1937
We have a sad confession. After a year and a half of smugly surveying mountains of news from you people we now find ourselves desmugged. Due to business pressures our card system suffered neglect so we would appreciate your early attention to returning them or spontaneously forwarding a note to us. We can't say you'll make the cover of this MAGAZINE but can guarantee your news will be inside where it's warmer.
Language teacher John Palumbo writes from Van Nuys, Calif., that he took a group of high school kids to Europe last summer on a 42-day trip through seven countries practicing their French, Spanish, Italian, and German. They visited Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, Luxembourg, and Spain. John says golf remains his number one love also that Stu Naramore has announced his engagement to "Lucille" and soon to be married.
Gus Farwell and Bob McCoy had a recent meeting at Bill Falion's home to nominate a replacement for Wayne Ballantyne's exit from our class executive committee and Gus' only news of himself was he kept awfully busy. Bill was making plans for a trip to the west coast including a stop in Colo- rado to see his daughter and Mary Lou was away due to the sudden passing of her mother.
This department quite often receives requests for news or addresses of other classmates. Bob Luneborg asks "What's with Norm Robbie?" Norm obliges but with a rather sad note: "My wife, Virginia, a great Dartmouth '37 fan, passed away in February 1966 leaving a tremendous gap in the life of son, K.C., pointer dog, and me. We three fellows stay busy through keeping the house a jump ahead of being a disaster area. K.C. is a senior at Rutgers. The pointer is a graduate of Princeton (Dog Training School) and I'm in Customer Service Systems work with Union Carbide in NYC." Art Falk asked about Bill Webster and here he is: "I'm still in the wholesale lumber business with offices in New Rochelle, N.Y. Son Bob graduated from Dartmouth in 1967 and daughter, Betsy, from Bradford Jr. College, now attending University of North Carolina. I still ski occasionally and am heading for Stowe first weekend in February. I see Tom Jacobs and Ed Smith around town but not very often." (Bill - Art's address is 40 Bonnie Banks Way, Loch Lomond, San Rafael, Calif.)
Colonel Dana Prescott, who had served in Vietnam since August 1966, has a new stateside assignment. He now heads the Project Management Office for the Army Area Communications System at Fort Monmouth, N.J. AACOMS develops multi-channel communications for the field army, and some of its newly developed equipment is already being used in Vietnam. Dana has been an Army officer since 1942, with a wide range of assignments in combat, teaching, and general command. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an M.A. in international affairs from George Washington University. An east coast base should enable Dana and Lynn to make a trip north to see sons Craig '69 and Dan '71.
As a result of a personal plea to one of our esteemed Washington, D.C., lawyers who for years has been reluctant to correspond we hit the jackpot. He has invented a highly intriguing new communications system which we would call for a better name invisible code." Our pre-addressed return reply card was crammed with news but he unfortunately neglected to supply the key and the card appears to be completely blank.
From Scranton, Pa., Vivian Edwards, VP of Northeastern Perm. National Bank _ & Trust, forwards a note and a most attractive copy 'of their annual report. We skimmed through it hoping to find his picture for renroduction here but since Viv authored the report he tactfully showed pictures of the president, customers, etc., but left himself out. He had just returned from Florida and says "After a period as a widower I married Barbara Bulley King in November 1965 She elected to keep her place in Pine Orchard, Conn., a noteworthy development because we make a point to be there for the Yale game. Actually we spend the bulk of our time in Dalton just outside Scranton. We don't have a large alumni group in this area but I've been chairman of the local interviewing committee for some years which keeps me in touch with the faithful hardcore Our placement success has been something less than spectacular, nonetheless the admissions people deserve an accolade as they've been extremely cooperative.
A "beautiful letterhead from New Jersey engraved Montclair Medical Group provides welcome word from Dr. Bob Areson who savs he's been in Hanover several times in the past few years. He and a friend bought property in Norwich and have been fooling around there on some 6/700 acres. Bob is now in that agonizingly familiar pattern of alumni hoping number two son, Peter, may make the Hanover scene next fall. If everything works out, don't forget our class reunion next October 18/19, Brown weekend.
Vin Dahlfred, new Hanover resident as executive director of N.H.-Vermont Development Council, spoke at Rotary describing his reasons for being there as another of the horde of agencies invading the area. His outfit is non-profit with three quarters of their budget federal funds and one quarter from the two states. ("Thanks John E.)
Among five West Hartford residents who earned memberships in the Eleventh President's Club of National Life of Vermont we again find charter member Fran Fenn. That made him eligible to attend their Palm Springs, Calif., conference in October.
Wellesley's George Skinner, director of business research for New England Tel. & Tel., has been appointed chairman of the Research Committee for the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of American Statistical and American Economic Associations as well as the National Association of Business Economists. Bob Marschalk, president of Richardson-Merrell in New York, realizing that top sales recruits are key to company growth developed a college recruitment plan along with a specially prepared 50-page book which gives a potential trainee the full story of his first year with the company. Joe Arborio has been appointed a director of Marine Midland National Bank of Southwestern New York in Poughkeepsie. Tom O'Brien was named president of Drake Schools Inc., the third member of his family to head the 80-year-old chain of commercial schools specializing in secretarial and office training. Jake Newton is now teaching in Woonsocket, R.I., living in Bellingham.
We are very sorry to report word has come indirectly through Hanover that Frank O'Brien's wife, Helen, passed away last summer.
Well sir, we made it O.K. Now if you will all kindly refer back to the first paragraph in this column....
Secretary, 10 Colby Rd. Wellesley, Mass. 02181
Treasurer, 11 East 74th St., New York, N.Y. 10021
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