1939
Al Balboni has moved to 12948 Brady Rd. in Jacksonville, Fla. All residents of Tiburon, Calif., are hereby advised that Colby Howe is now living at 11 Auburn Court there and it would be great at a block party if you can get him a cop's cap and whistle. Joe Urban is out on the Cape at Osterville, Mass., and living on Ice Valley Rd. there. The Urbans' younger son, Doug, who should graduate from Choate this June, was accepted on early admission at Dartmouth for the Class of 1971. His mother Harriot writes that his choice of college was not influenced by the fact that his father, older brother, uncle, and two cousins are Dartmouth graduates! We're proud of you all.
Dr. Murray Bernstein is no longer at Mt. Sinai Hospital but has moved uptown to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, where he is associate professor in neurology. Murray reports that he is active almost exclusively in laboratory rather than clinic. During the winter he was the speaker at the annual meeting of the Westchester Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. He discussed his research in the biology of mammalian sheath coverings of the central nervous system. After Dartmouth, Murray received his master of science degree from McGill and his medical degree from the University of Geneva in Switzerland. His specialty is cellular neurophysiology.
Paul Winship, who is vice president for development and long-range planning at Bennett College, Millbrook, N. Y., was elected a trustee of the Dutchess School there this winter. That boy has had a well-rounded life: captain in the Marine Corps, account executive in a New York ad agency, teacher, and now college administrator!
The next handsome guy whose picture we noted in the paper was Moose Taylor upon his election to the board of the Union Pacific Railroad. This Denver investment executive is president and director of the Westhoma Oil Co. and of Peerless, Inc.
We received several clippings showing photo and story about Lou Oldershaw's being elected a director of the Dennison Manufacturing Co. in Framingham. Lou, you know, runs things at National Blank Book Co. in Holyoke, which is not a small business.
As we were reading the Worcester Telegram the other day, we noticed Bob Cushman's pleasant photo under a headline "Norton Changes the Guard." Our boy is the company's new executive vice president, moving up from being an abrasive salesman! And this is not a play on words, son. The story went on to say that Bob was well qualified to sit at the desk "where the buck stops" for a company with $310 million in sales last year, the 254th largest industrial concern m the nation. Bob has a distinguished record of solid achievement in a long list of community affairs in Worcester, is a good golfer, and a mighty fine person.
We have learned that July 8 is to be the wedding day of Bozo Noland's son and the daughter of Bud Johnson '43 in Pittsfield, Mass.
Honors abound this month. HarrimanJones has been named to a full professor's rank at St. Lawrence University. His field is modern languages, and he's been there since 1957. Dr. Al Friedlich, past president of the Massachusetts Heart Association, was the principal speaker the other day at a soiree called The Cardiac Grand Rounds at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Mass. Al spoke on valvular heart disease and the selection of patients for surgery. The good doctor serves on many hospital staffs in Boston and has the distinction of living at Zero Emerson Place there, which might be easy to remember late at night.
Bud Adler was elected executive vice president of Helene Curtis Industries, Inc., during the winter and should be running that little old business one of these days. Bud left medicine years ago for a trainee's job at Helene Curtis and has forged steadily upward, combining his talents as president of the Highland Park, Ill., hospital.
Cornie Miller planned a golf game with Dick Brooks on April 7 in his Swiss Alps tax retreat. Cornie writes that Phil Sanborn drops in at his house regularly for early morning coffee as he starts off on another picture frame selling safari. A stranger meeting Phil for the first time might figure he hadn't a care in the world, but he might not know that he was captured at Corregidor and spent the war in a Jap prison camp. Phil told me once that after escaping, he thought up a new name when he was recaptured, but the senior American officer in the camp went by the book and insisted he give his right name. Have you ever sold that guy a picture frame, Phil?
Bill Webster returned recently from a three-week tanning trip to the Virgin Islands.
Your executive committee met in New York on April 18. Bert MacMamnis hired the hall, which turned out to be the Oak Room at the University Club. Your chairman is an intense guy who runs a good meeting and has very high ideals. Bob Kaiser came down to present plans for our Fall Reunion the weekend of the Penn game, October 13 and 14, in Hanover. This event will be a humdinger. Think you all should come. Send your check to Bob for $30 to hold your reservation and keep informed via the newsletter. If you make the effort to get there, you'll be rewarded with a great time. Most of the committee will be there, prepared to answer questions and give full financial disclosures on their class salaries.
Georgie Hanna again reported on the undesignated fund we pledged to the College at our last Reunion. Much discussion. Should we keep it for something important like a scholarship by our next Reunion or spend it for something meaningful like a scoreboard for the stadium or the new hockey rink? What say you?
Al Tishman accounted for every penny of our current balance of $12,018.06. Incidentally, let there be no eyebrows raised. Each member of your committee pays his own way to and from these meetings. Your secretary made his report, and safe, old Dick Jackson reported for the Widows' Committee. Ours is the only Class not soliciting widows for funds, but Dick keeps in touch with all of them. His most recent letter was very well written. Moose Wyman of the Bequest Committee reminded us that it will benefit not only the College but also the individual who makes a bequest to Dartmouth. Bozo Noland graced our meeting with a Southern gentleman's penetrating questions, and Joe Batchelder efficiently wound up the whole thing with an excellent Alumni Fund report. We have a wonderful group of givers who faithfully support our Class. Although Joe continues to do the best he can to expand this group, it is sometimes difficult.
It appears to us on reflection that most of the members of our Class have made it financially (to varying degrees of course) through private enterprise. Very few of us work full-time for the government. We chose Dartmouth rather than a state-supported institution in the first place. We should, therefore, enjoy supporting a private institution in general and Dartmouth College in particular.
Don't forget your check to the Alumni Fund. Have a grand summer and send Old Hank some ammunition for the next column.
Secretary, Box 38, Cashiers, North Carolina
Class Agent. The Batchelder Co. 502 E. War Memorial Dr., Peoria, Ill. 61614
