1934
How does one bring innovation to the timeless tradition of ringing out the old year and ringing in the new? Why, one just sits down to his typewriter during the very last hour of 1966 and writes his class notes column for the February, 1967, issue of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE. AS simple and unexciting as that! Much simpler, of course, if one's classmates weren't so shy and modest about writing in with newsy notes about themselves and their families. So - let this be high on your list of 1967 resolutions: "Resolved: To write to my Class Secretary early and often, and starting right now!"
To those who took the time to write, we give a top priority salute. And so, to our pen pals of the month:
Warren Schmid reports from Winnetka, Ill., that he is still with Union Carbide, Linde Division, in Chicago. ("More than 32 years — guess I must like it,") His daughter, Ann, was graduated from Iowa last June and is going to secretarial school prior to entering the business world. Son, Jim, is a junior at Kenyon College in Gambia, Ohio. ... Aiming for law school.
Al Seitner writes from Jacksonville, Fla., that he has joined the 1934 father-in-law brigade with the marriage on October 20 of his son, Richard Dittler, "to the lovely Alyce Butcher. Al adds: "X. M. Sulzbacher is still the only other '34 in these immediate parts. We are both active in the not too active local Dartmouth Club - I. M. being the Jacksonville Enrollment Chairman, which activity has shown considerable progress in the last two years. The Jacksonville Club has been most fortunate in working with Ralph Manuel of the Admission Office, who has been making a yearly visit to help further our efforts. ..."
Al Hewitt, living proof that old thespians never fade away (they just grow younger) tells us from Big Town that: "The so-called living' stage in New York continues to survive without me, and so I continue to fool the people by making TV films in California. I have already been seen (by some) on a Chrysler Theater. Yet to come will be appearances, already filmed, on Gomer Pyle, I dream of Jeannie, and Daktari, as well as Insight. I apologize for not having made any feature films in a couple of years. It isn't because I'm so choosy; I just haven't been asked.... My Favorite Martian, on which I appeared for two years, is finished, but is being repeated in various localities in what we call 'syndication.' I'm not growing any more hair, nor fathering children, but I feel fine, thank you."
Before going into detail on a remarkable career that covered 29 consecutive years abroad, we trumpet a wah-hoo-wah for Howie Gussenhoven on his promotion to Regional Manager, General Motors Overseas Operations. This means that Gus guides GM operations in South Africa, Portugal, and Mexico as well as the division which handles distribution of his firm's products in some 140 countries where there are no GM manufacturing or company-owned assembly plants.
We'd been bugging Gus to fill us in on his activities since he joined Overseas Operations after graduation. The Marco Polo of 1934 went to Argentina in 1937 and successively had tours of duty in Uruguay, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, Brazil and back to Argentina, before finally coming back stateside last July, with assignments running the gamut - sales manager, assembly plant manager, and managing director of GM operations in Brazil and Argentina. Meanwhile, Marie Aspinwall traveled 6,000 miles to Montevideo where she and Gus were married in 1938. The following year they were blessed with the first of two sets of twins - Joan and James - born in Argentina. The second set - Jean and John - came along in Mexico. Joan is in school in New Jersey; James is shooting for his Ph.D. at Berkeley while teaching part-time; Jean is at Briarcliff, and John is at the University of North Carolina. The Guessenhovens are becoming Americanized in a New York apartment, but Gus is still commuting around the world.
NAMES IN THE NEWS - Al Newbury represented the College at the inauguration of Elwin Lloyd Skiles as eleventh president of Hardin-Simmons University. ... Ted Germann named chairman of the admissions committee of Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he is associate professor of French. Ted was on the West Point faculty many years before switching to Marist just over two years ago. Ted did his graduate work at Columbia and the University of Bordeaux.... Tim Lindheim, senior vice president of the Continental Bank of Cleveland, now doing a syndicated coin collectors' column - "Coin-Wise" - for National Newspaper Syndicate of Chicago. ...
HAPPY FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS - Jack Banks, Jack Corcoran, Bob Corwin, Al Cotton, Jerry Danzig, Jim Darling, Andy Donaldson, Jack Fish, Ike and Sam Fishman, George Forbes, Bob Goecke, Art Grimes, Bud Hart, Gordy Haverkampf, Laurie Herman, Herb Heston, Tom Hicks, Dick Houck, Jeff Jackson, Chuck Kehoe, Willie Leveen, Charlie Levesque, Johnny Lyle, Mord Mersel, Hank Peirce, Ike Powers, Jim Pry or, Dick Scheuler, Babe Shea, Frankie Spain, Frank Sweetser, Alan Tawse, Jim Wendell, Jack Wolf and Nick Xanthaky.
CHRISTMAS AFTERGLOW - Ye Olde Scribe thanks all the classmates who sent Christmas greetings.... Card from Maryand Dick Emerson took the form of a newsy fill-in on Emerson family happenings in 1966. For instance, son Bill '62 married in November to his Peace Corps sweetheart, Carol Starzyk of Hanover; eldest son, Lane (who took his Master's in Math at Dart- mouth) feeding his Smithsonian computer; Joe, who was graduated from Antioch in June, with Peace Corps in far off Mysore, India; John, a high school senior, has applied to Harvard (!); Jim prepping for his driver's license, and Papa Dick doing many things, including bossing the King Ridge Ski Club. ... Retired financial genius Kollie Morton's card dreaming of a rising Dow-Jones (if he'll pardon the expression) average. ... Bill Scherman's little guys wishing a Merry Christmas Virgil (40 8.C.) style. ...
PREVIEW - Next month, we hope to report at some length on what we consider to be one of the most thoughtful and worthy Class of 1934 projects - the memorial book program under which the Class donates to the College library a book in memory of each deceased classmate.
Dean Cooper '35 is joined by son Frank'68 at the annual undergraduate lunchsponsored by the Washington, D. C. Club.
Secretary, 7113 Millwood Rd. Bethesda, Md. 20014
Thayer School, Hanover, N. H. Treasurer,
Bequest Chairman,
