1940

This is being written three days before Carnival when the campus will undergo the second invasion of co-eds in as many weeks. The first one was a student-organized facsimile of coeducation when 200 Mt. Holyoke girls spent five days "living the Dartmouth experience." Reactions were varied, on both sides, but suffice it to say that it was an interesting experiment and was well engineered by the student committee.

Classmates visiting in the area have been few and far between this winter. It must be because of the effects of the old-fashioned winter weather we've been enjoying. When it hits 40° below and for two days doesn't even get above zero at all, you don't travel around very much. It was even too cold for the ski hills to lure many customers. All four representatives from our ranks on the Alumni Council attended the January meetings here. This included combined sessions with the Trustees, so Tom Braden's presence there upped the '40 count to five and a perfect attendance. The others were SamWilliams, Mickey Miller, Bill Wrightson, and Dick Everett, who was attending his first meeting following his election. The only other familiar face coming into my view was Jim Scott's, who was spending a few days recruiting seniors at Tuck School for Lybrand, Ross Brothers, and Montgomery of which he is a partner.

Dick Funkhouser has left New York City and has settled back in Hagerstown, Md., at 1880 Fountain Head Road, his old stamping grounds. I wonder if he's another victim of air pollution.

Over in Laconia, N.H., Johnny O'Shea has been elected a vice-president of the Laconia National Bank which must be an extracurricular assignment because he still heads the family-owned department store that has been in the center of things for several generations.

Ned Jacoby sent me an announcement of an exhibit of industrial and graphic art in which he was participating at the Newport Beach (Calif.) City Hall Gallery. Jake has his own graphic design studio yet functions as a master of fine art as well.

While many classmates are raising grandchildren, Larry Boothby is opting for the newest father title by raising some of his own. Congratulations and cigars are in order for David, just a year old this month, and a new one expected in June! Larry was made an Associate Professor of Physics at Green Mountain College last fall.

Up another rung of the New England Telephone ladder went Julian Hartwell when he was recently appointed general manager for New Hampshire, which is the top-dog position in the state. He will be moving from his present duties as general operations supervisor - traffic, in Boston after holding down various managerial and supervisory positions in the traffic department since joining the company over twenty years ago following his Navy stint during World War II.

Fred and Ann Porter had an enjoyable trip to Europe last summer and while in Amsterdam had a surprise reunion with their two daughters who had interrupted their own tour to join up with the old folks for a day. Pam, the older girl, became engaged over the holidays; Gay, fresh out of Colby Junior, is a career gal at Time-Life, and son Fritz is a senior at Proctor Academy. The Porters spend each skiable weekend at their chalet at Stratton, Vt., and urge all other snow buffs to drop by.

If you've been enjoying your TV shows better lately, it's a good bet that the more intelligent commercials have something to do with it, and Jerry Schnitzer has had a great deal to do with the upgrading of these commercials. In fact, some critics of TV claim the commercials are better than the shows; but Jerry, who has won many awards these past six years, doesn't go quite that far. He has been a pioneer in the six-minute commercials and it is hoped that this trend will flourish. Like Jerry, I believe that one longer ad is better than three short ones, because you can see some "plot development" and feel the product is more worthwhile. Competition among the fifteen or twenty producers of TV commercials is making for a decided improvement in what we viewers see also, but it's good to know Jerry is in the forefront of this creativity.

All you lucky readers will be spared my feeble efforts at this column next month, when De Jones will sit in as guest editor. So check in at the same time and same place then. Cheers!

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