1935
These notes are being written in keen anticipation of a warm spring weekend in Hanover. The prospect is doubly inviting after this most cruel of all Chicago winters. The occasion, of course, is the annual Class Officers Meeting May 12-13-14. After a year in office, I'm looking forward to finding out what this job of Class Secretary is all about. To give you a clue, when I wrote Charlie Widmayer for a Secretary's Manual he replied, "read and sin no more." I think he was trying to tell me something.
For those of us new in office, the sessions should be both interesting and helpful. Let's hope the result will be a vastly improved performance, which will be immediately apparent to one and all. Bobb Chaney, who has served the class with such distinction as chairman, needs no such indoctrination, and can be forgiven for ducking the meetings this year. He writes, "At the moment, Shelley and I have plans to go to Europe during May with Al and Marianne Dodd." You're excused, Bobb, provided .you forward a newsy report on your trip for the next column!
Several important promotions this month: Don King is moving to the Green Bay, Wis., area to become Dean of St. Norbert College in West De Pere. For the past 15 years, Don has been professor of Classics and English at Mt. St. Joseph On-The-Ohio in Cincinnati, where he has won distinction for his work in curriculum development. Don, you will recall, won the Atherton Greek Prize at Hanover, picked up a Ph.D. at Princeton and began his teaching career in Hanover, as instructor .in Classics in 1938-39. He also taught at Penn State and Beloit.
By way of explanation, Don writes that "St. Norbert was founded in 1898 by a monk who went East and visited Dartmouth to learn what he needed in a good college." Thus, it's only fitting that one of Eleazar Wheelock's ablest disciples should now head the school as Dean.
Frank Cornwell moves up at Monsanto to director of marketing services with "full functional responsibility for all advertising, domestic and international." .According to Ad Age, he'll be directing more than $20,000,000 in advertising and that makes him fair bait for quite a few '35ers along Madison and Michigan avenues. Frank, who already is a corporate V.P., joined Monsanto in 1953, and has been director of advertising for the company's consumer Products division since 1955.
Another distinguished ad man in the news - Bill Laurie, elected chairman of the National Outdoor Advertising Bureau. This is industry, extracurricular assignment, in addition to his regular job as Executive Vice President of J. Walter Thompson, and Head of their Detroit office.
Also in marketing. Ted Harbaugh becomes manager of new product development for the Libbey Products division of Owens-Illinois. No doubt, his new product experience in developing souvenir reunion glasses for the Class of 1935 figured prominently in his selection. As most of you know, Ted has been a driving force at Libbey since he joined them in 1938, and has been general sales manager since 1959.
Bill Rauschal is another who recently changed jobs. He writes "I resigned from McCall Printing Corp. and joined Cadillac Printing and Litho Corp. as their East Coast representative for lithography and other color printing. They print for blue chip chemical, automotive and textbook publishers."
Our San Francisco regional chairman, Bill Gahagan, reports "we are now into (and have been for a month) a final move. Have bought property in Atherton to develop, and moved to a smaller apartment next door. It was good to see Ralph Lazarus at the dinner meeting for President Dickey. Also on hand were Dave and Eleanor Smith and Don Richardson. During our family holiday at Aspen, I was fortunate to see a special showing of Dick Durrance's ('39) documentary film on Wisconsin. Dick is also doing a lot of those wild Ford TV commercials, showing a Ford going down the Colorado et al."
The Glee Club lured a few '35ers from seclusion in Chicago. Frank and Lila Wright,Lowell and Hilda Haas, Ed and B.J. Freeman, Betty and I all spent a most enjoyable evening together. Let me also take this opportunity to correct the record. Contrary to reports published elsewhere, Frank, rather than I, has taken over the job of regional class agent, and deserves all the credit for spearheading this year's fund drive in the greater Chicago* area.
Jack Auwerter, our regional chairman in Cleveland, reports "Will try to get some current information on the Plain Dealer gang. Off the top of my head, I think of the following as being local now: Crouse, Fraser, Hawgood, Johnson, Petrequin, Steffens, Swander and Weitz. Any others? Eleanor and I are fine, and plan to make the big 'fifth' reunions as they roll around. The in-between affairs seem too complicated, with our busy family of five children, although one is married now and one engaged."
Those who attended last June's reunion will well remember the fine dramatic performance of Ed Reich's son, Bob, in "Once Upon A Mattress." Thus, the news from Hanover that Bob was elected president of the Undergraduate Council "by acclamation" will be of especial interest. Bob has truly been an outstanding man on campus. President of his class in both freshman and sophomore years, he is one of the founders of the undergraduate-sponsored Experimental College, and has won numerous academic honors. His new office means he automatically becomes president of next year's Palaeopitus, Quite a boy!
The class will be saddened to hear that Dud and Bet Russell's little grandson, Stevie, died this spring, apparently of meningitis. Stevie was the younger of two boys, born to Dud's son, Dave '64 and his wife, Jean.
QUICKIES: Lowell Haas honored for 30 years at United Air Lines; Pug Atherton and LeBurta on their annual visit stateside to attend the newspaper publishers convention and see son, Frank, at Ripon College. Owen Fairweather, father-of-the-bride as daughter, Ellen, weds Harvardman William Crain of Los Angeles. The newlyweds both are studying for doctorates at the U. of Chicago. Dick Muzzy elected president of the Wellesley Club of Wellesley, Mass. Woody Curtis named to. the Business Management Study Committee for Illinois.
Getting you guys to write is like pulling teeth. Yet, there must be some bait you doting grandfathers can't resist. How about a Class Grandfathers' tournament? I'll toss my hat in the ring with six and 7/9ths. Both daughters, Carol and Joan, each have two girls and a boy. Carol is hoping for another boy in July. I'm sure there are classmates with more entries in the running, but we've got to start somewhere. Who's next?
Secretary 840 Westcliff Deerfield, Ill. 60015
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