1933
As the new class officers, elected at our 35th reunion, take over their duties, I am sure everyone wishes to express his thanks for the excellent job performed by the previous administration. Fortunately we will still have available to us the valuable knowledge of Wes Beattie and Jud Pierson as they change hats - Wes from president to class agent and Jud from secretary to bequest chairman. We shall miss Ed Knapp and Wood Foster but we do thank them for their superior work. George Farrand and Bob Fox will continue in their respective positions.
One of the major projects inaugurated by the previous administration is the Alumni Memorial Books Program to memorialize deceased members of our Class. This was started in 1966 and so far 61 books have been purchased for the library by the Class at a cost of over $l,000. Each book is individually plated with our classmate's name as a gift from our Class. These books are valuable additions to Baker Library and many of the widows and relatives have expressed their appreciation for this program. This is attested to by the following letter dated August 14 from Ginny Tozier, widow of Charlie Tozier: "I was most interested to see the lovely book put in Baker Library in memory of my husband. Since I am attending Alumni College for the third time, I took the opportunity to find it and am reading it now. Please thank the Class for me. As a librarian I feel this a. most appropriate way to remember the classmates who have gone. As a widow I am touched." Thank you, Ginny, for this nice letter and it was a real pleasure to see you at reunion.
This project will be continued but our president, Sid Stoneman, would appreciate some new ideas. Please send him your suggestions. Sid and Miriam have been spending some time this summer at Waquoit on Cape Cod.
Heag Bayles is chairman of the Board and chief executive officer of the advertising agency of Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles Inc. of New York City. He and his wife Gladys live in Sands Point, Long Island. They have three children, all married - the most recent being S. Heag Jr. to Kathleen Durkin on June 29 - and five grandchildren. One of Heag's many activities listed in Who's Who was membership on the Board of Governors of the Hanover Inn.
Chester Thomson, president of the Thom-son-Leeds Company, creators and producers of point-of-purchase advertising material, has been named chairman of the board of directors of the Point-of-Purchase Advertising Institute. Starting with Calvert Distillers Company in 1940 as a field salesman, he was in the sales and advertising fields until 1957 when with Richard H. Leeds he formed the present company. He and Alice and their three daughters live on Leather Stocking Lane in Scarsdale, N. Y. - an intriguing address.
Wes and Jan Beattie have now joined the ranks of grandparents. Bob and Susan Beattie had a little girl, Jennifer, on August 5. Wes and Jan look younger than ever!
Those of you who did not attend reunion will be pleased to learn that Sam Black is feeling fine after his heart attack. The Stanley Works has reassigned his duties as general counsel so he can devote more of his time to special assignments and thereby make valuable use of his knowledge to the company, its people, its products, and its problems. He continues as secretary and on the board of directors.
Ro Burbank is pleased to be back in New Hampshire as business manager of the New Hampton School in New Hampton. He took over his duties on August 1. I stopped to see him recently but he had left for the lake.
When Jud Pierson wrote up the class notes for May, he mentioned "Bud" Daniels who had attended our fifth reunion while an instructor at Thayer School. He had planned to attend our 35th and replace some of the beer he had consumed 30 years ago. "Bud" was detained for business reasons but he sent a telegram of regrets and a nice contribution which Wes will add to next year's Alumni Fund.
Don D'Arcy has accepted the position of director of development at Bradford Junior College in Haverhill, Mass. I am sure that he and Muggs will enjoy their college affiliation and I know Don will do a superb job.
Bill Dewey deserved a well earned vacation after the marvelous reunion he planned and ran for us. He went up to Labrador after Atlantic salmon but the high water interfered with his fishing so some of the big ones got away.
I see Burt Hack occasionally around Plymouth. He is president of the Kendrick Oil Co. and lives in Holderness.
Tom Hale and his wife, Acey, live in Wayzata, Minn. Tom is assistant to the grain division head of Cargill Inc., the large grain concern. His son Jim was valedictorian of the Class of 1962 — it would be interesting to read his speech at that time and compare it with that of 1968 - and received his law degree from the University of Minnesota in 1965. Son Gordy graduated from Stanford in 1964 and this year received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Minnesota. Tom has served as precinct Republican chairman, senior warden of the Episcopal Church and on the YMCA management committee. He occasionally sees Jim McFarland, Lym Wakefield, and JohnFaegre.
Bill Lang, vice chairman of the board and chairman of the executive committee of the First National State Bank in Newark, N. J., has been elected a member of the board of directors of James Talcott Inc., nationwide finance and factoring organization.
Dr. Bill Likoff is an eminent cardiologist. He is the head of the cardiology section and director of the Cardiovascular Institute at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. In 1967-68 he was president of the American College of Cardiology. Bill was featured in the cover story of the May 6 issue of "Modern Medicine."
Also in the medical field, Bill MacCarty was recognized by the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital for his 25 years as director of the Radiology department.
Al Speare announced at reunion that he was retiring from Sikorsky Aircraft after 28 years with the parent company. This will give Al and Betty more time to travel. Where are you off to now?
On April 15 Mayor Daley of Chicago appointed Jus Stanley a member of a nine man committee to investigate the circumstances surrounding the recent riots in that city. He was president of the Chicago Bar association at the time.
Howard W. Wilson has been elected vice president of the National Biscuit Co. He started with the company in 1934 in their Lebanon, N. H., sales branch working successively as a shipping clerk, assistant cashier and salesman. He is currently living in Forest Hills, N. Y.
Dr. Paul Zamecnik is one of 50 newlyelected members to the National Academy of Science. Membership is considered the highest honor that can be accorded a U.S. scientist aside from the Nobel prize. Congratulations, Paul! He is the director of J. Collins Warren Laboratories at the Huntington Memorial Hospital and is Collis P. Huntington Professor of Onocologic Medicine at Harvard.
A news item from "The Dartmouth" of September 23, 1929: "Gordon E. Gibson made a hole in one yesterday afternoon on the 105 yard fourth. C. R. (?) Niebling and E. Patch were playing with Gibson when he scored the eagle. C. E. Widmayer '30 witnessed the shot from the next tee." Do you remember way back then?
Secretary, Holderness School, Plymouth, N. H. 03264
Treasurer, Young & Rubicam, Inc. 285 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. 10017
