1939
Many of us had exciting summers, but the guy who undoubtedly had the most exciting summer was Jack Gumming, who spent it on his honeymoon. We had a great letter from Jack back in June, in which he told us that he and Lillian Jameson Jenks, WellesWellesley '38 (she was smarter than he) were married on June 21 in Providence. She's originally from Fulton, Mo., and they have known each other for 30 years. There must be a lot more involved in getting married at 51 than at 21. This sounds more like a merger. Lillian has three children. Candy is a Vassar grad, married, and has a young daughter; Bob is a junior at Lawrence; Gale is a freshman at Skidmore. Old Jack, who may have worn a Rudolph Valentino wig at the wedding, also has three children. Jay, 25, is a student at B.U. Business School, having graduated from Hobart in 1965 and served a year in the Coast Guard; Sudi graduated from Smith in 1967 and is working for the Fidelity Mutual Fund in Boston; Dave, nineteen, is a freshman pre-med student at Bald-win-Wallace, having worked as an orderly at Rhode Island Hospital the past three summers. Lillian is director of development at Moses Brown Prep and plans to continue, as she says she likes it better than housework. Jack says with four in college they can use the income. However, we noted on the letterhead that Jack, who used to run a laun- dry, now runs Colonial Fabric Care Services. Lillian and Jack took a wedding trip to England and Scotland and are now ensconced at 9 Church St. in Providence. The happy couple plans to be on hand at the Second Annual Fall Reunion in October, and we look forward to extending our congratulations to a great guy and our best wishes to a lucky girl.
Some character makes an annual visit from Tulsa, Okla., to North Carolina to tell us what an important cog Cleve Spillers is down there. Cleve is a legal eagle and would be a good man to know if you planned to drill an oil well on an angle under your neighbor's property. Bob Thomas, who has moved a great deal, may now be reached at 905 Bartlett Ave. in Linwood, N. J. FrankDavis has gone west from Houston to Redondo Beach, Calif., where he may be found at 1728 Esplanade. Also trying apartment life is Bud Finck, who has moved from Nogales to 150 S. Eastbourne Ave. in Tucson but is still in merchandising. John Lee, who worked for Schenley the last we knew, passes the sobriety test by pronouncing his new address, which is Hotel Amberg, 6 Frankfurt (Main) 70, Grethenweg 23, Germany.
Sam Thurm was in Roosevelt Hospital in New York a while back, giving the nurses a bad time while he recovered from a hernia operation. Sam is now on the management committee of Lever Bros. In effect, he and three other guys run the company, which is a tremendous responsibility. Advertising Age reports that our Robert Woodward has been promoted to industrial and international media manager of Ross Roy of New York.
Our John Page's son Jonathan has been elected treasurer of the Class of 1968. BobGibson is working up a slate of new officers to be presented by his nominating committee at the class meeting in June of 1969. Gibby is one of our great country squires, living on top of a hill in Wayzata, Minn., overlooking cows, horses, Chesapeake retrievers, and swimming pool.
Moose Wyman is devoting all of his considerable energies to planning our thirtieth reunion and has relinquished his bequest duties to Bob Kaiser, who wears a number of hats in Hanover. Bob has recovered so well from his knee operation that he is running a place-kicking clinic with containers at his house during our fall reunion.
Dan Hull marches ever upward in the publishing industry. James Reston, the New York Times' Washington Bureau chief, purchased dgartown's island weekly newspaper, "The Vineyard Gazette," last spring and promptly installed Dan as general manager. Dan has been a seasonal resident of West Tisbury and associate editor of the Water-bury, Conn., Republican. He's a member of the board of governors of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors and a director of the Connecticut chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, national honorary journalistic society. You've come a long way from the Green and White Eating Club, son!
We are happy to report that Fred Upton's son Mark, a middle distance and relay runner, has been elected captain of track at Dartmouth for the coming year. Mark has been a consistent scorer through his junior year with the Big Green and has alternated between the lead-off and anchor legs of the mile relay. If Mark can avoid getting tangled with Glenn Cunningham, as his old man did, he'll do well. Congratulations to two fine sportsmen.
Tom Hanna (our George's son) played centerfield on the freshman baseball club. Like his dad, he was no slouch at the bat, with an average of .375. The freshmen had a 10-4 record on their season, so you can look for future successes there.
If you ever hear the dynamic Dean Charles Dey '52 speak, you may, as we did, want to learn more about his ABC program. The good dean sent us a brochure about a part of the program designed for the advancement of the American Indian. As we have many more Cherokee Indians than Negroes in our mountain area, we were especially interested. Hartford High School, together with the community of White River Jet., is the first in the country to help Indian boys. We are proud to know that Al Abbott is president of this program, which is sponsored by Dartmouth and the citizens of White River to give these young people the same better chance in life that they would want for their own children.
We received a copy of Transgas, the handsome house magazine of Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation of Houston. The cover picture is of handsome Roger Stanwood, vice president-gas supply, who also wrote a knowledgeable story inside to explain that the majority of Transco's gas supply now comes from fields located several miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. Two of their fields are more than 50 miles from shore, in more than 100 feet of water. Rog's son Bob is a senior at Texas Christian and daughter Allison is a sophomore at Arkansas.
We started out well in the Alumni Fund but faltered badly at the end. Many men gave faithfully and generously, but we don't know the answer about the rest. We have had many clippings sent us about the valedictory fiasco, and it may be that our Class, which had such a great record in World War II, especially in the Marines, is sensitive about traitorous remarks from beatniks. We just don't know.
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