1935

Recent meetings at Hanover, at the Yale game, and in New York have begun to shape up some thinking about our Thirtieth Reunion. It is scheduled for June 13-15 to coincide with the thirtieth of our contemporaries in '36 and '37, the idea being that propinquity breeds interest, a fact on which the popularity of osculation is based. At our age it is perhaps better that concupiscence be left to house-parties rather than reunions, but since I only learned recently that I had mispronounced the word for some forty years this whole matter of proximity has taken on new zest, and warrants further inquiry.

The resources of the English language are equal to the challenge. A real estate office on 44th Street advertises adjacent properties but it says they are "contiguous," according to a sign in the window. It is apparent the properties must be adjoining, top to bottom perhaps, or abutting side to side. They may even be conterminous. Certainly they are nigh, in the neighborhood or vicinal, and probably just as proximate as advertised.

Reunions can do no less. Come up to Hanover next June and be proximate with your own classmates, neighborly with '36 and '37, and propinquent with the College. The experience will do you good. Besides, there are a lot of people working on it who will be disappointed if you don't.

There are seven propinquent sons of '35 in the freshman class of 1969: Allen, Fellows, Griffith, Jacobs, Mills, Saunders and Todd. This is four or five less than recent years and perhaps we have reached our peak with about forty undergraduate sons in Hanover at a time. As the man said: it's lucky we applied thirty-five years ago, before education became the biggest growth industry in the U.S.

Candle king Harry Deckert has this problem for daughters, the eldest of whom, Pepper, was married last summer to Jay Buckley, a 6' 10" former Duke basketball center. Around New York there was another Buckley figuring in recent news who thought he was ten foot tall, but the city elections have cut him back to size. Of Harry's other daughters, Pat is a junior at Stanford in Germany, and Pam a freshman at Miami U. Harry says he is still refereeing local football games in spite of his advanced age and decrepitude and that he still hears occasionally from piano-man Griffith, which is more than I can say. Griff, it appears, "hasn't changed a bit." He must have lost that forty pounds.

Speaking of Buckley, we really should get Mac Feinberg to fill us in. It isn't clear that Mac supports the party but he did address an open meeting of the New Rochelle Conservative Party Club some time ago on the subject of Urban Renewal. Mac is a specialist on this subject having been professionally active in commercial and industrial real estate since 1946 and a former director of the Westchester County Realty Board.

Sandy Stein has been talking too, though not to my knowledge at Conservative Clubs. As training coordinator for the Ford motor Co. at Metuchen, N. J., Sandy gave a talk recently before the Paterson Kiwanis Club entitled "The Challenge of Foreign Competition," in which he not too subtly referred to the development of the Mustang as "a perfect example of production to meet competition." I guess Sandy developed his international point of view in the course of naval service (over 14 years according to the Paterson Evening News). He joined Ford at Mahwah in 1957.

Another Kiwanian, Ed Oakley, who lives up in the Van Rensselaer town Of Glass Lake, N. Y., was recently nominated lieutenant governor of the V. R. Division of Kiwanis, which includes nine clubs. Ed was with Adirondack Steel, Inc. but is now billed as being associated with the Cooper Alloy Corp. of Hillside, N. J. Ed goes Harry Deckert one better. He has four daughters: Judy, Sally, Barbara, and Nancy.

One adopted son of '35 has now left Hanover, James A. Carr, of Dallas, the first recipient of the Milburn McCarty Memorial Scholarship. Jim is now at a Presbyterian seminary in Austin, Texas, and plans to enter the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University next fall. The new McCarty Scholar is Robert T. Cole '69 of Hallsville, Texas. Bob was valedictorian of his high school class, president of the student council, co-captain of football and on the all-district team, business manager of the Yearbook, etc. An outstanding student, Bob could not have come to Dartmouth without the help this fund provided.

Recollect that Neil Roberts feller, area chairman of the class out in Colorado, who visits his one-man constituency every year or so? Well, his constituent is named Bill Eisendrath, not Ed - for which my apologies. Neil himself was profiled in the Northwestern Banker, a Des Moines magazine, some time ago. He was born in Salem, Ore., but his parents and all four grandparents were from Colorado, which must be something of a record. Liking the family name, he married another Roberts, Lee Roberts, in 1937 and after a naval career during the war returned to the Denver United States National Bank where he progressed to become president in 1962. As the article emphasizes, Neil knows his business: "The combination of long bank experience and an acute awareness of the pace at which the world moves makes Mr. Roberts' direction of banking operations an exciting challenge to his associates." In addition to many Dartmouth interests and responsibilities, Neil is on the Advisory Panel of the Denver Research Institute of the University of Denver and active in planning a new program for the Colorado Women's College. He is treasurer of the Colorado Public Expenditure Council, first vice president of the Colorado Bankers Association, former Lions Club president, country club president and vestryman of his church. He is an inveterate camper, enthusiastic golfer, able photographer - once operating a professional photo service in his spare time. If you have money in Denver; if you need money in Denver; he is the man to see. OK, Neil. Now get out there and chase up that Eisendrath.

If you have not yet got a copy of JimLeSure's book, "Guide to Pedaguese, a Handbook for Puzzled Parents," you should. It is a classic. Jim is a reformed banker active for the last 15 years as teacher certification officer in the Connecticut State Department of Education and quite in demand as a speaker on sundry educational topics. Jim has also been active in civic affairs in his home town of Manchester, Conn., where he is president of the Interfaith Social Action Council. Not far away, in New Britain, lives Paul Rogers who has just been named a director of Wasley Products, Inc. a manufacturer of lighting fixtures and rubber seal products. Paul is a director of ten or twelve other companies, banks and institutions, including one in Holland, and still makes a linear actuator, in case you need one.

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