1929
The meeting of the Class Officers in Hanover was a memorable occasion, and Dukeand Horty Barto, Jack and Jerry Gunther,Ed and Polly Chinlund, and Jack Hubbard were in on all the festivities and the workshops. Talk about gracious hosts! First the Chinlunds, then a very pleasant evening at the Brittans, and finally brunch at the Pauland Janet Woodbridges. We also saw Danand Jeanne Marx, who are also denizens of the Hanover Hills.
Chick Shea was honored at a football Hall of Fame dinner at Deerfield Academy. He was awarded the Butova Memorial Award. He was a most successful coach of football at New Britain High, and is now vice-president of the Milton Bradley Company. ... Gus Wiedenmayer was honored as the Outstanding Alumnus of Montclair Academy at their annual dinner.
Interesting note on the Alumni Fund: Thirty men of the class have contributed for 37 years, or every year since graduation.
Ray Hedger writes: "On a recent weekend, I visited Jim Hodson and his wife Hessie at their home in Bellevue, Wash. On May 11 Jim was to be guest of honor at the annual dinner of the Western Region of the Annual Conference of Christians and Jews. It is a tribute to Jim's long service as a judge in the Superior Court of the State of Washington. Jim is a well known and respected citizen of Seattle and a classmate we can all be proud of." ... Ed Walsh reports: "Betty and our 13-year-old son Bob and I spent three good days with Carter andMolly Strickland at Clearwater, Fla. Carter and I are on the Board of Directors of the Dairy and Food Industry Supply Association. Carter was reelected to the Board at the annual meeting there. Good weather, spotty golf, and fun mixed in with business." ... From Ray Talbott: "Proud to report that my daughter, Mrs. Nancy Durham, was number one student in her capping ceremony at the Springfield Hospital (Mass.). She graduated from Bucknell in 1964. Son John will graduate in June, Dartmouth 1967." ...
Hal Leich sends this along: "A few years ago a new family moved next door and several months later, in talking across the hedge, I discovered that my new neighbor was a classmate Howard Kramer, whom I had not known in college. I see a lot of Howard now because he is very kind in giving me a ride to and from the office since I broke my leg in a skiing accident in February." Are there any other '29ers who are next door neighbors? ... This from Dick Brown:
"A wedding in the family seems to be an occasion for writing to the secretary. Our son Bill was married last January to Grais Harris of Clarksville, N. Y., in the Student Chapel at the U. of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he is working on his doctorate in History. During the excitement of the affair the traditional picture of the bride and the six Dartmouth men present was omitted. In recent correspondence I find the Lew Clarke is still a pipe smoking (blue boar) barrister and sailor in Waukegan, Ill., and that Bob Jones' name is high on the masthead of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee. There was a chance meeting last winter with Harry Baehr in Hawaii. Wonder in what direction he'll point his pen, now that the W.J.T. has deceased. Locally, Jack Brabb is doing fine as a lawyer, was just retired from the U S N R with the rank of captain, and stands third from the top in his chess club of thirty members. Didn't ask him if he still has the trumpet or still works the amateur radio waves. He claims that he can bend over and touch the floor not once but 25 times. Dick Eberline is vice-president and general manager of an electronic equipment plant near here. I'm sure he feels the pangs of poverty that come with having three kids in college at the same time. I see our favorite bishop, Archie Crowley, occasionally, officially; and regularly, secularly. He is most active and is still an avid tennis player. I stay close to him because I figure he's my best chance to get to heaven. As for myself, I'm doing about the same thing I've done since graduation - commercial and industrial roofing - and it looks as if that'll continue right on through Social Security, if the unions and Uncle Sam don't get us first. I'll hope to see you at the rump reunion in the fall...."
The aforementioned Gus Wiedenmayer sends along a picture of the 64th annual convention of the New Jersey Bankers Association. In the picture is Charles Van Horn, regional administrator of national banks, New York; New Jersey's Governor Richard J. Hughes; NJBA President Gus, and U.S. Senator Thomas J. Mclntyre '37 (D) New Hampshire. Gus adds: "My son Christopher '63 has completed his three-year hitch in the Navy and is now finishing his first semester at Columbia Business School. My daughter Cary Smallhorn recently presented us with our second grandson, Thomas. Peggy and I are looking forward to the informal reunion next fall."
This from Irv Levitas: "retired from private practice of medicine September 1966 - now full time director of Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Hackensack Hospital. I see Dr. Jacobitti every day during my work. So the Class of 1929 is doing well in this section of New Jersey."... Maxine Johnston takes the time to say: "Nothing very special about the Johnstons these days - two married sons - two lovely daughters-in-law - two lovely grandchildren - one couple m Toledo, Ohio with Owens Corning Fibreglass - the other in Mont clair, N. J., with Price Waterhouse. My beau keeps threatening to retire, but I am not disillusioned. He'll see it out to the bitter end. He manages to go horse racing most Saturdays and we have a quarter interest in a four-year-old colt with bad knees. Al Miller also has an interest. We are irate about the student handling of Mr. Wallace's visit to Hanover. ... John Cook has been named Board Chairman of Whitney Blake Company."
Dartmouth College and Carpenter Steel Company are to be joined in an educational partnership which is expected to improve engineering education by involving graduate students in projects as much concerned with the economics of new development as with theoretic research. Jack Moxon is president of Carpenter Steel... and has recently been appointed to the Board of Overseers at Tuck School.
Charlie Dudley was re-elected president of Lebanon College.
Molly F. Brittan, daughter of the TrunkieBrittans, was graduated from Lasell Junior College. ... The Harvard Club's down town branch is being run by Ollie Holmes of the Schrafft organization. ... Adolph Berger is now regional director of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in San Francisco.
Jim Montfort recently underwent a cataract operation, which we hope was a complete success. Bob Lyle has been elected president of the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest... add Gordon Smith to the cataract operation family, and also wishes for a complete success.
Marv Braverman is chairman of the Overseas Schools Advisory Council, which conducts a large scale program of assistance to American-sponsored schools abroad. ... Dick Burke is now director and chairman of the executive committee of the George D. Roper Corp., a Sears Roebuck-controlled appliance maker. Ran into Art and PegRose in Nantucket, they having just returned from Pakistan. Their story sounds like something out of the Arabian Nights. They are now temporarily housed in Cambridge, Mass., awaiting a further assignment. Art is with the Ford Foundation.
Received a delightful telephone call the other night from Hanover, and the voice was Janet Woodbridge's. Six twenty niners, the largest turnout at Alumni College, received their certificates: the Woodbridges, four years; the Duke Bartos, three years; the A 1 Fishers, Jack Irvings, Ken MacNairs, and the Frank Smalls, one year. They all got on the phone and chewed the fat with me, and seemed most happy with it all.
Avery "Red" Gould '30, former All-American attackman, was inducted intothe Lacrosse Hall of Fame at the North-South All Star game, June 10, at theUniversity of Massachusetts.
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