1937
A reporter's life may be portrayed as carefree and objective but for us amateurs, and in this media, everything is personal and sometimes therefore difficult. We have to report this month the death of our classmate Bob King which appears in the obituary section herein and also the tragic death of Chick Koop's son David, a Dartmouth junior and geology major.
Our New England papers carried the shocking news in headlines about David and a fellow student. Charles Erickson of Bozeman, Mont., both classed as expert mountain climbers who were familiar with the area. The accident occurred on the east face of Cannon Mountain, just south of the Old Man of the Mountain, when a huge rock slab into which David was pounding a climbing piton broke loose. He was about 100 feet above Erickson and they were well roped. When David fell Erickson was able to brace himself and brake the rope stopping him from falling to the bottom of the sheer cliff. Erickson slid down another rope to help but the boy's injuries were severe and he died in a few hours. Several other climbing parties were in the area but under such inaccessible circumstances could only report the accident and request professional help, but it was too late. Our hearts go out to Chick and Betty for their sad and irreplaceable loss.
We have word that Rog Graves has consented to serve on our class executive committee which will bring us up to full strength in that department. He's with Bethlehem Steel Corporation and lives in Toledo, Ohio.
On May 24 at the annual convention of the New Jersey Bankers' Association in Atlantic City Ray Bauer was inducted as president. (Thank you, Mary!) Seems to us it was only last year we bad news of Ray as treasurer so skipping two grades in banking is quite some feat. Another banking item finds Bill Cash, president of Hanes Corp., elected to the Winston-Salem board of directors of Wachovia Bank & Trust Co.
After many years of silence, explained below, we have a welcome note from DonAlbertsen, president of Albertsen Travel Service in San Francisco and we quote: "My wife, Lillian, and I live in Kentfield about 18 miles across the Golden Gate Bridge. Our marriage of 23 years has produced one cat, Timmy, and one dog, Kent. The nature of my business takes me, and generally my wife, away from SF fifty percent of the year. We visit all parts of the globe, some trips a month, others three months. Lillian just returned from Africa with a group while I was in the Orient covering Manila, Bali, Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. Honolulu to us is like commuting from Hanover to Boston. I am a member of the Islam Shrine Temple, Royal Order of Jesters, Golden Gate Breakfast Club, World Trade Club, and a drinking membership in the Meadow Club in Fairfax near my home. Hobbies are work, gardening, swimming, old Glen Gray records, and banjo lessons." (Ed. note: is that last some sort of a crack, Buster?)
A most distinguished picture appears in a California paper of Eric Rafter indicating this eminent attorney from Hermosa Beach is a candidate for the judgeship of the South Bay Municipal Court in the June 4 primary election ballot. From all his listed activities and citations in the article, they'd do well to just hand it to him and forget the election bit.
Our Johnny-on-the-spot Russ Stearns sent us two notes this month. A college flyer announces the second of the annual Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Lecture Series in Hanover was Prof. Tony Turkevich of the Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies, University of Chicago. His subject: Chemical Analysis of the Moon on the Moon. Tony has been at U of C since 1940 except for several years of research at Columbia and Los Alamos during WW2. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and received an award from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1962. His current research is concerned with determination of the composition of the moon's surface material by means of alpha particle scattering measurements which is part of the Surveyor series of moon expeditions.
The other note from Russ was a picture of Joe Arborio taken with a group at a safety luncheon sponsored by the New York State chapter of the AGC of which Joe is president.
Bill Leonard has announced on behalf of CBS that they plan another hour-long telecast next year of conversation between Eric Hoffer, longshoreman-philosopher, and Eric Sevareid, the network's national correspondent. The first one last fall was very well received and they hope to make it an annual event.
Sid Lansburgh, president of the American General Corp. of Baltimore and Raleigh Haberdashers of Washington, was elected president of the Peabody Institute, a 111 year-old school of which Sid has been an active trustee since 1965.
Two weddings. Bill Timber's son, John '64, now in his third year at Harvard Law School will marry Marilyn Helen Donovan, a Mt. Holyoke girl, this summer. Walt Porter's son, Walter Jr., a senior chemistry major at Dartmouth will be commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army at graduation and will marry Donica Ann Toscano, June 29.
We are sorry to report the deaths of two classmates' fathers this spring, those of Arnold Shapiro and Ed Loveday.
A few cards. Bill Bell says please see the Mint Bag as he wrote at length to Rog. JackYoung, now living in Richmond, Va., as regional sales manager for Lone Star Cement covering eastern half of the U.S. from Alabama to Massachusetts says he just finished a three weeks' management training course in the Poconos. Architect. Dave Todd, and Associates' latest job entails master planning for the Hunter/Bronx campus in New York, to be called Lehman College. It is one of several units making up the City University system. His son, Greg, at Exeter has loving eyes for the mountains and hopeful for Hanover. Wife, Sue, has gone back to work in a project on infant development. Dave got in one weekend of skiing last winter but describes himself as "not very graceful." They also hope to get back to our Fall Reunion (October 18/19, Brown game weekend).
Although the fact did not appear in news stories about the U. S. Supreme Court decision of April 8 declaring unconstitutional the death penalty provision of the Federal Kidnapping Act, it was the decision of BillTimbers, Chief Judge of the U. S. District Court for Connecticut, that the Supreme Court upheld. Bill, whose prominence in the canine world is second only to his legal distinction, has recently been elected a mem- ber of the Board of Directors of the American Kennel Club. We understand that Bill often has the company of one of his welltrained dogs in the judge's chambers.
Since this is the final issue this season we'd like to thank our British correspondent, Evan Elpus, and our man on the continent, Buster Lackluster for their assistance and invaluable contributions this year.
And since this is the final month for the Alumni Fund how about making sure you're counted in. You'd be surprised at the number of people who put it off until too late. The deadline is June 30.
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