1942

As I emerge from hibernation into the thin sunlight of a late winter's day, the thought occurs that we're turning into the home stretch of this tour of duty - three more issues and the Hinckley by-line becomes extinct. Not all of you joined the mid-winter slowdown and it is a pleasure to report as follows.

Some time ago the editors of Who's Who in the West cited John J. Teal Jr. for his contributions to Natural Science. Ecology professor at the University of Alaska, he has made extensive expeditions in the North Country and "developed significant knowledge of its living things. His work is humane and rehabilitative as well as practical ... is giving us a warmer kinship to our icy last frontier." John left the college in 1940, served in the U.S. Air Force in W.W. II, won the Distinguished Flying Cross, and earned an M.A. degree from Yale in 1946.

Dick Brown '29 has written to report that Robert E. Waldron has been elected speaker of the Michigan State House of Representatives. Henry E. Pogue Jr. has been elected chairman of the state board of education of Kentucky. Bud had previously served as vice chairman of the board. Richard Duncan, on the other hand, has decided that six years on the Newport, N. H., school board, including two terms as chairman, are sufficient and has declined to seek re-election. Dick is engaged in the practice of law, having earned his degree at Harvard in 1948.

Joe McCormick has been transferred by the U.S. Rubber Co. from Woonsocket, R. I, to the company's munitions plant in Joliet, Ill. Joe will be a consultant in the management engineering field including warehousing, shipping, receiving, stores material handling, and mobilization plans. Joe has been with U.S. Rubber since 1946 and was production control manager in Woonsocket.

E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., has announced the election of Irenee duPont Jr. as a vice president and executive committee member. Irenee is a great-great grandson of the founder of the company. His father was its president from 1919 to 1926. He joined du Pont as an engineer in 1946, became a director in 1959 and a member of the finance committee in 1965.

The evidence of skulduggery that is described herewith comes from the pen of Ira Berman of the Berman Leather Company of Boston. "We are going to have some fun as a result of the Boston Dartmouth Alumni Dinner, Feb. 2. '42 won the coveted attendance cup by having most people there. Our fun results from the fact that the cup has been in circulation since 1951 -if our numerals were added to the bottom of the list they would hardly be seen. At a post-dinner meeting of classmates and wives and the equivalent of Eleazar's 500 gallons it was decided to inscribe on the back of the cup while in our possession: 1967 - won by a Great Dartmouth Class - Class of 1942.' We intend to use the remaining area to list the attendees, thus retiring it permanently for our 25th Reunion and the class archives. We will donate a new cup for the competition inasmuch as the name of the club is being changed to Dartmouth Alumni Club of Greater Boston. Everyone here is talking reunion, eagerly looking forward to it and anticipating one good time. If last night was any example, I can tell you it will be great because it is the wives that brighten up the whole picture." To which can only be added thanks and amen.

Last month's informative and effervescent column was contributed by our wide-ranging representative in the administrative offices —Ad Winship. It would be a serious omission to fail to acknowledge that on many occasions in the last five years Ad has ably contributed to the class notes.

Our almost infallible secretary erred recently in ascribing to Dick Nehring the idea of a recruiting corps to encourage attendance at reunion. Actually Jim Ingersoll originated the plan prior to his call to duty down under. Dick is bringing it to full fruition. These efforts will contribute to a record turnout. Three months remain ere the in crowd gathers at the '42 tent - contact Dick if your travel arrangements have not been confirmed.

1942 Class ReunionHanover, June 15-18,1967

Secretary, 154 Washington Ave. Rochester, N. Y. 14617

Treasurer, 9 Capitol St., Concord, N. H. 03301