1941

Another summer has slipped by (where do they go?) and now we are entering our 25th year as Dartmouth Alumni. From now until June, you're going to receive lots of information about the gigantic 25th Reunion - and this should be the granddaddy of them all. All during the next ten months your Class Secretary will do everything possible to keep you posted on all Reunion news and first among those reminders is the dates to mark clearly on your future date book right now: June 16 through June 19, 1966. Our Reunion Chairman, Stacy Hill is predicting a record turnout and fantastically beautiful New Hampshire weather. This is a must - we'll never have a 25th Reunion again.

As Class Secretary I'm in a unique position to see the growing stature and importance of the class of 1941. This growth is reflected in many ways. It is seen in the increasingly large number of magazine and newspaper articles about our classmates and their accomplishments. It can be seen in the really major contributions to society that members of the class are making in almost every field of endeavour. We can be justly proud of our class in its contributions to the college too. In the Alumni Fund for example we achieved a new class dollar total in 1965 and our mark of reaching 153% of our dollar objective ranked us in fourth place among all classes. A wonderful job done by our Class Agent Ed Lamer and the many classmates who worked with him. And special thanks to Bruce Friedlich and Dan Provost whose work as chairmen of the 25th Year Gift Program helped send our Fund Drive well over the top.

The Class of 1941 is contributing to the College in other ways too. Tom Willers has been elected president of Dartmouth's General Association of Alumni. This Association, founded in 1854, includes more than 32,000 Dartmouth men. Tom is also a member of the Class executive committee and president of Hooker Chemical Corporation. Bob Krieger of Minneapolis has been elected to the Dartmouth Alumni Council for a two-year term as representative of the middle western states. Bob's accomplishments are many. He has been associated with Bankers Life Co. since 1948 and is a member of the company's Million Dollar Club. He is also a director of the Paper Supply Co., Inc., of Minneapolis. He served as an Air Force pilot from 1941-46 and has been active in alumni matters in the Twin Cities since graduation. But the thing that we remember first about Bob is that neat little three-pointer he kicked again Cornell in the fall of 1940.

In fact, as the 25th Reunion Class we're so much in the limelight this year that they're going to publish a book about us. Red O'Connor is the editor and during the summer you all received a rather lengthy biographical questionnaire from him which will provide the necessary information for the preparation of the 25th Yearbook. But for Pete's sake - fill out the questionnaires and return them. The response to date has been extremely poor according to the old Redhead. In the very near future you'll be getting a reminder to send your information to the Yearbook Editor. Please, fellows, follow through on this as soon as possible. Red is going to make this the best Class Yearbook ever but he can't do it without the material.

During the summer we've been able to gather some news of interest and while some of it goes back to the April-May period, it is worthy of being reported here. The Sunday Magazine section of the Washington (D. C.) Star featured Dr. William Jamison in a story titled "Machine-Shop Doctor." When Bill is working in his metal shop at home it is not an escape from medicine but an extension of it. When he is busy welding and cutting away, he is working on heartlung machines, the complicated devices that pump and oxygenate the blood during openheart operations. He designs the devices, builds them and then has the opportunity to use them. He is head of cardiovascular surgery at Doctors Hospital in Washington, D. C. Bill lives in Manassas, Va., earned his M.D. degree at the University of Virginia and spent his internship and surgical residency at George Washington University Hospital. Wonderful work, Bill and our congratulations!

The City Planning Commission of Torrington, Conn., selected the Hartford firm of E. H. Lord-Wood Associates as planning consultants for Torrington. The company, whose president is Everett Lord-Wood is charged with preparing a new master plan of development for the city. Everett studied city planning at the University of Pennsylvania and served as a municipal public works director and city engineer for Norwalk, Conn., director of a city plan commission and of a redevelopment program. His firm has broad experience in community planning, engineering, recreational planning, urban renewal and related fields.

Les Davis is in the news again. The popular Cimarron rancher has been re-elected president of the New Mexico Cattle Growfrom Association. Arnie Bartlett has moved from principal of Glen Ridge High School in New Jersey to a new post as associate superintendent of schools in Norwell, Mass. Arnie, his wife and their ten children planned on moving back to New England during the summer. With ten youngsters Arnie just has to be the No. 1 Dad in the Class of '41. George Wrisley, former national accounts sales manager of Lever Brothers Co., was named a vice president of Electronic Business Services Corp., a subsidiary of Computer Applications, Inc. in New York. Bill Cashel has assumed his duties as vice president and general manager of the Bell Telephone Company's central area in Pennsylvania. Previously Bill was marketing vice president at Bell headquarters in Philadelphia.

When the Class executive committee next meets in New York on Oct. 29 it will have the fun of getting together in the spanking new offices of Bruce Friedlich & Co., the advertising agency run by our own Brucie. The new location is the Graybar Building and marks another step forward for a fine firm.

That's all folks. See you at the Yale game. Look for the picnic - there's sure to be one.

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