1939
A while back my wonderful wife and I decided to redecorate my office. We compromised on some Dartmouth wallpaper and Dartmouth fabric curtains from 1939's own Brooks Brownfield Co. Paint for the lower half of the walls and the trim was mixed to order in a matching green. Our decision to save the money and do it ourselves had interesting and prolonged results. I learned the hard way how to hang wallpaper, and even though we used a plumb line on the old building, each panel ended up with an inch list to starboard. Dot had no trouble with the curtains, but she learned a whole new Navy vocabulary from the paperhanger. This room was awash for a long weekend with wheat paste and Budweiser, a prescription I recommend to all classmates who try this deal. The net result, although it may lose us some Princeton business, is great, and we salute the artist Dick Brooks (who would have enjoyed our prescription) and the entrepreneurs Bob Field and Bob Brown (who will gladly send you a sample kit for one buck). Address Brooks Brownfield Co., Main Street, Norwell, Mass. 02061, They are speedy, courteous, and they don't substitute other colleges on your order. It would be much easier, but less fun, if they included a little man to hang the damned stuff.
We hear that Bob Field, incidentally, is a partner in a new outfit called Executive Projects Associates in Newton, Mass. They are organized to furnish executive and technical advisory services to companies in the shoe industry. Bob is a real expert, having been with ÜBS Chemical Corp., Celastic Corp., Wasco Chemical Co., and International Shoe Machine Corp. He's also a trustee of Berkshire School and retired with three stripes from the Navy. He's obviously a happy man, having been with Jean all these years.
Boots Hoskinson has been named Treasurer of the National Geographic Society, according to an announcement received last month from that organization. He joined the Society's administrative staff in 1946 and has successively held the positions of assistant treasurer, assistant secretary, and most recently the newly created position of deputy treasurer. In association with the late Robert V. Fleming, his management of the National Geograph resources have resulted in increased world research and exploration and expansion in books, globes, educational services, and television.
We have received a long, thoughtfully written letter from Dick Jackson, the owner of WQRB and WBEC, the best radio stations in western Massachusetts. Math and he were delighted to be part of a recent Dartmouth Horizons program but came away somewhat unnerved by some of the student forces for "student power" at work on campus. We old folks have made a mess of their lives and they want to take over. "This is a logically thoughtful cry," writes Dick, "if anything positive was presented that would presage a new approach, a fresh start, or just simply a reason to hope for something better. But few if any articulate which direction student power would move, for we fear none have looked that far into the future." Dick and his group asked three extremely bright campus leaders, "If you are to have a part in planning your college curricula, campus rules, and other matters of administration, what is the length of your responsibility? Will you see your changes through, or will you cut out and drop the whole mess when you are graduated?" This, writes Dick, brought no rational response from the leaders, because it apparently lay too far in the future to warrant contemplation. We add that Dick was greatly stimulated by the experience in Hanover, and we expect his thrice weekly radio editorials reflected his concern and his enthusiasm. We shall report more fully on his letter in a later issue, but meanwhile our congratulations go to a guy who we think is one of the real leaders among our classmates.
Speaking of leaders, Bert MacMannis writes smoothly that he just returned from a three-week trip to the Coast and Hawaii. Seems he had to make a talk at the University of Washington in Seattle and another one a bit later at the University of Hawaii, so he took Sally and Jim along to help him write the speeches. The MacMannis' son Bert lives in New York and works for Maxwell House Division of General Foods. Daughter Marcia is at Bennett College; daughter Bunny at Rogers Hall in Lowell; and son Jim is at home, when not editing speeches at the Royal Lahaina in Maui, Hawaii.
Armando Chardiet has been named coordinator of the Latin American area program at Southern Connecticut State College.
A note starting, "If all the alumni were like me, there'd never be any news for a column," brought welcome news from Bob Haslam. He's settled into the public relations work in Humble's northeastern region but is sorry he didn't get into it several years earlier when his stamina and waistline were in better shape for the freeloaders' grind. His oldest son Bob III is a senior at M.I.T. in aeronautics "and naturally speaks a language completely foreign to my liberal arts background." The boy is captain of the lightweight crew this year and did follow his old man's steps by affiliating with SAE. Daughter Sheila is a senior at Pine Manor and son Douglas is a high school senior now going through the throes of collegepicking."
Warner Depuy, secretary of revenue for Pennsylvania, served as chairman of his governor's conference on traffic safety. Warner has been a deputy state treasurer and served in the state house of representatives for four terms. He is chairman of the board of the First National Bank, Milford, Pa., a director of the Intercounty Trust Co. in Port Jervis, and chairman of the Milford Water Co.
The press release from Fortune Magazine was ginger peachy, but the note at the top from John Mecklin brings a smile. John, who joined Fortune in 1966, has been elevated to the magazine's board of editors. His earlier experience included domestic and foreign reporting for newspapers, a wire service, and a broadcasting network. He served as a war correspondent in North Africa, the United Kingdom, and Europe from 1942 through 1945. Then with Time he held posts as reporter, writer, and correspondent in the U.S. and abroad. He was for three years with the U.S. Information Agency in Paris and Saigon. The latter experience was reported in his book, "Mission in Torment" in 1965. He has written articles for Fortune on aerospace and Vietnam. To his classmates John wrote at the top: "This is one of those promotions that come along sometimes in lieu of a raise, but I guess I'm nevertheless pleased about it, and I hope it might be noted in the '39 class notes. All best."
Your balding secretary is a bit confused on the whereabouts of Kim Ayers. The College advises he's moved from Libya to Center Harbor, N. H., but a note from him reports that Jean and he are back in Libya after a vacation in the States. They put daughter Debbie in Colorado College, then flew to New Hampshire, where Jinny andHerb Mattlage gave them a wonderful 25th wedding anniversary party, a complete surprise. They put son Alan in Holderness School, where he says he's preparing for Dartmouth. Daughter Bonnie is a sophomore at New England College. Kim concludes: "Things are quiet here. It may be that we are not so long for this place so am thinking about what I'd like to do elsewhere. I keep coming back to thoughts about teaching, particularly in New Hampshire, so by next reunion we may not be the ones who came the farthest." Please drop us another note, Kim.
Secretary, Box 38, Cashiers, North Carolina 28717
Class Age tit, 830 S.W. Cypress Way Boca Raton, Fla. 33432
