1946

During the only two quiet weeks of the summer the town of Hanover returned to the natives, the weather grew somewhat colder, the College ground crews increased their activities to a fever pitch while almost everyone else took a breather before preparing for the start of another school year. As reported elsewhere in this MAGAZINE the summer was one of unbelievable activity. Except for the age of the participants, which ranged from the youngest ABCers to the oldest executives there was no apparent break in the educational program. The dorms were filled and the processions back and forth across the campus were steady, particularly in the direction of Hopkins Center. All in all it was an exciting and interesting summer but I am convinced of one thing - the old days are gone forever - we are now embarked on an annual twelvemonth program at Dartmouth.

One of the pleasures of summer for the Kimballs is the influx of visitors, many of whom are kind enough to stop in for a visit. Had a pleasant chat with Tom Charles who returned from Switzerland with his family and took the opportunity to bring his son up to look over Dartmouth. Tom has been in Geneva with du Pont for the last four years where he is financial advisor for the vast du Pont European operation. Since this complex has been expanding constantly Tom has had a busy but fascinating job. The Charleses enjoy living abroad but wouldn't object to returning to the States in another year or so. Spent a delightful evening with Nemo and Ginnie Anderson who came to Hanover to reminisce and to expose their children to the Dartmouth scene. The Andersons live in Pacific Palisades just north of Los Angeles where they were good friends of Don and Peg Hutchinson before the latter returned to Pittsburgh. Nemo is a sales manager for Reynolds Metal. The whole family loves California living, and Nemo and Ginnie stick to tennis leaving the surf boarding to the children. It was great to see them.

Malcolm Johnson has been appointed editor of the newly created college department of Time-Life books where he will be responsible for developing a program of new kinds of instructional materials for students and faculty in colleges and universities. Mai was most recently McGraw-Hill's editor-in-chief of engineering and science text books and prior to that had worked in sales and merchandising with Vick Chemical and in marketing analysis with A. C. Nielsen Company. He joined McGraw-Hill in 1950 and worked well up the ladder before departing to Time-Life.

Received a note from Dick Hartman recently announcing that he had won the election and is now serving on the school committee in Wilbraham, Mass. Knowing how busy he is in his executive position at the Massachusetts Mutual Insurance Company and in numerous civic affairs, we can only congratulate him on his willingness to serve on another important post. One of our aerosol kings, Jim Barnet, had a great writeup in "New England Profile" which traced his many activities during the years since Hanover. The article stresses Jim's marketing genius and describes his newest product, Crazy Foam, a revolutionary new kind of foamy soap that cleans the kids and may also be molded into animals or other figures. Not being content to doodle at his desk, Jim has figured out new fun in the bathtub.

Ralph Fifield, a successful V.P. at the First National Bank of Boston, has now entered the educational field as a trustee of Vermont Academy. Having been active as an alumni worker, including chairman of the alumni fund committee, he has now assumed the challenging duties of a regular trustee. Received a note from Lt. Col. MikeSpark indicating a change from St. Petersburg, Fla., to the big Marine Base at Camp LeJeune, N. C. No details reported on change of duty but we would be interested to know what is involved.

During the previous year we reported that Ed Kuhn was general manager and editor-in-chief of McGraw-Hill's trade department. We have now received word that Ed is joining the New American Library, Inc. as executive vice president, editorial. Having been in the publishing business since graduation from Dartmouth, he has had an active, and varied career as editor and publisher of many books by wellknown authors and as manager of several publishing departments within McGrawHill. In his new capacity Ed will be in charge of NAL's soft and hard cover editorial program.

Though we have more to report, we've run out of space - a happy occasion which I trust will continue throughout the year. As the fall season approaches we hope that many of you will want to watch the Big Green in action at Memorial Field and that we will have a chance to say hello. Best regards from the hills.

Secretary, 33 South Park St. Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, 116 Lyncroft Rd., New Rochelle, N. Y.