1951
The first weekend in October I was in Hanover for Alumni Club Officers Weekend. Weatherwise, it was one of those perfect New England Fall weekends. Programwise, we learned a lot. During the course of an abbreviated Dartmouth Horizons program preceding the regular program, we heard, among others, Ed Lathem, associate librarian, on "Today's College Library."
At a Saturday morning breakfast meeting, we listened to Frank Smallwood describe the many special observances being planned for the College's bicentennial celebration. Frank was wearing his hat as Chairman of the Bicentennial Steering Committee. He was also recently promoted to a full professorship in the government department.
Before returning home, I spent that Sunday afternoon with Frank, wife Anne, and their two daughters and two sons I've watched grow up, in their home across the river in Norwich. You look out the living room picture window down the valley to see Ascutney looming on the horizon.
As you view that scenery on a fall afternoon and think about the College and family life in the Hanover-Norwich community, you realize why Frank is still in Hanover. He has turned down offers 'from other institutions of a deanship and a college presidency of which I am aware.
He is an internationally known scholar in his field of urban affairs and a teacher both respected and loved by his students. On top of this, he has taken on many special assignments such as the bicentennial. Frank is one of the reasons why Dartmouth is the college it is today.
Other classmates in Hanover as club officers were Pete Bixby and Hank Sanders representing, respectively, the Dartmouth Clubs of Essex and Morris Counties, N. J., and Fairfield County, Conn. We saw several other classmates in the stands that Saturday afternoon for the football victory over Holy Cross.
Ted Glaser continues to appear in print, including an AP wire photo, for his work on MIT's high-speed braille embosser. As one newspaper article noted, the machine "may significantly help in integrating blind children into regular school classes."
Work on the electro-mechanical embosser has been underway for more than six years, and final development is still some years away MIT now has a $268,000 foundation grant which will pay for the development of 20 high-speed embossers for field testing in schools in the Greater Boston area and elsewhere. A computer "translates" English into braille and activates the high-speed embosser.
On September 19, Jack Gannon and wife Terry added 6 lb., 11 oz. Julie Elizabeth to their family and the ever-expanding group of '51 offspring.
Worcester, Mass., medic Ed Landau is a candidate for the Worcester School Committee Harvard med graduate Ed was Chief Medical Resident of Worcester City Hospital in 1960. He is past president of the Worcester Medical Innominates (whatever they may be), a former Teaching Fellow at B.U. Medical School, a former Associate Director of Medicine Education at Worcester City Hospital, and a member of the Education Committee there.
Ed served two years active duty with the Army Medical Corps and has six years in the reserve. A past P.T.A. president, he is a director of the Friends of the Worcester Public Schools. He is also active on his temple's religious school education committee. Ed is a member of the American College of Physicians and certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
In last month's column, I left the "Floating Reunion" in the Los Angeles area. From there, I journeyed on to Honolulu, where the American Bar Association was meeting. While we entered Dartmouth with three classmates from Hawaii, Blaine Boyden, "Jock" McIntyre, and "Mo" Monalian, Hawaii is one of nine states with no 1951's now resident.
While I did not encounter him in Honolulu, Los Angeles lawyer Wes Nutten had told me he was going and I heard that he made it. Minneapolis judge Jim Rogers wrote me that he was, and we had dinner together with an airline stewardess he was squiring.
After the meetings I was interested in were concluded, I took a tour of three of the outer islands. One morning at the salt water pool at the Kona Inn in Kailua, Hawaii, I encountered Dick Pugh and wife Nan. Dick is currently No. 2 man on the civil side of the U.S. Department of Justice's Tax Division.
On the way home, I stopped for several days in San Francisco, hoping to round up a group of classmates there. I regret to report that my efforts were largely unsuccessful.
I did spend an enjoyable evening at Pierce McKee's home in Orinda, east of the Berkeley Hills. After eight years with Sears Roebuck and six years with Top Value Stamps, Pierce got tired of moving and is now Assistant Store Manager of Simon's Stores' San Pablo operation. He and wife Roxy have three sons: Jeff, 12; John, 10; and Jim, 7.
Howie Bissell dropped by during the cocktail hour. He is Sales Manager for five northwestern states for the Fastener Division of Premium Industrial Corp. with 20 salesmen under him. Howie operates out of Menlo Park, Calif., while the company's home office is in Cleveland. They sell high quality fasteners of all types - nuts, bolts, screws — to the maintenance industry.
I also did get to talk on the 'phone with San Francisco lawyer Charlie Richardson, who is associated with Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, one of those big city law factory operations. And I did have lunch with JimDanaher, who heads a rapidly expanding small law firm in Palo Alto.
From Baghdad-on-the-Bay, I returned home where the practice of antitrust law, Boy Scout training, and Dartmouth affairs quickly resumed their usual impossible pace. Time has passed so quickly that I can scarcely believe that it will be December by the time you read this column.
As the year end approaches, may I wish all of the Dartmouth 1951 family - men, wives, and children - the merriest of holiday seasons and a happy and prosperous 1968!
Secretary, 2107 Fidelity Bldg. Philadelphia, Penna. 19109
Treasurer, 24 Cherrybrook Dr., R.D. 4 Princeton, N. J. 08540
