1937
We mentioned awhile back that Herb andBeth Levine had been tendered acclaim by the fashion world for styling in women's shoes but more recently for coming out with leg coverings and boots to enhance the miniskirters, and these have become quite the rage. But did you Time magazine readers notice their write-up under Fashion in the 20 October issue? This husband and wife team were credited with the smartest designing in the field of fisherman waders and in California stores have difficulty keeping them in stock. Prices run from 75 dollars up to $1000 for real diamond-studded stockings that are the ultimate.
Art Falk has a wonderful idea. He calls it his biennial letter to the secertary's department and any sec would be a fool not to quote such an appreciated effort in toto, so herewith, we're no fool. "Back in January of 1966 Connie Schuck and his wife Sammy were here in the bay area (California) for several months in the Palo Alto region where Connie was attending Stanford while on his sabbatical. Bette and I got together with them several times. This year they were again out here briefly before heading south and then home to Buffalo. A few weeks before I had received a phone call inquiring if I had gone to Dartmouth and it turned out to be Stu Naramore on his way home to Disneyland North (also occasionally known as the Los Angeles area). Stu had been on vacation and told me he was going to marry in the near future. We and the Schucks have indefinite plans about meeting in Germany next summer. This year our family visited Williamsburg, Washington, and many historical places on the way to New York. There's little else to report except that I was elected assistant vice president of Fireman's Fund American Life and Plymouth Insurance Companies in June - we heard about it while in New York on vacation. Haven't seen any other '37's. What ever happened to Bob Hall and Bill Webster? Best regards until 1969." Thanks, Art. Bob Hall is still with Liberty Mutual in Boston living in Natick last we knew. We've sent off a card to Bill Webster so watch for later developments.
And another nice catch as a result of one of our 4-penny postcards finds Bob Luneborg writing from the Holiday Inn in Johnstown, N. Y., while on a selling trip. "Three daughters so no potential Dartmouth students. Oldest is Barbara, 28, with our two grandchildren living in West Babylon, N. Y. Nancy is engaged to a young man serving his time in the Navy, and Lynn is working at the Irving Trust Company, Rockefeller Center Branch. My wife, Shirley, who attended Carnival with me in 1937, is now managing the showroom of Virginia Metalcrafters at 225 5th Ave., N.Y.C., and I am eastern sales manager. We represent the Williamsburg Gift and Decorative Accessories and together cover the areas of Penn., N. J., N. Y., Long Island, and lower Connecticut. In civic endeavors I have been up the ladder to chairman of the Board of trustees in our church, president of the Men's Club and chairman of the Forest Hills Community House. Visited Dartmouth for this year's Holy Cross game and the Yale game where we drowned our sorrows. I still go skiing with our youngest daughter but find I'm slowing down. Would like to hear from Jud Strong, Julian Leslie, Frank Davis, and Norm Robbie and our address is still 100-22 75th Ave., Forest Hills, L. I., N. Y."
In the Boston area we hear that Bee andDick Wood moved in Sharon to a new home which is one of two in town, mostly aluminum! H shaped with the living room in the middle. Since sides and roof are metal Dick thought it might be noisy in a rain storm but not so. We have not had any hail lately here but we'll be interested in his further comments on that.
The "Wall Street Journal" tells us that Em Brightman has been elected executive vice president of the Grand Union 533-store supermarket division. He was previously senior vice president of food merchandising. And Jim Luttrell, long active in his home town of Natick, Mass., serving on various committees and for the past five years chairman of the finance committee, has announced bis candidacy for election to the Board of Selectmen. He says his purpose in running is to offer the voters a choice at the polls and he has no political obligations, just that, if elected, he will work to promote dignity in office and efficiency in the town.
We received a very nice note from NeilMcClaren's widow, Sally, saying that Neil left Dartmouth after his freshman year to continue college courses at U. of Oklahoma where he graduated in petroleum engineering. He was with the Humble Oil & Refining from after the war until he died last July of a heart attack. He served in the Air Force in India and was discharged as a captain. Their one son, Allen Neil, is now completing high school.
Finally a card from Ed Laudam who has, he hopes, settled down in California as a real estate broker with the Granada & Toimil Realty, 21057 Redwood Road, Castro Valley, and he lives in San Lorenzo at 17579 Via Primero. Bill Whyte indicates he's still an associate at Van Horn Associates in New York in executive recruiting work. His oldest daughter was married last July and Bill moved to Hillside Drive, Greenwich, Conn., in September. We got a change of address notice from Tom Duff and upon enquiry find no move - just that his town acquired their own post office! He is Data Processing Manager for the William J. Burns International Detective Agency which he describes as a company of 20,000 employees - and a live one! Dr. Dana Johnson writes he has been chairman of the Memphis State Art Department since he moved there in 1954. At that time he was a one-man department but now it has 28 faculty, 450 BFA majors and an enrollment of 220 students per semester. Their daughter is doing graduate work at Indiana U. Jack Daniels says "Last March while still serving as clerk of the Albany Friends Meeting (Quakers) I helped initiate a 'silent vigil for peace in Viet Nam' held every Wednesday noon hour in Capitol Park in downtown Albany, N. Y. We hope to keep it going until the war is ended. Our daughter Kathleen was married in July, her husband is a potato farmer in Savannah, N. Y., and she is a teacher there."
About to start out on a fox hunt near Kansas City, Mo., are Tom Reck '37 (left),mounted on Eleazar Wheelock, and Pat Uhlmann '37, astride Daniel Webster. Reckis MFH and commutes from 60 miles away every Saturday to take part.
Secretary, 10 Colby Rd. Wellesley, Mass. 02181
Treasurer 11 East 74th St., New York, N. Y. 10021
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