1958
There must be some disadvantage to taking the job of writing this column that I haven't yet discovered. We're just eight years out of college and the ALUMNI MAGAZINE already has ground up three '58 secretaries. Ken Prouty held down this corner long and well but the press of business forced him to pass it along. Ken figures to be traveling a great deal — he remarked on passing over the sword and crown of the secretaryship: "If I knew where I'm going to be, I'd give you my address" - so if you happen to run into a weary-looking gent with the type of nervous look that comes only from trying to meet magazine deadlines, be kind.
For his last column, though, Ken did publish every bit of information he had about wandering '58s so the news content of this column is a trifle slim.
Johnny Goldman joined the Los Angeles Times news bureau in New York recently after reporting for Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and United Press International. Another in the newspaper field is Vince Hovanec, running The Wall Street Journal's St. Louis bureau.
Social Notes: John Leahy and Maureen Kennedy became engaged during August and at latest report were planning a fall wedding. Harry Marschalk took a Russell Sage girl, Elizabeth Crosby, as his bride, also in August. Harry is with Liberty Mutual Life Insurance Company.
John McMillin has come back to this country after working on the Ivory Coast for an oil company. Before that, this traveler took on duty in the U.S. embassy in Copenhagen as assistant Naval attache. John's living now on Manhattan's east side and working in the Wall Street area for W. R. Grace & Co.'s oil operations. Another Grace man is Skip Coggin. Skip is with the concern's Dewey & Almy division in Cambridge as eastern product manager for closure compounds; he just recently moved to Marblehead, Mass.
In the where-to-go-for-loans department, Dave Payne was named vice president of Connecticut Bank & Trust Company. Dave is running the bank's trust department. He joined the bank on graduation, then was made assistant secretary in 1961 and an assistant vice president last year.
Drug company '58s are in the news. DaveCassidy is production superintendent for Johnson & Johnson's Permacel division in North Brunswick, N.J., and has become active in the United Fund in Jersey's Middlesex County. Dave Sharrock is climbing the ladder at Richardson-Merrell, Inc. He has been named area sales manager for the company's Wm. S. Merrell division and will handle the north central states. Dave has been living in Cincinnati as division manager for Merrell.
And that takes care of the skimpy pile of news releases from Hanover.
Your executive committee met the Sunday after the Yale game at the home of Bill andJudi Van Law in New Canaan, Conn., and here are a few results of the meeting. PaulFrankel was unanimously awarded a Dartmouth chair (those are the ones you used to break your back on in Baker Library) for his outstanding performance as a class agent for the past alumni fund. Paul handled New Jersey and managed a 92% participation result for that state. Some 50 other men who worked as agents were voted awards for their effort.
And in case you haven't noticed the grey hairs sprouting in your sideburns, DickFrisch reported that the 10th reunion — 10, count 'em, 10 years out of Dartmouth — is just 18 months off. Dick as reunion chairman is laying plans for that gathering that make the Munich Octoberfest pale in comparison. "This is the big one," he says and he's counting on 300 to 400 persons showing up.
By now, you've all heard from Gary Finerty with his annual plea for class dues. A good part of those dues go to bring you this MAGAZINE, of course, but there's more benefit. Among other items, it pays for the newsletters during the year and it helps support a scholarship fund the class started last year. That fund is just beginning and now is up to $300 but not far off, we'll have a scholarship that can mean for some young fellow the difference between going to Hanover and staying home.
There's been a change in newsletter editors and Steve Quickel is taking over that post from Line Mitchell. So, if you want to read more about this class, start sending in to Steve or me anything and everything you hear about classmates. You might even drop a line about what you're doing. Steve will handle the "chatty" news and this column will report the "hard" items - marriages, promotions and all that. Steve's address is 40 Rowan Road, Chatham, N.J.
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Treasurer, 102 Hastings St., Framingham, Mass.
