1935
Zowie! Blap! Blam! I have discovered that some people are reading the column. For some time I haven't been quite sure, particularly when I discovered the other day, quite by accident, that one or two of my most newsworthy characters had not paid their class dues and were not even receiving the MAGAZINE. You understand this is a controlled circulation magazine only up to a certain point....
Anyway, I hasten to assure Maury Rapf, whose exploits in the film producing business were mentioned recently in the column, that there is no basis for a charge of "ostentatious rodomontade." His letter to me, apparently answering one I wrote him on June 4, 1962, inquires where I got the news. It was in fact obtained through the highly commercial channel of the Dartmouth clipping service from an article by Robert C. Hattersly appearing in Business Screen Magazine. Actually, while the reluctance of classmates to send in news of themselves is understandable, it is highly frustrating to the class secretary. Why don't you all peach on your friends?
It appears also that Biddy Chase reads the column, reacting to my deathless prose about his recent entrance into the brokerage business. He notes that he is with Burbank & Co., which has a branch office in Brattle boro, Vt. Biddy's office is in his apartment over the liquor store in Lebanon. Since March 10 he has been on his own as a registered representative. "I love the work, the freedom from politics, the release from responsibility over mispronunciation of announcers, and the sense of satisfaction in helping people plan their financial future." Incidentally, he recommends Burroughs, Koering, Chandler Leasing and Vasco Metals for income, and for a crap-shooters special, Precision Sterling.
My third faithful reader is one of those Dick Eberharts referred to in the March column. On behalf of his wife and three daughters he writes as follows:
Which one of us is spurious?
The mesdames Eberharts are curious!
For years suppressed emotion Has kept my poetry out of motion.
While the Class of '26 offered sensitivity The Class of '35 insured business activity.
Over the world did my family roam As liens and mortgages kept me home.
Aside from my writing facet, I'm just a hard working bassett.
Now for honorary members of the Class Let's not be foolishly crass.
Admit Richard Eberhart of '26 To join the laureate in your midst.
I, Dick Eberhart, from whom you' ask permission, Cordially grant to '35 the poet Eberhart admission.
Readers of the column already know that Bill Harwick and Put Kingsbury, as administrator and controller respectively, pretty much take care of the business affairs of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. The other day I met a doctor, Bill Sicher '36, who used to be at Mayo's and knew Bill and Linda quite well. He remembered the Puritan flavor of the girls' names (Hannah, Elizabeth, and Prudence) but particularly a hilarious tale of one of the children "stepping out" an open window one night into the Minnesota snow and, being unprepared for this emergency and therefore without a key, unable to get back in the house. Apparently this didn't faze the Harwicks at all. The girls involved are grown up now but it may amuse them to know their exploits are still remembered by long-time Harwick friends.
My industrious but misguided secretary clipped out of the N. Y. Times recently a propaganda picture involving a loyalty oath exacted from trainees of Dunkin' Donuts. This is part of graduation exercises at the company's "University" in Quincy, Mass. Trouble is that it's not Galo Emerson's Mr. Donut outfit at all, but obviously a reaction on the part of the torus competition to keep Red from pirating the help. Incidentally, Red, what ever happened to those heart shaped donuts? With those in the cupboard, could anyone be loyal to round ones?
Speaking of loyalty I want to drop in a plug for the current Alumni Fund which Bus Latimer is again heading for our class. Class goal this year is $44,140, up some $3000 from last year, and a real challenge to raise an early $50 thousand and hold our heads high at the reunion this June. Our class has about 2% of living Dartmouth alumni. Seems to me we ought to be able to raise 2½% of the Alumni Fund money the College needs, which is what $50 thousand represents.
Moreover, with three members of our class - Ralph Lazarus, Ed Ramsey, and Dave Williams - out of a total of ten. from all classes on the central Alumni Fund Committee, I think we should back them up. It will give you a warm feeling to do so.
Since learning that a paperhanger of my name had turned down a proffered barony because there was no money in it, I have become a little leery of the peerage, but you should know that one of our members has been knighted. According to the news article sent in by ex-roommate Jim West, Albert J.George, chairman of the Romance Lan- guages department at Syracuse University, has been named a Knight in the French Order of the Legion of Honor. This is a signal citation by the French Government for his "services to France, his excellent teaching and research on the literature of France and his outstanding contributions to French culture." Under present political if not cultural conditions, President de Gaulle has been reluctant to come to the United States, but the star will be presented to Sir Albert at a- ceremony in New York by France's Cultural Counsellor, Sir Edouard Morot. At least I assume it will be Sir Albert. Sir Bill just doesn't sound right, and it looks funny as hell.
Anyway, Al, or Bill as I remember him, has been at Syracuse since 1942 and was appointed director of the European office of the Institute of International Education in 1949. The following year he was named one of three Americans on the 25-member Fulbright National Selection Committee, being chairman of the French section for two years. He has since developed and directed the Syracuse Semester-in-France Program.
Being a knight is nothing new to Bill, it turns out. In 1963, he was named Knight of the Order of Merit by the Italian Government for "strengthening friendly relations between the United States and Italy through culture." Congratulations are due this unsung quadratic knight, and proffered on behalf of the class herewith.
Your un-knighted but somewhat benighted secretary also notes that Mr. and Mrs. Holmes H. Whitmore of Walpole, N. H., have announced the marriage of their daughter, Penelope Lois of Peterborough, to Atty. Charles Tobey of Jaffrey on January 13. Phil Hastings has been appointed assistant vice president of the Manchester National Bank, in Manchester, N. H. Dick Montgomery, senior v.p. of Clinton E. Frank Advertising, has been elected a director of the company. Em McMullen has been promoted to second v.p of office operations for Mutual of New York. The press release from MONY notes that Em was "captain of the LaCrosse team" at Dartmouth. Maybe Montgomery ought to handle their PR stuff.
The news has just been received of the death of Roy Kraus in October, 1964, and Gardie Spring, unexpectedly, on March 26, 1966. Notices will appear in an early issue.
1935 Class ReunionHanover - June 13-16, 1966
During his recent visit to Washington,Henry Dearborn '36 (I), Deputy Chief ofMission at the American Embassy inBogota, Colombia, visited with N. H. Senator Tom Mclntyre '37. Dearborn's permanent residence is in Windham, N. H.
Secretary, Room 2303, 521 Fifth Ave. New York, N. Y. 10017
Class Agent, 5 Locust Lane, Wallingford, Pa,
