1939
Our man of the month is Dr. Bob Jessup, who was appointed to the Nassau County (N. Y.) Board of Health. less is such a distinguished guy that we received clippings about this appointment from the Hicksville Centre Island News, Nassau Health, and the Muttontown Mugwump, but our most beautiful correspondent was his wife Betty. This new job, added to his work with the Long Island Council on Alcoholism and the State Tuberculosis Board plus being medical director out at Grumman Aircraft in Bethpage, must keep him on the go at night. This is the year son Bob goes to college, and at this writing the Jessups have deposits out all over the place and are still sweating out the one he wants. Bob was known as Doc as far back as we can remember in freshman class, and he certainly deserves all the medical honors coming his way. Have you mixed a prescription for a Court Page lately, Doc?
The College tells us that Dick Durrance has moved back to Box 467, Aspen, Colo., which seems like a good move for him in the winter season. One of our outstanding Marines for a long, long time has been Jim Feeley. He's a Brigadier General now and has been transferred from the Pacific to Headquarters, USEUCOM, APO, New York, N. Y. Dr. Paul Guilfoil Jr. is now living at 1110 North Sutherlin St. in Spokane, Wash. Bud Clifford now gets his mail at Manhattan Cable TV Service, 655 Madison Ave. in the big city.
It's Colonel Doug Younger now, and this Army family is residing at Quarters 19, Fort Belvoir, Va. Dusty Rohde has moved a little farther uptown to 360 Greenley Road in New Canaan, Conn., and it seems like yesterday we read about the architectural delights of his old place. Bill Means, who is a senior sales consultant with Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., and one of the bachelors left in our Class, gets his bills at Box 124, Concord, N. C., not to be confused with or pronounced like Concord, N. H. And Ken Langmuir, who gets our vote for the most traveled classmate, is back at 10501 Wilshire Blvd. in West Los Angeles, where he was two address changes ago.
One of our finest writers, John Steele, still chief of Time-Life's Washington bureau, was invited back to Hanover this winter to receive The Dartmouth's Alumni Award for Distinguished Service in Journalism and Public Affairs. John, who has been in professional journalism ever since graduation, said. "I think journalism and its allied fields present a very promising, vigorous, and ever-changing field. The industry is in a very healthy situation. People are reading more and are more interested in public affairs. The major source of interest used to be the daily newspapers, but there has been a tremendous expansion in radio and TV news coverage. Even the non-news magazines need men in Washington now, and there are numerous opportunities in trade, technical, and special interest journals, newsletters of all types, and the field of public relations."
A note from Hank Britton reveals that his oldest boy Terry will be married April 29 to Barbara Johnson in West Hartford, Conn. Next boy Mike is a junior at University of Connecticut, where daughter Marney is a sophomore. Everybody's busy in that family!
Our son John made the tennis team at Carolina as a sophomore, and he has let us know that his team won every match from the Big Green during spring vacation.
Our country telephone system brought us a call from Harry Edmondson the other day. His firm makes and sells educational equipment and favors the population explosion. Harry lives in Montecito, Calif., sees Kevin Fay and Harry Kersey, and has decided opinions on the new governor out there.
A note from Jack Gray tells us that he has been with the Stockholm office of Stanford Research Institute since 1965, engaged as a management consultant specializing in the development and implementation of management information systems for European companies. Wife Beth and son John are with him at Friherregatan 73, Vallingby 3, Sweden. Daughter Kathelin Jane is still in California finishing her last year at Woodside High School.
Toby Wing has joined the loan department of Western Bank & Trust Company in West Springfield, Mass. After Tuck School he completed courses at the American Institute of Banking. Toby served in the Counter Intelligence Corps in the Korean War, which just might be good training for a banker. Lucille and he have been residents of Springfield for the past sixteen years.
Handsome Bill Harrison, who at one time was known as the Beau Brummell of Woodward Hall, continues as a fashion leader as president of O'Connor & Goldberg, a Chicago area shoe chain. After Dartmouth Bill received his M.A. at Columbia and headed his own management consulting firm before joining O. & G.
The Boston Herald recorded the death in January in Newburyport of Mrs. Gertrude Toppan, mother of our Roland Toppan, and our sympathies go to him.
We had a good, newsy letter from BillBorsdorff, who is national sales manager of the hospital division of Johnson and Johnson. He travels constantly, covering the whole country, and he is another one of the few bachelors in the Class. He seen many classmates, but we sure can't avoid his business. We all keep switching to his products from baby oil and powder to Modess and the pill, so it must be a foolproof racket! Bill says he's maintained his standing as a Dartmouth Regular ever since 1939. He spent his vacation a few years ago in Blowing Rock down in our mountains. It's in a dry county, but he says everyone up in the hills was barreled. He hopes we can turn up some news in the column about Perry Thomas, Phil Wentworth, and BobBailey. Okay, fellows, why be so modest?
Big Don Rehor left managing the Jell-O plant in 1960 and became a high school English teacher and has been having a helluva good time ever since. His daughter Mara is in college, son Ernest enters Washington and Jefferson next year, and son Robert is in high school. Wife Eva keeps the family ship on an even keel in Le Roy, N. Y. It's great to hear about a guy who is completely happy in his work and doing exactly what he wants to do.
Lou Bradley writes from Orange, Conn., that he has been with Farrel Corporation in Ansonia for 25 years now. His three children are all grown up, the youngest girl married, his son working for Macy's, and his oldest girl a medical secretary working in Boston. The Bradleys recently purchased a retirement home on Cape Cod not too far from Duke Lyon. Lou sees Ted Wolfe,Bob Dickgiesser, Mac MacGilpin, and others from time to time. He says he and the former Betty Downs (Connecticut College for Women '40) have been married 27 years, and it looks as if it will go all the way.
Your secretary will be escorting our only daughter Nancy down the aisle in July. We have been told that striped pants will be the uniform of the day, and the schedule looks awfully busy, so please, brothers, help old Hank with the column next month. He'd appreciate it.
Secretary, Box 38, Cashiers, North Carolina
Class Agent, The Batchelder Company 502 E. War Memorial Dr., Peoria, Ill. 61614
