1940
Hanover has been enjoying some of the best skiing snow in years for the past several weeks. I really hesitate to mention it for fear I will cause the usual Carnival thaw to start early but there it is, a fearless, Farmer's Almanac-type bulletin: "skiing excellent, snow abounding and the roads dry and clear. Come on up for a weekend."
A Hanover weekend was exactly what several classmates arranged in January and it was fun to see Mickey Miller, Jeanne andBill Wrightson, and Don Rainie in town for the Alumni Council meetings. They checked in with that hard working group of alumni so I had to catch up with them as best I could whenever their schedule allowed them a breather. A few days later Fred Porter dropped in on one of his periodic selling trips to the area before heading back to his ski chalet at Stratton Mountain, Vt. He has added a pool table to help while away those after-ski hours while he waits for the lift lines to begin functioning again. Jim Scott came to town also, to interview Tuck School seniors for a CPA career.
After all these years on the west coast, Robin Hartmann, who as a Navy Captain must be one of our ranking officers, now flies his colors on the east coast at 910 President Street, Annapolis, Md., which is getting pretty close to the center of Navy lore.
Those of you who read "Who's News" in the Wall Street Journal must have gotten a thrill, as I did, to read there the exciting news about DaveDance and his promotion to vice president of General Electric and general manager of the company's new Major Appliance and Hotpoint Division. This division combines operations and plants now located in Louisville, Chicago, and Milwaukee, so Dave will shuttle between offices in Chicago and Louisville. He went with GE in 1948 as a sales counselor after being a retailer of appliances on his own for a few years following war-time Army days. Dave and Jane, with their brood of three boys and a girl, live in Hinsdale, Ill. Congratulations, Dave, on going so far so fast with such a great company.
Bud Schlivek has joined the ranks of recent authors with his book called "Man In Metropolis" which artfully blends pictures and words (he's a photographer of note, too) in taking a large step toward solving some metropolitan problems faced by all urbanites.
Keith Benson has taken on additional duties as executive vice president of the Interlake Steamship Company in Cleveland. This is an affiliated company of Pichands Mather of which Keith is president.
There were a large group of classmates on hand when the Boston Alumni Club celebrated their 102nd birthday recently. DonRainie took Ruby down for the big event and reported on the presence of Bill Squier and Mickey Miller at the head table and, at the class table were Ted and Edie Miller, Howie and Jane Stockwell, Al and Barbara Rosenthal, Chet Brett, Bill Halsey, Stet Whitcher, Sid and Jane Phillips, Gordie and Rosalie Wentworth, Joe and Janet Burnett, Jack Fitzgerald, and Lloyd and Margaret Blanchard. Sounds like a grand time was had by all. The Blanchards, incidentally, are the only couple from the Class to sign up for Alumni College so far. They will be in Hanover for this exciting annual event next August with their two children and will be as enthused about it as all the others who have done it, I'm sure. Ted Miller wrote earlier about seeing Phil McCoy at the Harvard game last fall which was the first time they had seen each other since graduation. Ted's son Don, a recent Dartmouth graduate, has completed submarine school and is now aboard the "USS Amberjack."
Several fine letters have come to me recently that I want to share with you (it makes column writing easier, too!). The first was from Bob Weil, who is Mr. Cotton down in Dixie-land: "I was visiting Washington the middle of November, and I looked up my old roommate, Lou Oberdorfer '39, who just happened to have an extra ticket to the Princeton Game. I missed a lot of my classmates because I was sitting with the Class of 1939, but did see Maryand Al Gutman as I was leaving the Stadium. I guess that game is among the greatest thrills of my life, and I am still on Cloud Nine talking about it."
Dick Funkhouser wrote of his move from the wilds of Maryland to the wilds of Manhattan as follows:
It has been a busy fall in N. Y. City. We had the blackout but fortunately Janet and I were in our apartment just five minutes before the lights went. We had the three necessary elements — 1) flashlight: 2) candles; 3) transistor radio, and plenty of heat and some scotch. It was interesting to stand on our terrace and watch New York move in the dark. Many were trapped but seemed to survive.
Fred and Ann Porter spent an evening with us and on Saturday, November 6, Ray and Mary Jane Helm met us and we all went to see the Green vs. Columbia. Ray and Mary Jane stayed over to Sunday. We missed Princeton because of business, but were very happy with the score. Please let us know about plans for Princeton in Hanover next fall. I think we will be interested.
Yesterday morning we walked over to Larry Durgin's for church. Larry had a good sermon and we visited with him after the service. We hope to get together with the Durgins this winter. Larry has a very nice old church but it is not very close to us.
We talk to Patsy and Jack Little and hope to get together this week. They spend most weekends on Long Island and this was only the second weekend we have been in NYC since September. We either go home or to Boston to see our son Dick who is at BU. The girls were with us in Hagerstown for Thanksgiving.
We plan to go to Hagerstown December 15 and stay till January 3. Then off to Florida for a few weeks and back to NYC about February 1. I may have to fly back to NYC for a meeting or two, but hope I can avoid that. We seem to be getting adjusted to apartment life by ourselves, but rarely more than two weeks go by without a visit with the children.
We are all indebted for these letters and I hope many more of you will write to the Class through me. That's it for another month. Keep in touch, and I'll see you next month at the same spot.
Helping 1941 plan a "Tremendous 25th" reunion, President Dickey chats with ClassExecutive Committee members at the Dartmouth Club in New York: (l to r) StacyHill, reunion chairman; Bruce Friedlich, 25-Year Gift co-chairman; Mr. Dickey;Lew Johnstone, Class President; and Dan Provost, 25-Year Gift co-chairman.
Secretary, 5 North Balch St. Hanover, N. H. 03755
Treasurer, 64 North Main St., Concord, N. H. 03301
