1941

Is it possible that 25 years have passed since that Sunday in June, 1941 when 500 seniors went late in the afternoon to the Bema as undergraduates and came back as alumni? The years seem to have passed almost as swiftly as the wonderful four years that were spent in Hanover. Yet so much has happened in those years. Look around you at Reunion and see how the 1941 family has grown ... the wives, the sons and the daughters. Yes and the grandchildren too. 1941 is a class Dartmouth can be proud of, a class that has done much for Dartmouth in 25 years to repay what Dartmouth did for it in four memorable years. The class has contributed outstanding men in all walks of life ... educators, scientists, military, public service, government, business and industry. You name it and '41 is there.

I was browsing over an old copy of The Dartmouth the other day and noted the list of twenty men who were awarded prizes in June, 1941 ... Clif Stratton for oratory, George Brand for debating, George Herman and Chuck Bolté for English Composition, Pete Glenn for Greek, Bob Harvey for Literature, Owen Chamberlain for Modern Language, Bob Thome for Biology and Botany, Jim Page for Geology, Bob Hatch for History, Clint Reynolds for History, HerbBailey for Political Science, the late SkipBeck for Law, George Wrisley for Essay, Ken Gross for general improvement, TimTakaro for the highest scholarship rating, Gus Broberg for athletics, and Ed Anderberg for Economics. Pete Keir got the Barrett Cup. Brings back memories, doesn't it.

(Two members of the class, since debased got their names in the paper in June for their athletic accomplishments.) Larry Andrew won the Fred Smith Cup for the senior who made the greatest improvemen to track and field Though Larry failed to make his numerals as a freshman, he learned in four years to reach 6 4 in the high jump. The baseball team ended the season with a ninth-inning 3-2 win over Cornell and George Sexton allowed only six hits.

Larry Thompson gave the Class Day address, Chuck McLane delivered a stirring Address to the College, the late Jack Brister the Address to the Old Pine, Tom Littlefield read his Class Poem ("Our way is to stand fast, Fast to land and country"). Mouse Hall had the fun of delivering the Sachem Oration in which great predictions were made for the members of '41.

We looked at the Class of 1916 then and thought no Dartmouth alumni could be so old. And yet here we are today where 1916 was then - and not looking half-bad either. But enough of this nostalgia. Let's get back to 1966 and the class news of the month.

*"l"get a great deal of personal pleasure in writing this next item about Stew Steffey. Stew has been one of the hardest working and most loyal members of the class for as long as I can remember and I was happy to get a news release from U.S. Steel that he has been named General Manager of Big Steel's Raw Material Sales Department. The sales organization he heads includes three regional sales centers, staffed by product specialists. Stew put in some post graduate work in philosophy at the University of Liverpool, England; in Metallurgical Engineering at Univ. of Pittsburgh and in 1965 completed the Advanced Management Course at Columbia. He began his career at U.S. Steel in 1946 as a Commercial Apprentice, and has worked his way up the ladder. It was good of Carl Krogh to send me the news item on this appointment as it appeared in the Pittsburgh Pres.

Clipped from the New York Times: "Viking Press is putting out this month a book of cartoons called 'How To Win Over Your Children' by Mary Bolté, illustrated by Bill Mauldin. The author used a pen name when the book was submitted. Only after a council of editors decided to publish the book was it revealed that the witty lady was the wife of Charles Bolté, executive vice president of Viking."

Rohm and Haas Co., Philadelphia, has announced the appointment of Robert G. Thomas to the position of sales manager of the Fibers Division. In this spot, Bob will be responsible for the sale of nylon six fiber produced in the company's new North Carolina plant when it begins operations in spring of 1967. He will continue to have responsibility for sales of the products made at the company's subsidiary, Sauquoit Fibers Co., in Scranton, Pa.

A few months ago, Monk Larson sent me the announcement that Woodward and Fondiller, Inc., management consultants, of which he's president, had opened new offices at 730 Fifth Avenue. My old classmate at Garden City High has done a fine job with this concern and has received considerable mention in the press for his speaking at insurance meetings and before other business groups. His firm conducted a comprehensive study of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to determine its present and future role in enhancing the capacity of a to regulate the business of insurance.

The last item on this month's agenda is the election by the Board of Directors of the Colonial Life Insurance Co. of America of Dr. George Simpson as vice president and medical director. George has been medical director of the company since 1957 when he joined Colonial. Prior to that he was assistant medical director of Equitable Life.

That just about winds up another year of reporting news and activities of the Class of 1941. There will be a Reunion column in the July MAGAZINE and I hope I'm on hand to write it. But a new edition to the Hall family (the last was born in 1950) is due around the middle of June and so there is some possibility that wonderful event may interfere with my getting to Hanover. If I can't get there and next month's column is written by a guest columnist, let me wish you all 25 more years of good luck and good health.

1941 Class ReunionHanover - June 16-19, 1966

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