1934
The winds of change continue to swirl around the College on the Hill, and around its alumni, including the Men of 1934; but certain constants remain. Gratifyingly high on the list is the fact, already reported by Bill Scherman (he don't change hardly any, that one), that the Class again came through handsomely in supporting the 1971 Alumni Fund campaign. Led by new Head Agent Frank Heath, some 77% of us were induced to contribute nearly $48,000, up better than 10% from 1970. Your College thanks you.
One "constant" that doesn't gratify your Secretary even a little bit is that, lacking Scherman's network of spies (he calls them "friends"), I receive very little news of what you aging dreamers of dreams and seers of visions are up to nowadays. What information does filter through the New York smog comes mainly by courtesy of the Alumni Records office and Treasurer EdBrown. Not that I'm complaining. I'm screaming out loud: Help!
Alphabetically, fresh data have now come to hand on:
Herman Chase, who reported in May or June that he's "still at Brown University and is the Robert P. Brown Professor of Biology in the Division of Biological and Medical Sciences. Wearing another hat: I am Director of the Institute of Life Sciences. After raising a family of three girls, the youngest of whom is 25, I now have two boys (two years, and five months). So they might go to Dartmouth, but the girls were born too early to benefit from the new coeducational program."
Herb Heston, the New Canaan (Conn.) Advertiser reported in May, has been appointed vice-president for educational communications by Ivy-Graphics and Planning, Inc. of New Haven. Formerly director of development and public relations at Smith College, Herb will maintain an Ivy branch office at Northampton, Mass.
Art Leonard, Class Bequest Chairman and member of the Alumni Council, has been named general campaign chairman for the 1972 United Fund-Red Cross Joint Appeal Fund drive in the Albany (N. Y.) area. Art, a resident of Loudonville, is president of Graves and Rodgers of Albany, and a director of Licensed Beverage Industries.
Hank Rose, long-time resident of Natick, Mass., retired on June 30 as head of civilian personnel operations at the U. S. Army Natick Laboratories. Hank's retirement marked the conclusion of 30 years of Federal service, the last 18 of them in his personnel post. In that capacity, Hank was in charge of the original planning and staffing for the military-scientific complex which—including the Army Institute of Environmental Medicine (at Natick) and the Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (at our own Hanover, N. H.)—now employs over 1,500 people at an annual payroll exceeding $20-million
Karl Weber, says Automotive News for April 5, has been elected vice-president and director of Motors Insurance Corporation, in charge of company-branch operations. Karl has been with MIC since joining up, in Chattanooga, Tenn., back in 1939.
That's the hard news, except for an item relayed by one of my few personal spies, Jeff Jackson (who also works part-time spying for Bill). The July issue of Investor's Reader reports that Mrs. Marion Heiskell, the former Mrs. Orville Dryfoos, has been elected a member of the board of directors of the nation's number one electric utility, Con Edison of New York.
The first (and only) nugget of nuptial news that came over the transom this summer was the marriage on July 10 of Susan Borden Necarsulmer, only daughter of Hank and Liz Necarsulmer, to John Gregory Dallin, in Chappaqua, N. Y. Susan, Skidmore '70, is with the Population Council in New York. Her husband, Union '68, is with J. Aron & Co., export-import dealers in commodities.
Recent months brought with them, regrettably, news of the passing of several classmates: Robert M. Bennett, on July 15; Alden H. Clark, on July 24; and James F. Wendell, on June 23. To their families and their host of friends, the Class extends heartfelt condolences.
These were all of them good men, as were the classmates who preceded them to their rest. Let us maintain a living memorial for them, by maintaining and strengthening the ties of friendship and shared experience that have bound us together these 37 years past. Let's hear it—by letter, wire, or phone—from and for the Class of 1934!
Secretary, STANLEY H. SILVERMAN Apt. 1-B, 333 East 55th St. New York, N. Y. 10022
Treasurer, EDWARD S. BROWN JR. Box 867, Hanover, N. H. 03755
