1944

The nine-year-old son of a friend of mine said to his father this past August: “Gosh, Dad, this summer has gone fast. Last year at this time it was only the 10th of June.” Here it is October (by the time you get this) and I’m inclined to say that last year at this time it was only July.

Short or long, it was a good, busy summer around Hanover. Let me disabuse any of you of the notion that working for a college is a nine-month proposition. Dartmouth, like many institutions these days, logs a full twelve months. Vacations are spliced around regular summer school; Alumni College; the ABC program; summer music and films; and a dozen or more special groups on campus taking one kind of a refresher course or another. And school doesn’t just “open” in mid-September; it takes weeks and months of preparation—new students, new faculty, new courses, new plans.

The Hanover Plain also enjoyed good weather. It was cooler than usual, with only one spell of ten days when it was hot and humid. Not enough rain, though, and wells and ponds were low. If not a vintage year for cider, we got our 45 gallons from our half-dozen un-pruned trees and the pumpkin- patch is overflowing, with or without Charlie Brown.

So much for background music. Before we get to names and goings-on, I want to point out to those of you who looked at the 25th Reunion Supplement with sticky fingers the fact that there is a line of glue down the side of the last page. It is there so that you can glue it into the back of the 25-Year Reunion Book. Voila! And, we have extra copies of the Supplement if you didn’t get yours or want another one. Just drop me a line.

Gleaned from newspaper clippings: Kudos to Bill Foye, professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, who has been awarded the 1970 American Pharmaceutical Association Research Achievement Award in Pharmaceutical and Medical Chemistry. This is a national award open to anyone in university or college departments of chemistry or pharmaceutical chemistry or in the drug industry, and it brings with it a $l,OOO prize and a plaque. Dick Davis, for the past ten years treasurer of the Aberthaw Construction Cos., was named business manager of the Needham, Mass., school system at the end of May. In his off hours he also serves Needham as the comptroller of the Junior High School Building Committee and as a Town Meeting member, and he is a member of the Mass. Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of CPAs.

For those of you looking for the bright side of the stock market, contact ChuckRendings in New York City. With Bache & Cos. since his graduation from Tuck in 1949, he was one of five men promoted in the spring to senior vice president. In Chicago, following a stint as Dartmouth Third Century Fund worker, Ralph Bogan has decided that there’s no rest for the weary and has taken on the chairmanship of the General Gifts Division of the Illinois Masonic .Medical Center’s capital fund campaign. The group is out to raise the remainder of some 19 million dollars needed to complete a $3O million physical expansion program of a north side medical institution.

If Boston didn’t win the pennant this year, Red Sox fans know that bright-light Tot y Conigliaro had the great come-back he did thanks to the talents of and treatment by Conig’s eye doctor, Charlie Regan. On the medical side, Dr. Marsh Tenney was one of two Dartmouth faculty elected this year as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Academy, one of Ameri- ca’s oldest learned societies, was founded in Boston in 1780 by John Adams and other members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Marsh has been at the Dartmouth Medical School since 1956.

A Patrick Air Force Base (Fla.) release indicates that John Vandergriff, Public Affairs Manager for Grumman Aerospace Corporation at Kennedy Space Center, is a member of the Albatross Organization. Membership is made up of persons who have flown the Grumman HU-16 “Albtross,” an amphibious aircraft, and have made at least one life-saving open sea pick-up.

The American Bridge Division of U. S. Steel has announced a new section called USS Architectural Products and has named Mac Corner to be contracting man- ager for the Midwest. Principally he will be pushing a new steel curtain wall for high- rise office and com- mercial buildings, shopping centers, and the like. He has been with American Bridge since Thayer school days, and after some years in Pittsburgh moved to the Chicago office in 1958 as district contracting manager. Since 1966 he has been with the construction marketing section in Chicago.

While not exactly an avid reader of newspaper social pages, I had no trouble spotting Barbara, wife of Bill McElnea, in a NYTimes issue last May. She was benefit chairman of a country and city art tour sponsored by the National Council of Women of the United States. Bill’s son Jeff is a senior at Dartmouth and president of Bones Gate fraternity. And a June wedding: Art Kiendl’s daughter, Deborah Jean, was married to James J. McLaughlin, a law student at Boston University. Art gave the bride away in the chapel of Mount Hermon School, where he has been headmaster since 1963.

Saw Margery and Jim Donnelly in Han- over in July. A lawyer in Worcester, Jim brings his family in the summer to a remote farm in Washington, N. H. I say remote because I know people who have said they had never been able to get in and out of Washington the same way twice. It lies in the middle of a triangle cornered by Concord, Keene, and Claremont.

I think you all know that the Class of ’44 came in first in its section of the Alumni Fund Green Derby, thanks to the super efforts of Ezz Hale and his scores of co- workers.

At this writing (early September) seven- teen sons of ’44 will be entering Dartmouth as freshman. I think this is a record number; there were twelve last year, nine in the junior class and fourteen who are now seniors. I’ll have names and numbers in the next issue.

Hope to see lots of you in Memorial Field this fall.

Secretary, 309 Crosby Hall Hanover, N. H. 03755 Treasurer, 815 E. Schantz Ave., Dayton, Ohio 45419