1949
The "long white afternoons" and "crunch of feet on snow" are much in evidence as I sit in my dream room in a long remembered Hanover Inn looking out across Wheelock Street. The occasional knocking of a steam pipe cannot break the spell and in fact heightens it as I drag the bone dry warm air which it has unhealthily created into my lungs. The campus scene changes; the scenario varies little. Young men move briskly about the chessboard-like center of campus each one with a different theory as how best to play the four-year game but all with a deep sense of pride in their very being here and doing. The pace quickens as class rooms fill up, and then the late bell sounds and only an occasional student is seen to penetrate what is now a mongrels play yard. The campus is quiet once more as these select youngsters commence to absorb knowledge, and I content myself in the realization that it was ever thus, that filtered as we are throughout the entire world ana varied as our life work may be my classmates shall forever carry with them a little bit of Dartmouth.
I am saddened to report to you the posing of still another beloved classmate, DickAndrews, who left us on the day after Christmas. Dick, his wife Janet, and their three youngsters lived in Cincinnati, where he worked for the General Electric Company. Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to
The 1967 Gold Pick Axe Award Committee is now officially in business and anxious to review your nominations for this year's winner. Carll Tracy is your chairman, and he has enlisted the help of FrankBlanc and John Simpson, both of Pittsburgh, to round out the committee.They have asked me to publicize a minor change in ground rules this time around. Heretofore we have permitted nominations to drag in right up to a couple of weeks before the fall presentation. There is no sound reason for this and in fact it makes the work of the committee all the more difficult by forcing it to meet under pressure during the eleventh hour instead of soberly and judiciously at their own convenience during the ninth or tenth hour. As you may remember, a nomination is never cast out, so we are really not faced with a real deadline situation. It is earned over from year to year and considered right along with the current entries. This is definitely in order as all who have ever worked on the selections will agree that there has never been a truly unworthy candidate. A final choice is always difficult at best, but this year you are implored to have your nominations in by a June first deadline so the committee can review them carefully before the summer vacation period sets in. Send them to Carll Tracy, 20 Fourth Avenue, Warren, Pa. A letter outlining the man's achievements and accomplishments is essential, backed by substantiating printed material where possible. Remember, the criteria are neither wealth amassed nor number of newspaper clippings. True achievement and accomplishment generate their own heat, light, and power no matter how humble their beginning, no matter how obscure or unfamiliar their surroundings. The sole test is to ask only whether we can say to ourselves with pride, "He was a classmate of mine at Dartmouth." Gentlemen!! The committee is waiting.
A back flip into the mail sack for a few dark moments produced a very newsy Christmas letter from CITGO magnate Bob "Rocket" Reed and his Barbara. Their last year has been a mad whirl of business travel all around the nation. Cities Service Oil Company has promoted Bob to marketing vice president. He is also a member of the board. Their son Joby is fighting bravely and patiently to regain the use of one hand after a serious accident. The girls keep the house in a constant frenzy while Mother and Dad still enjoy an occasional evening on the town, and they send out an invitation to any and all to visit them in Tulsa.
I'm minding my own business munching a pastrami on rye in a garment district deli the other day when who waves to me from behind a pickle jar but friendly DickWolff. Dick is a knit specialist with the Wamsutta division of M. Lowenstein and Sons, a textile giant. He concentrates on the women's field. He hasn't changed. His brother's son is now at Dartmouth which makes it the third generation in Hanover. Dick and Marilyn have a boy twelve and a girl ten. Summers are spent in Enfield, N. H., close enough to permit Dick to golf in both Sunapee and Hanover. Seems like the textile business is treating our boy pretty fair. Hope that the booming success of the fabric people rubs off on the garment manufacturers as well. Pridham and I could both use a cupboard full of money instead of stale bagels.
Several letters have come in advising me that Dick Mallary has been reelected as speaker of the House and is also Chairman of the Vermont Legislative Council. He and his dad, R. DeWitt Mallary '21, also are partners in a big dairy farm and retail milk business in Fairlee.
Dick Hodgens is now vice president of Admiral Corporation's Boston Division, his home town. He has been manager since 1955 of the Boston distributing branch which covers six counties in Massachusetts and six in New Hampshire. Dick joined Admiral in 1949 and served in sales until appointed general manager of the company's branch in Albany in 1954. He and Lee and their six children live in Milton, Mass.
Election of Philip Goodspeed as president and manager of Harrison L. Goodspeed Company, owner of the Federal Square Building and management firm for several other pieces of commercial property in Fort Worth, Texas, has been announced. Phil will continue to make his headquarters in Grand Rapids, Mich., where he and his wife Jane are kept busy enough raising their five active youngsters. Phil has been active in the family real estate holding concern since graduation.
Connie Pensavalle has a challenging new job. He has been assigned to the task of detached social worker for the city of Brookline, Mass. With a fine background in youth work, teaching, and coaching, Connie has the task of meeting problems as they arise and nipping delinquency in its early stages. The position will entail creativity with much of the work depending on his own initiative, ability, and rapport with his clients.
Colorado College announces the appointment of Mark Lansburgh as lecturer in art and curator of the Rare Books and Graphics Collection. He arrives from the University of California where he had been a consultant in the same field. Mark has spent several years researching the monasteries and libraries of Western Europe and has a collection of 7,000 colored slides of paleography and artistry dating from the ninth to seventeenth centuries.
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