1951

It's now early May, time for me to crank out my last class notes column until October. Spring seems almost a fraud this year. Our April showers were cold and definitely not to the tune of ersatz Chopin. As for the temperature, I've begun to feel like Sam McGee of Robert Service fame prior to Sam s cremation.

A few months ago, the thought occurred to me that this column should relate what our new Newsletter Editor has done since graduation. I wrote Pete Martin for information, sending him a few morsels of news as a quid pro quo. Eventually I received back a thoroughly entertaining "typewritten" letter, which looked just like Pete's copy used to look when we both worked for the Daily D, namely, a night editor's nightmare. I wish space permitted me to print the entire letter, for it loses much of its zest in the condensation.

Pete spent his first two years after graduation as a cub reporter with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, covering both the pedestrian and the exciting, including "one really wild bank robbery — bullets still flying when got there — tear gas and all." While there he married native Julie Gordon.

Then in 1953, the Ford Foundation, through one of its many subsidiaries, "a fine, practical, visionary outfit in New York called the Institute of Current World Affairs," invited Pete to spend two years in Africa at their expense. Pete and Julie obliged and drove all over the continent.

When the two years were up, after some soul-searching, Pete went with Time. About that time son .Thornton arrived; daughter Lucy came four years later. For eight years, Pete specialized in Latin America, moving up through the ranks from contributing to associate to senior editor.

He is now in charge of Time's color photography spreads, "thinking up ideas, traveling where they lead [him], finding out what the story is and how it can be translated into pictures, writing photographic scripts, selecting pictures, doing layouts." E.g., he was in London doing research on miniskirts for the April 15 spread on "The Swinging City. In between times, Pete edits various text sections of the magazine.

Two other ex-Daily D staffers are in the news this month. Gary Mansur has left Philadelphia to return to the wombland of the bean and the cod. He is the new managing editor of "Industry Magazine," official publication of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, the state manufacturers' association with 2,300 members. Gary was most recently with Smith, Kline and French in sales promotion, advertising and trade communications.

Bob Kidd is back in southeast Asia, this time with the Agency for International Development. He had been back in this country only a year after 21 months teaching English in Thailand with the Peace Corps. While home, he did PR work for the Corps before taking AID's six-month intensive training program. He is now a provincial representative in Vietnam, working directly with the people in an attempt to improve their lot.

One of the Class' few cartoonists, "Pinky"Pfaff, is now a vice president of J. Walter Thompson Company, New York advertising agency. Before joining J.W.T. in 1958, Pink had been art director with Bryan Houston, Inc. With the move, he switched to writing, with Pan Am his main creative responsibility. Pink took his art training at the Academie Calarossi in Paris, the School of Visual Arts and Herbert Berghof Studios in New York. Pink and wife Kathryn have two sons: Frederick, 3; and Christopher, 2.

Chuck Fitzsimmons has been named plant manager of the New Haven Copper Co., Seymour, Conn., with responsibility for the production, maintenance, and engineering functions of the company. New Haven is a rolling mill subsidiary of Tennessee Corp., a Cities Service subsidiary. Chuck and wife Carole have four children.

A. O. Smith Company of Milwaukee has named Herb Knight to the new position of manager, marketing planning. Herb joined the company in 1964 and has worked on a number of marketing and planning assignments throughout the corporation. He will continue to handle special assignments in business planning. Herb and Nancy live at 1915 E. Glendale Avenue in Whitefish Bay, Wis.

Doug Frandsen has been promoted by Armstrong Cork to marketing manager for rotogravure products, floor division. With the company since 1954, Doug had most recently been manager of the New Orleans District, Floor Division.

Chemical Bank New York Trust Company has promoted Dick Hulbert to auditing officer, Control (whatever that means). Dick joined Chemical in 1957 as a senior methods analyst in Methods and Standards and was promoted to assistant auditing officer in 1962.

Bruce Robertson has joined Motorola to become PR Manager for the Communications Division headquartered in Chicago. Bruce was previously PR Director for the Kemper Insurance Group. He is a member of the Chicago Press Club, the Public Relations Society of America, the Executives' Club of Chicago, and the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry. He and wife Mary have a daughter and a son.

Dr. Al Tarlov is one of 25 medical scientists, all faculty members of medical schools, who have been appointed Scholars in Academic Medicine by the Markle Foundation of New York. Al is presently an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, where he earned his M.D. $30,000 will be paid to his school over a five-year period to supplement his salary, aid his research, and otherwise assist in his development.

Ted Eberle married Mrs. Jeannette Rule Hodgson of Chappaqua, N. Y., in that town in March. The previous spouses of both are deceased. The new Mrs. Eberle is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati and a member of the Junior League of Mt. Kisco, N. Y. She and Ted are residing in Chappaqua.

New Head Agent Howie Read has certainly gotten this year's Alumni Fund off to a roaring start. As of the last interim statement I saw (April 25), 1951 had a decisive lead in its Green Derby group and an average gift of sixty dollars and some odd cents

My enthusiasm palled a bit when I realized that the only strong competition we faced this year was 1950, which was running about nine dollars ahead on the average gift (The remaining classes are the hodgepot veterans classes whose members came and left at different times, many of whom never graduated, who simply never had the opportunity to develop any sense of Class unity.) 1952 and 1953 are in a different Green Derby group.

I hope that 1951's pace has been sustained in the month to six weeks between when I write these words and you read them. By the time you do, we'll be in the homestretch of this year's Alumni Fund drive. I hope that we won't falter in June The College can't afford to have us falter unless you're willing to settle for a secondrate Dartmouth. I'm not.

A Class of 1951 group pops the cork on the champagne prize given for the largestattendance at the Philadelphia Alumni Club's annual dinner. Quaffing the fruits ofvictory were (front, I to r) Bill Brandfass, Buck Scott, Sam Roberts, and Dick Mason(a ringer imported from Washington); (back) Fred Ranney, Russ Dilks (the newlyelected club president and rigger of the award), Warren Stearns, Barry Spiegel, andCharlie Breed (a ringer from the College's Development staff).

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