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The leaves are beginning to blanket the bare spots in my front yard which gives me the great community equalizer at least until the moment of truth when they are all raked up. We'll be making our annual fall trek to Hanover in less than a week to renew old friendships, to present the 1969 Gold Pick Axe Award, and to watch the backs go tearing by against a much improved Penn team which incidentally now plays their home games on a field completely laid out in a new synthetic turf. That's what a lot of us could use on our lawns if the stuff weren't so darned expensive.
The news this month emanates from news clippings, letters, and post cards received from many of you from all over the country. It must be said that although my news beat is naturally class oriented I have observed that the College itself has been the beneficiary of a very favorable press in the "New York Times" over the past summer months. Excellent lead articles were written on the ABC program, the courage with which the Parkhurst Hall incident was handled, and the opportunity for the black student at Dartmouth in an expanded role. The Times also editorializes that with faith in the intelligence and decent instincts of the majority of students the romantic appeal of student guerrilla tactics may wane.
Jay Urstadt, New York State's Commissioner of Housing and Community Renewal and Chairman of the Battery Park City Authority, has been elected the fourth chairman of the TriState Transportation Commission. This commission is the official metropolitan planning agency of Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York, and plans for the orderly growth and development of the metropolitan area lying within some 70 miles of Manhattan. Their planning embraces not only broad land use, but specific plans for rail, highway, airports, water and sewer facilities, parks, and other public service systems that have interstate effects.
Ray Hammel writes from Closter, N. J., that he has been doing "his own thing" for the past year and a half. Ray was a corporate advertising manager for years. He took the bull by the horns and hung out his own shingle, Raymond Hammel Advertising Inc. He and his wife Barbara have four children ranging in age from six to seventeen, and Barbara will soon be seen as a contestant on "To Tell the Truth," a top television show.
Norb Wild advises that he switched from the advertising game to the stock brokerage firm of Walston and Company in 1962 and is very happy that he made the move. He lives in La Canada, Calif., and has a daughter Kathleen now eighteen as well as two younger boys.
I previously mentioned that Bob Zeiser and Jack Kilmartin were building an ice skating rink. They are president and treasurer respectively of Skating Enterprises, Inc., a corporation which has built a $600,000 indoor year 'round, 1150-seat rink in Rumford, R. I. There are 26 owners in all. It will cater to public skating, hockey games, and is the home of the Providence Figure Skating Club. The corporation is hoping to build another rink in another area of the state if this one is financially successful. Judging from the great surge of interest in ice skating here in the East, they can't miss. And while on the subject of ice skating we are pleased to learn that College Secretary Mike McGean has been reelected by the NCAA to the United States Olympic Committee's figure skating committee for the next Olympiad.
We recently advised you of the election of John "Hub" Wheeler to director of the brokerage firm of Carreau, Smith, Inc. of Bridgeport, Conn. Hub has a namesake who is 21 years old and a senior at Nichols College, with a second son, Bill, a sophomore at Castleton State in Vermont. Both boys are apparently loaded down with good marks and varsity letters and I assume the handsome features of their old man as well. The entire family spent a couple of weeks roughing it on the Kennebec River in Maine.
To most of us Big "D" means Dartmouth. To Charlie Fay who hears neighborhood flak on the subject, it is Dallas, Texas. Charlie is one of twenty teaching fellows at Southern Methodist University in their history department. Hispanic-American culture of our Southwestern states is his cup of tea. He claims that in spite of having to live at close to poverty level, he has ample room and the inclination to welcome any classmates and their families at 2217 Highland Road, Apartment #220, Dallas. Congratulations are in order for several additional classmates on news which has filtered in over the summer months, news which is often rather brief and to the point which we would like to elaborate on but cannot with only the bare facts before us.
Bert Rodman is treasurer of the new Rodman Insurance Agency which has just absorbed the Jacobs-Grosser Insurance Agency and will be located in Chestnut Hill, Mass. Nancy and Bert will surely be in Hanover for our Fall Weekend.
Phil Lord of Windsor, Conn., national sales manager of Noble and Westbrook, a Bristol Brass division, has been promoted to general sales manager. He is also a town councilman and deputy mayor.
Ken Soule has been elected president of the Insurance Management Association of Albany. Ken has been with Travelers Insurance Company for twenty years and manages their Albany office.
Horace Bryant Jr., New Jersey state commissioner of banking and insurance has appointed Bill White to a position of actuary in Bryant's office. Bill had previously been associated wth Mutual Benefit and Penn Mutual. He lives with his wife and three children in Cherry Hill, N. J.
Final note for the month involves another fellow Jerseyan Lee Fancher who has recently been appointed to the post of vice president of manufacturing by Red Devil Incorporated of Union, N. J., world's largest manufacturer of painters' and glaziers' tools. He has been with the firm for 19 years and lives with his wife and three children in Mountain Lakes.
Heartiest congratulations to all our fortynine rung climbers both mentioned and missed. We hope to see all of you in Hanover next June when we trust you will all fill us in on many more missing news items.
Secretary, 15 Twin Oak Rd. Short Hills, N. J. 07078
Treasurer, 530 East 86th St., New York, N. Y. 10028
