1943
Transient aircraft shack at Greater Pittsburgh airport comfortably accommodates four, standing sideways, hardly the place for George Munroe to be on a cold winter morning, but there we met briefly by chance. George had talked to the Pittsburgh Security Analysts and was corporate jetting to Fort Wayne. Your secretary was heading for Ohio towns well hidden in the haze and snow. Late in December, in Christmas spirit, George hosted a cocktail party at the New York Dartmouth Club, found it hard to lure the commuting '43s. Stalwarts who appeared included Rod Wolbarst, Pete Johnson, Frank Hartmann, John Shaw, and Bob Field. Sending regrets were Bob McQueen, Bud Hall, Bing Donaldson, Peter Heggie, Bob Higgons. Pete Johnson has an interesting job as Director of Area Development for Consolidated Edison in New York, now very much involved in the city's air pollution problems. Good to hear that John Shaw was there. Understand that he is with Coates and Clark in textiles and spends his leisure sailing on the Hudson.
Had a call tonight from Smed Ward working on the class 25-Year Giving Program. Come June, 1968 we hope to hit our class objective of $600,000, representing the sum total of all of our class gifts; up to this point we've hit $350,000 and have some way to go. Ernie Ball, now of Virginia Beach, is in charge and is riding herd on Smed and a few others to get the program moving. Smed is a far-traveling sales executive with Pennsalt Chemicals of Philadelphia. His son Smedley III, now in Episcopal Academy, has been honored with early admission to next year's Dartmouth freshman class. The Wards live in Downington, Pa.
On the lighter side of the tremendous Chicago blizzard which stranded a busload of airline travelers for nearly two days in Gary, Ind., was meeting two other Dartmouth men in the same predicament. John M. McDonald '51, Darien yachtsman and Continental Can sales manager, knew how to roll with blows, including pushing the bus in the blizzard at 3 a.m. - the rugged stuff he learned sailing all year long at Noroton Yacht Club with guys like Pete Geer and Bus Mosbacher. Less rugged maybe, but equally determined was Charlie Winchester '58, Boston patent lawyer, who stoically put up with sleeping on the bus one night and the Gary Elks club the next. Situation called for patience and sense of humor, and these guys were a big help in that department.
The Travelers Insurance Companies in Hartford have named Den Taylor manager of their public information and advertising department. In addition to his new duties, Den is secretary of The Phoenix of Hartford Insurance Companies and will continue to be an official there and serve in an advisory capacity for Phoenix advertising. Den entered the insurance business in 1950, following two years as a member of the New York Herald Tribune staff. The Taylors, who have five children, live in Farmington, Conn.
Don Miller, Hamilton resident and vice president, The First National Bank of Boston, spoke to the Amesbury, Mass., Rotary Club on interest rates, a subject near and dear to my heart. Don has been with bank since 1946... Fred Lofgren, general marketing supervisor of the New England Telephone and Telegraph, has had fifteen years with the company in general sales engineering and management and staff work in aviation communications development. He has participated directly in product trials in the development of the new trimline telephone, hospital interphones, and now custom calling service in Wellesley, where he lives. He's been on the speaking circuit, too.
Congratulations to John Murphy elected president of Better Packages, Inc., Shelton, Conn. John joined the company in 1945, served as regional distributor in Albany, Greensboro, and Baltimore, and since 1953 covered Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, and New Jersey from offices in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. John was a Marine officer in World War II. Better Packages, Inc. is a subsidiary of Stapling Machines Company, Rockaway, N. J., and manufactures gummed and pressure sensitive tape dispensers, bag sealers, label and envelope moisteners. Florines and he have two daughters and a son.
Al LeMarbre knows how desperate a secretary can be and thoughtfully writes about his new job in Milford, Mass., heading the Anesthesia Department of the Milford Hospital. Likes rural life, seeing a handsome red fox on his lawn in the morning and being surrounded by hills that remind him of New Hampshire and Vermont. His oldest boy is a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts in Engineering, and his second son, Paul, is a Dartmouth freshman, rooming in his old dorm Topliff (making headlines for losing dorm privileges). The other five LeMarbre children are in Mendon School with the youngest, a doll of five, running the rest of the family. Al regularly visits Hanover and feels stronger ties to the college now with his son there.
Secretary, 414 Rosedale Dr. Pottstown, Pa. 19464
Treasurer, 60 Little's Point, Swampscott, Mass.
