1941
Your secretary only has this and the May issue of the MAGAZINE to keep you posted on developments concerning the Fantastic 25th Reunion coming up in June. So I'm going to devote a portion of this month's notes to go over some of the highlights of the program that your Reunion Committee has put together for you. Our chairman, Stacy Hill, has set up a program spanning four days that will keep even the most enthusiastic reunion-goer busy from morning until the wee hours. Here's a synopsis of the schedule that's in store for all of us.
Registration for the Reunion will take place on Thursday afternoon, June 16, at the Class Tent. Along about 5:30 in the afternoon there will be a class reception at the Class Tent followed by a class dinner. '41s will be the guests of the College at these functions and will also be treated to a special performance by the Dartmouth Players in Hopkins Center at 9. Dancing will start in the Class Tent at 10 p.m. and there will be a special tent for the teen-age dancers (you know, rock 'n roll stuff).
Friday morning's highlight will be a Hanover Holiday program being organized by Chuck Bolte and featuring members of the class who have distinguished themselves in various fields of endeavour. Chuck's choice of titles for the program at this writing is "How Did This Ever Happen?" Friday afternoon is open for golf or whatever and in the evening we'll have, in rapid succession, a class cocktail party, an alumni reception, an alumni dinner, a President's reception and an alumni dance.
Saturday we'll have our class meeting, the class picture, followed by a picnic at noon. The evening calls for a cocktail party, the class banquet and dancing at Hopkins Center. On Sunday after memorial services at the Bema and the class lunch we're all free to head home. So save up your energy for the Big Twenty-Fifth and get to Hanover on June 16.
There are some names in the news this month that I am pleased to have a chance to write about. These are classmates who haven't been mentioned in the column for some time. Joe Kipe, who in college days played the sweetest sax this side of Lebanon, has been named job evaluation supervisor for the Employee Relations Department of the Atlantic Refining Company's North American Producing Group with headquarters in Dallas. Joe joined Atlantic in 1948 in Philadelphia and in 1950 went to Caracas, Venezuela, as job analyst for the company. He went to Dallas in 1955 as assistant in the post to which he has now been appointed. The Kipes live in Dallas and have two daughters.
Henry Frechette, who is president and treasurer of the Kingsbury Machine Tool Corp., in Keene, N. H., has been elected chairman of the board of the Ashuelot National Bank of Keene. We're sure we'll see Hank at the Reunion and we sure hope that he and Priscilla bring their six youngsters with them.
That famed Long Islander, Bill Steel, has been written up by one of the Suffolk County newspapers for his appointment to the Bay Shore Board of Education. Bill is affiliated with the Henning, Steel and Harrison Agency in Bay Shore and, along with his wife Mildred, has always been very active in community and school affairs.
And from up Darien, Conn., way comes news that Fred Meyer has been elected a partner of Cresap, McCormick and Paget, the well-known international management consulting firm. Fred will continue to be associated with the firm's marketing management consulting group headquartered in New York City.
Bill Dreffin is on the staff of the Dean of Students at Beloit College as personal counselor. Bill has his M.A. from the University of Minnesota and has had wide experience in industrial psychology. Bill is also the proud father of six children. While on the subject of the education field, HarryButterworth is an assistant professor of English at Ohio University. Harry did graduate work at Yale, where he received his M.A., and at the University of Dublin. He returned to Yale in 1951 for his Ph.D. Harry lives in Athens, 0., with his wife and three children (one in college), and devotes most of his energies to teaching, some farming and writing.
Win Shorey is Dean of Medical School at University of Arkansas and last fall represented Dartmouth at the inauguration of the new president of Harding College in Searcy, Ark.
It appears that the Air Force will be well represented at the 25th Reunion with both Jack Meyer and Dick Paul making plans to be present. General Meyer will come up from Waco, Tex., where he commands the 12th Air Force. Dick is Air (nuclear) Weapons Officer for SAC's 465th Bomb Wing. Now if we can only hear from Lt. Col. PaulBadger that he is coming we'd have quite a group. I haven't heard from Paul in quite a while, though, and he's still carrying an APO address. Perhaps the Reunion Chairman will hear from him yet.
Well spring is here again and things look pretty rosy for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Baltimore Orioles this year. And if spring is here, can the 25th Reunion be far behind? No! Only 60 days until post time, so let's go go go with those last-minute reservations.
1941 Class ReunionHanover - June 16-19, 1966
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