1939

The class was dealt a double portion of sadness during the Christmas season with the passing of Earle W. Robisoa, while playing indoor tennis at the Rumsey Hall School near his home in New Milford, Conn., on December 12; and with the death of Eben S. Reynolds, of Birmingham, Mich., on December 15. An "In Memoriam" notice appears on Earle in this issue, and one on Ben will appear in the March issue. Your secretary has sent the condolences of the Class to both widows, and has suggested that they remain on the class rolls to ensure a continued fellowship with the Class in behalf of their late husbands.

A handsome "one-two" punch from Colby Junior College appeared before the Colby Alumnae of Cape Cod on November 5, at a meeting held at the Hyannis Yacht Club. Dr. Ev Woodman, President of the College, and his wife both attended the function at which Ev was the featured speaker. Incidentally, Ev is the president of the American Association of Junior Colleges, having been elected to this post this past spring, and hence is the national leader of more than 1,000 colleges which have more than two million students.

Bill Russell was married to Mrs. C. Piggott Armstrong on Saturday, Nov. 23, in Hancock, N.H., according to the briefest of notes received from the college. Our congratulations and those of the class to smiling Bill.

From our ever-faithful president, BertMacMannis we gleaned a few tasty tidbits. Bert talks of seeing Pete Cardozo in midtown Manhattan during December and describes him thusly: "dashing, gay, suave and impressive as ever with flowing silver locks." Pete is reported to be starting a new business venture, but did not press the details on our informant. We'll keep an ear to the ground for a future report. Bert also had a pleasant lunch with John Tower '38, who reported that his kid brother, our own DocTower, left for a pre-Christmas vacation in Antigua accompanied by his son Dana (a junior at Dartmouth) and daughter Sylvia, who is presently at Wilton High School.

In the event that you were under the delusion that the Class of '39 is not pulling its load for the college in many areas, we thought it might be of interest to run down some of our classmates who are hard at work for the Third Century Fund. GeorgieHanna heads up the Keene, N. H., effort and has done so well that he has already collected 195% of his quota. Henry Glovsky is a co-chairman of the Greater Boston Division, and Gardner Ferguson is one of his lieutenants, heading up the Lexington area. Over all the Boston guys have collected 137% of their dollar quota. In West Virginia, Bax Prescott is running the show for the entire state. Lou Highmark is top man in Indianapolis and southern Indiana. The entire Minnesota division is under the aegis of Dave Lilly and he is a whisper below the goal with a 99% standing as of the last figures. Dr. Ned Bayrd is apparently taking off some stethoscope time to serve as head of the Rochester Division which has topped the 100% quota by 13%. Maybe we ought to put this team to work for us in the department of our lagging Green Derby races each spring. When you speak of men who are putting out for Dartmouth, it is hard to forget Bob Kaiser, who sits in Crosby Hall as the executive secretary of the Bequest and Estate Planning Program, whose main job is to encourage the alumni, family and friends to make bequests and lifetime gifts of capital so essential to the long-range strength and independence of the College. Best evidence of the Bequest Program's vital and growing performance to the College is the fact that in its 19 years it has accounted for over 38 million dollars in additions to endowment and other capital needs. And Bob has upped the pace since taking over the job, for in the past three years he has surpassed previous records, bringing in almost $5.7 million in the last fiscal year. As a class, we are fortunate to have Bob double in brass as the Class Bequest chairman, although he advises that with a class of our age, we are just beginning to get into the operation, and have a way to go before the program can be expected to mature.

We would be remiss if we didn't mention Howie Chivers, another "tiller of the College fields," who does his chore out at the Dartmouth Skiway keeping things solvent and pleasurable.

We have a last minute communication from the college which would indicate that George (Monty) Gray, a longtime resident of Portsmouth, N.H., has changed addresses in that little old seaport city, and can now be reached at 46 Harbor View Dr., Portsmouth 03801.

And now, as we find ourselves tilted over, and reaching down to the very bottom of the sparsely filled news barrel, we find the damn thing is bare. So, we'll just have to slip into the subjective for a last inch of space. We don't know how many of you lads suffered through the kind of white Christmas that we experienced, but we can assure you that we were up to our hunkers here in Pittsfield, Mass., with a Christmas-night fall of some 26 inches on top of a 13-inch base. Too much snow to even reach the ski hills, much less try and navigate down town for a crust of bread. Still, it was a happy one for us, for we had all hands in attendance, and I can't think of a nicer crowd with whom to be marooned. Big son Dick, now a movie entrepreneur, who works with Wm. Claiborne Inc., an educational film producer in New York City, had his Bolex out for a few Arctic shots. He appears in two current feature films as an actor (very bit parts). "Alice's Restaurant" was one, and "End of the Road" another. Both were shot here in the Berkshires, and Dick performed behind the cameras as well as on the silver screen. Bonnie was on hand with her husband of slightly over a year. She is introducing him to skiing when we can get out the door. And young Jim, our 19-year-old entry, was home from the University of Arizona, where he is a freshman, and aimed toward a major in archaeology. Also, Jim Mathes' mother, and my very sweet and bouncy mother-in-law, was on hand. She took care of months of back work in the family sewing basket.

Okay, so you don't want to hear about my family. If so, kindly get up a little news about yourself and yours and send it along to this desperate secretary. We'll write about your family with a great deal of relish.

Secretary, 777 West St. Pittsfield, Mass. 01201

Treasurer, 91 Penn Rd., Scarsdale, N.Y. 10585