1949
As if it were not quite enough to have the prettiest hostess seen in many an air mile serving me a shrimp Creole fit for the King of Mardi Gras, I had only to look back two seats to spot classmate Bob Day enjoying the same rich diet. This all occurred on an Atlanta to Newark flight a couple of days ago. Bob Day isn't listed in your class directory because he is supposedly a defector to the class of 1950, but he probably shares a place in your memory book as a genuine classmate. He now lives in Mountain Lakes, N. J., and is general manager of school supplies for a division of Union Camp Corporation, a switch away from the corrugated division and his industrial orientation.
Hardly a week goes by when we don't read, hear about, or see a Forty-niner who is making news. Naturally, much of it is newsworthy in a local or regional sense and therefore escapes us, but this is not always the case. Take Class Agent Elliot Baritz, for instance. Elliot is by nature a rather modest unassuming person who quietly and most effectively has guided our class in the recent Alumni Fund campaigns. Your wives can probably tell you that he is now something of a national hero, having outthought many rival panelists on the popular daytime network television quiz game "Jeopardy" day after day for a solid week until he was retired with $3430 in winnings until next year's tournament of champions. His wide range of knowledge amazed the quizmaster, and his skill in betting when the category was to his liking rivalled that of the keenest poker player. Furthermore, his ability to answer key questions on the movies indicated to me that he must have been a flick major at the Nugget with a pretty fair attendance record.
Biggest recent news out of Hanover was the announcement by President Dickey during his convocation address of his planned retirement sometime during the 1969-70 season which will also mark his twenty-fifth year as president of Dartmouth. Classmates will recall vividly his installation during the summer of 1945 when as freshmen many of us were witness to a glorious day of military reviews, speeches, and receptions. In a very real sense, John Dickey's distinguished career at Dartmouth spans the lifetime of our own class and makes his announcement a bit more personal to all of us.
To catch up on the doings of over six hundred classmates calls for a sharp eye scanning a lot of newspapers the nation over. The Rochester, N. Y., evening paper front paged the news recently that John and Nancy Carey nearly drowned when a friend took them power boating and wound up being outmaneuvered by a buoy. The boat capsized but thanks to junior life saving and their own bellowing voices and cries for help, the entire crew were soon picked up by neighbors little the worse for their 45-minute ordeal.
How many of you were as startled as I was by the "Sports Illustrated" photo in the early summer of Governor Dan Evans of Washington sliding down snowy Mount Evans on the seat of his pants? He and classmate Slade Gorton were among the first of 347 climbers to make it to the top during the third annual mass climb and chose to come down the easy way.
One man who cannot be accused of flying by the seat of his pants is Lt. Commander Alfred Sullivan, a recent flight instructor with a doctorate in political science who has been teaching college in his spare time down in Mississippi at Meridian Junior College. Al has nineteen years in the Naval Air Corps and plans to retire after he hits twenty years for a full time job as a professor of political science.
Pete New writes from Brookline, Mass., about having seen Carl Granger and his wife Helen for lunch a few months ago. Carl was then an M.D. specializing in physical medicine as a physiatrist at Hartford hospital and an associate clinical professor at Yale Medical School. Beginning with the current fall term he has moved to Tufts to become chairman of physical medicine and rehabilitation at their medical school. Pete says that in essence Carl will be one of his bosses since he does research in the physical medicine department. Pete and Mary apparently travel a good part of the continental United States doing research and giving scientific papers, and they are currently in Scotland and hope they might have time to visit RussBlackwood who is in Austria for several months on an educational junket. Pete signed off by inviting one and all to visit his summer home in Rockport, Mass. It is the only one on Penzance Road built on stilts, and Mary's chop suey is nothing short of great. Pete Kingsley couldn't be reached. His mother informed us that he was a participant in the famous Bermuda races which are the dream of every East Coast sailor. Andy Cay told us that he is currently with the legal department of the Kendall Company, and his two boys love the vacationing in Spofford, N. H. Pete Wing lives in nearby Nashua as does Norm Crisp. Pete works for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and is secretary treasurer of the local Dartmouth club.
To round out our news for the month, I am happy to report the following business advancements. Mark Feer has become associated with and will become a general partner at the end of the year of Kuhn, Loeb and Company. He brings to the firm a recent background of foreign investment and financial policy experience with the Department of Commerce. A Dow Chemical Company release indicates that Dr. Robert BelfitJr. is their new manager of academic education. He formerly had been assistant director of the ethylene research laboratory. His prime task will be to develop, organize, and evaluate courses and programs for Dow employees conducted by educational institutions.
• It has been said that "the last shall be first." How very fitting to complete this month's column with happy news about one of the two alphabet-enders in our class. Jim Zafris has just been promoted to vice president of the Liberty Bank and Trust Company of Boston.
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