1935

After the Bowl Game orgy on New Year's weekend, it may seem anticlimactic to mention football at this late date. Yet, I would like to share with you some of the highlights of a most memorable evening in early December at the Football Hall of Fame dinner in New York. One of the fringe benefits of working for a legendary figure like Clint Frank is the opportunity to move in circles (both business and social) which one might not quite crash on his own credentials. Such was this occasion.

At a cocktail party preceding the dinner, I found myself surrounded by men best remembered as the villains on the grid-graph, during our undergraduate days - Larry Kelly, Bob "Choo Choo" Train, Ben Grosscup, Clint himself and their old coach, Greasy Neale. A truly formidable group, and I soon found myself a "conversation dropout."

Highlight of the evening, of course, was the Gold Medal Award to Red Blaik and the Hall of Fame ceremonies. Red was honored as "one of modern day football's greatest coaches, strategists and tacticians, and as a leader of men, second to none."

The Gold Medal Award is the highest honor the National Football Foundation can award, and all Dartmouth men share in a feeling of pride at Red's being so honored. For those who may not be familiar with Blaik's activities since his coaching days at Dartmouth and Army, he is now chairman of the executive committee of AVCO, Inc.

The late Albie Booth, whom most of us remember for his spectacular broken-field running in the famous Dartmouth-Yale 33-33 tie our freshman year, was among ten candidates inducted into the Hall of Fame. This gives Yale twelve members. (Clint made it back in 1957.) Princeton and Notre Dame have nine each. Harvard, Michigan and Minnesota have seven. The only Dartmouth immortals in the group are Doc Spears '15 and Swede Oberlander '26.

With close to 2,000 men in attendance, it was impossible to look up Dartmouth contemporaries in the audience. Ed Mitchell was at the Texaco table. The program also listed Don Hagerman, Eddie Chamberlain '36, Dave Camerer '37, Mutt Ray '37, all of whom played under Red Blaik in his early days at Dartmouth. There undoubtedly were others, but, with clients in tow, my roaming was restricted.

Last month I mentioned the growing number of classmates entering the education field. Add Ted Steele to the list. Ted is deserting the Madison Avenue jungle to become Dean of Faculty at Castleton College, in Castleton, Vt. This is the largest of three liberal arts colleges in the state of Vermont education complex, with enrollment of 850 students. The campus is an hour's drive from Ted's summer home at Potato Hill (it was the largest potato farm in New England during the Civil War) in Chester, Vt. Ted plans to commute, and extends this invitation: "There will always be a bottle of martinis burning in the window for any and all '3sers."

We now have well over two dozen classmates holding high positions on college campuses. In addition to George Colton, BobHage, and Don Cameron in Hanover, the list includes: Quentin Anderson, head of English department at Columbia; HenryBarnett, professor of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Bob Bowman, professor of Geography at U. of Nebraska; Julie Bromberg, assistant clinical professor of Radiology at N.Y.U.; Sandy Brown, associate Dean of the M.I.T. Graduate School; Al Cline, professor of English at Mt. San Antonio College (Cal.).

Bill George, chairman of the department of Romance Languages, Syracuse; WillardHechel, Dean of Rutgers Law School; Willard Kempton, head of the department of Modern Foreign Languages at Broward Junior College (Fla.); Don King, chairman of the Division of Humanities, Mt. St. Joseph College (Ohio); Charlie Lebeaux, professor and social Researcher, Wayne University; Roland Leich, professor of Music at Carnegie Tech; Bill Price, professor of History at N. Y. State College for Teachers.

Marv Rauch, instructor in Orthodontics at N.Y.U.; Rocky Rockwell, professor of Po- litical Science at Hamilton College; JohnRoss, professor of Child Psychiatry, State University of N. Y.; Roy Shattuck, professor of Finance, at U. of Pittsburgh; PaulSiskind, Dean of Boston U. Law School; Walter Stem, assistant professor of Physical Science at East Stroudsburg State College (Pa.); and Omer Whipple, associate professor of Chemistry at California Polytech.

Line Washburn is listed as professor of Geology at Yale, but a late change of address notice from the college lists Line living in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, Wash. I can only surmise that he has transferred his academic loyalties to the U. of Washington, or has set up an advance base at the foot of Mt. Rainier. Which it it, Line?

Speaking of moves, Howie Croninger, after years of foreign duty with General Electric (most recently in Montevideo, Uruguay) is back in New York. Howie Hininan heads west to Gardiner, Oreg., and another assignment for Internationa) Paper Company. Hank Muller returns from ten years in Canada, as vice president of Engineering for Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. Hank writes:

"Have already bought a house in Fox Chapel and will welcome old friends. Both my Dartmouth sons have gone on to Ph.D. level — one now a professor at the University of Vermont, but the younger boy has a year to go for his Ph.D. at Wisconsin. Just finished a term as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Much speeches and travel, here and abroad."

Promotions, honors, etc.: Art Allyn elected to Board of Trustees at New College, Sarasota, Fla., where his Chicago White Sox do their spring training. Jim Stearns appointed organist of Trinity Episcopal Church in Rutland, Vt. Kelly Hamilton, vice president of the Trust Company of Morris County, at Boonton, N. J.

Willard Heckel, named B'nai B'rith "Man of the Year" by his local lodge. RalphLazarus named vice chairman of the President's Business Council. Jack Kingery father of the bride during Christmas holidays, as daughter Lucinda married Benjamin F. Lenhardt Jr., a graduate of North Carolina University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

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