1935
Much has happened to bring distinction to the Class of 1935, since we last went to press. As chronicled elsewhere, our esteemed Tearbag Editor, Dero Saunders, will head the Alumni Council as president in the coming year. Yank Price, in his first year as class agent, led us to a Green Derby title and a record-breaking total of nearly $60,000 in the Alumni Fund. Two classmates won high honors in government and academic circles.
In Tacoma, Wash., the University of Puget Sound conferred its Doctor of Humanities degree on Fred Haley. Fred’s business, civic and political achievements fill two typewritten pages, single spaced! The citation recognized his many contributions “as a spokesman of realistic education for the citizen of the future, who is destined to live in a multi-racial and multi-cultural society.” In Washington, John Dunn received the Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Medal, as he retired after thirty years in government service. John was recognized as the “prime architect” of the Defense Standardization Program. In the area of engineering drawings alone, he set uniform specs covering purchases that run one and a half billion dollars annually. To each of these distinguished ’3sers we, offer the traditional wah-hoo-wah.
Meanwhile, Pug: Atherton takes umbrage with George Hoke’s report that he has retired and, as George put it, “spends most of his time on safari in Africa.” Far from it. Pug not only continues active as president, part owner, and director of the “Honolulu Star-Bulletin” but adds, “We recently bought the newspaper on Guam and I’m now part owner, president and director of that paper, too!” Pug does admit to sneaking away on safari, but only once every two years. Apparently, he was away when Hoke called, and also when Frank Cornwell andRuth vacationed in Hawaii. While missing Pug and Burta, they did see Mimi and FitzDonnell, spending a delightful evening at their penthouse overlooking the entire Honolulu area.
This latter tidbit was gleaned from Frank, as he and I visited with Fritz Beebe during a Newsweek luncheon in Chicago. Fritz, as Newsweek’s board chairman, was touring the circuit with their famed economists— Milton Friedman, Paul Samuelson and Henry Wallich—as they debated when the economy will begin to bounce back. Confidentially, it’s about Thanksgiving Day, but don’t bet (or bank) on it! From Fritz, I learned that his younger boy is safely back from Vietnam, where he spent a year training the elite Cambodian troops which rescued Phnom Penh.
Frank, himself, made news a few days later, when he shocked the advertising fraternity by serving notice on all four of Monsanto’s advertising agencies. Henceforth, Frank will farm pieces of the business to independent creative, media-buying or re- search groups. It’s an experiment the whole industry is watching, and one which guys like Reg Bankart, Bo Kreer, Tom Lane, and I hope won’t catch on. After all, we’ve got to make a buck, too!
gwt tv manv u ouvn., In pursuit of the elusive buck, I made a whirlwind trip to Lima, Peru (two days) in early August, and had an opportunity to visit on the phone with Eddie Henriquez, as our plane paused briefly in Panama City. I was saddened to learn that Eddie’s wife passed away two years ago, and since then he has found little incentive to visit the States. Hopefully, he’ll be back for next June’s reunion. Eddie continues in the import business, and has diversified into general investments. His son, Eddie Jr. ’6O has joined him in the family business, and a couple of years back landed one of the first Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises outside the United States. So, if you’re passing through Panama, you know where to find chicken that’s “finger-lickin’ good.”
The summer brought brief reunions with a number of other ’3sers. Bill Walrath, vice president of advertising for Oscar Mayer, came in for the annual ABC-TV Golf Tournament, and walked off with an impressive prize. Ed Skillin and Hazel visited briefly in Chicago from La Jolla, where they have retired. Bob Smith andGert were back from Thailand, as Bob attended an international advertising conven- tion in New York.
Summer brought the usual pilgrimages to Hanover. From Bob Hage who, incidental- ly, is buttoning up his Sloan Foundation project on admission and fund-raising poli- cies for Negro colleges, come these news- worthy items: “Wayne Geib and Skip, with a couple of their boys, were back for Alumni College for the fifth or sixth straight year. Also, Frank Cornwell’s sister, Mrs. Margaret Schmidt, widow of Clark Schmidt ’33. One of Wayne’s sons is attending Holderness and another Kimball Union, a long way from their canyon in South Dakota where Wayne has a distinguished practice.
“Seen in Hanover briefly, Hugh Wolf and wife—Hugh sporting a full-face beard. Franand Bob Boehm were up for the Dart- mouth Horizons program in July, when Henrietta and I were away. Bob later wrote: ‘I was very much impressed with the kind of work in various fields that the college is doing. We’re hoping to get away in September to visit our daughter in Afghanis- tan and stop off in Spain and Portugal.’ ”
Charlie Lafazanos pens this nostalgic note from Greece. “The day does not go by when I don’t recollect Dartmouth, our fulcrum, and the exciting four years we spent there. Often I gaze across the sea toward Cairo, where my favorite of our alumni, John Ledyard, lies. Every word from Hanover is dear to me, including that epistle our venerated, Tennessee moonshiner, DeroSaunders, compiles!”
While most of us are at an age when a climb up two flights of stairs shortens the breath, I continue to marvel at RockyRockwell. He writes, “Last summer, Heidi and I climbed the summit of Mt. Victoria, that superbly crafted mountain one sees in all the pictures of Lake Louise. We had such a good time, we’re returning this year and hope to scale five or six new summits.” Rocky is still professor of government at Hamilton College, and reports that his son. Win, who graduated from Dartmouth in June, is co-author of the revealing article in the Alumni Magazine on developments in Hanover after Cambodia.
Jack Davis writes, “I am still counselor in the Carson City, Nev., school system. My wife also is connected with the schools as school nurse. Our son has finished four years of destroyer duty, is married to a fine girl from New Zealand. They’ll make us grand- parents in August. Our daughter is doing graduate work in forestry at the University of Montana.”
One final note. Start planning now for 35’s belated 35th. The dates: June 14-15-16.
Isaac M. Sulzbacher 34, twice honored as “City Councilman of the Year” in Jackson- ville, Fla., by votes of the Junior Chamber of Commerce and the city hall press corps, is the highly competent and respected head of the Council’s finance committee, currently handling a $250-million municipal budget. “I. M.” has been characterized as an “old- maid dollar-watcher” but he is still a sympathetic budgeteer who believes in priorities and doesn’t believe in waste. He is active in a long list of community, civic, educational and charitable organizations, and is with the northern and eastern Florida general agency of National Life Insurance Cos. of Vermont, which has also bestowed some achievement awards on him.
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