1952
The leaves turn, a snap is felt in the air, and I catch myself dodging telephone poles with a loaf of bread under my arm on the way home from the corner store. Yes, fall is here; and all of us feel" the touch of nostalgia that September and football weekends create. By the time this article is to press, the Dartmouth Team will have played three games in league competition - two of these against contenders for the Ivy League Title, Princeton and Harvard. — We all wish the Big Green Luck!
After the vacations ... meetings commence "with a flourish." The Class officials met at an informal meeting a couple of weeks ago in quest of our class project. In attendance were A1 Reich, Charlie Curtis, Ed Finnerty, John Barto, Jay Schocket, and yours truly. A formal meeting is scheduled for the morning of the Harvard game.
Much of the news that was made by our classmates throughout the spring and summer is now filtering into my office at Old Ironsides, and it certainly makes a guy feel proud of the accomplishments of his classmates. The one rewarding factor of a job such as Class Secretary is to get the news via the College and relatively "hot off the press."
Jimmy Weidman is returning to Lancaster, Pa., as the director of Public Relations for the Hamilton Watch Co. Jim served as president of the firm's Canadian Sales Subsidiary, Canadian Watch Co. Ltd., Toronto, Canada. In his new post, Jim will be responsible for Hamilton's corporate and financial public relations' activities for the United States and international segments of the Company. Jim first joined Hamilton in 1955 as a sales representative in the St. Louis area. Congratulations, Jim!
From our Capital City, Washington, D. C., we learn that a governmental department program receives new status. The Urban and Regional Planning Program at the George Washington University has been given new status under the GW School of Government and Business Administration. Our own Professor Dorn McGrath will be the new department's chairman. Currently, Dorn is director of the Division of Metropolitan Area Analysis in the Department of Housing and Urban Development of the federal government.
In addition to offering a core curriculum of planning courses and studio work, the new GW Program will draw upon the resources of the University's course offerings in Government, Public Administration, and Political Science, as well as those in Sociology, Geography, and Law. The two-year program in Dorn's new department will lead to a Master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning, and is aimed at preparing students for planning at federal, state, metropolitan and local government levels and for private practice. I'm sure all of us throughout the country will be benefitting in the future from Dorn's efforts and the knowledge of his students.
Tom Loemaker has been named executive assistant to the president of the Monarch Marketing System Company Which is a subsidiary of Pitney-Bowes with headquarters in Dayton, Ohio. Tom joined the business machines company in 1955 and presently resides in New Canaan, Conn.
And yet another vice-president for the Class!!! Directors of the Marine Midland Trust Co. of Western New York have elected Yates Eckert vice president of the concern.
Yates moved to the Buffalo area from Utica last December to become an assistant vice-president in Marine's Investment Department. He was an assistant trust officer at Marine Midland Trust Co. of the Mohawk Valley from 1963-67, and for seven years earlier was executive vice-president and treasurer of Mohawk Valley Investing Co., Inc. in Utica. Yates and his wife and their three children live at 817 Chestnut Hill Road, in East Aurora.
Great news from overseas and Al Fiertz! Al has been named managing director of the Northern Europe area for Booz, Allen and Hamilton. Al - will be based in Dusseldorf and cover Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland for the next three years. This past summer, Al and Beverly have hosted Pete and Debbie Taylor in Klosters, Switzerland and Paul and Gail Sanderson and family on the way over to the new assignment. Some guys have it made!!
By the way, Al reports that Sandy and his fine family were last seen heading for the hills of Ireland on a ferry boat in quest of exchange students for his beloved Suffield Academy. According to Al, the Sandersons will reappear at the Academy in one year after touring the continent. I wonder if the exchange students will carry soccer equipment to the States?
Golfers are proud of their feats, and John Uncles is no exception to the rule. John and Jim Toffey spent an enjoyable Labor Day Weekend winning the MemberMember Golf Tournament at the Morris County Golf Club — real fine work!
More on the line of the athletes. .. .
An estimated 70 star boats competed at the Sunapee Regatta in the 12th District Champion Regatta of the International Star Class Yacht Racing Association in August. Lake Sunapee boasts the largest fleet in the Western Hemisphere and one of the largest in the world — second only to three or four fleets in Switzerland. Qualified contestants from Lake Sunapee included John McCrillis, Teddy Perry, Frank Gordon, Willard Hodges, Bayard Clarkson, Blackie Tilson, Jay Ogilvy, Dexter Richards '42, Jim Scott, Don Sieburg '37 and John Chiarealla.
And back to the students. ...
Dr. George Howard has opened a private office for the practice of Ophthalmology at Presbyterian Hospital, NYC. Success in the new venture!
Helping the Pope's theory this time is Dick Gagne and his charming wife. They now have an addition to the family, a new baby girl. She joins her brothers to round out a family of three. The Gagnes reside at Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass.
I hate to leave you fine people at this point, but - the deadline for copy is here. See you next month.
Secretary, Old Ironsides, School St. Pembroke, Mass. 02359
Treasurer, 343 Long Hill Dr. Short Hills, N. J. 07078
