1944
Bill McElnea arranged a luncheon at the University Club in New York yesterday to lay the ground work for next year's 25th reunion. With the number of gentlemen who showed up they had a mini-25th right then and there!
President Bob McLaughry and Fritz Hier ballooned down from Hanover. From Dayton, Ohio, came two of our last reunion chairmen, John Berry and Hose Craig. The local rail, subway, and cab services collected such other luminaries as Hap Bush, JohnnyMorse, Chuck Glines, Marty Shale, MerleHagen, Phil Penberthy, and John Eaton.
Before getting on to the main event, Boston Bob announced. that this year's fall weekend would be scheduled to tie in with the Princeton game on October 12. He had done a thorough job of investigating room facilities. Once again, the consensus was to go with Bonnie Oaks.
Nice johnny Morse has accepted the general chairmanship for the 25th. Intrepid executive that he is, he had lined up most of his first team prior-to the meeting. MerleHagen will be program chairman. FritzHier, with more than slightly twisted arm at the hand of Bob McLaughry, joyfully accepted the Herculean task of publishing the then-and-now yearbook. Marty Shale will head up the class gift program (which fortunately for you can be tied in with the Third Century Fund; there won't be any "special" class gift fund). Ray Zrike has agreed to take on the dirty work and serve as treasurer. Our erstwhile class letter editor, Hap Bush, will handle much of the publicity. John Berry will see that certain printing and mailing jobs are expedited. And so it went, even certain assignments to some of you poor unsuspecting souls who are specialists in one thing or another ... and don't know you're spot-lighted.
The great discussion (on which nothing was resolved) was on the theme ... or "Call to Colors" ... which we should adopt that would appropriately tie in our big 25th with the College's big 200th birthday. There were some dandy suggestions by the more flam- boyant, and just as dandily squelched by the conservative, cost-conscious element. The costumes (which tie in with the theme) are the big problem. So if you've got an extravagant idea at modest cost, Johnny would love to hear from you.
One thing was concluded: We will have top drawer music. Stan Barr was unable to make the meeting but he wasn't forgotten. To fulfill that music requirement, he was tagged IT.
"John Eaton has added a new venture to his conglomerate. He's acquired large, rambling resort-type homes in Maine, in Connecticut, and Vermont (this one, incidentally belonged to Pearl Buck). Then he organized a club for the young, mini-jet setters who like to vacation. For $350 a year you get twelve weekends plus two weeks' vacation time at any of the establishments. Some of the ruder guys in the room suggested that he was tampering with the Mann Act but the Blue just smiled and patted his bulging Hickok.
There was a good picture of Pete Schaub in the Newark Evening News on the occasion of his award for outstanding service to boys. Pete has long been active in the Boys Clubs of America.
Jack Jenness has established a reputation as one of the nation's outstanding personnel specialists. Through the years he has worked with U. S. Rubber, Continental Can, American Bosch Arma and currently serves as manager of Training and Development for Levitt and Sons at Lake Success, N.Y. He was recently honored by election to vice presidency of the American Society of Training and Development, an organization of 6500 professionals actively engaged in the training of today's work force.
Dick Ostberg, another of our outstanding personnel managers, was in Hanover recently on a recruiting mission for Sylvania. He called his old roommate, Fritz Hier, whom he hadn't seen in eons for a lunch date. It was the only day since Fritz took on his new position that he had an out-of-town business appointment. It was entertaining to hear Fritz review the "greener fields" theory. After 16 hours a day, seven days a week service in Vietnam, the prospect of comfortable orderly academic life in Hanover was irresistible. He soon found out when you take charge of public programs at Dartmouth that they always fall on weekends. And there are no fixed eight-hour days. Those rice paddies are starting to smell pretty good. Actually, he and Joan and the kids are delighted being back. After all they've seen throughout the world, the prettiest sight of all is still the Hanover hills.
Word has it that the most overworked guy in Hanover is Len Rieser who merely acts simultaneously as college provost, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences and professor of physics. If something truly traumatic develops you can get an appointment to see him ... in about three or four weeks.
Merle Hagan has joined the corporate staff of Pepsi Cola as a planning analyst and is working out of their home office in New York. Merle's son is now a junior at Dartmouth. West Shell's boy, Allen, will be going up to look over Dartmouth, and vice versa next month. I just learned that Hap Bush is a cousin of West's bride, Judy. Hap has a bit of an axe to grind with his son. After sponsoring the youngster to schooling in Switzerland for the purpose of becoming an expert skier (which happened) the young man returned to his base school, became smitten with the manly art of wrestling. He has barely touched the boards all winter.
Just ran into Dr. Bud Coith and his good-looking wife, Nancy, at the Atlanta airport. They were en route home, bronzed and happy, after a golfing tour in Pensacola.
Secretary, 1109 Center St., Milford, O. 45150
Treasurer, Van Alstyne, Noel and Co. 4 Albany St., New York, N.Y. 10006
