1951
Labor Day brings a return to the typewriter to start another nine months of Class Notes and a happily overstuffed mailbag sufficient to fill this column and next month's. If you don't make it this time, just be patient.
At the June Alumni Council meeting, which I attended as an "ex," Paul Staley was elected vice-president of the Council; and Bob Kreidler was elected a member-at-large. Thus the Class is gaining an increasing voice in the affairs of the College.
We also have three Area Chairmen or Co-Chairmen in the Third Century Fund Campaign: Al Karcher, Rochester,' N. Y.; Wes Nutten, Los Angeles; and Jack Weingarten, Houston. Mention of their job kind of leads into mention of how we did in this year's Alumni Fund.
Hardworking Class Agent Howie Phillips and his legion of regional, local, and floating agents did a Herculean task which paid off very well in dollars. Unfortunately, we fell short in participation, which disturbs Howie, me, and the entire Class Executive Committee.
For whatever it may be worth, I have a hunch that we are losing support both of conservative classmates who think the College is too liberal and of liberal classmates who think it is too conservative. Both viewpoints, I think, lose sight of what Dartmouth is really about.
The letters to the editor in the July issue precipitated by the Newton valedictory at Commencement prompted me to write my own letter to the editor, which I hoped would appear in this issue. Unfortunately, I waited until the copy deadline for this column to write and send it in, only to find some 90 other letters on the same subject ahead of me in line. When, if ever, my letter or excerpts from it will be published I don't know.
If it is not, perhaps I shall take a portion of this column some future month to discuss my views on the Newton valedictory in the context of the role of an institution of higher learning in a hopefully free society faced with the problems the United States faces today. Unlike some of the writers of the letters which appeared in the July issue, I don't claim to have any monopoly on the truth.
Turning to the mailbag, you know that Chuck Fryer made senior vice president of Young & Rubicam, New York Advertising agency, if you read the business pages of the June 13 New York Times. He joined the agency in 1953, became an account executive in 1958, and was appointed a vice president and account supervisor in 1964.
Bruce Robertson has joined Fensholt Public Relations, Inc., Chicago, as a counselor. Most recently, he was public relations manager for the Communications Division of Motorola, Inc., Chicago. Prior to that, Bruce worked in various advertising, sales promotion, and public relations capacities with Marshall Field and Company, and the Chicago-based Kemper Insurance Group. Bruce is a member of the Public Relations Society of America, the Executives' Club of Chicago, the Chicago Press Club, and the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry. He, wife Mary, and two children live in Evanston, Ill.
BUSINESS BRIEFS.... Dwight Allison elected a vice president and director of C. H. Sprague & Son Company of Boston.... "Pete" Cummings named vice president, corporate development of Gerber Products Co., Fremont, Mich., baby food and infant products.. .. Don Palmer graduated from the Harvard Business School advanced management program.
Bob Tyler has been appointed assistant general manager of Tyler Refrigeration Division, Clark Equipment Company, Niles, Mich. With the company since 1946, he has been administrative vice-president, marketing manager, and most recently vice-president - marketing for the division. Bob is a past president of the Commercial Refrigeration Manufacturers Association and is active in civic circles in Niles.
Our medical classmates are on the move geographically. John Ross is now Professor of Medicine and Director of the Cardiovascular Division of the University of California's San Diego School of Medicine. He was most recently chief of the section on cardiovascular diagnosis, Cardiology Branch, National Heart Institute, Bethesda, Md.
John got his M.D. from Cornell and did post graduate work at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, New York; Cornell Medical Center, New York; and the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
He is noted for development of a method of left heart catheterization called the "transseptal technique," now in wide use. He is also recognized as an authority on the falling heart muscle. He, wife Helen, and three children now reside in La Jolla, Calif.
Howie Pearson has left Florida for New Haven, where he is now a Professor of Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine. He is senior clinician, teacher, and the Department of Pediatrics' hematologist and oncologist. He attended Dartmouth Medical School and received his M.D. from Harvard.
Howie was assistant chief of the Pediatrics Service and assistant head of clinical hematology at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. He was clinical instructor in pediatrics, Georgetown University Medical School, Washington, D. C. He has also served at the Howard University School of Medicine in Washington and was most recently Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville.
In the insurance field, Dave Barker has been named associate director of Prudential's newly created Planning and Analysis Staff. He joined the company in 1954, was promoted to research consultant in 1957 and manager of the Research Division in 1962. Dave holds a Master's from the University of Minnesota in 1954 and the C.L.U. designation from the American College of Life Underwriters in 1960. Dave, wife Patricia, and four children live in St. Louis Park, Minn., where he is active in Republi- can politics, president of the District P.T.A. Council, and Chairman of the Board of Zoning Appeals.
Vermont Mutual and Northern Security Insurance Cos., Montpelier, Vt., have appointed John Condon general adjuster. He joined the companies as a staff adjuster in 1960. An Air Force pilot during the Korean War, John attended Boston University as well as Dartmouth.
Harris Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago, has named Dave Webber, a vice president in the correspondent banking division, administrator of that division. Dave holds an M.B.A. from Northwestern.
After Korean War service as an officer in the Navy, he joined Harris in 1956 in the credit division before becoming a member of the correspondent banking division.
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