1933

Sure wish the deadline for the June issue were moved back a week so that I could report to you the events of Class Officers' Weekend in Hanover. This is always a most interesting weekend for the officers of your Class. Unfortunately the news that comes out of this meeting by the time we get to the October issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE is quite "old hat." Consequently, the full impact is lost as far as reporting it to the class at large. Ginney and I are looking forward to being with Wes and Jan Beattie,George and Polly Farrand, Ed and PegKnapp, Bob and Babe Fox, and we hope Wood and Elizabeth Foster. It is most inspiring to be in Hanover with a great majority of the class presidents, treasurers, class agents, bequest chairmen, and secretaries. It gives us a wonderful opportunity to compare notes and to be brought up-to-date on what is happening at Dartmouth. It certainly makes us proud to be alumni of a great College and to be part of its on-going tradition.

Co-chairman of the Pace Setting Committee for the Darien, Conn., Y.M.C.A. Building Fund Campaign is William T. Okie. Bill is president of J. M. Mathes, Inc. (Advertising) and has served on the Darien Board of Education and the Republican Town Committee. He was general chairman of the Darien Library Fund Campaign and is a member of the Wee Burn Country Club and the New York Yacht Club. Good luck, Bill, and we hope your building fund goes over the top in a big way.

Byron McCoy's wife, Louise, has accepted the Vermont vice chairmanship of the Middlebury College Challenge Fund. Middlebury is seeking $6,600,000 nationally of which $3,400,000 is required by June, 1967 to match a 2 for 1 Ford Foundation grant received last fall. Louise graduated from Middlebury as a Phi Beta Kappa in 1936, and continued her studies in Paris at the Sorbonne, taught at Dana Hall Lower School and is the author of a series of Playlets, program director of Les. Amis de la France in Buffalo and director of the Christmas Music Festival at Wellesley. The McCoys' son, Roger, graduated from Dartmouth in 1960 and went on to Yale and M.I.T. Their son, Alan, attends Ripton College and is in the Class of '66. Byron is vice president of the Vermont Electric Power Co.

George Rideout spoke at the 75th anniversary celebration of the Chamber of Commerce of Lowell, Mass., on the subject "The Business Outlook." The Lowell, Mass., Sun reports that George recently returned from a trip to Africa to study investment conditions.

The New York Herald Tribune on April 18 had a picture of Elizabeth Kay Allardt on their brides' page and the article beneath the picture tells that she was married the day before to Wood Robertson Foster Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Foster of St. Paul, Minn., in the Episcopal Church of St. Mary at Hampton Bays, Long Island.

Here's a fellow that we haven't heard from for many a moon, Harold BurlingNaramore. Narry wrote me a nice note a few months ago to tell me that he has been located in Davidson, N. C., for some four years. Davidson is the home, as I am sure you know, of Davidson College and Narry said that he recently attended his first 8 o'clock class in over 30 years. "The Davidson campus bears sufficient resemblance to Hanover scene to evoke nostalgic memories." Narry is president and director of Bridgeport Fabrics, manufacturers of narrow woven fabrics. He is honorary director of the Connecticut National Bank of Bridgeport, director of the Family and Children's Service and director of Junior Achievement in Charlotte. He is also a director of the Social Planning Council Board, United Community Service of Charlotte, and a director of the Alumni Association of Tabor Academy. While in Bridgeport he was vice president of the Bridgeport Hospital, president and director of the Bridgeport Y.M.C.A., president and director of the Manufacturer's Association of Bridgeport, director of the United Fund of Eastern Fairfield County and on the Advisory Committee for the College of Business Administration for the University of Bridgeport. Janet and Narry's daughter, Eve, attended Pembroke. Daughter, Audrey, Western College for Women; and son, Anthony, Princeton. I haven't seen Narry since we left Tuck School in 1934 and it certainly was wonderful to hear from him.

I mentioned last fall that we had bumped into Wayne and Pauline Damon at the Harvard game. Perhaps you would like to know a little bit more about Wayne and his activities since he left Hanover. He and Pauline were married in August of 1937 and have a son, Bradford, who is a senior at the University of Massachusetts and a daughter, Gretchen, who is a freshman at Johnson State College in Johnson, Vt. Wayne is superintendent and registrar of Leominster Water Department, a member of the New England Water Works Association since 1936, member and past-president of the Massachusetts Water Works Association and presently secretary-treasurer of the New England section of the American Water Works Association. Wayne is also chairman of the Leominster Industrial Development Commission. When we saw Wayne at Cambridge he told us that he had been a little bit under the weather but now reports that since returning to work in November he has put on 20 pounds and feels great again. Like many of us Wayne says ,that "when I get my kids graduated I plan to travel and get around more." I hope we don't wait too long to do some of these things. It was wonderful to hear from you too, Wayne.

I mentioned in the previous column my old roommate, Jeff Davis. A few more details about the Squire of Middletown, Conn. Jeff has been in the fertilizer business ever since leaving college and is presently assistant treasurer and assistant secretary of the Hubbard-Hall Chemical Co., the 50th subsidiary of the Kerr-McGee Oil Industries Incorporated of Oklahoma City. Jeff has been very active in many Middletown activities, having been on the Board of Education where he served for 10 years - two of which he served as chairman. He is an active Rotarian and was president of Middletown Rotary and several years ago took his whole family to the International Rotary Convention in Mexico City. Bea and Jeff have 3 grandchildren, their daughter Nancy having married Lt.j.g. Frank Morgret back in June 1960. Jeff and Bea have twin daughters, Barby and Shirley. Barby was married in June of '63 to Dave Delano. Barby graduated from Elliot Pierson College, Division of Tufts University, and is now teaching school. Shirley graduated from McMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill., as did her older sister, Nancy. The Davises' son, Chip, is at Kimball Union Academy where he is a senior, and I haven't heard where he is headed. It wouldn't surprise me if it were Dartmouth.

Last call for the Alumni Fund - Let's do 1933 proud!

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Class Agent, Morgan Road, Canton, Conn.