1940
While this column is being written on a beautiful, snowy day of 10° below zero, my thoughts are racing ahead to a time soon after you will be reading it, when Crosbie and I will be joining Karl and Ginny Bruch,Scotty and Loomie Rogers, and Bill andJane Huffman on the sunny beaches of St. Croix. We're planning a two-week ShangriLa at "Disbro House," a commodious spread on the island's best golf course which Diz and Brownie built five years ago for themselves to enjoy and others to rent (obviously more of the latter has a direct bearing on the extent of the former). I'm sure we will see Bob Austin while there because he's the local Mr. Everything, and if any other members of the Class are planning to be in the area the latter half of February please contact Bob in Frederiksted because he will know where to locate us. Since the Rogers and Bruchs have vacationed there before, they have a line on all the best steel bands and swingin' places about which I will report next month.
Powell and Dorothy Holbein reported that son Bruce, a junior here at Dartmouth, gave them two nice Christmas presents — a 5.0 grade report for the fall term and the award of a Class of 1926 Fellowship for next summer's work in some governmental agency in Washington. Who said this generation of college men isn't showing their elders a thing or two!
Speaking of nice Christmas presents, ArtMountrey was given one by Compton Advertising in the form of a chair at their Board of Directors' table. With Compton since 1951, Art is a senior vice president and division manager on the Liggett and Myers account. Following his navy career and before joining Compton he worked with American Home Products for five years as assistant to the president.
Art French spent last Thanksgiving skiing in Hanover with his junior-class son — touring out behind Oak Hill and other familiar haunts.
I've accumulated two lengthy, newsworthy letters from Sid Phillips which I will pass on to Sam Williams for more complete coverage in some future copy of the INDIAN DRUM (which will start beating for Ye Annual Alumni Fund soon). Sid has been on the faculty of the School of Business Administration at Northeastern since September. This did not necessitate a move from Andover (where he had been living while teaching at Merrimack College) but ends up as a longer commute. Sid hopes to be in Hanover with son Carl for Freshman Fathers' weekend the middle of February. Pat in eighth grade and Scott in sixth complete the roster, along with wife Jane, of course.
One of the more intriguing address changes concerns Dick Kenney, who is reported to have shaken the Los Angeles smog from his shoes and headed out to Hong Kong and the Intercontinental Systems, Inc. It sounds exactly like something from James Bond. Please elucidate, Dick.
I wonder how many others, besides BobWeil, visited both the Bamboo Curtain and the Iron Curtain during 1967? He and Ginny celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary by taking the trip to the Orient, and later on went in the other direction on a trip for Radio Free Europe, which is headed by Bill Durkee, Class of '41. In between trips they married off their oldest child, also named Virginia and, like her mother, a Wheaton gal. Bob was impressed by the work done by Bill and his associates, and proud of the "I-knew-him-when" association.
Each year when the College prints the brochure listing the Alumni Officers and workers throughout the world it makes impressive reading to see how many classmates are involved in the affairs of our Alma Mater. The first page lists Torn Braden who is serving his first term of duty on the Board of Trustees. The Alumni Council comes next and the four from '40 entered there make this one of the larger class contingents. These hard working men are SamWilliams, representing all the Class Newsletter Editors, and Mickey Miller, BillWrightson, and Dick Everett representing atlarge members. Alumni Clubs are listed next and include J. Malcolm de Sieyes, secretary of the Darien-Norwalk Club; Bill Squier, president of the Boston Club; Tom Nichols, president of the Keene (N. H.) association; and Fred Eaton, secretary of the Caracas, Venezuela, club.
Working under the Admissions Office guidance and the National Enrollment Committee are the important Area Enrollment Directors and the District Enrollment Directors. There are three from our ranks in the former group - again no other single class has more - Bill Holman who covers seven districts in the northwest, Mickey Miller with ten districts in the middle New England area, and Bob Weil responsible for three districts in the south. The District Chairmen are Don Rainie in New Hampshire, Jim Moore in southern New Jersey, Dick Everett in Georgia, Bob Weil in Alabama, Jabbo Blass in Arkansas, and Dick Mather in New Mexico. It would be impossible to list all you other men who interview prospective freshmen, plan picnics, sell tickets for Glee Club concerts, and do the myriad of other functions required to make an organization like the Dartmouth Alumni Association work. It's great to salute these classmates who toil so hard and well for the cause and to tell them how proud we are of them and the honor they bring themselves and our Class.
That's it for another month. Keep in touch by starting to think about our 30th reunion in June of '69. It will be too great to miss!
Secretary, 5 North Balch St. Hanover, N. H. 03755
Treasurer, 64 North Main St., Concord, N. H. 03301
Bequest Chairman,
