1939

It's about time we gave a little recognition to some of the guys in the Class who work overtime for Dartmouth. Cornie Miller is president of the Dartmouth Club of Southeastern Connecticut. Bob Cushman is president of the Dartmouth Club of Worcester. Herb Nichols is president of the Cheshire County (N. H.) Dartmouth Alumni Association. Hass Warrener is president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Cincinnati. Ed Oppenheim is president of the Dartmouth Club of Western Oklahoma. PaulDorsey is president of the Dartmouth Club of Nashville and Middle Tennessee.

For the National Enrollment Committee, Dick Jackson runs things in the Berkshire (Mass.) district, Robb DeGraff is in charge of the Delaware district, Baxter Prescott is the man to see for the West Virginia district, Paul Dorsey is also the key man for Central Tennessee, George Neiley beats the bushes in the Southern Illinois district, and Bob Van Slambrouck checks things out for Northern California.

Bob Gibson is one of three alumni members on the Dartmouth Athletic Council, Zeke Hill is the Alumni Representative on the Board of Proprietors of The Dartmouth, Bob Kaiser is the Executive Secretary of the Bequest Program in Hanover, and our Jim McKeon puts in a lot of over- time, we guess, as manager of the Dartmouth College Club in New York.

We've been able to come up with some information on Bud Little, who sent in only the bare minimum for our Reunion Book. Bud is engaged in the general practice of medicine in Helena, Mont. He is still treasurer of the U.S. Ski Association and represents USSA on FIS Downhill and Slalom Committee and is chairman of USSA International Competitions Committee. He attended the World Ski Congress in Mamia, Rumania, in June and got back home just in time for Commencement for son Jim at Dartmouth. Jim married Cynthia Clark of Fulton, N. Y., on August 21 and is now enrolled at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver.

Postcards from various watering points record the trek of Bill Russell across Europe. He has a job involving a survey on packaged foods in England and Austria and has headquarters at 10, Bloomsbury Square in London, which is about as far uptown as you can get.

We have received a list of classmates who have passed on and a list of the volumes we have acquired in their names at Baker Library under our Memorial Book Program. In reading through the names, you get a solid and solemn thrill that those fine books are "at work" in the same stacks where those wonderful guys spent a little time many years ago. We hope you all become interested in our Memorial Book Program and some time when you are in Hanover, you should see some of the books inscribed for your friends.

If more and more big games are played in Hanover, our Al Abbott, president of the White River Coach Lines, should do very well. Now if door-to-door service were inaugurated, there are a lot of wives who would apply for a ticket for hubby. And as the demand for rooms surpasses the supply, maybe a rolling caravan with Phil Sanborn at the wheel might be something different. In any event, Al doesn't need rooms reserved for him but would like to be included in any social activities you all plan when you are in Hanover.

Has anyone in the Class won anything in the New Hampshire Sweepstakes? Does the investment have growth possibilities and what is the yield? Will my old roomie Fred Upton please oblige? Or are you too busy raking in the shekels up there in Concord? Somehow the news of such important events hasn't filtered through to our county weekly yet.

By the time this is in print the informal reunion in Woodstock for the Cornell game will he history. Any wife present can get her husband's name in print and the appreciation of your secretary by sending us a thumbnail sketch. As this is written, the Big Green has just come from behind to make the Yale hurdle and is still undefeated. Photos of distinguished characters at these games are always welcome.

Hank Hastings moved some time ago to Storrs, Conn., where he makes the world's best bird call. Charles Obermeyer is now at 8300 Midwood St., Alexandria, Va. EdSearles has moved to 4164 Dorr St., Toledo, Ohio, up a few doors. Hank Morton now hangs up his hat at 6960 Pointer Rd., S.W., in Portland, Ore. Our Eastern Air Lines pilot Wolf Naylor calls 133 Bay State Road in Boston home. Wonder if the stewardesses ever heard his Dartmouth nickname? PaulWinship has moved the family to Moores Mills, R.D., Pleasant Valley, N. Y. HarryKersey is the new News Director of KDB, AM and FM in Santa Barbara, Calif. HowieSnyder has moved to 1502 Bidwell Drive in Chico, Calif. He sure wrote a good account of himself in The Book. And we have word of another change for Col. Ed Palmer to 143 Eagle Rock Way in Montclair, N. J.

Jim Schofield writes that he is back teaching again, now the sixth grade in Absecon, N. J. Harry Edmondson has moved to 1379 Schoolhouse Road in Montecito, Calif., and is vice president of Pickett, Inc., in Santa Barbara.

Does it make you feel awfully senior, or does it make you want to hurry up in life's race to know that Bart Jones has retired as a four-stripe Navy captain? He was appointed a member of the faculty this fall at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo. Gordon McCoun has transferred to New York City after five years in the Air Force and twenty years in South America with Pan American Grace. He says he now helps Jim McKeon erase the deficit by eating a lot of lunches at the Dartmouth College Club.

Our daughter Nancy has been named the Manson Scholar by the faculty at Sweet Briar College.

Tom Brooks contributes a note of interest to our Small World Department. His daughter Judy, a freshman at Green Mountain College, had her first college date with WaltDarby's son Doug, a junior at Dartmouth. He's a Darby, Tom, so look out!

A dandy news release from New England Tel. and Tel. relates that our Joseph J. Urban was elected vice president for planning, but it failed to say that Joe was a crackerjack catcher once upon a time. It says here his new address is 185 Franklin Street in Boston, but we rather suspect that's his office. A good man to know if you run out of dimes and the operator gives you a hard time.

A sour note from Hanover in the selective process of admission was a newspaper clip reporting that detectives from a Claremont, N. H., security agency have been brought in by the local merchants to cut down on shoplifting losses amounting to "many thousands of dollars" according to Wilbur Goodhue at the bookstore.

Sally and Bert MacMannis wrote glowingly from Woodstock on October 10 of the fall foliage and the warm weather. They saw Bob Dickgiesser in Campion's, watched the team fumble the ball nine times, and sat on the eight-yard line in the third row from the top (it takes pull, fellas) with Tom Brooks, Hank Glovsky, Mert Tarlow, Al Lansberg, Bill Goodman, Lou Highmark, Walt Darby, Moose Wyman, Joe Urban, Moose Dudis, Stan Brown, Bill Green, Monty Gray, and Bob Kaiser. They recommend the Kaisers' home for hospitality, and they think Herb Nichols, Bill Fairweather, and Fred Upton had preferred seats somewhat nearer the 50-yard line.

Bert fears not enough '39ers will come to the Cornell game because it's being televised and thinks we should plan earlier for a fall reunion next year. We can have the Woodstock Inn for the Brown game, which Bert thinks is next October 17. And with his pull, bring your telescope! Our new Investment Committee of Jack Coulson, Moreau Brown, and John Page was having a meeting around Hallowe'en, which should have been an auspicious start.

We thank you for all your help and encouragement. May the New Year bring you at least some of the things you are wanting. If you get to Florida this winter, please give Dot and me a call in Delray Beach. What we lack in size down there we shall make up in warmth! Merry Christmas, one and all!

Secretary, Box 38, Cashiers, North Carolina

Treasurer, 666 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. 10019

Bequest Chairman,