1932
We open another year of reporting on class news - your job, business, family. Something may come through on your hobbies, community activities, travel, philosophy, current thinking. . . .
The class of 1932 had its usual poor showing in Alumni Fund giving. Chronic though it may be, perhaps someone will provide the open sesame this year. . . .
I look at two senior canes standing in the opposite corner of the room - one taller, uncarved, and plastic-headed; the older and shorter well-gouged with near-forgotten symbolic signatures. Without indulging in cliches or artificial analogies, I hope your reporting in this column can demonstrate how '32 is relating to today. . . .
The Cappios had a good summer, seeing Jill and her Marine husband in Beaufort, S. C., before he went to Viet Nam. (Why does there seem to be deadly acceptance of obligation this time and not positive, patriotic motivation?) Jim '63 is returning to second year of graduate school in business administration at the University of Virginia, hoping his Air National Guard unit will not be activated. Jane continues to teen-age in high school. Wife Anne again will teach youngsters to read and count, while I still bureaucrat in the Department of Labor. . . .
Official activism and interest in positivetype foreign affairs is demonstrated under the aegis of the Agency for International Development by several of our men. DonMacPhail is department assistant administrator for Technical Cooperation and Research; Dr. Tom Dublin is in the same office and Ed Marks (my informant) has been working in special refugee activities in Saigon. Howard P. Wile is on the AID Advisory Committee on University Relations.
Does anyone know how we may find George K. Ellsworth, whose mail comes back when sent to his last known address in Vancouver, B. C., Canada?
Bill Allyn of Skaneateles has been elected chairman of the board of trustees at Wells College.
Charles Odegaard, President of the University of Washington, has been appointed by President Johnson to the National Advisory Committee on Health Manpower.
J. Rodger Brown was named associate general sales manager and central division manager of the Saturday Evening Post, with Detroit as his base. Rodg, a Curtis vicepresident since 1963, has been with the Post for twenty years.
John M. Hollern, chairman of the board of Brooks, Scanlon, Inc. in Minneapolis, has been elected a director of the Daffin Corp., manufacturer of specialized machinery.
We have received the slow news that William H. Davis of Maplewood, N. J., was made president of Pope and Gray, Inc. in September 1965. P&G is a subsidiary of Martian Marietta Corp. and Bill has been with the outfit since 1933, according to my record. How about direct word, Bill - what are you doing?
Mort Burden has been elected to the Board of Managers of the American Patent Law Association. All of you potential inventors should note where you can get expert advice.
Leslie O. Wilson has been named president of the Greater Portsmouth (N. H.) Chamber of Commerce. Les is division manager of the Public Service Co.
Jim Wakelin has accepted the chairmanship of the board of the Oceanic Foundation, which is based in Honolulu. Jim is president of the Scientific Engineering Institute of Washington and a former Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development. While I can't understand his choice, he will stay in Washington and handle his new responsibility by correspondence and by visits to Honolulu twice a year. That's what the New York Times said, so it must be correct.
Joe Byram was in Saratoga, N. Y., and reports in glowing terms about the new Performing Arts Center there. Dick Leach is its executive director.
Fred Orner has been named senior vicepresident of the New Haven Railroad, with general direction and supervision of all internal affairs and operations of the railroad. Fred has been with the line since 1935.
Dr. George Hahn reports: "After returning from service aboard the 'S.S. HOPE' in Nicaragua in March it took quite a time before my teaching and practice of gynecology was adjusted. I then went on a survey trip for Project HOPE to Colombia and a most interesting time in Barranquilla, Cartagena, and Bogota. I have been appointed chairman of the section of the Advisory Committee on Obstetrics and Gynecology for Project HOPE and will be kept busy with details of this position." George is due a special cheer from all of us for the fine work he is doing.
Win Smoyer writes that: "I get my mail in California in winter and Yellowstone Park in summer,. Kay and I have seen our two girls graduate into their post-college careers, and we're twice grandparents."
Alf McLaughlin reported from Calgary that "we are moving to Oakville, Ont. (just outside Toronto) in July. Am somewhat flattered that they want me at head office at this late date. I will be Senior Production Manager." Alf - my record shows the com- pany as Western Gypsum Products, Ltd. Is this still correct?
Mike Cardozo drops us a line from Washington, where he is the executive director of the Association of American Law Schools. He also stays active as a professor of international law by teaching - Penn '64-'65, Howard '65-'66 and Georgetown '66-'67. He frequently sees Howard Wile, who is executive director of the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
Dr. Irving Kramer writes proudly that his daughter, Karen, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, has been accepted at the Dartmouth Medical School. Check me on this - I believe Karen is the first class daughter to be admitted to a regular term at Hanover. I think there have been some enrolled in summer courses. Let me know so that we can keep the record straight.
Some time ago, Jim Moore wrote from Plandome, Long Island, in a happy vein that his son, Steve, was accepted at Dartmouth. Steve graduated from Wilbraham, where he captained the swimming and sailing teams. Other son, Jimmy, graduated from American University in June. Jim still sails 52 weeks a year - in fact, is the oldest participant in the frost-bite sport from the standpoint of still being active since it started. Since he is a yacht broker with Sparkman and Stephens, he is in the fortunate position of making his hobby his business.
Paul Leach phoned me while here for stateside leave between two interesting foreign assignments. He and Thelma returned in July from Tripoli, Libya, where he spent two years on a civilian job for the Air Force. He has joined the State Department as a foreign service staff officer and, in early September, went to Monrovia, Liberia where he expects to be for at least two years. You can write him at the American Embassy there, P.O. Box 98. His son, Robert, is married, has a baby girl and works for the telephone company in Washington, D. C., while daughter Judy is a biographic analyst for the federal government.
Our president —Bo Wentworth - reported in from Salzburg after being in Frankfurt and on the Rhine in August, South America in July and in Holland, England, France, and Belgium in June. Bo was responsible for getting 26 of our classmates together at a dinner in New York City in May. As is the custom, Dr. Butch Modarelli entertained with a few penetrating observations — this time about a trip he had made to Europe.
Thus endeth the first reporting for the new season. Many of these items were received not long after the last column was prepared in early May; I hope they're still accurate. Charlie Widmayer tells me that you may be reading about Ferry elswhere in this issue. Last July's Atlantic had a good article on him entitled "The Happy Heretic" — which is a good tag.
Anne and I plan to go to the Penn game; hope to see some of you there. I know that Princeton at Hanover will be the big one, but it's a bit far for us.
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