1933

I received two wonderful letters this month and hasten to share them with you. The first was from Hank Derricks who is vice president and general manager of Fifth & Boston Corporation, the owner of the First National Bank building in Tulsa. Part of Hank's letter follows: "I spent a number of years in the Navy in World War II as commanding officer of a destroyer and was recalled again during the Korean War to put another destroyer back into commission. During a part of the Korean War, however, I was fortunate enough to spend some time commanding a small task force in the Caribbean, fell in love with the area and, as a result, we have built ourselves a modest home on the island of St. Maarten in the Netherland Antilles where we recently spent a delightful Christmas vacation. I am afraid I will be spending more time there from now on than I really should. I feel myself particularly fortunate inasmuch as my only two children are both sons and both made Dartmouth. Gerry '65 is now at Columbia Graduate School and Dick is Dartmouth '68. If I don't get back to Dartmouth before then, at least I will be again in June of '68 for Dick's graduation as I was this past June for Gerry's."

Hank is president of the Dartmouth Club of Eastern Oklahoma. He is president of the Building Owners and Managers Association, member of the Tulsa Parking Authority, a director of Rotary and a member of the Chamber of Commerce. He reports keeping in close touch with both Bill Hitchcock and Hank Hawgood. The Derricks were returning to Tulsa on a flight via St. Louis one day when, by chance, they met the Hitchcocks on the same plane on their way to St. Louis to visit their daughter in school there. Thanks for your letter, Hank, and keep in mind that Dick's graduation and our 35th reunion will be a few days apart. See you then if not before.

My second letter is from Hart Krans who is university psychiatrist at Florida State University. Until last year he was also professor of Social Welfare. Before I tell you about his family, allow me to quote from his letter too. "You've been on my mind every day since I read your comment about getting out of the rat-race and retiring. Finally your subversive propaganda worked itself through my system sufficiently that I turned in my resignation for July 1. My boss is calling it a leave of absence for a year. I'll see which it is next year. With the last chick out of the nest we're shrinking to apartment living in July in Gulfport (St. Pete practically). We didn't choose it because of its facilities for the aged but because it is a sailing center and I have developed a malignant neurosis about sailing. My poor wife is now struggling with a course on sailing theory and doing conditioning exercises to be ready for the life at sea. We think we will be the first family to leave Tallahassee by water in this century. My main preoccupation besides sailing is the problem of population control. I suspect that if I get myself back to work, it will be in Planned Parenthood rather than psychiatry. I can't see how any of our problems can be really solved if we avoid adjusting our population to the resources of the earth."

Hart and Jean have three daughters: Judith Powell whose husband is a football coach; Charlotte McCall whose husband is working on his Ph.D. at Berkeley; and Barbara who is following in her sisters' footsteps attending Florida State. There are two little McCalls and two little Powells! Thank you, too, Hart, for taking the time to write me. We'll see you in June of '68 too we hope.

Hal Henchy has renewed his interest in '33 affairs and has agreed to act as an area chairman for the Alumni Fund being responsible for the Boston Area. Hal is a manufacturers' agent. Their son is at Dartmouth and their daughter at Wheaton.

Ted Purcell S.J. is now director of the Cambridge Center for Social Studies. The objective of this organization is "to advance behavioral science research towards a better understanding of the problems of modern society, and to integrate empirical research with the values of Judaeo-Christian thought." Ted has had a most interesting career. He entered the Jesuit Order in 1936; A.M. in economics from Loyola in 1945 and was ordained a priest that same year; A.M. in social and industrial psychology from Harvard in 1952 and Ph.D. in 1952; assistant and associate professor of psychology at Loyola from 1952 to 1962; director Loyola-Danforth Management Ethics Seminar '59 to '62; William Jewett Tucker lecturer at Dartmouth '60-'61; member Governor's Committee on Unemployment, Illinois '61-'62; Commissioner of the Illinois Commission on Human Relations '62-'63; and Director Institute of Social Order, St. Louis '62-'65. He is an authority on labor-management relations and has written two books and numerous articles on this and related subjects.

Jim McFarland was elected to the board of Toro Manufacturing Corp. of Minneapolis. (If I don't get my Toro Snowhound working right, Jim, I'm sending it right to you!)

By the time these notes are published, John Monagan, will have been honored at a $100 a plate dinner for his service as Congressman from Connecticut's Fifth District.

Manny Sprague, George Farrand, and SidStonemen were in Hanover in January for the Alumni Council meeting. Didn't see the last two, but did bump into Manny at the swimming meet and Ginney and I had dinner with him - a great pleasure and an unexpected one.

If you live in one of the cities being visited by the Glee Club on their swing to the Coast in March, how about getting some of the '33 gang together for cocktails before the concert in your city?

The Alumni Fund needs YOUR help.

Secretary, Route 113, Ely, Vt. 05044

Treasurer, Young & Rubicam, Inc. 285 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. 10017

Bequest Chairman,