1932
As you know, classmates, your class funds are in good hands, and you will be pleased with us to learn that treasurer JackPyles has moved up another rung at Washington's Riggs National Bank to the high post of general vice president.
Jim Moore reports in upon returning with wife Connie from an enjoyed vacation in the sun at St. Maarten, Dutch Antilles: "Son Jimmy still in Vietnam - son Steve heading into Army on April 4 - which is a helluva situation, but with stupid politicians we have gotten ourselves into a beautiful mess. Still frostbite all winter —sail the Resolute in summer. Heading for some racing in Bermuda May 1 - come on down."
Jim will find at least one classmate there. Warren Hallamore tells us: "I reside in Bermuda and am actively concerned with four small hotels, Newstead, Waterloo House, Horizons, and Coral Beach and Tennis Club, plus a large store, H. A. and E. Smith Ltd. I don't do much else other than make a nuisance of myself in all these businesses. My wife and I spend our summers in Ireland where we leased a small house."
Bill Sumner, giving his present occupation as salary administrator, etc., for New England Tel. and Tel., writes from Wayland, Mass., that he is alive, well, happy, and busy. He reports that brother-in-law John Swenson (Bill married John's sister Jeanette) is living with wife Peg in Tucson where he is the business seminar director at the University of Arizona. Bill's older son David is teaching English at the University of Denver. Younger son Bill Jr. is having a go at cracking New York's top commer cial photography field. (He's top-notch, and we recommend him to any of you who seek a good man for a photography assign ment; his address is 228 Bergen Street Brooklyn.) Bill and wife Jeffy were just back from Colombia and Venezuela, a part of the world they must like for they've been there three times. He postscripts: "Jeffy sends best to Dr. 'Butch' M the great protector!" (This column is pleased to relay any message from any class wife to any class member, so long as it is chan neled through her husband.)
We have a Don M'Phail department this month: Don McPhail of Baltimore, president of Capitol Cement Company, a division of Martin Marietta, is with wife Pat in the happy situation of having three teenage children. The oldest, a high school junior and all-around athlete, "is at least thinking of Dartmouth and has received a letter from the swimming coach." The youngest, 12, has set his sights on the Air Force Academy, and his father, knowing his perseverance, is sure he'll make it. We can't quite make out whether it's daughter Bonnie Jean or Dad who seems to be hoping Dartmouth goes co-ed before her college application time arrives. And from the Brattleboro Reformer and Vermont Phoenix we have sought-for tidings of Don B. MacPhail of Jackson, N. H., who retired from AID a year ago after 27 years of federal government service: He has been named director of administration of the Division of Health Sciences of the University of Vermont. The division includes the College of Medicine, the School of Nursing, and the School of Allied Health Sciences.
Speaking of daughters and Dartmouth, as we were above, Holden Lewis of Paoli, Pa., has a happy-ending version: "After having three daughters we gave up the idea of having an offspring at Dartmouth. However, our dream has been realized with youngest daughter, Linda, coming to Hanover in June with husband, Dr. Nicholas W. Morris of Philadelphia. Dr. Morris will serve his internship at Mary Hitchcock Hospital. Linda was 'Miss Penn State,' and plans to continue her teaching career in the area. This gives Marian and me an extra incentive to get back to Hanover more often!"
From St. Charles, Ill., comes the news that Marv Chandler has been elected to the board of directors of the DuKane Corporation, manufacturers of audio-visual and communications equipment. He is chairman, president, director, and chief executive officer of Northern Illinois Gas Company. He also holds business directorships in Interlake Steel Corporation, the LaSalle National Rank of Chicago, and National Can Corporation. Last year he received an Horatio Alger Award.
Art Mayes, president of Afia Worldwide Insurance, has traveled more than a million miles in the 63 countries where his company has branch offices. His daughter, with IBM, is married to J. M. Boyd Jr., who is on Nelson Rockefeller's staff. Art is "thinking what a world we live in, believing in basic need for morality, glad about the election (hopefully), mad about the space devoted to the rantings of Ping Ferry in the newsletter. Haven't we suffered long enough?"
Our mail continues to reflect the familiar class dichotomy toward the philosophy and programs of G. Savonaro-correction, W. Ferry. Despite Art's strong negative vote above, the friar scales this month are perhaps tipped in favor of the friar of Santa Barbara by Dr. Ralph Elias who, noting that any one handred - alumnus for the office of Alumni Trustee, proposes that Ping be so nominated. "Others in the class could eminently serve in this powerful office," Ralph writes, "but Ping is pre-eminently qualified in my terms: a now and future Vox clamantis. . . perhaps even alerting the national unconscious. Certainly he is a proper challenge to a creature who, despite a remarkable metamorphosis, still extolls the subterranean existence. . . . It may be too difficult or too late to attempt to get this to grow. Anyway I shall be glad to do whatever I can."
Max Wolff postals from Harrision, N. Y., that son and bride were on a visit following completion of the former's work for his M.A. at the University of Wyoming, that wife Dr. Gladys Wolff is enjoying her work in the modern language and education departments of Long Island University, that he'd had a pleasant chat with Art Allen and frau at the Westchester Dartmouth Glee Club concert, and that he was getting primed for his part of the Alumni Fund agent activity.
Sneaking of that worthy enterprise, various vibrations have made us aware that our new head class agent Bob Ackerberg has been working hard for many months laying the groundwork for this year's effort. We hold in high regard that one of us who takes on this really tough and suggest that one way to make the guy's lot a littl easier is, in addition to giving generously, to give eariy.
From" Bob today came this note: "We have a magnificent classmate Dr. George A. Hahn who reports about his past and current work for Project HOPE as follows: 'I will not be able to take in any of the Alumni Fund meetings which are booked for the month of April I am leaving for Tunisia for Project HOPE and will be there most of April. This will be my fourth trip for Project HOPE. Previously I have been in Ceylon, Colombia, and Nicaraeua.'" Four volunteer missions — including dengue fever in Ceylon-would seem well beyond the call of duty. We hope George will give us a report on the Tunisia expedition.
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