1939
Fall is coming early this year in the higher elevations of the Great Smokies and the Blue Ridge. Our mountain friends tell us that the length of the cornsilk, the color of the woolly worms, and the number of the acorns all indicate it'll be a tough winter. If they don't know any more about forecasting than we did when we picked the Atlanta Braves to be a pennant contender, forget it. On the other hand, there is a bit of color in the upper coves, the ski resorts are laying in supplies, and guys with bursitis will tell you all about it, so make preparations for another season. It's here!
As this is written, your executive committee is planning to meet in, of all places, Peoria, Ill., on September 22-25. Great numbers of guys and gals indicate they will be there to get in a little golf and to cheer for Joe Batchelder's son, who is the captain of the Illinois football team. We'll be the darnedest Illini you ever heard. If this transplanted Yankee gets safe passage home via Ozark Airlines, you'll get a complete report next month on all the doings.
Our star reporter in Hanover, Bob Kaiser, who works with Dartmouth men both in their sunrise and sunset years, is needed as the Psi U advisor during fraternity rush and so cannot make the Peoria meeting. Bob is doing a fine job for the college in the Bequest and Estate Planning Program and sees classmates regularly. He ran into John Kelleher, who was in Hanover in behalf of the library, and reports that John's Irish brogue is still as thick as ever and except for a magnificent snow-white mane, he looks little changed from the days when they shared Senior Fellowship offices in Baker.
Dave Lilly visits Hanover occasionally for meetings of the Thayer School Overseers (and to sell a few lawnmowers around New England) and may be there a bit more often now that he has a son who will be entering Dartmouth with the Class of '70.
Coach Tommy Keane retired at the end of the 1966 golf season. At a dinner in his honor in May the team inaugurated a cup to be awarded annually to the college golf champion. This sterling silver bowl was made possible through the generosity of our Endy Smith, who attended the dinner to make the presentation and to tell of some of his experiences with his former coach.
Bob Gibson has been reelected for a second term of three years to the D.C.A.C. Zeke Hill was reelected for three years on the Board of Proprietors of the Daily Dartmouth. John Steele was elected one of the Consulting Members of the College Public Relations Committee.
Bob Kaiser has made excellent plans for a class happy hour and buffet after the Brown game on October 15. You will hear more about this in Walt Darby's newsletter, and we urge you to get in touch with Bob if you will be in Hanover that weekend.
Woody Miller attended the Dartmouth Club of Hanover picnic on August 10. He was the oldest alumnus to be enrolled in the Summer School this year and had a ball with kids less than half his age. He thoroughly enjoyed his one course in Shakespeare, which he felt he needed for greater proficiency in his teaching job, and the many diversions which Hanover offers in the summertime.
It would have been fun to join the sidewalk superintendents and watch that huge crane knock down the old wing of the Hanover Inn. As the old place becomes nothing but a hole in the ground, we can remember a lot of fun and good food there and look forward to a more efficient and functional hostelry. Underground parking will represent the best of the future and the rocking chairs on the porch the best of the past. Time marches on.
Wyman Vaughan has accepted the position of head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Connecticut and will be moving to Storrs this fall.
We are pleased to report that Bob Davidson succeeded with his power move into politics and is now busy with his local school board. His wife keeps him looking ten years younger than the rest of us.
Bill Mason's son Bill received his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Vermont in June.
From Santa Ana, Calif., we learn that Wayland Avery of Prudential Insurance has taken over the gavel as president of the Orange County Life Underwriters Association. His photo in the newspaper showed much more youthfulness than the other characters in his club.
Dick Brooks writes that his temporary forwarding address for a year and a half will be 18 Marmion Way, Rockport, Mass. Dick's comic strip, "The Jackson Twins," is taking its creator and his family for a goof-off year abroad. They sailed August 30 to Genoa. From there in their Barracuda they will drive up the Alps to Crans, a Swiss resort, which will be their base for trips to Rome, Athens, the Greek Isles, Paris, and Spain, before catching a liner home from Lisbon in August, 1967,. unless they decide to spend an even longer time in the old country. Dick sold his house in Westport and will continue to draw his comic strip, which appears in more than 300 newspapers. He built himself special inside fittings for a suitcase which will carry all the art supplies he needs. By working extra hard he has completed a whole year of 52 Sunday pages, but he will have to keep drawing the daily strip in Europe. We can visualize Brooksie now, tooling along some highway, keeping time on the dashboard with his knuckles as he sings "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain" at the top of his lungs. One of the most happy and talented guys we know. Good luck, old friend.
In response to our request for clippings about classmates, we received two from Haven Falconer's secretary. He's the east coast production chief for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and he's as happy as a sophomore over Mayor Lindsay's elimination of hidden censorship over film-making in New York. Haven worked on "Penelope," the last movie to be shot in the city under the old rules, and he found the Transit Authority wouldn't let him show violence or unsavory characters in the subway, the Board of Education wouldn't let him use an old school building, and the Parks Department objected to his adding low-hanging branches to their trees!
With our daughter Nancy starting to work at Bonwit Teller in New York this month, her old man has a few nagging doubts that the big city is all that perfect!
Moreau Brown writes that he has been able to participate in the contribution of about $20,000 to Dartmouth from General Electric in connection with X-Ray diffraction units for Geology and Thayer School and also about $500,000 in connection with the GE-265 computer which will be replaced this fall by the newest GE-600 series model with a price tag of $2,500,000.
A printed card from Mike Ellis announced that his new offices will be in Suite 501 at 850 Seventh Avenue in New York, and ended, "I hope to hear from you frequently during the production of the three or four hits I'm planning for next season."
Shag Hatch has been appointed to the faculty of Riverside Military Academy, with locations and alternate terms in Gainesville, Ga„ and Hollywood, Fla.
We recommend that you all subscribe to The Big Green Football News if you can't see the games this fall. Better yet, watch the backs go tearing by in person. There is nothing like the Dartmouth fellowship in all the world.
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