1949
Did you ever sit back in a relaxed mood and contemplate through a smoke ring or two where you've been, what you've done, and in general what the hell it's all about? Don't tell me that you never do because of the local interference and static from the younger generation and the relentless rush of time. That excuse is too plausible and I might be forced to accept it. Tell me rather that you use a thinking man's filter and can't stand the thought of any impediments in the path of progress. You will then qualify for my prime subjects of the month which are both love and money.
Now most of us love money, and it now appears that the government people like the stuff even more than we do the way they grab it away from us even before we get to count it. You know, I'll bet there are a lot of fellows up in Hanover wringing their hands about the tax bite coming from every direction. They can see the big picture most of us don't see of progress through new vistas in the arts and sciences which can preserve the standing of Dartmouth at the forefront of higher education. All this takes money, and Dartmouth like the respected professional man cannot beat too loud a drum and unlike the revenue agents cannot exact the stuff. Therefore your college has to put its hand out once a year and ask for help. This time is now upon us. The needs are many and the opportunity is uniquely ours to say thanks to Dartmouth and those who went before us for underwriting a good half of the cost of our college education. In spite of all the demands made upon it we will open our purse strings just a little bit wider to afford those who have followed us the full treatment in the liberating arts. When my class agent calls I will be friendly and reverent. I will not snarl and growl. I will remember that he is volunteering his time for the college that lived four years of its life for me. After all, weren't they the four years that were no small part of "what the hell it's all about?"
And while we're on the subject of what it's all about, do you remember the book "For Men Lonely," written by classmates Jones, Hook, and O'Reilly? The authors endeavored to give us a comprehensive resume of the girls' colleges for dating purposes. Such reading would be unnecessary now. Two enterprising young men in New York City have organized a project called TACT - Technical Automated Compatibility Testing. Young single college graduates fill out a 72 point questionnaire on their personal interests and beliefs and are matched up with what the computer shows is the most compatible party of the opposite sex. A new and practical use has been found for the Dartmouth computer. At least this one is a little more appealing than calculating the odds on a royal flush or eleven straight passes with the galloping dominoes.
Matt Fenton has been named to the post of President and General Manager of the Chesapeake Cadillac Company, a Baltimore auto distributor that is one of the largest factory-authorized operations in the East. Matt, a onetime jet pilot with the U.S. Marines, has been associated with the concern for the past twelve years. The new president and his wife and two children live in the Orchards section of Baltimore.
Eons ago I told you that I'd find out if we could buy old Winter Carnival posters to decorate our playrooms and kids' bedrooms. I finally have the straight scoop from the president of the Winter Carnival Council, Jim Sutherland '66. Posters for the following years are available at one dollar each including postage: 1959, 1962, 1963, 1965, and 1965 golden anniversary poster. Checks should be made out to Dartmouth Winter Carnival Council, Box 734, Hanover, N. H. Here is your chance to load up on more Big Green memorabilia.
Now to catch up on some news about our classmates. George Weinstein just made it big as master of Cosmopolitan Lodge #125, AF and AM down New Haven way. He is a partner in the law firm of Weinstein and Tinin of the same place.
In nearby Hartford, Dr. Nathan Gottschalk has been named to the newly created post of executive director of Hartt College of Music at the University of Hartford, effective this coming September first. He has also been invited to be a member of the evaluation committee of the commission on institutions of higher education, New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The well known violinist is also musical director and conductor of the Pioneer Valley Symphony in Greenfield and co-conductor of the Hartt Symphony Orchestra.
Robert J. Weber recently joined the faculty of Wesleyan University also in Connecticut as Associate Professor of Romance Languages, coming from the University of Indiana with a shoe box full of special scholarship awards and advanced degrees.
John Mclllwralth, our foam packaging expert with Dow Chemical in Midland, Mich., also is a great professor. He played the part of Professor Higgins in "My Fair Lady" recently for the Midland Music Foundation. He's been in a raft of amateur shows over the years, so he must be doing something right. John with wife, Michael Ann live at 1200 Kingsbury Court in Midland They have a son John who is now seven years old.
If you live in Chappaqua, N. Y., classmate Dick Highley and his volunteer staff will start bugging you next October 2 for your contribution to the United Fund. He developed his organizing and sales talents at Tuck School, gets paid for them by the Irving Trust, and will test some of the latest techniques next fall including the reverse arm bend and the shoe in the door with a layout from the full Tuck position.
John Borys, a member of the educational councilling program of the Youth Service Board of the State of Massachusetts has been active on the rubber chicken circuit speaking to organizations around the state exploring some of the factors as they are known concerning the relationship between the parent and the delinquent. Here is a man whose good works truly can be said to go before him in an era of anxiety and conflict for the youth of our country.
Alexander (Zandy) Taft of Greenville, N. H., was just elected chairman of the legislative interim committee to make a study of the state government's fiscal needs for the next ten years. He was House Republican Majority Floor Leader in the 1965 legislative session and a real bear on tax reform. The report must be filed by September 1 and most likely will be a major fall election issue, so let's keep a watch out for some real slug festing. With our man in Montpelier Dick Mallary just having been announced as the second youngest man elected Speaker of the House in modern Vermont history, the class of 1949 can point with justifiable pride to that little old stream running between the two states as our very own. Let's hear from the boys on down the river in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Maybe the class could begin to charge a toll on every bridgeacross the Connecticut River and really go over the top in the Alumni Fund.
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