1935

This weekend the College was host to alumni officers assembled in Hanover, an affair I had to split with Deerfield Academy and thus exchanged the long-established camaraderie of Colton's cocktail party for a baseball game, a lacrosse game, and a combination glee club and band concert put on by the little "D" 's of Old Deerfield. The little "D" 's were breaking out a $20 million capital gifts campaign, so I felt right at home. ...

The '35 delegation, which has generally been fairly impressive at these annual Hanover affairs, was a little motheaten this year. Chaney was in Nassau (first vacation in three years according to the press release); Hank Hawkins in Greece; Dave Williams was "weathered in," as the fly-boys say,_ somewhere west of the Alleghenys; BusLatimer had only just won an argument with his doctor on more serious matters and was constrained to yield on the less important ones, like coming to Hanover. Bankart, Tom Wilson and your secretary were there.

Lots of things going on in Hanover, however, including the Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Modern Japan, sponsored by our Class, which had been held over an extra week. It was very interesting and impressive. It is expected that the exhibition will go on tour elsewhere in the United States and you may have a chance to see it.

Didn't have much chance to talk with many undergraduates this year although I did bump into Bryce Harbaugh, Ted's son, on his way to crew practice. Bryce has just been elected member of the Class of 1965 executive committee.

Incidentally, I got the impression in wandering about the campus that the current crop of undergraduates looks somewhat less beatnik than in the recent past. Just wishful thinking, I suppose. But there is a new atmosphere of awareness among the undergraduates which is very refreshing.

A little late this year comes the annual news letter from an expatriate '35 family, Howie and Mary Croninger, who are still in Montevideo, though Skip is now in Hanover. News from South America is encouraging, particularly the re-establishment of common-sense government in Brazil, the rejection of the Communists in Chile, and the continued efforts of Argentina to try to make democracy work.

Bud Cahoon is trying to catch up with Croninger's Spanish by spending a couple of weeks in Spain with a side trip to Madeira. That's the nearest approach to Cape Cod the Mediterranean offers. He should sign up as correspondent for Life International Editions there. Bob Smith has just taken over the job as advertising director for those operations of Time-Life which are based on overseas editions in Mexico, New Zealand, India-Pakistan, etc. I notice Spain doesn't seem to have one. Bob went to school in France before coming to Dartmouth, learned merchandising at Macy's, advertising at Young & Rubicam, public relations at General Foods, then joining Time Inc. in 1941. After the war he returned to Time-Life and has steadily risen in the advertising firmament there ever since.

Another bit of overseas news is that President Johnson has promoted Hugh Wolff to class 2 in the Foreign Service of the United States. Hugh is still in Washington assigned to the Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. He had quite a stint with the United States Embassy in London. It wouldn't be surprising to see him off again to foreign parts trying to find Dorsey. Parenthetically, we are now observing International Cooperation year. Ralph Lazarus has been appointed to the National Citizens' Commission for this purpose to help prepare for a White House Conference which President Johnson has called for next November.

You are probably aware of the fact that for a long time no one knew who had been elected to the Illinois House of Representatives. It is now clear, however, that JimOughton polled 2,149,404 votes and was therefore one of the "blue ribbon" candidates on the enormously complicated ballot. This was only a couple of hundred thousand less than Adlai Stevenson Ill and puts Jim solidly in the ranks of the Republican vote-getters in Illinois. Jim has four daughters; the eldest, Diana, graduated from Bryn Mawr and is now in Chichicastenango, Guatemala, conducting a literacy program among the Mayan Indians for the American Society of Friends. Number 2 daughter, Carol, took graduate work at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and is now studying at the University of Munich. Three and 4 are still at school - Pamela at Madeira (not Cahoon's Madeira), Deborah still at home with her eye on far-away places. Jim is administrator of the Keeley Institute, president and director of the Teslie E. Keeley Company, has been active in Corn Belt Boy Scouts work, local politics, and president of the county farm managers association.

A little news on the theological front: Peter Day, Ecumenical Officer of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church, has been making the rounds speaking to local church groups in the New York area and has developed quite a following. RussellKirsch for some 21 years Chaplain of the United States Army, retired in 1964 to prepare for a second career. He is now a graduate student at F.S.U. in Tallahassee, Fla.

A few weeks ago Al and Jean Sherwood gave a party at their house in East Chester, N. Y., which brought together a mixture of Dartmouth and Poly Prep alumni of our vintage. Marshall and Dit Frost were there, Emmie and Helen McMullen, as well as some ringers from the Class of '36 and '34. Cliff Porter and Van Thorne. Marsh is looking more and more distinguished as the years go by, as befits an insurance tycoon, and Mac it turns out is also in the same field with MONY (Mutual of New York).

Got a nice note from Ruby Field. She says that she has gotten quite a lot of new recipes for the Dartmouth Women's Club Cook Book which ought to be ready for our class meeting in the fall. Son Dick, Dartmouth '61, was married in September to Virginia Ellis. Dick is working with Ralph in the family business, the Field Machinery Company.

Lowie Haas, incidentally, reports that his daughter, Carol, is marrying Marc Kelley, Middlebury '64, this June with logistics involving five bridesmaids that challenge even United Air Lines. He saw Maynard Rogers and Bob Morris recently in Chicago.

Flash from "Doc" Luria is that son Bill has been elected co-captain of next year's football team at Kimball Union. He is also president of the student class and on the student council. "A chip off his mother's block," says Doc.

I hate to close on a sad note, but it should be brought to your attention that BobRoss' wife Marian was killed in a head-on collision near Blackman's Corners in Verona, N. Y. Four other women friends who were in the car with her, returning from a skiing trip, were seriously injured. The class extends deep sympathy to Bob and his children.

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