1935

The Class of 1935 spent a busy summer tackling new assignments in business, education and other fields of endeavor. News of new jobs, promotions, and extracurricular accomplishments fill the mailbag to overflowing.

Tom Wilson, our able Bequest Chairman, moved up another notch at General Motors. Tom is now administrative assistant to the general manager at the GMC Truck and Coach Division, a newly-created post. HankMuller left Westinghouse, a corporation he has served for two decades, to become vice president and technical director of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA). In announcing the appointment, NEMA commented "We have selected the best qualified man in the industry."

Charlie Hausserman moved from president of Van Iderstine company, a fat rendering firm, to executive vice president of the parent corporation, Darling-Delaware Company in Chicago. With 26 plants located around the U.S., Charlie has been busy travelling the circuit this summer. Jim Higgins, who for the past ten years has conducted his own industrial medical center at Roosevelt Field, on Long Island, has joined the Oxford Paper Company as Medical Director at their Rumford, Me., plant.

Bo Kreer, one of Chicago's top advertising men, switched allegiance from Young & Rubicam to Buchen Advertising. Bo will be senior vice president and director of client services for Buchen, which is the oldest agency in America specializing in industrial business. Chuck Drackett is now director of Employee and Community Relations at the Drackett Chemical Company, in Cincinnati, best known for such products as Windex, Drano and Endust.

Gene Burnkrant left Colorado's mountain splendor to become director of the Vocational Education and Extension Board of Nassau County, New York. In announcing his selection, the Nassau County Board stated "He's the right man; he gets things done." This comes as no surprise to '35ers, who well remember Gene's hustle on campus. While serving as Superintendent of Schools at Boulder, Colo., Gene won recognition for setting up Colorado's first area vocational school. Gene's son, Bob, recently was made assistant to the regional manager of Texaco in Denver. Son, Dick, is a junior at the University of Wisconsin, majoring in Landscape Architecture.

Two '35ers recently found that changing times were adversely affecting long-established family businesses. Art Bamford concluded that his eminently successful Bakers Weekly could no longer buck the big publishing empires, and sold his interest to Ojibway Press. Art continues as a consultant to Ojibway. Herb Stearns reluctantly decided to sell the century-old Stearns News Store, in Mansfield, Mass., when the termination of two Boston newspapers (The Boston Post and Boston Newspapers) curtailed volume. The Stearns store was established by Herb's grandfather, way back in 1873.

Bill Chapman moved up to senior vice president, and chairman of the Loan Committee at the First National Bank in St. Louis. Prior to joining the bank in 1964, he had been vice president and general manager of Trailmobile Finance in Cincinnati.

Extracurricular Honors. Len Bryant, chairman of Hooker Chemical, elected to the board of the Manufacturing Chemists Association. Bob McLellan to the board of the Financial Executives Institute, Boston Chapter. Ed Hinman, president of International Paper, chosen as featured speaker at the National Paper Trade Association convention. Neil Roberts doubly honored: named trustee of the Associated Colleges of Colorado, and elected president of the Colorado Public Expenditure Council.

In a feature article in Business Week, Fritz Beebe's behind-the-scene role in Newsweek's publishing success is duly chronicled. Fritz, now board chairman of Newsweek, originally served as legal counsel to Eugene Meyer, late owner of the Washington Post. It was Fritz who urged Meyer's son-in-law and daughter, Phil and Kay Graham, to buy Newsweek, and subsequently was persuaded to join the firm. Fritz is credited with refinancing the company's long-term debt, reshaping the company's employee profitsharing plan to aid the old-timers, and negotiating a series of successful acquisitions. One top Newsweek executive is quoted as saying "One of the smartest things Phil Graham did was to get Beebe to move in."

With the start of the new television programs this fall, Harry Ackerman has two new entries in the running. You'll be watching Harry's 'The Flying Nun" and "The Second Hundred Years" on ABC-TV. Some of Harry's earlier hits have been "Hazel," "Farmer's Daughter," "Bewitched," and "Wackiest Ship in the Army." Harry is married to Elinor Donahue, the daughter in "Father Knows Best," a series for which he was not responsible.

Bill Gahagan's long dedication to Robert Frost has resulted in his election as president of the newly-incorporated California Friends of Robert Frost. Bill helped found the group, and had served as executive secretary until its incorporation as a non-profit organization, dedicated to perpetuate the memory of Dartmouth's late poet laureate. One of its first projects is to find a permanent home for a bronze Frost plaque, and to set up Frost medallion awards in California schools.

From Sel Hannah comes this word, "The ski area consultant business has developed into new fields, such as market research, economic analysis, etc. Ensign S. Hannah '65 (and Thayer '66) is on temporary leave to Uncle Sam. Daughter Joan does our art work when she is in the East."

Art Fischer reports he is associated with the Lovelace Clinic in Albuquerque and adds "Daughter Diane and family in Sherman Oaks, Calif.; young Art married and living in Anchorage, was former frogman in the Navy. Sue and Tim still in college." And from Carson City, Nev., Jack Davis writes that he is a counselor in the Carson City School system. "Son John is currently on a destroyer off Viet Nam. Kathy is majoring in forestry at the University of Montana. Plan to see Sam Harris and family at Tacoma August 23, en route to taking Kathy back to school."

Those who subscribe to Forbes will find their Sept. 15 issue of especial interest. It's the publication's 50th anniversary, and this special issue represents a labor of love by Dero Saunders, executive editor. Dero, incidentally, has just completed two terms on the Alumni Advisory Board of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. He's being succeeded by John Mecklin '39, a Fortune staffer and son of the late Prof. Mecklin.

Bob Hage currently is the leading candidate for our Grandfather's Crown. He and Henrietta have 8. That tops me by one. Any one care to reopen the bidding!

Reviewed in this issue is a colorful historical account of the Big Sky countryedited by Ben Stein '36, Montana rancherand state senator.

Secretary 840 Westcliff Deerfield, Ill. 60015

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Bequest Chairman,