1939

'Tis the season to be jolly! Also to rejoice over promotions, to adjust to changes of address, and to be thankful for all our blessings, not the least of which is to be a small part of Dartmouth College.

Our request for clippings about promotions of classmates really paid off, and we sincerely appreciate your co-operation with this mound of clippings. Let's keep up the good work!

Art Larkin has been elected president and chief operating officer of General Foods. Congratulations are certainly in order, as this must be one of the top executive jobs in the country. That giant corporation reminded us a bit of the Navy, for in its press release we read, "Henceforth, all company activities, both line and staff, will report directly to Mr. Larkin." It's a nice thought that Maxwell House and all the other brands will report to our boy. Art joined the company in 1958, was elected a vice president in 1960, a director in 1963, and president in 1966. What other mountains are there left to climb now?

We're happy to report the election of a new vice president of the Franklin National Bank in New York. Jack Coulson, who received on-the-job training as our Class Treasurer from 1956 to 1964, is the new veep and had his handsome photograph in all the papers. Jack was also named head of Franklin's Farmingdale, N.Y., office and, as far as we know, is still alumni treasurer of the national Zeta Psi. Nice going, Jack.

Another classmate who has done well in banking circles is Sara Dearborn, vice president and legal officer of the Manchester, N.H., Savings Bank. Sam has just recently been appointed to the board of trustees of White Pines College.

We think our newsletter editor WaltDarby modestly failed to report the marriage of son Doug last August. The happy couple is currently living in Norwich, Vt., over in the suburbs, while completing a Dartmouth education.

One of the great things about the fall meeting of your executive committee in Peoria was the appearance there of Bob Gibson and his willingness to participate in Class affairs. There is no finer gentleman in our class.

Jocko Vincens, who toiled in this vineyard with great wit and success, has been promoted from trust officer to vice president up at the National Commercial Bank and Trust Company in Albany, N.Y. We trust he is still seeing to the needs of widows and orphans in the Kinderhook area, and we're happy to read he's also president of the Stuyvesant Falls Volunteer Fire Company.

Dud Richards has been named manager of economic evaluation for the Glidden Company's chemical group inorganic research center in Baltimore. Dud has been with the company for twenty years and is a very active figure in community affairs in Lutherville, Md. The rumor that he painted Spred on that harbor tunnel is not true.

The second name on the fancy program for the inauguration of Ernest W. Hartung as president of the University of Idaho was our Kenneth Alton MacDonald. That's because he represented Dartmouth (1769) in the academic procession, and there had to be this guy from Rutgers (1766) ahead of him! Did you get the tassel straight, Kenny, old friend?

The Senate has confirmed the President's promotion of Jack Bowie to Class Three of the United States Foreign Service. The press release didn't spell out exactly what that means, but we in our ignorance are sure that it's something pretty big. He has had assignments in Washington, Beirut, Manila, Jidda, Rabat, Khorramshahr, Paris, and Alexandria, after the one in Hanover. How about a letter, Jack, filling us all in on just what all this intrigue means?

At a meeting last summer of the board of directors of the Hartford Electric Light Company they promoted John Hopkinson from purchasing agent to director of administrative services. Hop learned all about the purchasing game in providing for his three children.

Dr. Jack Durrance, Chief, Chest Service, V.A. Hospital, Denver, received the James J. Waring Award, which is presented each year by the Colorado Conference of Tuberculosis Workers to an individual considered to have made the year's most outstanding contribution to the eradication of tuberculosis and the control of respiratory diseases. At the event the head man stated, "Dr. Durrance has been a vital and moving force through the Annual Emphysema Conference held at Aspen, Colo." We wonder if Jack can mix a bit of pleasure with the business at Aspen, and we congratulate him also as president of the Colorado Trudeau Society. And it all began back on Oak Hill!

Bob Kaiser sheltered young Dolph Highmark's date for the Princeton weekend at his house. Late in the fall he escorted old Dave Lilly through the Psi U house, which Dave had not been inside for almost 30 years. That old shelter has been almost entirely rebuilt. Dave, incidentally, is an overseer of Thayer School and is active in promoting a new Thayer Associates Program (similar to Tuck's) to support the dynamic new concept of engineering education instituted by Dean Tribus.

Art Selover has moved to 4310 Minnetonka Boulevard in Minneapolis, Minn., and Lou Oldershaw to Old County Road in Holyoke, Mass. Bill Ormsbee is now living at 21 Arnold Road in Wellesley Hills, Mass., and Dick Weil at 8 Cedar Lane in Sands Point, N.Y. Bill Deal hangs up his hat at 1161 Norsom Road in Gladwyn, Pa., while Dick Hawkins does the same at 16 Francis Street in Claremont, N.H.

Have a great holiday season, you all, and let's resolve to see more of each other in 1967. The older you get, the less time you have for the passing show and the more time you can find for the really fine things in your life.

Secretary, Box 38, Cashiers, North Carolina 28717

Treasurer, 666 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10019

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