1949
Fate has chosen to reduce our class ranks by one since the last writing and thus one of Dartmouth's loyal sons who had devoted his adult career to the air has been lost to us through a tragedy in this same medium which he so loved and understood. ColonelBob Magown died instantly when a twin engine Rhode Island Air National Guard plane he was flying from South Carolina to Providence, R. I., crashed and burned near Smithfield, Va„ on March 9. Bob was a veteran of 161 combat missions in the second World War with a distinguished flying cross and many other decorations. He was in action when many of us were still in high school, and it was quiet heroism such as his which eventually made it possible to replace Navy parades with touch football on the college green. Our heartfelt sympathies go out to his wife Shirley and the entire family.
Marshall Belding has been appointed an associate of the Kenneth A. Mouw general agency of the National Life Insurance Co. of Vermont, Grand Rapids. Mich. He is also affiliated with the firm of Watkins, Neumann, & Ross, Inc. A fifteen-year veteran of life insurance service and sales, he was previously with the Equitable Life Insurance Co. of lowa and the group insurance department of Prudential. Among his community activities in Grand Rapids, Marsh has been president of the Lions Club and secretary of the Cascades Business Men's Association. He and Jane have three children.
The mail bag is pretty full this month thanks to a surge of interest and activity on your part, so allow me to thank you for the news, and I'll dig right in after a quick plug for your nominations on the annual Gold Pick Axe Award. Bud Hughes did a comprehensive job on this in his last class newsletter but I did want to add another reminder. Carll Tracy heads up the committee this year and your secretary is an ex officio member, so if you will send in your nominations at the above listed address I'll see that they are properly forwarded. The award will be presented the Brown game weekend of October 14-15 coincidentally with the Class of Forty Nine fall get together which many of you seem to be planning to attend. There are still some reserved rooms not yet spoken for and a freebie weekend for the lucky winner of the class Alumni Fund contest so all roads certainly seem to be pointing to Hanover.
Anne Mac Burney answered my query about Hanover for family ski weekends by telling me that the best package deal for families is the week long one at Stowe. She does say that the Hanover Inn-run ski school is excellent, however, and I, am sure that for so many of us who are much less than expert it may have many advantages which should be investigated. Anne writes that her brother Gus Farnsworth is now in Hawaii with IBM and a first class surfer.
Bob Jackson phoned me at the office the other day to say that his old friends still call him "Deke." Perhaps I did not make it clear that Dana Jackson also answers to the same nickname, a source of small confusion among classmates who knew them both. He went on to say that he is glad to be back in Chicago town as an assistant vice president with the Exchange National Bonds in the personal banking division. He and Nadine have two girls; Mary Lynn seven and Jill five. He reports that Rank Lashmet is now one of the top sales producers for stereo station WLFD in town.
The 1963 Gold Pick Axe Award committee can brag a little. Ralph Burgard, their selection, has recently been appointed executive director of the Arts Councils of America, Inc. with offices in New York. He was brought in from St. Paul to direct the more than 130 community arts councils in this country which basically endeavor to organize the separate arts into one coordinated effort and sort out the cultural hash which invariably develops with too many separate organizations, too many well meaning people, and too few dollars and hours spent in development. Ralph has a big job to do and we all wish him the very best in this new work.
Elrick and Lavidge, Inc. of Chicago, the market planning and research organization, has named E. Charles Schuetz a vice president. Charles, his wife Beatrice, and three children live in suburban Lake Forest where he is a director and vice president of the Lake Forest Club. He is also a director of Vail City Corporation, a real estate development in Vail, Colorado.
Jim "Spike" Smith is now living at 10 Old Mamaroneck Road, White Plains, N. Y., and has been named by Encyclopedia Britannica Press, Inc. as assistant Division Manager, to direct distribution of reference and teaching materials to schools and libraries on the eastern coast.
The Foreign Policy Association recently sponsored a day at the United Nations for community leaders in order to afford them a close-up view of that body in action, and our own Dr. Charles Russell, vice president and treasurer of Bryant College in Providence, R. 1., was one of the honored guests.
Loomis Dana has assumed his duties as associate secretary of the Bennington Area YMCA in Vermont. He comes there from Middletown, Conn., where he has been youth secretary and director of their summer camp.
Dr. David Van Tassell represented the College at the inauguration of John King as President of Huston-Tillotson College in Austin, Texas.
This pretty well cleans up the news at hand, and I leave in the morning for Georgia not for the Master Golf Tournament but for a week of work at the company plant.
Elliot M. Baritz of New York took overthis spring as 1949's head class agent.
Secretary, 15 Twin Oak Rd. Short Hills, N. J. 07078
Class Agent, 62 Highland Ave., Roslyn, N. Y. 11576
