1949
Those long, cool shadows floating on the South Forty remind me of two things: the September campus at Dartmouth and my obligation to get some news to you all in time for the October issue. Hopefully, by the time many of you receive this issue, I will have seen you at the ’49 fall get-together in Hanover Oct. 9-11 (Princeton) and obtained some news for future issues. The greatest weekend of the year is shaping up nicely with a ’49 informal gathering in the Faculty Lounge Friday night and (tentatively) a joint dance with other classes, after class cocktails and dinner Saturday eve.
Our always illustrious classmates seem to be closing in the stretch like the famous race horse “Silky Sullivan.” ’49ers in business, the professions and the arts all seem to be placing their stamp on society and the establishment (whether existing or emerging).
Immediately prior to our 20th Reunion, that bloody-fingered bass fiddler John the“Gump” Gallup was elevated to prexy of Strathmore Paper Company with four plants in New England and New York. This appointment came a scant five months after John had been elected vice-president. This achievement is even more significant consid- ering that John is most active in almost all local civic affairs and is a director of the Employers Association, the Junior Achieve- ment and the Westfield Area Mental Health and Retardation Association. Congrats, John.
Another ’49er active in civic affairs, Ray Truncellito, was recently elected president of the New Hampshire Chapter of the Chartered Life Underwriters. Trunc was too modest to mention this to any of his friends when he attended reunion last June.
It’s hard to believe, but our free-wheeling, phateon-driving John (Blackjack) Ransom has been tapped for the post of president of the board of the Westchester (N. Y.) Conservatory of Music. Jack is now in the investment consulting business in White Plains, N. Y. He will be more than happy to oversee your idle cash!
Perhaps our most educated G. 1., ColonelDave Vogels, has been decked out with the Meritorious Service Medal for his contribu- tions as Chief of the Capabilities Division at SAC Headquarters in Nebraska. Not content with A.8., M.8.A., J.D. and M.A. degrees, Dave will study for his Ph.D. at Michigan State this fall. Dave’s new address is Box 1418, East Lansing, Mich. 48823.
By now, our musically dedicated Dr. Nate Gottschalk, will have taken residence in the Albany, N. Y., environs with his wife, Pauline, and their two commuting children, Susan and Michael, students at Boston University and Bradley University, respec- tively. Nate was very recently appointed chairman of the Music Department of The State University of New York at Albany. He has enjoyed a most impressive career in the arts having been Assistant Concert Master under Fritz Reiner at the Pittsburgh Sym- phony Orchestra, Music Director of the Amherst Opera Company, Conductor of the Pioneer Valley Symphony and, most recent- ly, Executive Director at Hard College of Music, University of Hartford.
A mere change of address notice tells me that Dave Reynolds of the State Depart- ment has left the idyllic tropic-climes of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, for the much more intriguing city of Karachi, Pakistan. Hope he makes contact with Bratt (Chink) Meyer who has been there with Esso Eastern. “Chink” wrote me last spring that he really wanted to make the 20th but, in lieu thereof, invited the class to visit him at his diggings. Shall we ' organize a charter flight for departure immediately after the 25th? Who is Gunther Perdue, allegedly of the Class of ’49, with wife and siblings? All clues will be rewarded.
A 1 Sullivan, a watery counterpart of Dave Vogels, writes that the pressure of the Student Peace Movement has encour- aged him to retire from Naval Jet Instruc- tion and take up teaching. A 1 is now associate professor of Government at Uni- versity of Southwest Texas in San Marcos, Texas, and perhaps is assisting L.B.J. in writing his memoirs. A 1 couldn’t make reunion. Great desires were sublimated to newly acquired mortgage payments. Wel- come to the world of realism, Al!
Our extremely successful Tuck ’49, DonCummings, has merged his investment firm of Cummings & Taylor with the old-line Philadelphia brokerage of Woodcock, Moy- er, Fricke & French, Inc. Don’s office in Hanover can now invest the traditionally surplus funds of Dartmouth students on a much wider basis. But for this service when we were undergrads! We could have paid our tithes to Don rather than “Fletch.” Don is a Harvard grad, but a very active supporter of the Tuck Alumni Association. Perhaps we made a convert.
Mike Marchese, another hopeful aspirant to the 20th, had to remain in Ft. Wayne, Ind., to fulfill his new responsibilities as second vice-president of Lincoln National Life Insurance Cos. Mike has been a loop- hole Larry for the company since 1961. He promises attendance at the 25th. One of ’49’s clam-digging and bean-eating classmates is now veep of a Boston brokerage house. Joe Simons, who resides in Newton avec wife and three to add to the population problem, is now with Hutchins, Mixter & Parkinson, having left the security of twelve years with Merrill, Lynch. loe is an active participant in local philanthropic lewish organizations.
On a hopeful note: The 20th Reunion seems to have been financially solvent so your dues can be preserved for more deserving programs such as the ABC Book Program. The Class of ’49 is moving with generation changes. Help us out!
Last week found me in San Francisco where I had dinner with the “Big Q,” Qaent Kopp. A joint venture, Quent picked the restaurant and I paid. Over cognac and cigars I discovered that Q aspires to politics and would love to run against Joe Alioto for Mayor, mainly to uncover some unsavory situations. Quent’s law practice goes well; Dave Skinner ’5l will be rejoining his firm in the near future.
Think fall ’49 get-together!
Secretary, New Canaan, Conn. 06840 Treasurer, Box 52, Irvine, Pa. 16392
