1953

We've seen some colorful and exciting Dartmouth football games this past month. Harvard was a cardiac special and Yale a real shocker. We saw plenty of '53's in attendence and the Class had the usual post-Harvard game party at the Continental Hotel in Cambridge. The reunion committee met before the Harvard game and I understand that preparations are underway for a smashing fifteenth next June. Gus Allen and Bob Callender are heading up the festivities.

I saw George Davies after the Yale game and he told me that he was changing jobs. Effective December 1, George will be vice president and general counsel for National Securities, a 700 plus million dollar group of mutual funds. He will handle administrative as well as legal work and be headquartered at 120 Broadway in New York. George lives in Pelham. I saw Doug Perkins from a distance at the Harvard game and also had a card from him. Doug moved from Hanover last August after spending the past three years there. He is now assistant to the president at Bay Path Junior College. Doug says it's quite a change from Dartmouth and with five hundred young females at Bay Path, it's hard to find fault with that statement. He is living in Longmeadow which, as Doug says, is central to the football circuit.

Brock Brower has a new literary effort, his first published novel, "Debris." The book review that I read gave it an A plus. To quote: "This first novel will quite probably become a classic. In our opinion it places Brower among the top contemporary writers of fact and fiction." As most of you know, Brock has authored numerous short stories and articles which have appeared in leading magazines. I missed Fred Hitt at the Yale game this year, but read that he was appointed chairman of the committee to canvass the professional part of Cheshire's United Fund Campaign. As previously reported, Fred is a law partner in the firm of Dice, Bowan and Hitt. He and his wife Connie have three children. The Lawrence (Mass.) Eagle-Tribune announced the appointment of Bill Stubbs as its retail advertising manager. Bill joined the Eagle-Tribune after four years with the Manchester Union Leader. He started his newspaper career with Guy Gannett Publishing Company in Maine following his release from the Navy in 1955. In between, he served stints with the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch and Willimantic (Conn.) Daily Tribune so Bill has seen a few newspapers in his young career. Jim Broe '23 sent me the clipping on Bill's new job and also advised me that Bill's father was an old newspaper man and trained his son well.

Jack Levine has become a partner of the Denver law firm Berenbaum and Berenbaum which will now continue under the name Berenbaum, Berenbaum and Levine.

Doubleday has made public the appointment of Dave Replogle as general manager of its publishing division. He joined the company in its training program in 1958 after attending graduate school at Princeton, and a year later he became a sales representative and then regional sales manager. Since 1962 he has been trade sales manager with duties involving control and direction of book sales, distribution, advertising and promotion. He and Jeanne and four sons live in Garden City, Long Island.

Bill Beutel had some rather unusual news to report on his ABC newscast several weeks ago. After mentioning that the AFLCIO American Federation of Television and Radio Artists had levied fines totaling $48,000.00 on four of its members, Bill went on to say that he was one of the four members. It seems that Bill and three other ABC stars crossed the picket lines of the striking technicians union and continued to appear on their television shows. The four men fined have individual extracts with ABC and the company maintained that these contracts took precedence over obligations to the union. It looks like Bill and his associates were caught in the middle and I'm not sure how or if it has been resolved.

Bill Johnson is back in the political wars - this time as Governor George Romney's Campaign Chairman for the New Hampshire primary. According to an article in the New York Times, Billy was also offered a prominent role in the campaign of Richard Nixon, but chose the Romney effort instead.

Have a Merry Christmas and we'll see you next year. Christmas cards with some news of Classmates will not be refused at the Florence household.

Secretary, 11 Mendota Ave. Rye, N. Y. 10580

Treasurer, 5366 Ellenvale Ave. Woodland Hills, Calif. 91364