1936
May in Hanover brings back many memories sunbathing behind the dorm, botany field trips in search of the arbutus, Softball on the campus, swimming in the Pomponoosic, asthma, and spring fever. The class officers will have a chance to observe the current undergraduate activities on May 7 and 8 when the College plays host to them. For the first time in fourteen years Peteand Barbara Fitzherbert will not be present. They will be in Europe on a combination business and pleasure trip. We shall miss Pete, but plans for the titanic Thirtieth Reunion next year are progressing nicely under Gib Sykes' direction.
Dune Newell will take a brief vacation from his position as manager of the Trust Department of the Valley National Bank of Phoenix, Ariz., to join the faculty of the Pacific Coast Banking School at their regular summer session. This is not new to Dune, since he was instructor of Financial Organization at Northeastern University in Boston from 1947 to 1950. His subjects this summer in San Francisco will be "Managing a Trust Department" and "Profit Planning and Control." A New Yorker will invade the Arizona territory on November 13 when Art Toan is scheduled to address the Arizona Society of C.P.A.s in Scottsdale and in Phoenix. The Price Waterhouse Review states both speaking engagements will be on the same day.
From New Haven comes the announcement that Zeb White, who has found time outside of his numerous duties for the Dartmouth Club there to gain status as an authority in industrial forestry, has been appointed Associate Dean of the Forestry School at Yale University. Zeb will also become Director of Professional Studies in the School. The appointment is effective July 1. Zeb was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1958 and in 1961 he was named the first incumbent of the newly-established Clifton E. Musser Professorship of Industrial Forestry, a chair he will retain.
I hope you have been able to catch the King Sisters during your Saturday evening TV viewing. Although Jim Conkling has not appeared every week with his wife, Donna, he has turned in performances as trumpet player and singer on occasion. The Conkling children display fine talent and are most photogenic. I hope all those relatives get on as well off camera as on stage. It is a most impressive family gathering.
Decima and Bob Button are delighted to be back on American soil in Falls Church, Va., after six years of residence abroad. It was previously reported that Bob had been appointed executive assistant to the chairman of Communications Satellite Corporation - COMSAT. Their first commercial venture is scheduled to take off into space and incur some accounts receivable. Bob writes that his daughters resented being left out of the news releases about his appointment. They should have equal time and we quote from his letter, "Phyllis Ann, 17, attends school in Paris, well-chaperoned. Marilyn, 14, and Allyson, 7, are here in Virginia with us. According to where they have spent most of their time, you might say that I have one British, one French, and one American child, an Atlantic Alliance of a sort with many interior conflicting loyalties involving the Queen and de Gaulle, the Beatles and Bonanza. We are now sorting these out on home ground." Bob continues to function as vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American College in Paris.
Higher education is the extracurricular interest of Stuart MacMackin who has recently been named a trustee of the Mohawk Valley Community College of Rome, N. Y. Stu is counsel for the General Electric's Defense Electronics Division in Utica. He has been admitted to the Massachusetts, New York, and federal bars and is a member of the law committee of the Electronics Industries Assn. Stu is vice president of the New York Council of Churches. DickCrosby has been an English instructor at Colby Junior College for several years and leaves the classroom for the alumnae circuit occasionally. Dick recently addressed the Southern Connecticut group at Rowayton on the subject of "College Admissions Today." There has been much despair and joy on this subject during recent weeks. Dick and Madine Morton are elated over the admission of their son, Donald, to Dartmouth this fall where he will join his brother, Bob, a senior. Dick has joined the advertising staff of the Saturday Review, which carries the most interesting classified ads guaranteed to tease the imagination.
The Southern Natural Gas Company recently announced the appointment of EdRedington as a member of its Board of Directors. Ed is a partner in the Wall Street law firm of Hughes, Hubbard, Blair and Reed and commutes to Manhattan from Brightwaters, N. Y. Southern Natural Gas operates one of the country's largest interstate gas pipe lines. Ed and Jody have only John, 11, around the house these days, for Edward is a senior at Miami University of Ohio and Randy is a freshman at Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vt. My own daughter, Jan, is also in the freshman class at Green Mountain. During her spring vacation we had an opportunity one evening to hear the Dartmouth Glee Club Injunaires entertain during the cocktail hour at the New York Dartmouth Club in the Hotel Commodore. It was a pleasure to hear songs of our vintage performed so well. Gil Balkam, Dr. Bill Sicher, JohnSawyer, and Jack Smith also enjoyed the performance. John Sawyer's daughters, Peggy and Sarah, couldn't be present since they were on a grand tour of Europe for three weeks in March.
On March 8 Frank M. Curtis, retired lieutenant colonel, U.S. Air Force, became executive director of the Greater East St. Louis United Fund. Prior to his retirement in 1961 Frank was commander of the Belleville Air Force Station in the St. Louis Area. Since 1961, he has been a campaign associate with the St. Louis United Fund. Frank and his wife, .Marjorie, and their three children reside in Belleville where he is parish warden of St. George's Episcopal Church and president of the St. Louis Dartmouth Alumni Association. Readers of the Wall Street Journal have probably noticed another news item from St. Louis about the May Department Stores Co. President Morton May is offering to buy shares of the Meier-Frank stores in Oregon to add to the May chain of 59 stores in 11 metropolitan areas. However, the rival Broadway-Hale Stores are trying to outbid Buster, but he says the required number of shares are already in his pocket.
Although this wasn't a notable winter for Eastern skiers, its final hours provided the best of the season. Frank Kappler was at Stowe during the first week of April for near ideal conditions except for a murderous wind one day. He and his son. Cliff, stayed at the Lantern in Stowe, operated by Helen and Werner Beckerhoff and highly recommended for his gourmet cooking and her silver craftsmanship.
Friends from Fairfield moved to Winnetka, Ill., a year ago and needed the services of a doctor. Locally they were referred to Dr. Benjamin Hair and were surprised to see a Dartmouth diploma on his wall. It was a coincidence that Dr. Dan Barker had been their family physician in Fairfield. They report that Dr. Hair is highly regarded in Winnetka and in addition to his private practice finds time to teach at the University of Chicago Medical School.
Gil Balkam hopes you have been reading the Alumni Fund mailings and have responded with a generous check. Don't overlook the possibility of a matching corporate gift from your employer.
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