1938

Not so many days left before the thirtieth; why not make a last-minute effort to join the group. Clark, Barrett, Morgan, Marshall, and Dawk were holding a summit meeting on the subject here last weekend (Class Officers' Weekend), and all seems to be in readiness for a memorable occasion. Here's your chance too to get together with all your friends in 1939 and 1940; several joint functions are on the docket.

One person who will be here is Andy Brown: "Andy hopes to make it to reunion in June - I do too! We have a freshman daughter at Bennington who should be finished with school about that time; so perhaps she will come too. Andy is having an interesting time as newly-elected president of the Detroit-Wayne County Community Mental Health Board - trying to make the concept of community mental health come to reality. He is chairman of the Board of the Michigan Welfare League" — Sally Louise Brown.

It looks, however, as though MorrowPeyton will be among the missing: "Going to England and Spain in April with my wife and another couple. Highly improbable that I will be at the 30th. All well here in Minneapolis among the local '38's."

Bob Lang is another who is going to miss the occasion. He will be in Hanover for Bob Jr.'s graduation but has to go to a meeting in New York the following Monday — this on the stationery of Time-Life International.

Not so remiss was Jack Ahearn, who checked in on a fleeting local visit. No time to get together, but it was good to chat for a minute on the phone.

One of Hanover's more elusive visitors over the period of years has been Capt. Everett Wood, formerly of Pan Am, still in the flying game. Ev spent most of last October and November here in town and managed even to vote in the presidential election in the Nugget theatre.

In a sense I was somewhat in hiding there as I was living in a condemned attic of a most amusing establishment that harboured six undergraduates downstairs. The undergraduates gave a man from a different century like me a surprisingly friendly hand. Between grouse shooting forays we had some intense discussions together. Alas, however, that their most burning complaint about the world concerned the still non-coeducational aspects of Dartmouth. I countered that in all too short a time they would be overwhelmed with wives, diapers, babies, and obligations to honor forever and ever, etc. - that now was their time for fellowship, the open road, and a song by the fire. But to the lads of today such convictions seem mad. Anyway, it was a relaxing grand five weeks away from flying other lads in and out of tragic Vietnam.

As of this moment that's still what I'm doing mostly. Some commercial flights to Honolulu and Tokyo. But mostly "R & R" trips when the troops get five precious days holiday after six months of combat. In no sense do I support the moral and military morass which is Vietnam. I keep bidding those trips out of sympathy with the first victims of the sorry mess out there —our troops who must slug it out. If I make it into next year that will be thirty years at the controls for me. Perhaps then I'll put my oft-sworn promise into action - to return to Hanover - there to take charge of the great hound-pack, raise a few English setters myself, and revive the lost and noble art of producing honest hard cider.

Ben Ames Williams Jr., president of the Old Colony Trust Company in Boston and a senior vice president of the First National Bank of Boston, has been named a director of Arthur D. Little of Cambridge, Mass. He is a trustee of the Children's Hospital Medical Center; president and a trustee of Thompson Academy; overseer of the Boys' Clubs of Boston, and a director of the Boston Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

Dr. John P. Maurer, president of Southeastern University in Washington, announces the appointment of Roberts Chickering as acting chairman of the Department of Business Management. Professor Chickering is a graduate of the ASTP program of Michigan State University and has completed his doctoral studies at American University. A career Federal employee, he has had extensive experience in the fields of management and personnel administration.

He has been a member of the Southeastern University faculty since 1967 where he has been active in academic and administrative affairs. He is well-known for his interest in and support of students and student activities. Currently, he is advisor to the Senior Class and co-advisor to the Southeastern University Business Management Association, a student chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Management.

And so that winds up another year, except for an account of the reunion in the special edition of the MAGAZINE. See you shortly in Hanover!

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