1934

Glory be to Brown (Edward S. Jr.) - there's news enough now about the Men of '34 to boggle the mind! No fewer than four recipients of Ed's annual dues-demand decided not only to pay the man the seven dollars but also to "Use Reverse Side for Class News." Hoping no doubt to mulct your Secretary of the very same sum, Ed sent the news-nuggets along to me, rather than to Scherman the Profligate, who'd already paid. (So it comes to pass that, for years to come, men will say, "We seen it first in the ALUMNI MAG!")

Sifting the Brownian treasure-trove gem by gem, what've we got? Well, now...

Mayo Cohen reveals that "son, Norman, is in Class of 1972. Same dormitory I started out in 1930 - Gile Hall."

Bob Griffin, he don't just reveal. Not Bob — he warns Ed he's "going to Europe a week from today [September 24] on the next to last trip of the 'Elizabeth' so you had better cash the enclosed check right away."

Dick Gruen informs Ed he "had a reprise [of Reunion] on campus last August with a 'tour' for son Bill (now a high school senior) but no time to call you or Bill Wilson for a tennis match. Son Dietrich entered Bucknell and I stood with Hanover family of Pamela Dingwall in president's reception line."

Bob Offenbach, now an executive counselor with Management Recruiters, Inc. of Boston, comes up with the Letter of the Month: "Enjoyed Reunion but everybody seemed older and more mature than I. Maybe it's my new career as a business talent research specialist. Have been nominated as 'salesman-of-the-year' nationally by my company. Expect to win! Incidentally, watch for one of our National Institutional ads in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE this fall - one of a series in Ivy League periodicals. Family fine. Son Rick still in Korea - out in May and reunites with wife Bonnie, who is a graduate psychiatric nursing student at U. of Florida, before returning to Peat, Marwick & Mitchell."

Siddown, there's more! In a letter dated August 21 — misdelivered and then forwarded October 1 by some other Silverman(Irv, maybe - why not? We were frat-club-lodge-brothers in the long ago. Hiya, Irv!) - Editor Charlie Widmayer relayed some flashes that are right up in there with the fall-out from Ed's current appeal.

Like, for instance — while Scherman was preening himself on being able to elevate the tone of his Newsletter by quoting LesLummis on his activities in Vietnam, including the Vietnam Children's Relief Fund — Irv Silverman (or whoever) was sitting on a comparably inspiring item: on August 15, Dr. James H.Skiies Jr., specialist in obstetrics and gynecology, embarked on a two-month voluntary tour aboard the American hospital ship "S.S. Hope" in Colombo, Ceylon. (The news-release on Jim's tour announced that "The Hope staff of 150 physicians, nurses, dentists, and paramedical personnel in August begins the fifth month of the ship's ten-month mission in Ceylon. The staff works directly with Ceylonese counterparts in classrooms, laboratories, and wards aboard the ship and in hospitals, medical schools, and clinics ashore.") Could we have a report, please, Jim, when you get back to Oak Park?

Another good guy whose activities should have been reported here last month, Irv, is Omaha's Bill Baird, who is president of the famed Nebraska Children's Home Society — a state-wide, voluntary, non-denominational agency for the care and placement of children — which this year marks its 75th year of service. This anniversary, in Bill's words, is "a time for sober reflection on the problems inherent where men congregate and where life exists in its many forms. It is a moment for pride in knowing that through this past three-quarters of a century the Society has merited the devotion and help of thousands upon thousands of people and with their help has been able to provide outstanding needed services to children; feeding the hungry, clothing the naked; healing the sick; providing love, security, parents and opportunity for thousands and making it possible for potential liabilities to be transformed into assets."

With the Skiles and Baird items locked up, we don't feel so bad about Scherman's scoop on Jack Laidlaw (honest, Irv — we really don't. Probably wasn't your fault, anyway. Just watch that mail from now on, huh?). But in case anyone missed it: "John Laidlaw Jr. has been elected a vice president of Doubleday & Co., Inc. Mr. Laidlaw was formerly president of the Laidlaw Brothers Division of Doubleday, a leading textbook publisher headquartered in River Forest, Ill. He joined Laidlaw Brothers in 1934, became president in 1953 and continued as chief executive officer after the firm was purchased in 1964."

Oscar Ruebhausen, advisor to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, made news in RayHulsart's New York Times with the Political Speculation of the Month (September). Oscar crystal-balled it something like this: if Wallace receives fewer than 43 votes in the Electoral College; if the 43 New York State electors all vote for Rockefeller (they could if they chose); and if neither Nixon nor Humphrey receives as many as 270 votes (a majority) of the remainder - then, by law, the names of the three vote-leaders (Nixon, Humphrey, and Rockefeller) would have to be sent to the House of Representatives, and the House conceivably might choose Dartmouth's own as President of the United States. How does that grab you, Jerry Danzig?

Urgent corrections: (1) Last month's reference to the "late Ike Powers" reflected misreading of the July 10 Boston Herald Traveler notice of the untimely passing of Marjorie (Simmons) Powers. My personal apologies to Ike, his family, and all his friends. (2) The "late Hank Rigby" also is alive, well, and - according to the June 22 Cincinnati Enquirer which we likewise misread - married to the former Mrs. Frances Grainger Pierce. The "late Mr. Rigby" referred to in the Enquirer item was Hank's father. Apologies - and belated congratulations to the Henry Ward Rigbys. (Ernie Barcella, when can you take over again?)

Now, with deep regret, we must record the death of Bill Fischbach on August 17, of a heart attack, in his home town of Cincinnati. Bill, who attended Dartmouth for a number of years and was a member of Delta Tau Delta, was graduated from the University of Cincinnati and from its medical school. A detailed obituary of this noted physician appears elsewhere in this or a subsequent issue.

Appeal of the Month (Lex Paradis Division): Qu'est-ce que c'est que "CSFA"?

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