1932

Welcome back, dear friends. The lost summer will no doubt be accounted for in some celestial balance sheet. When you are reading this, the fall “foilage,” as some of us say in Vermont, will have reached its blazing zenith on the Hanover Plain—and we hope you will be among those who have been able to beat your way back for the Princeton game, and the ’32 weekend bash that Leader Pierpont has organized to serve as context for the event.

Not much mail since we last communicated with you, so we were the more pleased to have a letter from Bob Newfangr. He was prompted to write by his delight at reading in the June column that Cal Geary is much involved in the work of Boston’s Park Street Church, Bob having been in regular attendance there for a year or so during his wartime service and being a great fan of Dr. Ockenga’s ministry. Bob continues: “I have just concluded five wonderful days as a worker in the Billy Graham Crusade at Shea Stadium. My assignment as one of the advisors was a tremendously challenging one—even for a guy 38 years out of college. This has been my third Graham Crusade here in New York, and each one becomes more meaning- ful. His ministry has had a great impact on our city. However, there is a great deal more to be done.”

Bob carries on as president of The Canfield Paper Company in New York, and looks forward to the time he can spend half the year at what is now his summer home in Morgan, Vt, just below the Canadian border. He had recently seen Ned Rollins at a party in honor of the marriage of Paul Fox’s son Jeff—reports Ed well after nicely weathering some pretty severe operations, and Paul carrying on as one of New York’s leading wills and estate lawyers.

Bo Wentworth is now number one man at the Continental Insurance Group of New York, the country’s largest based on assets and policyholders’ surplus, having last spring taken over the post of chairman and chief executive officer of the Continental Corpora- tion, holding company for the group, and the same posts for the group itself. Talking of his plans for the company to a Newark News financial writer. Bo described himself as “a New Englander of the old school, who puts emphasis on reading, writing, and ’rithmetic.”

In May too late for the June column came a card from Jim Moore: “It would take a half a book to comment on the World Situation and the situation at Dartmouth, so will just say things are messy but will get a lot better by Christmas. As for us, son Jimmy is back in one piece from Vietnam for which we are grateful—son Steve (ex- ’7o) is getting his military over with and is in Germany with our atomic missile experts . . . Am again racing to Bermuda in June . . . Business is good but unprofitable—Lindsay gives me a pain in the butt—suspect he has been listening to Ping Ferry.”

Ping, periodically informs us of compar- able symptoms. For equal time, a quote from the Santa Barbara Savonarola: “To look at our class notes one would get no sense that the country is falling apart, that momentous things are happening elsewhere that should engage the interest of even the most torpid. I have as low opinion of my classmates as they have of me. Honorable exceptions of course. They seem to range from the inert to the easily enraged.”

Also last spring came a happy note from Jildo Cappio that son Jim ’63 and wife Claire had made him the happy grandfather of James Lawson Cappio. And we have a nice, different kind of wedding announce- ment, with picture, of the troth of Ade and Terry Nitschehtn’s daughter Martha (long one of our favorite young ladies) and Anthony Rosinski of Keene at North Conway, N. H., in May.

Head Class Agent Bob Ackerberg, his zealous corps, and 297 contributors put the class in the number three (of seven) spot in its sector of the Alumni Fund Green Derby (classes ’27 through ’33), the first time within memory we had not finished dead last. The Class’s total contribution was $42,048, which was $5,000 more than last year—while the fund over-all fell off a bit. Reporter’s conscience bids us note, however, that the Class’s good ranking is due to the generosity of those who did contribute—our participation rating was poor, there being 21 fewer contributors than the year before. .

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