1947
To follow the theme of the opening paragraph of the last series of class notes we should comment on an outstanding impression of Hanover in April. However, we must admit that April rings no bell and seems to be remembered as a sort of an inbetween month at Hanover. If any memory at all comes forth, it is of an impatience to see the last of the snow and to turn the corner for spring. It is possible that our thoughts are inhibited at the moment due to a March 5 mailing deadline for this column and the fact that this is 7:00 A.M. March 4 in a cold deserted New York office, temperature outside 10 degrees and a plane reservation for the sunny Caribbean tomorrow morning at 8:00 A.M. Nevertheless, here goes.
We received a typically warm and enthusiastic letter from Al Bildner who reported seeing Kwock Sum Yee and his wife Jean while visiting for both business and pleasure in Hawaii. Al and Kwock had not seen each other since 1946 at Hanover and enjoyed reminiscing. Kwock is in his own business running the toy departments in the Gem Clothes Discount Stores in Hawaii. He plans to visit with his wife Jean in New York this spring. Any classmates who would care to contact him can reach him at 1332 B Center Street, Honolulu, Hawaii. If you miss him in New York and are planning a trip in that direction, be sure to look him up. Incidentally, congratulations are in order to Al who was elected vice president of the Supermarket Institute.
Another '47 marriage. H. Mefford Runyon to Mrs. Anne Wilson Odell in the Stanwich Congregational Church, Stamford, Conn., January 20. Congratulations and best wishes!
A clipping in the Wall Street Journal informs us that Bob Mortimer was admitted as a general partner of Blunt Ellis & Simmons, Chicago brokerage firm.
Another news clipping regarding HaroldB. Moulton who was recently promoted to assistant vice president, data processing department, life division of Aetna Life & Casualty. Harold has been with Aetna since 1948 and has been steadily moving up the ladder.
Our leading class politico, Walt Peterson, made news recently in a speech before the Merrimack County Dartmouth Alumni Association. Walt advocated the reduction of size of the New Hampshire state Legislature. Among other reforms he proposed annual and shorter legislative sessions as well as increased compensation for the legislators.
The Moorman Advisory Board of the Moorman Manufacturing Company, Quincy, Ill., announced the election of Harry Krummel into the Advisory Board and to serve as secretary for that organization. Seems that more and more of our Class are Becoming chiefs instead of indians. Roger H.Dickinson of Suffield, Conn., has recently been appointed vice president and copy chief of Remington Advertising, Inc. of Springfield.
John B. Trethaway is back as school. John is one of approximately 75 executives accepted for the 15 th session of the Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School. It is a 16-week session designed to enlarge the experience and understanding of young business executives who have demonstrated outstanding ability and who give evidence of high leadership potential.
We are still living off the heavy influx of notes which you were kind enough to send over the Christmas and New Year's holidays. However, we must admit that we are down to the bottom of the pack and to those classmates that we have not heard from, a word would be extremely welcome. In this remaining pack was a note from Larry Laskey who is still in the payroll systems business in New York City and living with his wife Sybil, son and daughter in Hewlett, Long Island. Larry reports that he ran into George Lendrihas who was recuperating from a near-fatal car accident. George is in a waist-high brace, mighty uncomfortable. If any '47s living near Hackensack, N. J., would care to call George and spend a few minutes visiting him they would be exceptionally well received.
Tom Harrington, one of the many members of our class in the teaching profession, writes from Northport, N. Y., where in addition to teaching he is active in the Teachers Federation & Association. Tom is one of our remaining class bachelors.
Anybody needing orthopedic surgery in the Springfield, Mass., area can call on CyrilShea Jr. and we are sure will be properly repaired. B. B. Brewster is living in Middleboro, Mass., where he is vice president at Colonial Brass Company and his boss is a Dartmouth man, Class of '29, John Davis. Ben is a trustee of the Plymouth sif Savings Bank and water commission for the town of Plymouth. He reports that his son, Ben Jr., a senior at Governor Dummer Academy, will have to be satisfied with MIT and RPI as Thayer School will not consider him because of a lack of American History courses.
Philip Segal Jr. is now forgiven for not attending reunion. He reports that a son Adam was born July 24. We are not sure if this is a good enough excuse. Phil reports that he is executive vice president of Almacs Inc. Supermarket chain and that his daughter Joan is a junior high cheer leader, a seventeen-year-old son Jim is a varsity swimmer and drum major. Sounds like an active family. From California John Fondahl writes that he is professor of civil engineering at Stanford University and a director of the Scott Company of California. John and his family have been travelling in recent years a great deal. The entire family spent the summer of '66 in South America where John was a visiting professor at Catholic University of Santiago, Chile. August of '67 was spent as a visiting professor at the University of the Andes in Bogota, Colombia. We expect to hear where you'll be for the summer of '68, John, as many of us would like to go to one of your overseas courses. Another card from the coast from Dr. Charlie Tourtellotte who was 1966 associate clinical professor of medicine at the Loma Linda University Medical School. He is also president-elect of Riverside Community Hospital staff, and serves on the board of directors of Riverside Opera Association. His wife, not to be outdone, is president of the Junior League of Riverside. Charlie reports that he had Christmas greetings from Bill Wallis '46 and John Taylor.
One of our class grandfathers, Edward H.Churchill, drops a note from Chicago' where he is a principal in the management consulting firm of William M. Kordsiemon & Associates. His younger daughter Janie is a sophomore at Ithaca College and his older daughter Sheri is secretary in the president's office of Southern Illinois University. Sheri has made Ed a grandfather as she has two children. A third daughter Linda is a sophomore in high school.
A real catch-up note came from DickCates, practising attorney in Madison, Wis. In addition to practising law, Dick teaches at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He has served on the Madison Board of Education and the University of Wisconsin Board of Visitors. He has served in the district attorney's office and several terms in the State Legislature. A busy man all around, Dick has five children, four of whom are boys and one girl, actively engaged in Alpine ski racing competition in Wisconsin and Northern Michigan.
It's now quarter after nine, the temperature is up to 11 degrees and the office is beginning to come to life so it must be time to sign off. We cannot close however without some comments about '47 participation in the annual alumni fund drive. Sometime ago we received a three-page letter from Dick Menin, our new head class agent. In this letter Dick mentioned that he had already spent over 200 hours going through voluminous notes of previous class agents, acquainting himself with the procedures and trying to understand the complex and demanding job of class agent. We know that the combination of Dick's business judgment, maturity, and freshman energy and enthusiasm will help our class to have a most successful drive. However, in the last analysis no matter how good a job Dick does, it is really up to us. The thought that is uppermost in our minds as we receive notes and print news about the outstanding progress and growth of our classmates is that there is a need for us individually to reappraise our ability to contribute to Dartmouth. We may have fallen into a pattern of merely doing what we have done in the past without examining our own personal growth and our ability in this particular stage of life to do more. We are now in the most critical years of class giving and approaching the most productive years of our careers. Think about this before you contribute to this year's alumni fund and see if you can improve on the past. With that thought we leave you for the month.
Secretary, 23 Whippoorwill Rd. Chappaqua, N. Y. 10514
Class Agent, 46 Avondale Rd., White Plains, N. Y. 10605
