1936
The advent of May used to bring with it the excuse to promote a Strawberry Festival. No one ever ate strawberries at such gatherings, but there was plenty of beer consumed. This was brought to mind by the fact that 35 years ago last month the sale of beer and alcoholic beverages became legal with the repeal of prohibition. Simultaneously Jake Pilver went out of business in Norwich. Thirty-five years ago this month the Dartmouth Players presented "Brown of Harvard" in Webster Hall for Green Key weekend and the cast included Blake Johnson, Bill Talman, Dave Scherman, and JimGidney. Whereas most of these fellows are still involved with the theatre, Jim Gidney has turned to literary pursuits. The Kent State University Press has published his book, "A Mandate for Armenia," which was reviewed in the March issue of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Jim is on the teaching staff at Kent State, Kent, Ohio.
Doug Chisholm of Cleveland is manager of marketing and planning for the Pickands Mather & Co., coal division. He recently added to these duties the management of their dock division with responsibility for the company docks at Cleveland, Ashtabula, Toledo, Marquette, Dollar Bay, and DeTour, Mich.
Mergers are always in the news and a recent one joined Gene Tamburi's Early American Inns of Holyoke with the Dunfey Family Hotels and Motor Inns of New England. This affects the Tobacco Valley Inn in Windsor, Conn., and the Yankee Drummer Inn in Auburn, Mass. The Yankee Pedlar Inn of Holyoke, Mass., was not part of the merger and will remain in the possession of Gene and Kate Tamburi. Gene will assume the position of director of food and beverages for the merged corporations.
The Southside Hospital of Bay Shore Long Island, has a newly elected member to its Board of Trustees, Edward Redingfon. Ed is a senior law partner with the New York firm of Hughes, Hubbard, Blair and Reed. He is active in other Bay Shore community groups - as Trustee of the Hewlett School and a member of the St. Peter's Church Vestry Council. Ed and Jody have three children. Edward K. graduated from Miami of Ohio in 1964. Their daughter Randall, is a member of the senior class at Colby College in Maine. John attends the Eaglebrook School.
In New Britain, Conn., Nox Howard is associated with the law firm of Camp, Williams & Richardson and he was recently elected to the board of trustees of the New Britain Bank and Trust Co. Nox's interest in community affairs is shared by his wife Cherry, who is a member of the New Britain Common Council. The Howards have three children.
If the 1936 wives of greater Boston haven't explored the New Jordan Marsh second Great Basement Store at the South Shore Plaza, Braintree, they should rush over to see how J-M president Bill Reed is trying to help them stay within the budget.
It is a rare occasion when one of our wives is the subject of a feature article in the New York Times. On March 18 Pic Hofman, wife of Norb Hofman, and their 16-year-old son Michael were pictured sorting through piles of fund appeals received in her Scarsdale mail box during the course of the year. The accompanying story weighed the mail in at 13 pounds from 103 non-profit sources and it included 400 enclosures such as Christmas seals, pennies, greeting cards, plastic Indian dolls — ad nauseam. I am sure we all have experienced the irritation which finally led Pic to make it a research project.
However, Paul Cleaveland, our '36 Head Agent hopes you won't include the 1968 Alumni Fund Appeal mailings in that 13 pounds. This is the special appeal which reaches most of our pocketbooks. Paul has some new regional agents working with him this year - Bill Martens in Northern Jersey, Prath Palnxer in Ohio, Chuck Delbridge in Indiana, Michigan, and Northern Illinois, and Chuck Venrick for Southern Illinois and Missouri. They will help beat the bushes along with old faithfuls: Dr. Jesse Gait, CliffEngland, Dick Morton, Dean Gidney, ArtLevin, Dr. Tino I.undo, Joe Cunningham,Bob Morris, and John Marsh. The New York City kick-off dinner at the Commodore on April 3 was well attended. Class Chairman Gil Balkam looked well but lamented the fact that a sickness had cancelled his proposed March trip to Florida.
Brint Schorer drove down from Hartford to attend. He has charted the Hartford-New York route so as to keep tolls to twenty cents each way. Brint and his wife, Doris, are hoping that during 1968 they will be able to visit their son, David '62, who is a staff member of the American Embassy in Bankok, Thailand. David recently organized the first Dartmouth Alumni Club of Bangkok with eight members - four Americans and four Thais.
It is with sadness that we must report the death on February 28 of Jean Griswold Mead, wife of Senior Vice President LenMead of Tufts University. Jean was a graduate of the University of Rochester where she met Len - he as a graduate student in psychology and she as an undergraduate psychology major. In the thirty years they have been associated with Tufts, Jean Mead has been a valuable asset to the college community and in 1965 the university recognized the Meads with the Tufts distinguished service award. Our sympathy is extended to Len and their children, Leonard Jr. of Arlington, Philip, a second year graduate student at Tufts and Susan, a Winchester High senior.
The Class was represented at the Memorial services by Dick Treadway, Dick Morton,Cliff and Phyllis England, and JimWhipple.
Give early and often to the Alumni Fund. It will ease the burden on our Class agents. Don't forget to plan for an informal reunion in Hanover for the Dartmouth-Princeton football game on October 12.
Secretary, 90 North Cedar Rd. Fairfield, Conn. 06431
Class Agent, 28 Dunbarton Dr., Nashua, N. H. 03060
