1939
In our notes in the December issue we touched upon a few of the social highlights of our First Fall Reunion, when 31 couples from the Class met in Hanover, but we saved until now a few notes about the more serious aspects of the weekend and the open meeting of the executive committee. Representatives of the College made a presentation concerning a Class Challenge Program during our next alumni fund drive. Our outstanding class agent Joe Batchelder went right to work on the spot to initiate our plan. This program is simply an agreement by a key group of alumni fund contributors from our Class who will not only agree to continue with at least the same dollar gift in 1968 but will also increase this by a certain amount if their increase is matched by a classmate. This, therefore, is a challenge that is extended to the rest of the Class to contribute larger sums to match the pool of additional funds pledged by this handful of '39ers. The executive committee voted to go ahead, and by Saturday noon Joe had received pledges totaling $6,200 for our matching pool, and his fund is now over $7,000. This is simply great. It is one of the most rewarding events that has ever happened to our Class. It is the sincere hope of the executive committee that the rest of the Class will meet or better this amount, so that Dartmouth will benefit and 1939 will be in its rightful position leading our contemporary classes.
Congratulations to Jack Goldman who has been named Man of the Year by New York Life Insurance Company's Loop General Office in Chicago. Jack joined New York Life in November 1965 and immediately became one of the company's top agents in his area. Other honors he has collected are memberships in the Million Dollar Round Table and the company's Top Club. Jack and wife Lorraine are the parents of two sons and two daughters.
Acceptances for college entrance should be out by now. All proud parents whose sons have been accepted for Dartmouth should please advise Old Hank so. that we all may join in the congratulations. We'd like to hear about those accepted for other colleges, too. We can be just as proud of them. We know from personal experience the heartache that comes from being turned down, so we are especially happy to hear from guys whose sons are doing well elsewhere. Our boy, incidentally, was home for semester break from North Carolina and showed us an excellent average in Business Administration there. From your letters this month we are impressed with the astronomical number of our kids who are in good prep schools and colleges right now. If we learned nothing else at Dartmouth, it sure seems we all agree strongly on the value of a college education.
Just when we had Ace Bailey ensconced in Washington, we hear he's moved again, this time to 3501 St. Paul St. in Baltimore. He's an engineer and builder. Don Bridge may be found at 1853 Hanscom Drive, South Pasadena, Calif., a long way from the Blue Ridge Mountains. We have a new address again for Capt. Larry Vulte, and it's Box 861, Route 3, Carmel, Calif., which is one of the most attractive towns in the country. Larry is still in aviation. John Wood has moved his big family to 9710 Buxton Lane in Bethesda, Md. Bill Geery now hangs up his hat at 2247 Sargent Ave. in St. Paul, Minn., and bill collectors can find Jim Garnett at 151 Apple Tree Rd. in Winnetka, 111. We hear that Sam Dearborn has moved from Pembroke to Suncook, N.H. JackBowie, no longer the Consul General at Alexandria, Egypt, is now the lord of the manor at 11121 Hunt Club Drive in Potomac, Md.
Hank Britton commutes daily from his home in Farmington, Conn., to his office at Britton & Stone Lumber Co. in West Hartford, where he is the president. We like his comment that he is "no longer obliged to do anything that bores me."
There sure are a lot of distinguished doctors in our Class. Make note of whom to call! Dr. Hal Deos, an anesthesiologist, has moved across town to 4556 Del Rio Rd. in Sacramento, Calif., and Dr. Ted Dakin may be found at 3237 South Oak Park Ave. in Berwyn, Ill. Dr. Ned Bayrd was elected president of the staff at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., on November 20. Dr.Bud Richardson, whose field is orthopedics, was promoted recently to clinical associate professor at the University of Texas, Southwestern Branch, in Dallas. Last October he became a fellow in the American College of Surgeons. Mary Belle and Bud have two children in college and two in junior high school. Another guy who is aware of what education costs is Dr. Max Goldstein, who is at home to all '39ers at 25 Norwood Rd. in West Hartford, Conn. Son David graduated from Dartmouth in 1966. Son Steven is a sophomore pre-med who manages the Big Green golf team. Daughter Mary is anxiously awaiting early decision results from Conn. College. Son Robert is a junior at the University of Connecticut. Max gets to Hanover occasionally. Whenever visiting their son, wife Yvonne, who loves art, is always anxious to see Hopkins Center.
Anaconda American Brass Co. is establishing a new cost control department at Ansonia, headed by our own Duke Lyon. The plan calls for him to get the stores and shipping departments plus the cost improvement program under his command. Duke joined the company following graduation from Tuck in 1940 and has risen steadily from industrial relations to time study to methods and standards engineer to production engineer to economy supervisor to methods manager to production control. It sounds just like a course at Tuck, and we're very proud of our successful classmate.
A number of guys sent us clippings about the appointment of Joe Newman as the financial editor of the Philadelphia ("Nearly everybody reads the") Bulletin. This was a well deserved honor. Joe has had a distinguished career on the news staffs of the Washington Post, Louisville Courier-Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Boston Herald. During World War II he served in India as an ambulance driver with the American Field Service. There's a man whose prose will be read carefully by thousands of commuters on their way home every night. Congratulations, Joe!
We urge you strongly to circle the weekend of October 18 and 19 on your new calendar. That's the Brown weekend and the 1939 Fall Reunion in Hanover. Bob Kaiser, who did such a great job last fall, is busy lining up rooms at the plush new Howard Johnson and meals at the Ashley House again. Please note that the College is guaranteeing "excellent tickets to the game as it is an official reunion year" for our Class. Okay, Bob, you've sold me. With a fleeting remembrance of where we sat last year but with faith in the future, we march into the sunset with the promise that we'll be there. Will you?
Secretary, Box 38, Cashiers, North Carolina 28717
Treasurer, 666 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10019
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