1934

Contentment is driving from New Haven to Washington on a perfect Sunday afternoon the day after watching Dartmouth whip Yale in a come-from-behind cliffhanger. Victory was never sweeter. It made the quickie 750-mile round trip all worthwhile and erased much of the melancholy from the memories of those long, long journeys back to Hanover after four successive undergraduate years of frustrating excursions to the Bowl.

Victory arrived late. And just in the nick of time, too, because some old gossips had been talking up a revival of the Yale jinx - whatever that is.

We were much too busy biting our fingernails to pay much heed to folks at the game, but through the tattered edges of our lacerated cuticles we spotted Jerry Danzig, Clarence Davies, John Foley, Bob Ford, Moe Frankel, Harry Gilmore, Herb Heston, Al Jacobson, Art Leonard, and Gay Raphael. Especially sorry we missed connections with our Pepysian pen pal, HankWerner, whom we salute and thank for pinch-hitting last month's class notes.

Bill Seherman tells us that 1934's fall Class Dinner at Hanover was "one of the very best." Treasurer Ed Brown reported a total attendance of 56. Besides Ed and Barbara, and Bill and Gerry, those present and accounted for included Jo and Bill Wilson, Franny and John Lyle, Gerry and Fred Robbe, Millicent and Bill Emerson, Dottie and Rollie Morton, Charlotte and Don Allen, Carolyn and Bob Davis, Gert and Mac McClary, Molly and Herb Heston, Effie and Spike Fulton, Ruth and Art Moebius, Mary Lou and Charlie Dean, Helen and Clarence Davies, Mary and John Foley, Nina and Gene Orsenigo, Barbara and Stan Smoyer, Madeline and George Kimball, Marion and Jock Hinsman, Phoebe and Nick Nanos, and Gretchen and Jack Gilbert. Also assorted sons, daughters, brothers, in-laws, etc. Gilbert, 1934's piano virtuoso, stirred memories at Top-of-the-Hop reunion and at the Browns' Friday and Saturday nights.

For the Class of 1934, we express profound sympathy to Bob Balgley. His wife, Juliet (Smith '36) and their daughter, Meredith Ann, were badly burned in the crash of a private plane, September 26. Juliet died four days later. Meredith is fighting for her life in Hartford (Conn.) Hospital. Juliet and Bob would have celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary on Oct. 18. Their son Paul will be graduated from Dartmouth in June and son Joel from The Forman School at the same time. We share the grief of Bob's great tragedy.

HONORS - Steve Woodbury has been chosen headmaster of Appleton Academy in New Ipswich, N. H. His selection followed by two months Steve's resignation as principal of Fitchburg (Mass.) High School, a post he had held for nine years. Steve, who won his M.A. at Harvard, has been a teacher for some 30 years. His Dartmouth high jump record of 6'2" stood for more than 25 years - until it was broken in 1960 by Boston U's famed John Thomas.

Dick Poisson has been appointed Director of Studies at Newport (R. I.) School for Girls. Dick formerly was on the faculty of Miss Hall's School and Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, Mass. He did graduate work at the University of Paris, The Chateau Montcel, Middlebury, and Columbia. He spent 18 years in advertising in New York.

Bob Reynolds, dean of Westchester Community College in Valhalla, N. Y„ is new president of the Valhalla Rotary Club. Bob also is vice president of Charles Properties, Inc., of New York and of 331 Madison Avenue Corp., New York. After graduation from Dartmouth, he got his M.A. and Ed.D. from Columbia University.

PERIPATETIC PAIR - Jim Darling, who already has made three trips to Europe and one to Australia this year, is on his fourth journey through Europe as marketing staff officer of Mars, Inc. (candy and pet food). (Jim, now living in Washington, reports that daughter Pat is now at Southern Seminary in Buena Vista, Va.; son Steven is a high school sophomore and son Roger is a 5th grader.) ... Tom Beers took off on a trip to Japan on a graphic arts mission for the National Geographic. (His son Tom is a senior at Trinity; Nancy is a junior at Holton Arms and Dick, in Landon School, is aiming for Dartmouth.)

TIME MARCHES ON DEPT. - ChickChickering reports from Wilmington, Del.: "After 30 years with duPont, I have retired and am busy doing all the things I never had time for. Have bought a country place outside of Woodstock and expect to be up there when the snow flies." And from Charlie Strauss in Stamford, Conn.: "Twin sons received their bachelor degrees from Dartmouth in June. Charles Jr., now at Columbia School of Business for Master's degree; Andrew at University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Architecture."

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS Sid Wisch, vice president of Cole National Corporation of Cleveland in Charge of Public Relations, reports a bright new product idea - car keys in color - and sends along blank samples to demonstrate the brightness of the idea and the product. (On the personal side, Sid reports that daughter Phyllis, a Columbia University grad, is now with Harper and Row Publishers, New York, while daughter Kathy is a freshman at Beaver College, Philadelphia.) ... PretBelknap, who sold the Vermont Newspaper Corp. two years ago, has embarked on a big new venture. He and wife Kay have taken over two apartment motels in Sarasota, Fla. (Town and Beach and Tahiti Sands). Pret reports that he enjoys his new career. Among his clientele so far have been Walter Norton TO of Middlebury, Conn., and Leo Birt '16 of Hartford, Conn. (Pret's family report - son Peter a sophomore at Stetson U. in DeLand, Fla.; daughter Susan teaching fourth grade at Nassau, N. Y., and Nancy, now Mrs. Paul Flinn of Cazenovia, N. Y., busy being mother to Pret's grandsons, Chris and Jeff.) ... Bill Richardson, president of the Industrial Air Co., is moving the main office and general sales office of his firm from Newton Upper Falls to Stoughton, Mass. News dispatches describe Bob's enterprise as "a leader in the design, fabrication, and erection of air handling systems, and has engineered systems for ventilating, humidity control, drying and cooling in use throughout the world by the paper and textile industries." Bill went on to M.I.T. after Dartmouth. ... And, George Thomas now General Manager of Tube Craft, Inc., in Waterbury, Conn.

That time of year is near at hand again. So we will say it now: To all 1934's and their loved ones - a Christmastide of joy all your hopes and dreams!

H. Theodore Gregory '34 (l), Development Officer for Quinnipiac College inHamden, Conn., checks progress on theconstruction of that school's library withbuilding supervisor, John Cavallaro (c),and Carl N. Hansen, Chairman of Quinnipiac's Development Committee.

Secretary, 7113 Millwood Rd. Bethesda, Md. 20014

Treasurer, Thayer School, Hanover, N. H.

Bequest Chairman,