1949
I just finished reading a recent bulletin from the College which tells how Hanover had rain for Christmas. We can go one better and tell you in all seriousness that We had a real downpour here in New Jersey followed by thunder and lightning. The bulletin goes on to say that shortly after the Christmas recess the skies opened up with a good six inches of the wonderful white stuff much to the delight of the ski bugs. The way things are beginning to shape up outside my window I'd say that we're on the way to what might be the "fantastic new experience" the mermaid talks about in the Groom and Clean TV commercial. Our Washington, D. C., contingent of Buettner,Kreplin, Maphis, and Townsend are digging out of sixteen inches of snow already, and before nightfall I am sure we'll be tunneling next door for a loaf of bread. So I say, Hanover, where is thy winter?
Apparently the old rope tow is still giving students an exercise in arm stretching at the golf course. Some 800 students participate in the Dartmouth Outing Club Ski School there, at Oak Hill, and at the newer Dartmouth Skiway near Lyme. This ambitious program is heralded as one of the most inexpensive ways to learn skiing anywhere. I wonder if it's available to alumni and their families? I also would love to be brought up to date on the Ford Sayre Ski School of Hanover which, as I understand it, is still going strong after at least 25 years of operation. Maybe we could begin to give some thought to Dartmouth for a family ski trip instead of some of these other quaint but expensive places. At least if it were still not exactly inexpensive we would feel better about spending our money in familiar surroundings with people we wouldn't have to call total strangers. I have already written Rev. Ed MacBurney's wife Anne in Hanover for a full report on all this, for I've been told that she is an excellent ski instructor and most certainly should be able to enlighten us:
As you may know, the older portion of the Hanover Inn is coming down this spring under Mike McGean's supervision, to be replaced by a building in keeping with the New England setting but with many more rooms and improved services to accommodate all of us when we make the big trip north.
I recently heard from Jay Evans, our man in the College Admissions Office and a classmate lots of us would like to know better. He has just been elected National White Water Slalom Chairman of the American Canoe Association and Racing Editor of the American White Water Affiliation.
Catching up on some past history, LeeVan Voorhis, manager of Kendall Company's elastic web plant in Shelby, N. C., has been promoted to plant manager of a larger Kendall Company plant in the fiber products division in Griswoldville, Mass. Lee has been with the company since 1950.
Howard Wing won an award with Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company as one of its top five new agents. He lives with his wife and three daughters at 32 Marlowe Road, Nashua, N. H.
Thayer Kingsley has joined Doremus and Company as an account executive with the national advertising and public relations agency. Thayer has an excellent background with some of the nation's top advertising agencies.
A formal release from the College News Service advises us what we had long since reported that Mike McGean was made Secretary of the College last October. You may remember the attractive invitation just received from Hanover for the Dartmouth Alumni College and signed by Mike. The Alumni College has been very popular, thanks to his fine guidance, but this is only one facet of his many responsibilities. Mike is the liaison officer between the College and the Dartmouth Alumni Council and the General Association of Alumni. His office will handle all club and class activities including regional conferences and alumni reunions. Moreover he will be responsible for Dartmouth Night, Alumni Awards, Class Newsletters, the College Guide Service, and Club Scholarship Programs. His is responsible to Orton Hicks '21, vice president of the College and father of our reunion Gold Pick Axe Award winner. It doesn't take a genius to determine the fact that Mike is a very busy man, but he always manages to maintain a great sense of equilibrium and absolute willingness to support the class whenever help of any sort is required. This is a source of great comfort and strength to every one of us.
Tom Towler has been promoted to assistant to the general sales manager of Top Value Enterprises. He received his training with the Top Value Stamp Company in the nation's capital. He will be responsible for Sales Training and Area Development in the Dayton, Ohio, home office.
John Gallup has been named manager of Services and Production at the Strathmore Paper Company of West Springfield, Mass. He added other responsibilities in addition to management of production which he has held since 1963. John, Paula, and their three children live in Longmeadow.
The final news item of the month is news of yet another class politico, Bob Nutt. Bob is a vice president of Bruce Friedlich and Company, Inc., a New York advertising agency run by a guy by the same name who is a most talented ad man and a loyal Dartmouth son (Class of 1941). Bob has taken on additional duties as a member of the cabinet of Staten Island's new president, Robert T. Connor, as a Director of Special Projects. Bob has been advertising and public relations counsel for three previous campaigns of the former New York City councilman who was elected in November as Staten Island's first GOP borough president in over 50 years. Up-to-the-minute advertising and public relations techniques certainly contributed to the upset victory over a solidly entrenched incumbent Democrat of twelve years' service. I had to fight for a photo of our modest kingmaker, and in a way I'm a little sorry I did. My wife saw it and wanted to know why it was that I had so much snow in the attic while Bob doesn't show one grey hair. How can I make her believe that some guys really do use shoe black?
Secretary, 15 Twin Oak Rd. Short Hills, N. J. 07078
Treasurer, 530 East 86th St., New York, N. Y. 10028
