1939
For the first time in a long while we must start our column on a sad note. Bill Prudden passed away on November 20. His autobiography in our Reunion Book was so full of life and achievements and driving force that it is hard to realize he is gone. His obituary will be found in the In Memoriam section of this or a subsequent issue.
We hope you all had a good Christmas. Our family gathered here in Western North Carolina from distant points and enjoyed our first Christmas in our new home, plus a fair amount of skiing. A friend of ours opened the nation's southernmost ski area four miles from us at Sapphire Valley, complete with a double chair lift and two Austrian ski instructors. We mention this in our continuing desire to teach all you northerners that the South is rising and is a land of opportunity. We have beautiful mountains here. And we extend a welcome to come see us on your way to ski!
The austere members of the Darien, Conn., Board of Finance named austere Louis T. Merriam, Esq., as their chairman. Mai Fogg has been named vice president in charge of sales for Globe Chemical Company. He's been with the company for 22 years and is a past director of the Engineering Society of Cincinnati. Dick Hobbs was unanimously elected to the Lynnfield, Mass., school committee. He was chairman of a citizens' committee which surveyed the school system, and you can guess what happened! Dick is on the legal staff of United Shoe Machinery Corporation, specializing in labor relations.
The other morning we found in our mail Volume 1, Number 1 of a new monthly newspaper, The Carolina Indian, serving the 212 North Carolina and 57 South Carolina Dartmouth men now on the College records. Dartmouth truly inspires loyalty.
We note in the Fashion Institute of Technology that Irv Naitove represented Dartmouth in the academic procession at the inauguration of Lawrence L. Jarvie as president. Bud Finck, who sells furniture in pesos and is enthusiastic for the desert way of life, has been elected to the Nogales, Ariz., school board.
The appointment of Angus Littlejohn as president of Frederic H. Hatch and Co., was announced recently. That is the American subsidiary of Deltec Panamerica, S.A., a Latin-American investment and merchantbanking concern. Congratulations, Gus! Your photograph in the newspaper looks great.
Governor Scranton of Pennsylvania has selected a new revenuer. He is WarnerDepuy, who is now secretary of the state revenue department, after having served in the legislature from 1943 to 1950 and as deputy state treasurer from 1957 to 1961. What this country needs is more guys like Warner in government.
We read an interesting magazine article about Frank Farnell, who is vice president of the spun fibers division of American and Efird Mills. He sees the future belonging to integrated spinners who can provide onesource service in a variety of fibers and colors. Frank's division has a production of 420,000 pounds weekly, and he, too, shows up well in photos.
And from Hanover, Ind. (check that state, son) comes word that Tom Mumford was named a trustee of Hanover College. Tom is a commissioner for Indiana on the Wabash Valley Interstate Commission, director of the Posey County National Bank, and vestryman of St. Stephens Episcopal Church in New Harmony. Although Tom left our class after sophomore year and was graduated from Purdue, he has maintained a lively interest in Dartmouth.
Jake Holland, who has been a vice president of Union Twist Drill Company in Derby Line, Vt., assumed the duties of general manager of their Union-Card division in Athol, Mass., on January 2, and plans to move his family there.
Bill Bradford has moved from Old Greenwich to 88 Putnam Park in plain Greenwich, Conn., while a Christmas card from spry old Tom Brooks announced that he's moved down from Wellesley Hills to 29 Arden Rd. in Wellesley, Mass. Fred Doll has left White Plains for 224 Linda Lane in Palm Beach Shores, Fla. We don't know if he still owns the Post and Paddock Restaurant in Miami, but we do know he should try the food at Testa's Restaurant, where the neat little Dartmouth Club of Palm Beach meets regularly. Business has been good at the Marblehead Marine Center, and so we find that Jack Haley is now getting his mail at the Yacht "Sea Mist" at Dinner Key Marina in Miami. Jack Reeder has changed his address to 501 Walnut Springs Drive in Dayton, O.
United Shoe Machinery Corp. has named our Bob Whitcomb director of administrative services. In this newly created position Bob will be responsible for purchasing, transportation, communications, and personnel as well as for pension and employee benefit programs. Bob is a director of Blue Shield in Mass., and is active in the work of the United Fund of Greater Boston.
With a nice, folksy touch the Hanover Gazette wrote that Mrs. Madeleine Wells of Lebanon Street stayed with the children of Dr. and Mrs. Ed Wells in West Newbury, Mass., so that the good doctor and his wife could attend the wedding of son James to Liza Miller at the First Methodist Church in Vero Beach, Fla. Congratulations, all hands!
Bob Cushman helpfully sent us several clippings, for which we thank him sincerely. He writes, "As a former secretary of the Class, I am sure Bob Davidson is sympathetic to your responsibilities and is helpful in sending you clippings about other members of the Class, so here's one about him." Bob (Davidson, that is) is president of KurzKasch, Inc., in Dayton, a big custom molder of thermo setting plastics. Five years ago an eight-week strike brought the union and the company face-to-face with reality. Labor rates were making the company less competitive. The firm, which this year is marking its 50th anniversary, survived the strike after the union accepted a wage decrease. Today all hands are happy under Bob's leadership, and they are producing military rifle butt stocks for Vietnam as well as diverse items like dish-washer parts, organ keys, toaster bases, and knobs and handles into the millions. Within eight years they expect to double their sales. 'Nuff said. We also had a note from Bob, himself, who had just visited son Roger at the University of Colorado in Boulder. One of the boy's good friends and fraternity brothers is John Finocan's son, and they all think Colorado is beautiful. Travel is broadening.
We thoroughly enjoyed reading one of Red Smith's columns on the sports page entitled "Dr. Joe Throws Another Block for Blaik." Before Col. Earl Blaik accepted the gold medal of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame at the Waldorf in New York, he telephoned some members of his old Dartmouth teams to ask them to make the party and give him moral support. Bob MacLeod came on from California. But the story here is that Mr. Blaik remembered second-string end Joe Pyrtek who in the closing seconds of the 1936 Yale game, with Dartmouth leading 11-7, saved the game. Yale had the ball on the Dartmouth two and tried old KF-79, the naked reverse that had won the 1934 Rose Bowl game for Columbia. It was smeared on the ten yard line by Joe, and as he took his man down, the last gun cracked. Thirty years later Mr. Blaik wanted Joe, now a successful surgeon in West Hartford, to witness his greatest honor.
School Board member Paul Marx '37 (left)joins N. H. Congressman James Clevelandat the recent dedication and open houseof Fall Mountain Regional High School.
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