1956
As this column is being written, the first chilly mornings and clear skies have already signaled that fall is upon us. In a few more days the exhibition football season will be a thing of the past, school doors will have opened and the blood in my veins, at least, will have begun to flow much faster.
For me this is “the season” for thinking and planning for the year ahead. In reviewing the past year, I come to a feeling of concern that we in the class of ’56 are, for the first time, really earning the title of “the silent generation.” Item: Chuck Ray, who has been writing this column, and DeanSheldon, our Newsletter Editor, have both been gasping for class news for months. Item: A post card went out to 300 Eastern classmates announcing our spring cocktail party and only ten classmates showed up to enjoy hors d’oeuvres made in anticipation of our usual 75 to 100 turn-out. Item: Class participation in the Alumni Fund this year was 57%, the lowest in years and for the first time since I can remember, below the college average which was 75%, calculated on the same basis.
Personally, I’ve always enjoyed my college associations because, beyond the simple friendships, gossip and good times, associa- tion with Dartmouth has invariably resulted in conversations and activities that provided a change Of pace from things urgent to things important. To me this seems even more true today as Dartmouth, and other colleges, have taken a dramatic role in focusing national attention on our most pressing social issues.
Looking to the year ahead, I hope that each of you in our class will take advantage of the unique opportunities that active association with the college and alumni groups offer. Agreement with all actions and statements is not essential. Your support and interest is. The college, students, classmates, and you will all benefit and enjoy your participation. The Princeton and Yale week- ends would be especially good times to start. BYOL cocktails and a supper are planned for the Tom Dent Cabin after the Princeton game in Hanover.
Quick news of the summer: the following men did enjoy the cocktail party at DickRosen’s lovely “Grenadier” in New York— Clem Malin, John Koehring, Mike Zissu,Tom Aiken, Len Clark, Bud Sehattman,Elliot Weinstein, Art Zich, Bill Zales,Roger Bensen, and Tom Rosenwald and half a dozen wives. Dick missed the party because of a business-with-pleasure trip to Rome.
Dick Zock was in New York doing research on his Ph.D. in Economics. He’s still on Uncle Sam’s payroll and will have six more years of required duty with the Air Force when his studies are completed. Dick is living in glorious Colorado and only “research” can drag him back East. Still another in our growing ranks of economists is John. Koehring who is an economic advisor to the U. S. Mission at the U. N. John is living in Rowayton, Conn.
Stu Klapper, who is chairman of our forthcoming 15th Reunion, has begun to join our globe-girdling jet set. Stu was recently in India seeking shrimp for the U. S. market. Such travels are becoming so commonplace that when Stu passed Em Houck at an airport in that far away country neither had time for anything more than a casual greeting across a ramp. Em was on his way home for a short leave from Australia.
Bill Beagle will be moving from GE to Honeywell and the San Francisco area if stockholders approve the proposed merger of the computer businesses of these two companies in the fall. tr « .a i xi_. j
Jon Gunderson has recently joined the financial department of the I. Walter Thompson advertising agency.
Lee and Jane Gammil expect to be in the New York area for a visit in October and have sent for tickets to the Yale game.
Ted Bremble’s paintings hang in the offices of the Mettler Instrument Company in Princeton where Ted directs Advertising and P. R. activities. Ted and Nancy took a business trip to Europe in the spring and saw Ricky and “Max” Weymouth. When not making passes at bulls. Max writes his Christmas cards and toils in Arthur Ander- son’s vineyards in Spain.
Our two foreign students ended up working in Hanover this summer. Po Hua worked as an assistant in Chemistry research and Yuan Kit worked for buildings and grounds after he decided he didn’t like selling dictionaries in the mid-West.
Finally, early in August, Lee and I spent an evening with Cindy and Ab Oakes and Bill Carleton and Stephanie. In the fall Ab and family will be moving to Connecti- cut where Ab will take up new challenges in business. The next day Bill was off on a fishing trip with his son. Sadly, both the Carletons and Oakeses acknowledged that hard drugs had come to Hanover High.
How many of you grew beards or moustaches this summer? Send pictures! Anyone have a way we can get out of Vietnam faster? How can we stop the bombing and sniping here at home? Anyone got a better investment than the stock market? Are we the silent generation . . .
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