1940

Time flies! It seems that I just finished writing the first column of the new season when along comes the deadline for the November issue. Beginning with the last month's issue of the MAGAZINE (which at this writing is about to go in the mail to you) changes were made which are supposed to get the MAGAZINE out about the first of each month along with a new look. Hope you liked it! Also hope you didn't junk the "Special Supplement" which Ollie Quayle's ('42) organization prepared. Alumni attitudes have never been more thoroughly analyzed and it appears as though the great majority think that Dartmouth is still doing things right. It was flattering to read that our class has not as yet been classified as one of the "older classes" even though this column appears nearer the front of the MAGAZINE each year.

Early last spring Herb Landsman, executive V.P. of Federated Dept. Stores, predicted that the revolution in the apparel industry would be in men's fashions. Speaking at a meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board he said that though our wives and daughters may not take to the midi-skirt we males would be wearing knit suits instead of worsteds and further assert ourselves by "individual life style in dress." I don't know what's happened nation-wide, but in New York at this time it seems as though Herb's prophecy is coming true. Also checking in from Cincinnati where he's V.P. of the local Dartmouth Club is lawyer Robert "Tag"Tagenhorst. Tag's four sons are all approaching college age—the oldest is a high school senior—and three will be in college at one time! He writes that he's "using the 'soft sell' about Dartmouth since many of my friends have found that trying to influence their young has backfired." Anyone like to comment on this? Tag invites any Cincy visitors to stop and see him in his office in the Atlas Bank Building where he's got "beautiful quarters" just across the street from Jim Gibson who's with the Fifth Third Bank.

Belatedly several promotions last spring are still coming to light. Fred Miller, V.P., Arkwright-Boston Mfg. Mutual Ins. Co., has been elected North-eastern Area Vice-President of the Financial Executives Institute, an international organization of corporate financial officers. Another now ancient promotion is that of Walt Dance. Walt is one of the three new senior vice-presidents named in a reorganization of the General Electric Co.'s corporate structure. With G.E. 22 years, he's come up through the ranks including being head of their Hotpoint division. Walt's now working in G.E. corporate headquarters to which he commutes daily from Rye, N. Y. During the summer he returned to his old home town of Lynn, Mass., to conduct a business review at the Aircraft Engine Group division of G.E. there.

Closing on a social note, we report the wedding of Bob Raclin's daughter Nannette to Lt. Robert G. Pope in Chicago late in July. Bob is the partner in charge of the Chicago office of Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis and according to the press notices received by ye scribe this wedding was the social event of the summer in the Midwest.

Hope I'll get to see you cheering the Big Green to victory at New Haven or Penn. That wraps it up for another month.

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