1932
Recently I received preliminary notice of the Alumni Class Officers meetings to be held in Hanover on May 12-13. I plan to attend. Bob Fendrich has written me that he expects to go. Bo Wentworth and Art Allen will probably be there, if business permits. (For your information, this costs the class nothing. We travel at our own expense and the College pays for principal items in Hanover.)
The brief preliminary billing lists "some helpful workshops, interesting reports by college officers, and a full discussion of some imaginative new proposals designed to strengthen class activities." I have attended twice and have found the meetings worthwhile. As in any "conference," the outside discussions make up for the occasional boredom engendered by the cliches and necessary formalities which have to be part of the scheduled gatherings.
And finally to a point: Why don't you let us know what you think about college, alumni, or class affairs? Your officers do not have influence comparable to that of the Council, much less the Trustees, but we might better reflect your thinking in our respective areas. Last year, at the main luncheon, for example, President Dickey replied to direct questions on diverse topics such as the emergence of Dartmouth as a "university" and the scheduling of major football games in Hanover. Vox clamantis in deserto.
To lead this month's news, Larry Collins reflects recents news from business, family, and Hanover: "If it's any help to you, I just moved up to Haire Publishing Company, New York, where I'll be editorial director, massaging the firm's engineering and technical magazines. I was in Hanover last week for a visit with Larry III who just got his Master's degree in Biology and has an appointment as director of the Gilman Life Sciences labs. Wah Hoo Wah. Big change: The Inn. Also there were so many girls around, I thought it must be Carnival. But no. They were Beatles."
Oscar Noyes updates well: "I'm manager for Northern New England for the Andover Casualty (Insurance) of Andover, Mass. Have just finished paying the last tuition bill; my daughter graduates in June from Wheaton (Mass.). Her two brothers are graduates of Norwich and Middlebury. To celebrate, my wife and I plan a Vistadome trip to Lake Louise for a few days, then on to Seattle for a while, and a jet back to the 'salt mines.' Still trying to learn that golf game. Play all summer but seldom break 80. Present intention is to take in the reunion in June 1968."
I hope all of you are similarly planning for reunion in '68.
If I were to nominate an actor for public office, I would choose a man who had boxed as a heavyweight in college while majoring in English, a man who had worked hard to learn his profession through professional acting school, summer stock, Broadway stage, and motion pictures, while working actively for those groups who best represented his ideas, to name but a few attributes, You may not agree with his party politics, but Bob Ryan writes an interesting note:
"Just finished 78th picture in Mexico. Leave in May for another in Madrid and then summer and fall with Nottingham Repertory Company in England. Have been away most of last three years and fed up with vagabonding. Madrid is now production film capital of the world as London is its artistic. One son, junior at Pomona; another, freshman at Harvard; one daughter, 15, at home. Aspires to be actress (ugh!). Still shuddering from my once-in-a-lifetime Republican vote (Rockefeller) but at least kept this misdeed in the family (Dartmouth family, that is). This crime mitigated by my safe escape from California three years before the election of nincompoop Reagan. Appalling future for America with plethora of unemployed actors. Hope Class of '32 faster with a buck than it used to be. Regards to all."
The Chicago-based National Can Corporation has announced the election of Marv Chandler to its board of directors. Marv holds the many august titles of chairman, president, director, and chief executive officer of the Northern Illinois Gas Company in Aurora. He is also a director of the Interlace Steel Corporation and LaSalle National Bank. Before joining the gas company in 1954, he was vice president, secretary, and director of Reis & Chandler, Inc., New York financial consultants and investment advisers specializing in public utilities.
Dick Hazen, of Hazen and Sawyer, New York City consulting sanitary engineers, has been elected a vice president of the American Institute of Consulting Engineers, His father, also a well-known engineer, served in the same position 44 years ago. The Institute, founded in 1910, is a nation-wide organization of approximately 400 individuals who are engaged in private consulting practice and have achieved prominence in a recognized branch of the engineering profession.
After Dartmouth, Dick earned a degree in civil engineering at Columbia and the S.M. degree in sanitary engineering at Harvard. During World War II he served for four years with the Civil Engineer Corps of the U.S. Naval Reserve. In 1961, after an association with the Malcolm Pirnie Company for 14 years, he began his own firm in partnership with the late Alfred W. Sawyer.
Dick has been active in Dobbs Ferry community affairs. He was formerly president of the board of education and is currently a director of the Children's Village. Send me your news and try to be "faster with a buck," as Ryan suggests.
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