1940

This represents my last chance to talk about reunion with you - or anything else, for that matter, since the changing of the guard will be one of the important duties of the class assembled at reunion. At this writing, it's a relatively small, but stalwart group who have plunked their money on the barrelhead and signed on for the short and happy 3-day cruise. Diz was in town the first weekend in May, attending class officers' workshops, and left a trail of dust around town as he buttoned down all the last-minute details for our reunion. It will be fun, you can bet, and the lovely part of all this is that it is not too late to make up your mind to come even now. Just send some advance word to expect you, write a note to the milkman, sign up the babysitter, take the dog to the kennel, leave your address with the secretary at the office, and gas up! There are many coming back hoping to see you, so don't disappoint them or yourselves.

Frederic Davidson was appointed Commissioner of the Department of Public Works by Mayor John Lindsay, February 1. Rick has been a member of the Department since 1967, and has been serving as Acting Commissioner since May, 1968. His entry into city government followed many years in the construction field as president of the Chesebro-Whitman Co. and vice-president of the Patent Scaffolding Co. Rick has parlayed his Thayer School degree into active membership in the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Institute of Architects on the professional side, and the New Rochelle Board of Education, Boy Scouts, New Rochelle Hospital Board, and the New Rochelle Presbyterian Church on his own time. Can you guess where Ellen and he and their five offspring live?

If you had been out in Kansas City in February, you would have had the chance to welcome Howard Sommer to town from Chicago when he came to speak at the Luncheon Conference for Management on "The Will to Manage." Hal is chairman of the Managing Group, Wolf and Co., and has become one of the country's leading management consultants. If you want to know how to avoid some of the current pit. falls today's average managers meet, see him at reunion.

A long, newsy, and welcome letter from George Mahoney lamented his inability to include the 30th reunion plans in his future He and Ann and the four kids take off for a three-week tour of Spain and Portugal just before the rest of us will be gathering on the Green - plans which were made more than a year ago. This will only be the second reunion Greek has missed; at the time of the fifth, he was buying his bride a new Bendix, and if those two reasons don't dramatically chart the rise in fortunes of the president of Hadley-Mahoney Insurance Co., nothing will. George sees Lee Bassett Bud Hewitt and Bill Bumsted either socially or business-wise. Of his children Greek writes that the oldest, Marilyn, is a junior at Arizona State and Mike is a sophomore at Denison which he elected over his Dartmouth acceptance. Jack, a 9th grader and Jean, a 3rd grader, keep the old folks humping at home. George has recently assumed leadership of the annual drive for the Park School Fund, his old alma mater in Indianapolis.

Henry Spencer has been appointed secretary of the contract division of the group department at Travelers Insurance Co. Bud has been steadily climbing the Travelers' ladder since he joined them in 1946 as a trainee in the pension division. He received his law degree at Michigan, which qualifies him to the Hartford County Bar Association and the Connecticut Bar, and helps him argue down petitioners to the Bloomfield Zoning Board of Appeals which he serves as chairman.

Johnnie Crandell has moved from "Life" to Sports Illustrated" where he is now associate publisher. He had been advertising sales director of Life since March 1966. He joined Time, Inc., in 1954 as a Time advertising salesman. He was appointed manager of Time's Los Angeles office in 1958 and was named manager of the New York sales office in 1961. He became New York manager for Life in 1963 and national advertising manager a year later. During 1965 he served as Life assistant publisher.

TV viewers in the San Francisco area have been enjoying the success of Mel Wax's hour-long news show each night for the past six months - the show with the new format, the controversial presentation and - some claim - the biased, too-liberal slant. Financed by a sizable grant from the Ford Foundation, Mel groups several reporters around a table where they talk over the day's happenings as they see it which sometimes comes out less than objective. But "Newsroom" is fresh, unique, and believable, and Mel has started scores of Bay-ites becoming fiercely devoted news-watchers.

The Class Officers' conclave, referred to earlier, attracted all of your officers but two and those only because they were out of the country. Scotty Rogers, class president, and recently elected director of Hill-Acme Co., was in Spain on a combined business and Jinn trip He and Loomie were spending a couple of weeks traveling with Johnand Sis Moore before joining his boss for inspection tour of all their European contacts. Hugh Dryfoos class agent was bringing his wife, Joan, home from a Caribbean cruise and couldn't make connections north to Hanover in time. There were four of us in attendance, however: Don Ramie attending the class treasurers' sessions; Sam Williams, the newsletter editors; Diz, the reunion planners; and I the class secretaries workshops. When we weren't being involved with business, we had time to watch crew races, tennis matches, anti-ROTC demonstrators, Plays at the Hop, and the Glee Club in a fantastic salute to the Bicentennial. The last will be one of the highlights of the reunion week.

If you were flying the friendly skies in April, you must have seen the lovely color story on windjammer cruises along the Maine coast. It featured Joe Burnett's son, Jeff, first mate on the "Mattie and a Dartmouth senior. Jeff has sailed each summer and is one of the youngest and best in the trade.

Page Smith, Provost of the Cowell College University of California at Santa Cruz, was recently honored by his colleagues by being elected to deliver the third annual Faculty Research Lectures. He is Professor of Historical Studies at Santa Cruz along with his administrative duties.

Well that's 30 for another month and another year. Keep in touch throughout the summer so we can get together here in the fall. Don't forget the class get-together in Hanover October 3-4 and let me know now if you need a room.

Secretary, 5 North Balch St. Hanover, N. H. 03755

Class Agent, 200 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. 10010