1956
Our very capable Head Agent, Em Houck, has recently written me concerning the Alumni Fund Drive for the current year. Em asks that we make our contributions as early (and as large) as possible this year due to a change in duties for Em with Eli Lilly & Company. He will be moving to Sydney. Australia, approximately April 1 and naturally the move plus the greater distance from Hanover will make somewhat difficult Em's job directing this campaign. He has built up a strong organization of 19 Regional Class Agents plus 100 Assistants to make the drive as effective as possible. With Em's organizational setup plus the efforts of the agents and assistants, the class should have no problem in achieving its goals as a group. Em further states, "It has been a pleasure and an honor for me to be the 1956 Head Class Agent. I would like to thank all of our classmates for the help and support they have given me in this job. I am counting on this last campaign being our best one yet." For the class may I take the privilege of replying to Emerson - "Well Done." Have a pleasant tour in Sydney.
News of the class - Bob Dumont has been elected an assistant vice president at New England Mutual Life Insurance. Bob has been with them since 1957. Bud Allen has been elected to the 1969 President's Club of Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. Bud and his wife live in Rosemont, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia. Dr.Dave Tiersten has been named pathologist at St. John's Smithtown Hospital in Smithtown, N. Y. Dave recently left the service where he was a pathologist at both Yokahama, Japan, and West Point, N. Y. Bill Wheeler recently married Sheila Culluian, a graduate of Pomona College and UCLA. She is from San Mateo and they are living in San Francisco where Bill is employed by Abex Corporation. Also from San Francisco Tom Knott writes that he and his wife Wendy, Lee and Jane Gammill, and Tom Onion had dinner together recently. Apparently, this was the first time that Messrs. Knott and Conlon had gotten together since the Knott wedding in 1957. Apparently all it took was a note on Tom Knott's Christmas card to Tom Conlon informing him that "no sensible man was ever going to travel from San Francisco to Montpelier" and the hint was taken. Tom Conlon is associate counsel of National Life Insurance Company in Montpelier where he is a member of the school board and a director of the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation. News from three other "westerners" - Jack Crowley, his wife Beth, and three children live in Seattle where Jack is sales manager, Seattle Group Office of Paul Revere Life. Jack is involved (along with the rest of the family) in skiing, Little League baseball, and a church youth group. Their middle child 15 called "Jake Gibbs" so I guess Jack has ideas for him. Dick McClintock is a dermatologist in Ukiah, Calif., where he is involved in a Junior Great Books Discussion at the high school level plus singing in the Ukiah oratorio as a bad basso. He plans a trip to Europe this spring. Steve Swenson is a school psychologist in the Corvallis, Ore., Public School system. Steve says the family moved to the West Coast last August and were surprised at the large snowfall so far this year — it made them feel right at home. in Florida, Fritz Simms writes that he has changed jobs again. He is now sales manager for North American Steel Company in Lakeland. He says at heart he is (insteel industry jargon) a "pipe man" thru the chanse of jobs.
Although he is located in the meat city of rhicaao Duke Hust insists that the stock he Chicago, uu handles at Dean Witter & Company is not the four-legged variety. In fact, he was just elected an assistant vice president of the firm. He began his career with Dean Witter in 1959 as an account executive and in 1965 was named assistant manager of the Chicago office. He and Bridget and their three children live in Winnetka and he is active in the Dartmouth Club of Chicago
In closing, one of the cards came in this month from Andrew Messerschmidt, who states he was at Dartmouth for freshman week only in September, 1952 Apparently this was his first contact with the school since then and he filled in the details. It seems that Andrew is a longshoreman by profession with other activities being the Brooklyn Y.M.H.A., a bowling league where he averages 231, and the executive board of PS 631 PTA. His family consists of the following: John, 12; Fred, 11; David, 10; Jim, 9; Jeff, 7; Tom, 6; Rob, 5; Ken, 4; Joe, 3; Peter, 2; and finally Marie, 1. Two observations: 1) The only 1 family baseball team plus coach plus cheerleader I've ever known about and 2) can you imagine how many times they gave away the pink baby dresses?
See you next month.
Secretary, 2652 N. Lake Dr. Milwaukee, Wis. 53211
Class Agent, Eli Lilly & Co., 740 S. Alabama St. Indianapolis, Ind. 46206
