1937
Blessed are the Class of '37, for they have deluged a secretary. Cards, letters, news clippings, phone calls, it's hard to know where to begin. So first, thank you from the bottom of our typewriter and we shall attempt to excerpt news pertinent to the magazine from your letters and forward them on to Rog for further treatment in the Mint Bag. We do not intend to overlook anyone's correspondence, so if it doesn't appear here keep watching.
Few weeks back of an evening when we had just cranked up the TV comes a call from Bill Breifinger. Son, Tom, college bound, interested in international relations and NROTC, was invited by Tufts to come spend a day attending classes plus a looksee at their plant. Pop jimmied time off from Metropolitan Edison along with excuse as president of the school board in Wyomissing, Pa., to supplement the appraisal. Jean had to stay home with daughter who graduated from Bucknell last June and presently involved in wedding plans. Bill's work is becoming more complicated with the Susquehanna Atomic plant due in service by 1971. Says the Carl Erdmans went to Nassau and Florida this winter.
A while back we asked for a picture to prove that the new Bill Dipson was truly 100 pounds lighter. We received a letter from his partner, John Osborne, volunteering to supply same and telling of his son, with a Master's from M.I.T., working on the west coast with Standard Oil while his daughter, Sue, is taking a PG at Katharine Gibbs in Boston. John wonders how the "Lord's" men are from freshman year - JackLovely, Collin MacCarty and Mai Merritt, and further states he wants news in this column of Mike Wright and Roily Bialla as well - so get with it, you five.
Bob Kirstein, with Philles Records, Inc., says jazz is something from our generation and his product, aimed at the Teen Scene, has to be more of the Rock 'n Roll variety, which is much more productive of the green stuff these days but not as interesting. Sounds like Tom Williams has the ideal life. Gave up bachelorhood four years ago and sold the Montclair, N. J., home in favor of his remodeled farm "Northernfields" in Bridgton, Maine, from June to November, thence to their Daytona Beach residence for the winter period.
Alex Hunter carries on an active life in his construction business in Irvington, N. Y. Lives nearby in Somers with a big freshwater pond for swimming and skating. Only two children left at home out of five, giving them a spread from the last who is five to being a four times grandpa. He has done one construction job for Bob McCoy and figured on many others for him.
Earl Peters sold his Newton, Mass., home in favor of a year-rounder on Cape Cod where he and Betty have had a summer cottage for twenty years. He has quit practicing dentistry in Boston having opened a new office in the Player's Shopping Plaza on Route 6A, East Dennis. Their son is married and daughter Wendy will be in June, so Pete says - why not?
Another almost Cape Codder checks in, Ed Temple from Bourne (that's on the canal for all you dry-footed Mid-Westerners) where he runs his own outfit, The Mediplastics Co., selling as an agent for two plastics manufacturers. Son, Ted '66 (no news), father '07 heading for his 60th this June, another son at University of Arizona, and a daughter in Wellesley High School. He recently bought a four-acre farm on Buzzards Bay which he thinks may help slow him down, somehow!
Joe Tardiff has moved to Belgium on an interesting assignment for Hooker Chemical, namely to staff, train, and start up a plant now under construction in Genk, some 50 miles from Brussels. He figures two to three years including the selection of a local replacement for himself. He and Olive have a comfortable new apartment. Of their three children remaining in the States, the oldest boy is married and works for the Brown Company in Kalamazoo, a daughter at Simmons in Boston, and a son at State University in Stony Brook, Long Island. Once the pressure eases they have plans to see all of Europe. Incidentally, they both took a Berlitz course in Flemish since the plant is not in the French speaking part of the country.
We had a nice note from Col. JohnOhlinger confirming his move to NAHA air base, Okinawa, with the 21st Troop Carrier Squadron. His family joined him there except for son, John, in his second year at Georgia Military College. He extends a welcome to any Dartmouth people traveling through. John had been Plans Officer at Headquarters, Continental Air Command, Robins AFB, Georgia.
In the kudos department Garry Lowe has been made an assistant secretary in the Hartford Accident & Indemnity. Dex Branch was re-elected treasurer of the medical staff at the New England Sanitarium and Hospital in Stoneham, Mass., for 1967. Halsey Bullen Jr. has been commissioned ensign in the Naval Reserve. Bill and Patty Rotch's son, Peter '63, was recently married to Susan Rand, daughter of John Rand '38, in the White Church in Hanover followed by a reception at the Outing Club. Bill says he took it all in stride until, right after the formal ceremony, the Baker chimes began to play, and for a three-generation Dartmouth family that was a moving experience. He says Will Brown was elected a selectman in Dunbarton, New Hampshire.
From Burlington, N. C., Don Ross says both his children are attending University of North Carolina. Don has served on a Dartmouth Interviewing Committee but so far only one boy has made it. Dr. HankDoremus says "Sold my small animal practice in New Jersey in 1960 to swap for a life in Vermont (Stowe). Working at the College of Medicine, U. of Vermont, as assistant prof, of pharmacology and director of animal care. Doing basic research in filariasis and caring for animals used in research at UVM." John and Lauretta Gore (another Cape Codder) "We bought the Ben Franklin store in Chatham in 1965. Love it here. One daughter, Lynn, at Becker Jr. College in Worcester, the other married in Norfolk, Virginia, with two children. Anyone coming through Chatham look us UP"
Stan Lappin, Albie Chester and yr. obt. svt. attended the Alumni Fund kickoff dinner in Boston last week and agreed that this looks like the year our Class is ready to roll. You all got the recent letter from Boz which outlined the job in hand so gird up your loins, grab your ball-point musket, and
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