1933
Quick!! You have just enough time to get to Hanover for our informal reunion on October 10. Dartmouth will be out to scalp Princeton after which we’ll gather at the Norwich Inn for a happy hour followed by another delicious dinner arranged for by George Drowne. George wishes to be certain that he has provided ample food for everyone, so please contact him at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital if you are coming. You’ll have a wonderful time if you do!!
Sam and Carol Gass were the only ’33 parents with a graduating son in the class of 1970. James graduated with Distinction in History. Congratulations!!
Jus and Helen Stanley’s son, Justin ’71, has been elected captain of next year’s tennis team. He is also captain of the squash team. Coincidentally, his twin brother, Harlin, has been elected captain of the same teams at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. Jus is general counsel for the U. S. Golf Association and last April had the distinction of playing through the Duke of Windsor’s golfing party at the Country Club of Florida. The duke shook hands and was quite genial.
I wish to apologize for an error in the June issue. I reported that Sam Black had been named executive director of the American Society of Corporate Secretaries Inc. with headquarters in New York City. This is correct but I also stated “he is secretary and director of The Stanley Works.” Sam writes, “At the annual meeting of stockholders of The Stanley Works at the end of April, I did not stand for re-election to the Board and have resigned as secretary of the company. My new position is very definitely a full-time job and I now have a small apartment here in New York and manage to get home weekends. After the summer season is over, Jean will be able to join me for a good bit of time here in New York.”
Davidson College, Davidson, N. C., honored Burl Naramore at commencement with this citation: “A Dartmouth alumnus who has brought into our wilderness considerably more than Eleazar Wheelock’s ‘Gradus ad Parnassum, a Bible and a drum,’ he has always been more interested in giving than in getting, and has worked tirelessly to improve the quality of living in Davidson. Every decent cause, whether it was home ownership, race relations, family welfare. Junior Achievement, local government, or the church, has benefited from his time, his spirit, and his money. No genuine downeast Yankee ever won Southern hearts more quickly and thoroughly than ours have been won by this practical but idealistic business- man whose primary interest is the public good. He and his wife are living proof of the bridge between town and gown. In praise of his spirit and his actions, and in gratitude for his significant service to this community, Davidson College presents the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award for 1970 to H. Burling Naramore.”
It was nice to get a short note from Bill Hinkel of Pittsburgh. “We are all well, approaching 60, hate taxes, love grandchil- dren (3) and hope to stay well enough to enjoy a long life.”
Larry Durgin writes from Washington: “It doesn’t seem possible but that day is upon me—l retire from CIA on 31 Dec. '7o—no plans—just rest, adjust, and travel. Will probably get my stamp collection in order ready to sell, then see what turns up. Now have seven grandchildren and dare say they’ll do their best to keep me hopping.”
We don’t receive too much news from the West Coast, so it was particularly nice to get a long letter from Ralph Keyes who is practicing psychiatry in Walla Walla. He and his wife, Mary, came east this summer for a vacation. They visited Elmer Fulton ’34 at Loch Lyme Lodge and Dick Emerson ’34 at New London. During their college days these three plus Paul Zamecnik owned a cabin known as Mink Brook Manor down in back of Stone’s farm. The cabin would sleep seven so they rented space to others at sls per semester, to help pay the fuel bill. After touring Hanover, and chatting with th gal who runs the DOC dining room at Occum Pond, who incidentally stoutly defends the current undergraduates, Ralph continued on to Boston and had lunch with Paul. On his trip west he tried to phone George Gates in South Bend “but like all rich doctors, he was off on vacation.” He closed his letter with this invitation “We would be happy to see any classmates if ever they get close to this off the main stream town. Charlie Hinds is down in Bend, Ore., and some weekend during the ski season I intend to look him up.”
Bob Fairbanks of Cleveland is president of the Towmotor Corporation which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Tractor Cos. “My two sons, also Dartmouth men, are Bob Jr. and Jonathan. Bob is in the financial department of Abbott Laboratories in Chicago. He is married and has our only Granddaughter. Jon is a doctor of Radiology and Chief Resident at the Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burlington, Vt. Daughter Mari- anne, a graduate of Cornell University, is about to start studying on her Master’s at the University of Virginia this year. We have recently bought a small place on Hilton Head Island. S. C., where I ran into my classmate. Hunter Hicks, who has retired there. It is a small world. Currently we are fighting the Nixon corrective action on our economy.”
In The News: During the spring CharlieClark of Tulsa acted as a team leader for six non-Rotarian businessmen from District 611 of Rotary International who spent two months in Denmark touring businesses and observing procedures. Bob Ley has taken on a job for the Greater Springfield (Mass.) Chamber of Commerce. He is heading up a task force for human development, con- cerned with bringing individuals together in spite of differences. Robert Goodell, Cul- tural Attache Officer at the American Embassy in London, attended a reception for the Portland Junior Symphony Orchestra. General Electric Cos. has named Bob Estes a senior vice president. He will also continue as general counsel and secretary.
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