of the middle western states. "Mr. Manegold is president of the Wehr Corp., formerly the Wehr Steel Co. He is a director of the First Wisconsin National Bank, the First . Wisconsin Trust Co., Pressed Steel Tank Co., University Lake School in Hartland, and the local hospital.

That perennial alumni officer, Ed Perrin has been re-elected to the Alumni Council. He is industrial sales manager of the Plimpton & Hills Corp. of Hartford. Mr. Perrin has been district enrollment chairman for Dartmouth and is alumni president and a trustee of the Kingswood School in West Hartford. He is also a scout for the New York Mets in eastern Connecticut and is secretary of the Hall of Fame Foundation in Hartford.

Johnny Duguid, in response to a query about an address change, replies: "The address change that you mentioned in your note does not indicate any change of position. It only means that I have moved to a somewhat larger house with a somewhat larger mortgage. I am still teaching mathematics at New Canaan (Conn.) High School; getting ready to start my 9th year at this position. I have been tied up with Saturday morning classes at Fairfield University where I have been working to keep up with the socalled new math. However, this year, under threats from my wife, I have decided not to take any Saturday courses. I hope to get to a few games and see the '38 gang."

From that sterling publication, the Newport (Vt.) Express, circ. 4,166, comes word that Dr. Edward C. Woods of Rutland has been elected president of the Vermont State Dental Society at that Society's 89th annual meeting. After graduating from Harvard Dental School with high honors, he accepted the Carnegie Clinical Fellowship in Oral Surgery at the Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N. Y.

Still on the medical front comes word of the appointment as Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School of Dr. John P. Merrill. He is in the school's department of Medicine at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. Accompanying this release is a long account of Johnny's many contributions to kidney research, some of it quite technical in nature. I shall pass along the complete story to Dan Marshall for use at his discretion.

The Weyerhaeuser Company's paper division has appointed nine technical members to the administrative staff of the recently dedicated and expanded paper research and development center at Fitchburg, Mass. Dr.Gilbert Small Jr. is one of the group, specializing in synthetics and additives. He had been with Ludlow Corporation in the research department of the paper division for four years before coming to Weyerhaeuser. Before this he was with Cryovac Division of W. R. Grace Co. for five years, also in research, and with Kendall Company's Theodore Clark Laboratory from 1949 to 1955. He was a research associate at Harvard during 1948. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard and has published papers in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

James V. Garvey has been named manager of internal auditing for the Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. Garvey played a major role in the formation of the firm's distribution service department and in 1948 was appointed assistant to the manager of the newly formed department. In 1953 he was named corporate coordinator of profit improvement programs and two years later became midwest area manager of the distribution service department.

In 1957 he became controller of the department and in 1962 was named manager, manufacturing cost control, for the receiving tube operation in Emporium, Pa. In June of last year he was appointed manager of the manufacturing cost control department for the electronic tube division in Seneca Falls, N. Y.

The new president and chief executive of Bell Industries, Inc. is 1938's WhitefoordS. Mays Jr., whose son just graduated from the Big Green last June. Prior to joining Bell, Whitey had been president of Morgan-Jones Inc., since 1956. He, Harriet and their four children live in Greens Farms, Conn. The account of his business career is so comprehensive that this too I shall pass on to the good Marshall of San Antonio

Short business notes from all over: FredW. Piderit Jr., father of eleven, has been appointed vice president in charge of bank supervision and bank relationships by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Joseph K.Van Denburg has been elevated to associate publisher of Automobile International and Fleet International, McGraw-Hill publications. R. E. Keresey has been elected a vice president of Esso Research and Engineering Co., Linden, N. J. Nathan Straus III has disclosed he has resigned as chairman of Straus-Duparquet, Inc. Thomas A. Boyan, former director of labor relations for the Mohawk Carpet Co., has been named vice president for personnel of Mohasco Industries.

Short intellectual note from New York: Wellington Wales has joined the editorial board of the New York Times after three years as editor of the editorial page of the Knickerbocker News in Albany.

"The President (of the U. S. - ed.) also announced his intention to elevate a Foreign Service career officer, Joseph J. Jova of New York, to the post of Ambassador to Honduras. ... Mr. Jova is now deputy chief of mission at the U. S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile, where he has served since June, 1961. He has served in posts in Iraq, Morocco, and Portugal, and in 1960 served as chief of the personnel operations division of the State Department."

Odds and ends from all over: The responsibility of the civic school board member in teacher selection was discussed by Charles T. Sweeney, President of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees at a meeting in Framingham, Mass. Dr. Alfred R. Wolff, dean of the division of student personnel at the University of Bridgeport, recently spoke on the topic: "The College Years: Pressures, Problems, and Parents." James T. Towne of Darien (the cocktail town) has been made a vice chairman of the advance gifts committee of the Darien YMCA building fund.

That just about cleans up the accumulation over the summer. The shoe box is empty again; help fill it up for the Novemer Issue! See you or by proxy, at Cambridge, New Haven, and Hanover.

Secretary, 12 Summer St., Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, Hunter Lane, Rye, N. Y.

Bequest Chairman,