1939

Our fearless leader Bert MacMannis will sharpen his executive abilities as the new general manager of National Advertising Service, while our trusty treasurer Al Tishman will have to sharpen his financial abilities because his daughter is getting married in July.

Bert's new job will be a part of the Reader's Digest Educational Division, and his service will represent some 800 college newspapers in the sale of national advertising. Since joining the Digest in 1955 our boy has taken successive leaps upward, and we congratulate him (and Sally, too).

The Tishmans announced the engagement of their lovely daughter Peggy Ann to Neil David Bramwell of New York. The prospective bridegroom is an attorney, who may assist Al in collecting class dues. Our very best wishes to all!

The four sisters of Wallace Hiden, who was killed in action over Germany in 1943, ft given an 18-acre tract of land in York County Va, to the Peninsula YMCA for a to' honor their brother and to bear his name Wallace was killed on a B-17 bombing mission over Berlin. The plane of which he was co-pilot, was attacked by enemy fighter Planes, caught fire, and exploded, five of his crew, wearing parachutes were blown out of the plane and landed safely in enemy territory, but Wallace was found in the plane's wreckage. He had Previously received a Purple Heart and an Air Medal before the fatal flight.

Gardner Ferguson has been appointed executive vice president, treasurer, and director of the Lexington (Mass.) Federal Savings and Loan Association. Fergie has been a vice president of the First National Bank of Boston in their international division and has been prominent in many community affairs in Lexington. It would appear from his photo that he's a banker who likes to say yes.

We received another fine letter from Howie Chivers in which he commented on our "chastisement" last month of the deadbeats who have never contributed to the Alumni Fund. The number is actually small, as you may guess, but it hurts just the same.

The Brooks-Brownfield Company is turning out the wallpaper and the fabric like crazy, and we may assume that the owners, Dick Brooks, Bob Field, and Bob Brown are waxing fat. If you send a buck to this outfit in Norwell, Mass., they will send you a sample kit of their Dartmouth products, enough to do over the toolhouse. Seriously, they had a most complimentary story about their business in the Market Spotlight of Interior Design Magazine this spring.

Rep. Francis Peisch, a Burlington Republican, is chairman of the judiciary committee of the Vermont House of Representatives. He's a busy son-of-a-gun, skillfully guiding the governor's legislation through long hours of public hearings and committee sessions. Each morning he drives his six boys to school and then stops off at his law office for a half hour of work before making the trip to Montpelier. At the end of the day he hurries to his car and starts the return trip to Burlington. He squeezes in time for his law practice in the evenings and on Saturdays and Sundays. If it were not for the interstate highway system, how could the guy do it?

The civic organizations of Eastchester, N.Y., have proposed William J. Cunningham Jr., for election to their district board of education. With three sons all attending Eastchester schools, old Bill, who earns his living as public relations officer of the Bronx Savings Bank, should make a personable and experienced board member.

Humble Oil is in the throes of a big realignment of territories and responsibilities, and our Bob Haslam finds himself in the strange waters of public relations after ten years of employee relations. He will run things in the northeastern Esso region from offices on the Hutchison River Parkway in Pelham.

Earle Stevenson says the welcome mat is always out for classmates who find themselves near Youngstown, O. He is still sales manager of Youngstown Metal Products, a division of the sheet and tube company in you know where. Earle has a son Stevie completing his junior year at Purdue, while Beth Anne is a senior and Todd a sophomore in Boardman High School.

Jack Parkhurst has moved to 155 South Church St., Goshen, N.Y., and is an assistant professor at Orange County Community College in Middletown. Capt. Larry Vulte has moved again, this time to 2 Cielo Vista Dr., Monterey, Calif., while Col. GeneWeeks is at home at 3901 Estel Rd., Little River Hills, Fairfax, Va. You can find BobWillheim at 13771 Raywood in Los Angeles and Orval Hatch at Allenhurst, Wattsburg, Pa. Bob Kwis now hangs up his hat at 248 East Victory Drive in Savannah, Ga., and Bruce Learned leaves his at the American Embassy, Lima, Pern. Mike Price has moved from Orlando to 57 East Davis Blvd. m Tampa, Fla.

After watching the teams in Florida this spring and with a mixture of loyalty to our home in the South and to the old Boston team, we pick the Atlanta Braves to be pennant contenders this year!

Bob Davidson sent us a clipping from a recent story in the Saturday Evening Post describing a visit in 1954 by our famous fiver Dave Schilling to Ernest Hemingway.

Joe Batchelder, Georgie Hanna, Walt Darby, Sam Hird, Al Tishman, Moose Wyman, Bert MacMannis, and your secretary met in Bert's old office-with-a-view for an executive committee meeting on April 21. Our Alumni Fund drive was thoroughly discussed, and we all agreed on every item on the agenda. We heard that Jack Coulson,Moreau Brown, and Johnny Page have started the groundwork for a Class of 1939 Scholarship Fund to be announced later, perhaps by our next reunion. Any suggestions on this objective should be sent to Bert.

Bert, Walt, and Moose plan to represent us all at the Class Officers' Weekend in Hanover in May. Walt received our praise for his splendid work with the newsletter. Moose and Walt will work together to clarify our Bequest Program. We elected BobKaiser to our committee, and we decided to hold our next meeting in Peoria, Ill., in the fall so we can watch a football game with our Class Agent, who is the proud father of the captain of the Illinois team.

Ev Woodman, the president of Colby Junior College, made the headlines with a talk at the Shore Haven Golf Club in East Norwalk, Conn., on April 20. All Colby alumnae in the area were invited. We're sure that Ev speaks to interested and good-looking audiences wherever he goes.

Sam Dix has written us of the very sudden passing of Chuck Dostal, his roomie at Tuck School, who was really an adopted member of our class, attending Tuck for two years with the 1939 contingent.

We read in Time Magazine that Dr.Charles Osgood at the University of Illinois is conducting a "computerized exploration of the year 2000."

If you want to do a good turn for your fellow man, please drop in an envelope and mail to us any clippings from newspapers and magazines that record the doings of any guy in our class. I'd appreciate a letter from you, but I'll be grateful for a clipping about somebody else.

Your secretary will have a busy summer. Our daughter Nancy, who is the Manson Scholar at Sweet Briar, should graduate in June. Our son John is on the freshman tennis team at North Carolina and hopefully passing his courses. Dot and I are building a new house out here in the farthest corner of the mountains of western North Carolina and probably need some advice. We'd like to hear from you. Have a good summer, you all. Help finish the Alumni Fund drive in high gear, and plan to visit Hanover or see a Dartmouth football game this fall.

Secretary, Box 38, Cashiers, North Carolina

Class Agent, O'Ryan & Batchelder, Inc. 502 E. War Memorial Dr., Peoria, Ill. 61614