1941
Only about 90 days left to Reunion - the Tremendous Twenty-Fifth! I'm sure you have the dates on your calendar and all the plans made to be in attendance but as a reminder it's June 16, 17, 18 and 19. As of this writing there have been 280 replies to Reunion Chairman Stace Hill's inquiries indicating a total attendance of 728 men, women and children. By now that figure has probably gone up and Stace will give me a further report for the April notes.
Regional meetings are building reunion interest and spirit. On February 1, the Boston Alumni Association had a huge dinner with more than 1200 people in attendance. Ez Crowley ran the show as the retiring president of the Association. He got a standing ovation from the group for his fine work as president. Bob O'Brien is the incoming 2nd vice president so 1941 is well-represented in Boston Alumni affairs.
Before the dinner, Dick Hill and Ed Larner sponsored a cocktail party for some classmates including Unc Richardson, Dean Carleton, Ernie Hamilton, Ed Stone, Al Stevens, Austin Baker, Ed Pierce, Jason Baker, and Jack Douglas. Dave Chamberlain missed this party but was at the dinner.
Incidentally, we were pleased to learn that Dean Carleton is still playing tennis and still skiing. He's a senior partner of Peabody, Brown, Rowley & Storey the law firm in Boston and lives in Winchester. Dean has a son at Colorado State University, another son at University of Colorado and a third son at Cushing Academy where he is captain of soccer and a member of the ski team.
Jack Douglas and his wife, Muriel, live in Hingham, Mass., and have two boys. Jack is District Sales Manager for Scovill Manufacturing Company. Jason Baker is in the land development and real estate business.
Ed Stone, of Wakefield, Mass., who never owned a horse until 1955, is one of the top owner-trainers in New England. After a few lean years, Eddie started to come up with some winners and is now regarded as a most successful and astute owner, breeder, and trainer. We're sure he never learned to get a thoroughbred in shape at Dartmouth, but he must be doing something right!
There is some heart-breaking news to report this month. The class has lost GeorgeSexton who was fatally injured on Dec. 30 in a freak accident at the bottling plant of the Pepsi Cola Company in Worcester, Mass. George, who was secretary and treasurer of the bottling company in Worcester, was assisting a truck driver who was backing a truck to a loading platform. George was crushed between the truck and the wall and pronounced dead at Memorial Hospital. His obituary will appear in this or a subsequent issue of the MAGAZINE. One of the nicest guys in the class, George will be missed greatly by all of us.
Frank and Hennie Watters spent some time last summer with Spider Paul and were kind enough to send me a wonderful snapshot of Spider wearing a beatle wig. It was a treasure that I was saving for use in this column but Red O'Connor swiped it from me at the Dartmouth Club and I suppose that it will someday be seen in Red's 25-year Directory. If you haven't sent the biographical information to Red yet you're running out of time. Get with it, lads, we want everyone in the book.
From out Pennsylvania way comes news that John Hayes has been elected treasurer of the International Salt Company. He was previously controller and assistant treasurer. Before he joined International Salt in 1958, John was a staff consultant with a management consulting firm in New York. He lives in Dalton, Pa., with his wife and two children.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack C. Roberts of Hanover announced the engagement of Mrs. Roberts' daughter, Carol Sue Nichols to Mr. Gerald Merwin Smith of Norwich, Vt. Miss Nichols, a senior at Skidmore College, is the daughter of our late classmate Bob Nichols who was Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth and died in April of 1945.
In addition to his responsibilities at Shields and Co. in White Plains, where he is co-manager, Ed Anderberg has been doing a great deal of civic work for the YMCA. He's been on the board of directors for six years serving as chairman of the physical department committee, the investment committee and secretary to the board of the Recreation Center. As chairman of the building committee he has done a tremendous amount of work in planning the construction of the new "Y" in Mamaroneck. Ed was previously with the United States Tariff Commission and the State Department serving in the embassies in China, Japan and Jamaica.
Hans Froehlich is a marketing executive with the display division of West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co. and a member of the Trade Practices Committee on the Point-of-Purchase Advertising Institute. A. resident of Strathmore, N. J., Hans is very active too in civic affairs and in the Air Force Reserve in which he is a lieutenant colonel. He is assigned to the Systems Command at Andrews Air Force Base, Washington, D. C., and serves monthly with the deputy Chief of Staff for Foreign Technology in a planning and management capacity. Hope we'll see you at the reunion, Colonel.
When we all get to the reunion we'll have four wonderful days on the Hanover Plain. And eight of our classmates will celebrate birthdays during the reunion. So we'll have to lift an extra beer to Pete Glenn, George Flather, Bill McCue, Harry Maxwell, Mills Ten Eyck, Herb Bailey, Gus Broberg, and Tom Charlton who'll be celebrating "anniversaires" in the middle of June and have a double reason for being at the Big 25th.
Now get those tax returns completed and I'll report to you again next month.
Secretary, 121 Meadbrook Rd. Garden City, L. I., N. Y. 11530
Treasurer, Room 2820 525 Wm. Penn Place, Pittsburgh 30, Pa.
