1937
Any of you people in the Cleveland area who read "The Recorder" are now being treated to medical advice in the form of a small quickly-read and clearly understandable presentation of one medical fact a day combined with a lightly humorous cartoon illustration that helps impress the fact on one's memory. This is the brain child of Dr. Mike Petti devised, as he says, to help combat much of the mis-information confronted by most doctors in their everyday dealings with patients, and in this way carried to a vast audience of people beyond his reach. Mike took his idea to one of Cleveland's best free-lance cartoonists and the new feature called "Health Capsules" was born.
In the field of education Bob Boblke, associate professor of sociology at American International College, Springfield, Mass., has announced plans for an entirely new course to be offered on Saturday mornings at the college. The course, to be known as The Sociology of the School, will study those factors affecting and characterizing the school in a modern industrial society. It will carry graduate credit and should be of particular interest to members of the teaching profession. And Dayt Morgan has taken on an additional assignment having been named vice president for business at Georgetown University in Washington, D. C. He and Alice have lived in Little Silver, N. J., for several years and he is an accountant in New York with Lybrand Ross Brothers & Montgomery. Their oldest boy is in the Navy, a daughter at Endicott Junior College in Beverly, Mass., and a second grader in public school.
At the annual meeting of The American Institute of Marine Underwriters in New York which is a national trade association of ocean marine insurers, Bob Hahn was elected treasurer. He is vice president of Great American Insurance Company.
A few years ago Frank Danzig wrote that he had practically given up TV producing in favor of a new venture called Teen Age Fair which had really begun to take hold. Latest on this World's Fair for Youth under the auspices of Burton Ross & Danzig Co. are talks of expansion into management, TV, and motion picture production. In a ten-day period this month Teen Age Fair Inc. will broadcast three hours of prime time network TV called the "Miss Teen International Pageant," sponsored by Clairol, April 13, "Romp," sponsored by Pepsi-Cola, April 21, and "Where The Girls Are," sponsored by Celanese, April 23. In the past six years total attendance at these functions exceeds 8½ million. Frank took off last January for Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Italy, and Israel to officiate at Miss Teen International finals in each country and to supervise film sequences to be used in the special. There's lots more and no room here. Maybe Frank could write up a capsule version in an unbusy moment.
At the annual dinner of the Ledyard Canoe Club in Hanover 15 February HalPutnam donated a new trophy in honor of his former canoe mate, Charles L. Knight Jr. '32 and five other members of the Knight family whose exploits have figured prominently in the history of the club over the past 35 years. Additionally the trophy's purpose is to perpetuate the spirit of John Ledyard and encourage undergraduates to seek new waters and paddle over new horizons in the Ledyard and Dartmouth spirit. In 1933 Hal and Knight circumnavigated New England by canoe paddling nearly 2000 miles in 66 days.
Another Hanover item concerns the honoring of three alumni who have excelled in the field of journalism at the annual banquet of the Daily Dartmouth. Among those honored was Bill Leonard, vice president and director of news programming for CBS.
Shel Wagner must be doing an extraordinary job as mayor of Hastings-on-Hudson. A half page spread recently appeared in the New York Times with pictures, including one of an eleven foot shrouded bronze figure called "Heaven on Earth" which was donated by resident sculptor Jacques Lipschitz for the new library. Shel gets frequent mention throughout the article.
How many sharp-eyed classmates spotted the author's name of a story in February's Reader's Digest on page 141? As a doctor Chick Koop has so many times been confronted with how to talk with parents and their children in cases of major surgery or disease wherein probable non-survival of the child was imminent that he wrote the article based on his own experiences. Look it up, it's good.
Our plea for news last month produced, thanks to you good guys. Les Hoyle says "Practising law in Phoenix, Ariz. Been here 14 years. Not much in the way of excitement but get down to Mexico occasionally. Guess I'm growing gray and fat like most of the class." Art Sprague checks in from Gorham, Me., "No changes in job, residence, marital status, or children since the 25th. Mary now married to John Kirk, working as a medical secretary in Boston and living in Newtonville. David, a sophomore at Springfield, on the varsity baseball squad and hopeful of competing against Dartmouth, May 28. Don't see many class mates in travels through Maine and New Hampshire but that's mostly my fault. Have not made any reunions since 16th due to family illness but hope to be marked present at future ones." Burke Welldon from the hills of Delaware writes "My news involves a most delightful mid-January trip to Hanover including the cherished hospitality of the Stearns clan. Russ and Lee bring an added warmth to a Hanover visit any time of year! I was there to try to recruit some of those up-and-coming young chemists and engineers. My present job is Personnel Manager at the Research Center of Hercules Inc., hence the dabbling in flesh-peddling." From La Grange, Ill., comes Bill Carhart - "No money, wife Lois (Smith '39) and two boys. Oldest a sophomore at MIT, other a high school junior but both very technically and scientifically minded. I am director of merchandise and service for Western Electric at their Hawthorne works in Cicero. Our old dishwasher conked out so we are now getting a whole new kitchen - any husband knows how that works out."
Avid golfer, Crawf Ferguson, took a couple of 5 buck chances at a memberguest tournament last fall on a three-day all-expense trip to Bermuda. At this writing guess where he and Lois are, and as long as they had three free days they might as well spend the week. Oh well, lotsaluck to the rest of us.
At the annual dinner in Boston our usual handful, Gib Reynolds, John Handrahan,Alby Chester, Monk Amon, and Al Romanow.
This is opening month for the Alumni Fund. Our Class made a good come-back last year and Fred Asher needs us all again. Give it some thought.
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