1929

The 50th Anniversary dinner of the Dartmouth Club of New Haven was a hugh success with John Dickey as the principal speaker. Saw George Lane, and sat at the table with Bill and Polly Magenau. Bill looks very well-preserved, and Meemee and I enjoyed being with them. Among other important themes in his talk, John spelled out some of the salient points of the Dartmouth Spirit. One was Place Loyalty, or the Regional Impact which Dartmouth men shared. Another was the Dartmouth College Case, which drew national comment. A third was the part Dr. William Jewett Tucker played, which served to re-dedicate the Eleazar Wheelock purpose. A fourth was the era of Ernest Martin Hopkins, which made Dartmouth an institution of genuine national scope.

Jack Hubbard passed on a note from Bill Morgan: "Are we all too old and doddering to have a class dinner in New York one of these evenings?" This point seems very well taken.

Duke University has recently published a booklet listing information about distinguished professors at the University. The list includes Jerome Sylvan Harris, the J. Buren Sidbury Professor of Pediatrics. Jerry is chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the Duke Medical Center, holds appointments in both pediatrics and biochemistry. A member of the Duke faculty since 1937, he earned his A.B. degree summa cum laude at Dartmouth College and M.D. degree cum laude at Harvard Medical School. He had additional training in Boston, Chicago, and at Duke. His research interests are metabolic disturbances in pediatrics and pediatric cardiology, and he has written many articles on these subjects. During World War II he served in the Army Medical Corps, completing his service with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He served as chief of the Communicable Disease Section of the General Hospital at Fort Bragg and as commanding officer of the Fourth Service Command medical laboratory at Fort McPherson, Ga. He has also served as a consultant to the National Board of Medical Examiners and has been a member of the Human Embryology and Development Study Section of the National Institutes of Health. Other organizations of which he is a member include the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Society for Pediatric Research, the American Pediatric Society, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Southern Society for Pediatric Research.

In keeping with his personal plans, Gerard Swope Jr. will retire on April 1. Gerry will be still available as a consultant on international legal matters and general operations. ... Harry S. Merson recently spoke at a meeting of the Falmouth Teachers Organization on the subject "Current Issues in Education." Harry received his graduate degree in English from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is currently a member of the executive committee of the New England Development Council and the Legislative and Ethics Committee of the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents. He also has served as chairman of the Policies Committee of the State association.

Jack Moxon recently made news in the Labor Union field. To quote the Wall Street Journal's staff reporter Neil Ulman: "Reading, Pa. - When the United Steelworkers recently launched a drive to organize Caroenter Steel Company's non-union plant here the victory hopes of USW officials were understandable. They had attempted to sign up the plant in 1956 and, although the effort failed, the election showing was encouraging - some 42% of the votes were cast for the union. Thus the disappointment when, in the recent contest, barely a third of the Carpenter workers voted for the USW. What happened? For one thing, Carpenter President John Moxon set a speech- making pace worthy of a hard-working politician in an election year. On the two days before the election alone, the executive made seven speeches in praise of Carpenter's benevolence; the speeches were made at different plant locations between shifts. In addition, the plant's 2,000-odd workers were bombarded with letters, bulletin-board messages, and posters alleging all the advantages of nonunionism. Masterminding the campaign was a recently hired lawyer whose specialty is labor. All this effort, which sharply contrasts with the company's relatively lethargic counter-attack.in 1956, helps point up an important new development on the management-labor front. Increasingly, companies are putting up a real battle against the organizing attempts of unions. And increasingly, as the recent election of Carpenter suggests, management is scoring a smashing victory - without any recourse to legal measures but by the sort of hard campaigning carried on by Mr. Moxon." For such a skinny guy, Jack packs a real wallop.

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