1939

Dot Darby, Peggy Tishman, Betsy Wyman, and Dot Conkle, with their husbands, met in Hanover in early May for the Class Officers Weekend. Sally MacMannis couldn't make it but sent her husband along anyway.

It's a long haul to Hanover from here, but we tentatively planned to make the trip, as we felt we owed it to you guys to learn the ropes about this job from the experts. Then when our only son, whom we think is a fine boy, was turned down by Dartmouth two weeks beforehand, we figured we better go for sure, on the same general theory that makes a pilot fly again as soon as possible after a crash. We're glad we went. We drove up with the spring via Richmond, Annapolis, and all the throughways to Lake George and then across Vermont at Rutland. We even took a side trip up around Mt. Washington to see the late snow on the mountain. The fresh air, those wonderful white birches that we don't see in the South, the balmy weather, that beautiful campus, and the fellowship with our classmates made it all worthwhile even without the speeches. I can report the average undergraduate is alert, very bright, intense, artistic, fairly healthy, and in need of a haircut. They take this business of education very seriously. As a very small matter, with the passing of Allen's and Mac's, there is now no milkshake business downtown in the evenings.

Your officers all stayed at the Chieftain and had a ball. We invited Bill Russell and Howie Olivers and their wives to join us late Friday evening and settled all the problems of the world. We each attended the right meetings the next day and learned many things. We thought the alumni present measured up very well and demonstrated their loyalty in many ways. The undergraduate speakers, on the other hand, lacked a sense of humor, were more interested in demonstrations of another type, and were riding off in all directions to flail at windmills.

I confided in you guys that our son had applied this year for entrance to Dartmouth, and I want to be man enough to tell you he was not accepted. John is going to the University of North Carolina, and if any of you ever find yourselves in Chapel Hill, please look him up. Dartmouth is losing a good boy, and now will someone please change the subject?

Funny thing. Our best letter of the summer was from Bob Davidson, advising that his son Roger didn't make Dartmouth, either. It was a serious letter, but bitterness is not our cup of tea, so Bob also passed on some news of classmates. His wife went back to her 25th reunion at Bennett College, where the new director of development is our own Paul Winship. Paul's wife, Susan, and their five children still live in Simsbury but will move soon. Bob is running for the local school board this fall, and we hope it pays better than around here. Anyone visiting Dayton this month should sign one of Bob's petitions and wish him well in his campaign.

John Mecklin's new book "Mission in Torment" received excellent reviews. John, who is also known as Meek the Knife, has been a veteran Time correspondent and the U.S. Information Chief in South Viet Nam. John is a fine reporter, clarifying many points for this reader, and he concludes: "It was a bitter reality that the Russians and Chinese once again had found somebody else to fight their battles for them. It was now our unalterable obligation to send our own fighting men to defend our vital interests, just as we had through all our history. There was no cheap way, no easy way out."

Teen Magazine has a new publisher. He is Robert F. MacLeod, a former publisher of Harper's Bazaar and Seventeen Magazine. The newspapers stated that Bob "also once played for the Chicago Bears" but failed to mention the high points in his career that we remember best.

Bob and Pat Thomas have moved from Long Island to Jacksonville, Ill. (241 Caldwell Street), where he will be on hand to greet and meet the students of MacMurray College in his new capacity there as Dean of Students. Since 1959 Bob has held a similar spot at Adelphi University's branch campus in Oakdale, Long Island. He had switched to work in higher education after twelve years in the Episcopal ministry. His son Bob will be one of his MacMurray students

The handsome New York physician BobJessup, his beautiful wife Betti, and their good-looking family surprised us one day in July on their way home from a Miami Beach vacation. We weren't able to get him to lead the singing as he did at Reunion, but he left a lot of pearls of wisdom with our children, who wish he was their doctor.

Bob Van Slambrouck has been named to the newly-created position of advertising director of McClatchy Newspapers.

Bozo Noland supervised every detail of his company's 50th birthday party, a gigantic week-long ice cream-and-cake soiree for 60,000 customers in the Noland Company's 46 branches in ten southern states. Bozo and his family left for Europe, we hear, soon after they deflated the last balloon and cleaned up that mess in their kitchen.

We hope you have all remembered to buy a copy of Ralph Hill's "The College on the Hill." It is excellent. You can learn that Dartmouth on two occasions has been part of Vermont, that there was a treasurer who ran away with $50,000, and that the author writes painstakingly well. Zeke says he started out with a stack of five-by-seven recipe cards, that he writes in longhand at 500 words a day, and that the book-writing virus is worse than having a mistress! He now has ten books under his name and is senior editor of Vermont Life magazine (which has a terrific full-color cover this month).

The July 23 issue of Life magazine had a beautifully written editorial tribute to Adlai Stevenson by our man in Washington, John Steele. It is wrong to take short quotations out of context, but I cannot pass this one by: "Adlai Stevenson seemed to me a man who faced an ever-present rendezvous with tragedy which he met repeatedly with gentle gaiety, wit, and ebullience." You don't just look at the pictures when John Steele is writing.

Bob Catherine, president of Federal Paint Co., has been named president of a new combine formed by Federal and the American Marine Paint Co. of San Francisco. The photographs of the new boss on all the financial pages revealed he still has a handsome head of gray hair over those flashing eyes. What a first impression he must make on their distributor in Newcastle-upon-Tyne!

Your secretary was deluged with clippings to the effect that Louis Oberdorfer has resigned as assistant attorney general in charge of the tax division to return to private law practice. The feeling here is that a lot of guys may have followed his career closely, just in case they needed a friend sometime. Anyway, we all wish you well, Lou.

Janice and Dan Hull recently announced the birth of their first daughter, Stephanie Jane. Her big brother, Daniel, is now eleven. Mrs. Hull (who was Dan's Winter Carnival date senior year) is living proof of Dan's headline that helped to enliven the front page of The Dartmouth once upon a time: "The Carnival Girls of Today Will Be the American Mothers of Tomorrow."

Ken MacDonald, a prominent Seattle lawyer, has helped to administer the Washington State civil rights law and has written a chapter on the subject for a book published by the National Association of Manufacturers.

A good percentage of the Class moved this summer. We'll catch a few now and save the rest for next month, when the Christmas card deadline is nearer. Rev. John T. Evans now lives at R.D. #1, Northfield, Vt. Jimmie Kelso may be found at 45 Hodder Drive, Hamden. Conn. The saga of Col. Bill Parkhill continues at 73 F Street, Norton A.F.B., San Bernardino, Calif., while the next chapter of the Lt. Col. Doug Younger story will be written at Hq. 2nd Bn., 37th Armor, 4th Armored Div., APO, N. Y., N. Y.

Meanwhile, watch for Walt Darby's advice in the newsletter and try to make the Fall Reunion at Woodstock, if not all the games. And please keep Hank posted on your doings!

Dr. J. Wallace Davis '39, associate inplastic surgery at the Jefferson MedicalCollege in Philadelphia and chairmanof that school's annual giving program,with U. S. Steel Foundation Award presented by the American Alumni Councilto Jefferson as winner of first placein professional school fund-raising.

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