1937
The initial open-to-the-class-please-come executive committee meeting was a thumping success. Like being an undergraduate again having left in June (reunion) and back in September during registration. Chairman Bosworth presided, following members present: Allen, Amon, Asher, Bankart, Blaisdell, Fenn, Heroy, Koop, Miller, Robin, R. Stearns, Stern. Members absent: Ballantyne, Bishop, Dillon. Al Bryant attended by executive request and the active gallery consisted of John Arborio, Whitey Fuller, and AlMayer. The fact that members came from Texas, California, and Chicago is a credit to the seriousness of purpose displayed in the meeting Saturday morning in Parkhurst.
The main topics for discussion were (1) rebuilding our depleted treasury to a realistic figure as our balance before dues notices this fall approximated $300. (2) Final report on thirtieth reunion. (3) Our annual poor showing in Alumni Fund and how can we all help incoming agent Fred Asher rebuild our image in dollars and participation. (4) The Bequest Program planning, its importance in the over-all Dartmouth picture as well as that of our class (last year it brought in one million dollars more than the Fund). (5) Begin preparations for our next reunion in 1971 with '35 and '36. Plans are already launched for another football game weekend and meeting in Hanover next fall hopefully popularizing attendance by all classmates and wives who can be there.
As to the business part of the meeting, two motions were made and voted. (1) Since we have a treasurer sans funds, and since the price of our 100% subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE has increased, and since only 67 percent of the class regularly pay dues, that the dues be temporarily increased to $8.50 starting next fall. (2) Our reunion was a great success but due to unforeseen last minute withdrawals of fifteen members the income did not match our commitment leaving a deficit of $138. It was voted to transfer funds to cover from our happy little treasury.
The spirited meeting itself lasted three hours and might well have continued except for hunger, a pending football game, and over-patient kidneys. The social aspects surrounding it were excellent. The Rolling Hills Motel across the river was all ours for the weekend, meals at the Norwich Inn only a mile away, and since 1935 was enjoying a class get-together there the joint was jumping. Following the game Russ and LeeStearns invited everyone to their home for a BYOB cocktail session and this was a high point of the whole affair. We could even park, incidentally, in their yard nearby to the stadium and where else do you find such convenience? Among the here assem- bled it was nice to see Jud Smith and meet his most attractive fiancee Nancy Fitzgerald, whose marriage was set for October 5. A!and Jean Gray were on hand for game and party. Not personally seen but in town were Chuck Bassett and Bill Mauran. John Arborio was officially in Hanover from Poughkeepsie, N. Y., for the Club Officers' meeting. Whitey Fuller's presence was purely coincidence as he had come up to see hospitalized Eddie Jeremiah '30 and ran into our gang at breakfast. Whitey has two more years to go to retirement from the Navy following which he has a job teaching English waiting for him at Kimball Union.
As everywhere at this time New Hampshire has its share of political reminders so be prepared to see hundreds of Senator Thomas J. Mclntyres smiling from trees, buildings, fields, and roadsides. A number of very small fry at the game were adorned with cardboard feather Indian headgear endorsing his re-election. As this is written election day lies ahead but the Wall Street Journal says Tom's chances are very good. Another political figure noted in this same newspaper said "Most likely to gain from a segregationist upsurge is James Gray, a publisher from Albany, Ga., who is running for Governor. Albany is where officials handed Rev. Martin Luther King his only total defeat by swift strict police action. Mr. Gray's main campaign plank now is strict law enforcement to prevent occurrences such as this week's rioting. He is plugging away at the riot on TV spot announcements and an aide says the uproar over the uprising is a definite boost to his campaign."
Mort Berkowitz has formed his own publishing company bearing his name. He has also purchased the Flower Grower Publishing Company, Inc., publishers of Flower Grower, the Home Garden Magazine, which has a circulation of 415,000. In addition to .expanding and developing this magazine, Mort has plans for a new consumer magazine. Prior to establishing his own New York company, he was advertising director of Fawcett Publications and held the same post on Woman's Home Companion until 1957 when he became a vice president of BBDO.
The Wall Street Journal also recently featured an article on business concerns adopting uniforms as an organizational morale building force for employees, and since the WSJ has very good writers we again quote: "The use of a corporate blazer makes employees want to stay trim and look neat, claims Baltimore based Fidelity Banker's Life, which is so pleased with the FBL Look that it issued a four-page press release hailing it. 'I've been trying for years to reduce the executive waistline, I can't say enough in favor of the FBL Look' the release quotes Dr. Robert M. Miskimon, company medical director. It says the president and executive vice president have shed a total of nearly fifty pounds."
Joining the Johns-Manville Corporation's Quarter Century Club recently was Bill Falion. Bill, who is controller of the company's Celite Division in New York, was honored at a dinner for his long association with the company. He and his wife Mary Lou and their three children: Wendy, 22, Peter, 18, and Sarah, 12, live in Wilton, Connecticut. Bill is a trustee of the Wilton Library Association and a Director of the Wilton Town Association.
For any who were familiar with Bill Timber's prize Norwegian Elkhound, Leif, he was killed by a hit-and-run driver last July. Leif was a familiar figure on the dog show circuits and shown throughout the country, always by Bill, compiling a record of more than a hundred best of breed wins and many group placings. He always attended court with Bill and the two were constant companions. They still have Leif s two-year-old daughter, Leiflet, and a promising eight-month-old grandson, Oslet, to hopefully carry on the noble tradition.
Hart Beardsley is in the news again as the new president of Bowater Power Company, Deer Lake, Newfoundland. His previous connection was general manager of Bay d'Espoir Hydro Electric project. The write-up that went with the above listed so many activities we'll be lucky if we ever see the guy again.
Readily recognizable in a news release photo stands Will Brown, member of the state water resources board and representing Governor King, showing off New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee to a touring national committee from Washington. The committee was being given a tour of the White Mountain National Forest.
Colonel Don Otis, native of Gloucester, Mass., after many years of world travel with the Marine Corps, has now, in retirement, almost made it back home. Having completed the exam for real estate brokers he is now with Dunfey Realtors in Hampton, N. H., and taken up residence there with Mona and son Anthony.
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