1947

This is being written the day before our class biannual executive committee meeting. Among the items on the agenda is that of our twentieth reunion, due in only a year and a half. Certainly in the next issue we will be able to report on the leader of that reunion and some of the people who have joyously volunteered to make it successful.

Vanderbilt University has just named our own Dr. Russell Fraser to be chairman of the Department of English. Russ, a Shakespearean scholar, has been an associate dean of the Princeton University Graduate School, plus being an associate professor of English at Princeton since 1956. He is a specialist in the literature of the English Renaissance. Russ received his M.A. degree from Harvard in 1949 and the doctorate in 1950. He started out as an English instructor at the University of California and spent the 1951-52 academic year in England doing research. He has been granted fellowships from the American Philosophical Society and the American Council of Learned Societies. Russ is the author of a book, "Shakespeare's Poetics," and is also published widely in scholarly journals. He was assistant professor of English at Duke University from 1952 to 1956. He is also a member of the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, and the Modern Language Association. Dr. Fraser is also a member of the governing board of the Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants, a group supported by the U. S. State Department, the Ford Foundation, and 44 participating American universities which have Slavic programs. The committee exists to promote and arrange for the exchange of faculty and graduate students with universities in Communist countries. During January and February, 1965, Russ visited the Soviet Union, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia to arrange for such exchanges. He lectured on Shakespeare to a Moscow audience. Russ was married in 1947 to the former Eleanor Phillips of Keene, N. H. Mrs. Fraser, a registered nurse, is now clinic director for the Planned Parenthood Association of Mercer County (Trenton) N. J.

Another doctor, Victor C. Brum, received his Ph.D. in animal nutrition from the University of Maine this past summer. He is presently chief of the Medical Research Laboratory of the General Medical and Surgical section of the Veterans Administration Center at Togus, Me. He has been working 20 hours a week for his doctorate during the past five years under a special VA program which allowed him to devote 10 hours a week to his study on government time. He has been at the Medical Research Laboratory for seven years, having received his Master's degree from George Washington University.

Former Head Class Agent Bob Snedaker, Vice President and General Manager of the Ohio Bell Telephone Company, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the City National Bank of Columbus, Ohio. Bob, who has had a steady climb toward greater responsibilities with the telephone people, became general manager of the southwestern area of Ohio for Bell last year. He is also a member of the executive board of the Development Committee for a Greater Columbus, a director of the Columbus area Chamber of Commerce, trustee of Citizens Research, and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

One of our favorite travelers, DuncanMaefarlan, has moved again to become vice president at the Southwestern Home Office of Prudential Life Insurance Company in Houston, Texas. We say travelers because Dune started with Prudential right out of college in Newark, N. J., and then became manager of the company's Hackensack office in 1955. After that, he was assigned to the South-Central Home Office in Jacksonville, Fla., and from Jacksonville, to the cold north in Minneapolis, where he was vice president of the North-Central Home Office. We wish Dune a lot of luck in his new warm climate.

Paul Guilderson has just joined the staff of the Office of Industrial Development, Department of Resources and Economic Development in Concord, N. H. Paul will have the position of state industrial representative and will be seeking new industry for the state as well as the expansion of presently established industry. For the last two years, he has been executive director of the Upper Valley Development Council which embraces seven cities and towns in New Hampshire and Vermont, and which is located in Lebanon. While serving in this capacity, he was instrumental in establishing the Upper Valley Industry Park in Lebanon and in locating two new industries, New Jersey Machine of New Hampshire and New Hampshire Industries, Inc.

More news from our many brethren in the Bell Telephone Company. Bob Craig has been named Division Operations Manager for the Northwestern division of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania. Bob has been with the phone company since graduation at a steadily rising career in the company's departments in both Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. He has recently been general services supervisor, customer services, in Pittsburgh and received his new duties this spring. Bob lives with his wife, Mary, and their four children at 100 Glenn David Drive in Pittsburgh.

Dan Center started off this fall as the new principal of New Milford high school in Connecticut. It is pleasing to know that Dan was selected from 43 candidates for the position. He has taught junior high school as well as high school social studies in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. John received his LL.B. degree from Boston University; the Master of Education degree from the University of Maine. He has four children, ages 13, 10, 7, 4.

Received a letter some months ago from Bob Tulcin, which brings the Tulcin family somewhat up-to-date. Bob has been a partner at Dreyfus & Co., managers of the Dreyfus Fund (you know, the one with the lion) since 1956. The entire Tulcin family are tennis buffs including their two children, Roger, 13, and Ann, 11. As a matter of fact, Bob and Doris have challenged any other mixed doubles team to play for the '47 class championship and, to top it off, will pit their children against any of your children for the same championship. Bob and Doris have lived in Scarsdale for the past 13 years.

Ed Senghas of New Milford, N. J., has just been elected to the executive committee of the Dartmouth College Club Officers Association. Ed has done graduate work at Columbia, was in the Navy for the Korean thing and joined Samuel Hird and Sons, Inc. in 1952.

More news on the executive committee meeting next month.

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