1934

As confidently predicted in this space last time, the Ides of March arrived on schedule. Astonishingly enough, so did a batch of news notes from all over the land (thank you, Ides!).

Leading note-sender was '34's strong right arm, Class Agent Bill Emerson, reporting from Lexington, Mass., that (1) last fall he "had a very pleasant lunch with CalCalmon" who "married quite recently and is very happy"; (2) visited in Philadelphia just before Christmas with Charley Levesque, "heading up Rohm & Haas' scientific activities in pharmaceuticals"; and learned, in mid-February, that "Bob Davis has just finished his term of office as president of the Old Colony Club [founded in Dartmouth's natal year, 1769, and believed to be the oldest social club in the U.S.] in Plymouth, Mass."

From Tahiti in the South Pacific, AlanHewitt postcarded word of a brief late-January vacation after completing his featured role in Stanley Kramer's latest Hollywood talking-picture, "R.P.M." Alan's back in New York now, recording voice - over com- mercials for Silva Thins cigarettes, and entire books for the American Society for the Blind, and writing occasional pieces for the Sunday Theater Section of the New York Times.

From out in the Land of the Silent Majority, low-voiced Dick Campen is reported by the "Ravenna (O.) Record" as addressing the Aurora Historical Society on January 21 on "Architecture of the Western Reserve: Styles and Origins." Art Moebius, himself a native of Aurora, reports that Dick's "entertaining and scholarly presentation drew a large crowd on a below-zero, blustery, Hanover-type January night." And Leon Lindheim, Cleveland banker-numismatist whose appointment to the 1970 National Assay Commission was reported here last month, was photographed with the Mint Director, Mrs. Mary Brooks, at work in Washington late in February, testing the weight and composition of our coinage - "a thrilling experience," avers Leon, who adds that "banking is great, but numismatics keeps me young."

Something must be staving oil Father Time, not only for Leon (depicted in the "Cleveland Plain Dealer" as a trim Young Executive) but also for Bob Engelman (depicted similarly in the "Chicago Sentinel"). Bob, president of Spiegel, Inc., has been named to head the mail-order division of the Chicago area's 1970 Jewish United Fund-Israel Emergency Fund campaign.

Your secretary suspects the secret of '34 youthfulness must lie in ceaseless activity. Take Bud Yallalle, reporting from Sulzbacher-Seitner country (Jacksonville, Fla.) in early March that he's "down here thawing bones. Back to Maine in a week for winter surfing shots. Lots of new camera equipment. Feel like Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer." Or Lex Paradis, who "retired" to Woodstock, Vt., a few years back and has since published half a dozen books while running the New England Writing Associates.

And then there's Armand Benoit. Back in January '69, we relayed an item from the "Bridgeport (Conn.) Telegram" of Oct. 19, 1968 that Armand, with Pitney-Bowes since 1961, had been given an important new post with this business-equipment firm. Now a P-B news-release dated January 16, 1970 announces Armand's appointment as "coordinator for engineering and manufacturing liaison of the information systems division . . . responsible for coordinating the division's manufacturing and engineering activities with its subsidiaries."

But some of us, regrettably, lose out to Father Time. The past few months have brought word of the death, on December 31, of Graham Ong; on January 20, of BobAdam; and, on February 13, of Dick Hayes. To their families, our sincere condolences; each will be sorely missed.

In Hanover Bill Wilson has been named Executive Director of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. He had been Administrator of the hospital since 1948. In his new capacity he will serve as an ex-officio member of the hospital's board of trustees and continue to represent the hospital in areas of political and organizational concern. He recently served a three-year term on the board of trustees of the American Hospital Association, which represents the interests of 7,000 hospitals.

Herb Heston will be leaving Smith College in June after 13 years as director of development and public relations. But he will remain in Northampton where he will establish an office for Barton-Gillet Co. of Baltimore, Md. He will become a vice president of the company, which provides communications services for institutions in the fields of education, health, and social welfare, as well as business firms. During Herb's years at Smith, the development program has received gifts and bequests totaling $45,000,000 (not including gifts to the Alumnae Fund). His development office is the only one to have twice received the Time-Life Award of the American Alumni Council for the best mail campaign.

From Muriel, widow of Bill Fischbach whom we lost in August of 1968, this letter to "Dear Class of 1934":

My apologies for having been so slow to acknowledge the purchase of a book for the Dartmouth College Library that has been given in my husband's memory, carrying his name on a special bookplate. This is a lovely thing to have done. Nothing could have pleased my husband more; he was such a book lover. He took special pride in his own library, to which he added many books every year. Next to his family, and his patients, books were my husband's first love; he was such a scholar.

Dartmouth meant so much to Dr. Fischbach, too. As I go through his things, I come upon more evidence of his sentiment for Dartmouth and everything related to it. I think that down deep he would have liked to have lived in Hanover - would love to have taught! My family and I are grateful to you for this and your many other kindnesses.

Thoughts to ponder and to act on, men, a short time hence, when Bill Emerson and his deputies start ringing your chimes.

Secretary, Apt. 1-B, 333 East 55th St. New York, N. Y. 10022

Class Agent, 22 Thoreau Rd., Lexington, Mass. 02173