1949
The 1967 baseball season is but a memory, and the grinding cleats of opposing linemen have long since replaced spikes on the nation's baseball diamonds. Yet a mention must be made of the heroic Boston Red Sox, a team which wound up in the cellar last year and last won the American League pennant race in 1946 when most of us were mere sophomores. It always seemed to me that more than half of the College rooted for the Boston team, known affectionately by all simply as the "Sox." The daily accomplishments of the "Splendid Splinter," Ted Williams, and his teammates were better known on campus than those of Harry Truman and his entire cabinet. It has been wonderful to share in all the excitement of the hour with our New England brethren and to know that the long suffering at last have a winner.
Bob Zeiser, our man in Providence, is undoubtedly quite disappointed that his Cleveland Indians didn't take the honors, but he can now turn his mind to the affairs at hand in his two-year term as a representative of the New England states to the Dartmouth College Alumni Council. Heartiest congratulations!!
Word out of Cincinnati is that ClarkeChurch has just been made national sales manager of the Toilet Goods Division of Procter and Gamble. He sold so many cases of their floating soap in Canada that they repatriated him to kill showering with a nationally advertised "Back to the Bathtub" campaign.
John Flanagan has been elected president of Universal Welding Incorporated. He is a member of the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers. His company specializes in the reclamation of over fifty different steel mill components and serves steel producers in the Pittsburgh and Chicago areas.
A few additional bits of late spring information are in order before we can say that we are caught up on our news. Harry Randall was nominated by the Bergen County Republican organization as a candidate for the New Jersey State Assembly. Harry is partner with his father in the law firm of Randall and Randall of Westwood.
William Bellows of Springfield, Mass., has been appointed associate director of the Programming and Systems Institute. This is a West Springfield based computer education center.
The president of Strathmore Paper Company recently announced the appointment of John Gallup to the newly created position of assistant division manager. He will continue to handle the administration of Strathmore purchasing and control.
Dr. Robert Belfit Jr. of Midland, Mich., has been named assistant laboratory director in the Dow Chemical Company's Ethylene Research Laboratory. Belfit will focus on the overall technical direction of the laboratory's research.
Guy Busch has joined the sales staff of the Dicalite Division of Grefco, Incorporated, and has been appointed district sales manager. For over eleven out of the last sixteen years he has worked for several firms as a technical sales representative in the adhesives business.
General Electric Company writes us that Ray Bankert has been appointed manager of finance for the company's machinery apparatus operation. He will be responsible not only for the financial function but for prime contract negotiation and administration. Ray is secretary-treasurer of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Eastern New York and lives in Scotia with his wife and six children.
Here's some news about one of our more illustrious professional men by way of a newspaper item clipped by one classmate and sent to another before it fell into my hands. Dr. Robert Berg, a Boston pioneer in community health programs, has left Harvard Medical School to become director of the $1.4 million neighborhood health center in nearby Roxbury. He has resigned as chief of pediatrics at Beth Israel Hospital to accept the challenge but was expected to be named chairman of a new department of community medicine at Boston University Medical School as part of the project. The health center provides comprehensive medical, dental, and mental health care for patients in their own neighborhood. His wife, Dr. Dorothy Worth, heads the city's $1.7 million maternal and infants care project.
As an added convenience and for my driving pleasure, I have just become the recipient of a CITGO lifetime credit card. This is good not only for the usual gas and oil but for motels, food, car repairs, and accessories. The friendly letter was signed by Yankee transplant Robert G. Reed III, vice president and general manager of marketing for Cities Service Oil Company of Tulsa. The satisfaction of knowing that there is someone up in one of those great big offices who really cares is more than I can bear. I feel somewhat short-changed in that no one has as yet called and asked the usual personal questions, but I keep a bank balance in the low two figures and don't have charge accounts with any department stores or other oil companies. You see, all of these were revoked a long time ago, so you can be assured that I'll give your firm all my business. I'll just have to because your card is the only one in my glove compartment; I don't believe in using cash where I can help it, and we leave for California in the morning.
A genuine treat for all of us is a message of good cheer from Bill Kerr in Saint Andrews, Scotland. Bill is now a member of the Department of Modern History at Scotland's oldest university, Saint Andrews, some 160 years older than Edinburgh. He took his Ph.D., subsequently taught at Cambridge, and married an English girl. The Kerrs have a daughter almost two years old. Bill says that he can play all four Saint Andrews golf courses for twelve dollars a year but prefers book collecting, having amassed over 8,000 volumes dating back to 1547. Write him at 24 Murray Park, Saint Andrews, Scotland.
According to a newsy card received a few months back, Lt. Colonel Dean Merrill, U.S.M.C., should by now be retired from the service after twenty years and be living in Enfield, N. H., where he and Lorrie have bought a farm. His last tour of duty was with a reserve tank battalion in the San Diego area which the family loved. Dean promises that he'll be with us on future class functions after many years of absence but first must get settled on his new farm and find a new career for himself.
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