1933
All parents are proud of their children but certainly Tom and Alice Hale have more than the usual to be proud of. Their son, Jim, graduated from Dartmouth as valedictorian of the Class of '62 and went on to the University of Minnesota Law School. It has been announced that Jim is to be personal law clerk next year for Chief Justice Earl Warren of the United States Supreme Court. He was one of three selected from a proposed list of 100 throughout the country and the first ever to have been selected from the University of Minnesota Law School since it was founded in 1888! This is an honor considered by members of the legal profession to be the highest that any law student can receive. Jim's academic record at Minnesota is the highest in the last 15 years. On his return to Minneapolis he will join John Faegre's law firm.
General Mills announced a number of executive changes in mid-January and the one of interest to us is that Jim McFarland was named executive vice president. I lost many a bridge game to Jim when we were down in Chase Hall and it was obvious then that some day Jim would be at the top of the heap, somewhere. We are all very happy for you, Jim, and best of luck!
Another good '33er who has moved way up in the business world is Charlie Chapman. A couple of weeks ago it was announced that Charlie has been appointed vice president of the newly formed Mining & Metals Division of Union Carbide Corporation. Charlie went with Union Carbide three years after graduating from Dartmouth as a member of the sales staff and moved on to vice president of that division where he has been since 1960. We are happy for your success too, Charlie, and best of everything!
Fran Harrington has been accorded a high honor. He was named to the Board of Trustees of Worcester Academy. Fran has been extremely active in Worcester. He is presently chairman of the Worcester Golden Rule-Red Cross Fund, a director of the Family Service Organization, member of the Executive Council of the Massachusetts Bankers Association, treasurer of Worcester Area Chamber of Commerce, treasurer of Worcester Chapter American Red Cross, a trustee of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, and a trustee of Hahnemann Hospital. He is vice president and group secretary of the Massachusetts Protective Assoc., Inc. and the Paul Revere Life Insurance Co., and a member of the Board of Directors of each of them. A busy guy and a good citizen!
A couple of engagements to report - the Gordon Ferry Hull's son, Gordon Ferry III to Miss Barbara Winton Kelly of Chicago and Dr. and Mrs. Jack Wright have announced the engagement of their daughter, Nancy, to Mr. John Hayes Howard of Berwyn, Pa. Good luck to both young couples.
A report on the Charlie Clarks from information on their wonderful Christmas card "The Scoop." We told you earlier that daughter, Nancy, was to go to Bolivia on a Rotary Fellowship and Charlie and Jean report that she is having a great time there with her Rotary duties taking her all over the country. Daughter, Judy, and son-in-law, Skeet, presented them with their second grandchild in October. Charlie and Jean took a trip East in the fall to see daughter. Caroline, and her husband, Earl, at Duke and then spent a few days at the New York World's Fair.
Speaking of Christmas cards, thanks to all of you who sent us cards. We sure appreciate them.
A few thumbnail sketches from the questionnaires.
George Mundt is professor of German Literature at Colgate. He and Henriette have four children - George Jr. graduated from Dartmouth in '60 and took his law degree at Cornell in '63, and he and his wife Donna have the Mundts' first grandchild, Eric. Their daughter, Helaine, is a graduate of Baldwin Wallace in 1962 as a musical education major. Son, Dirk, graduated from Union College in 64 and their youngest, Ann-Marie, I would guess from her age is a senior in High School. George reports that he is a member of many educational organizations and the Foreign Policy Association. He is a "distressed Republican," president of the Board of Education of Hamilton and Henriette works with the County Welfare Department.
Dan Degasis is president of his own insurance company in Nashua, N. H. He is active in the usual insurance trade associations, Elks, American Lithuanian Club. Polish American Club, and the Knights of Columbus. From 1959 to 1963 he was on the political staff of Congressman Perk Bass. Dan and Rachel have two children - daughter, Diane, was married in 1957 to Ken Moran and they have three children - ages 2,3 and 4. Diane is a graduate of the University of North Dakota. Daughter, Donna Jean, is a sophomore at the University of New Hampshire.
Bill Gillies is the executive vice president of Rust Engineering Co., engineers and constructors in Pittsburgh, Pa. He is another guy with a number of community activities. Among them he is president and director of the Shady Side Boys' Club, vice president and director of the Allegheny General Hospital, vice president and director of the Girls' Service Club. Bill and Mary were married back in 1939 and have a son and two daughters. Bill III married Ann Steadry in June of '64. He graduated from Bowdoin in '62 and took his Master's at the University of Chicago in 1964. Daughter, Nancy, is a 1964 graduate of Sweetbrier.
Don Murray is another educator from the Class of '33. After leaving Dartmouth he went on to Harvard and took his Master's and then to Stanford for his Doctorate. He also studied summers at the University of Dijon in France, National University of Mexico and the University of Granada. He is at present professor and chairman of the Modern Language Department at Beloit College and director of the Porter Scholars Program for Superior Students. He is also a member of several educational societies. He and Arlene were married in 1946 and have two children, Andrea and Cameron who haven't quite arrived at the college age. I'd like to quote from a note which he sent me. "For the past 13 years or so I have been heavily involved in the curricular planning which has culminated in the establishment of a World Affairs Center at Beloit with a strong emphasis on overseas study; the creation of special all-college honors program; the Porter Scholars Program, of which I am director; and the creation of the new Beloit plan for overseas study and a work-study plan. In 1962 I was the faculty director for a group of Beloit's students who spent a full semester in Spain studying at the University of Granada. I will be directing other similar groups on a fairly regular schedule from now on, I expect."
Charlie March reports in from Tulsa, Okla. where he is president of the Oil Capitol Corporation. He is a member of the American, Oklahoma, and Tulsa Bar Associations and a director of the Independent Petroleum Association. Charlie and Honey's three children are Nancy, Tuckie, and Charles. Daughter, Nancy, is now Mrs. L. J. Armendarez and their daughter Liza was born in March, 1964. Nancy graduated from the University of Arizona in 1962 while Tuckie is in the Class of '66 at the University of Kansas and Charles in the Class of '68 at Amherst.
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