1940
Last week the football ticket application blanks arrived and last night the temperature took it's first drop below 60 degrees since late June which served to remind me that it's time to get this column "on the road" once again. Some of the items which follow may be stale as they date from last spring, but before long I'll be begging you for news about yourselves.
While on the subject of football ticket applications it's a shame that we couldn't get enough of a gang together for our annual weekend October 8-9, but I presume that's because so many of us will be on hand to see the Yale game in Hanover on October 30. An executive committee meeting has been called by our Prez for that a.m. to discuss our not-too- distant 35th reunion and other subjects fitting "our stature as a mature Alumni Class." Rooms within decent miles of Hanover are unavailable if you haven't already made reservations, but I'm sure we'll all be on hand for the usual good-time get-together chez MacMillen and elsewhere.
Way back last March Pete Basquin's son Peter made his formal piano recital debut in New York where he teaches at Hunter College. A rave review in The New York Times must have made his father ecstatic. Young Peter has won prizes in a number of piano competitions and based on the review I'm sure we'll be hearing much more about him in the future.
Another clipping dated March discusses Dr. Howie M. Oliver's research on cancer. Howie is chief pathologist at the Elliot Community Hospital and a member of the Keene State College (N.H.) faculty. He's also past president of the Cheshire County Medical Society.
Another unused report concerns FredJohnson who for the past nine months has been with a subsidiary of Westinghouse that produces prefab modular housing. His wife writes, "We love Washington (ed. note: They live in Arlington and Fred walks to work!). It's great to be where the action is!" If plans didn't change from last spring, the action was there this past luly when their daughter Barbara Jean Johnson (born at Dartmouth during the summer of '47) got married. Late last spring Ike Weed, who is Director of Student Workshops at the Hopkins Center, showed a film and discussed his work with art educators of New Hampshire schools at the New England College. Ike is probably the "handiest" man in the Class, being a member of the N. H. Craftsmen League, The American Craftsman's Council, and a member of the School for American Craftsmen of the Rochester (N.Y.) Institute of Technology.
From Cincinnati a nice note from Bob"Tag" Tatgenhorst advising that his son is at Middlebury—didn't even apply to Dartmouth 'cause it isn't coed (ed. note: there are two sides to that question!). Tag has built a summer home in Kentucky, teaches a course in workmen's compensation, and handles GM's and Ford's compensation cases for their five plants in southern Ohio.
It's been more than ten years since we had a report on Kel Doyle who checks in with the fact that he and wife Ginnie moved from Massachusetts to Toronto, Canada twelve years ago. A week after graduation Kel went to work for Crown Cork and Seal Co. and except for the World War II and Korean war years has been with them ever since. Currently VP in charge of sales of their Canadian company, his family consists of two girls, Kathy, 26, married and living in Winnipeg and Nancy, 18 who just graduated from high school. Kel's only association with Dartmouth seems to be his father. Class of '16, but writes that he'd be delighted to have any Toronto-bound classmates contact him. Chal Carothers was his best man way back in '43, but to quote, "It's been a long time and although our families are very close would love to hear from him."
Last March I wrote that Herb Landsmen's son John was an assistant professor at Colby College in Maine and "having a marvelous time." Now comes word that his "marvelous time" is coming to fruition when he gets married on October 2. And speaking of good times Zelda and DickGoulder report the arrival of a granddaughter on May 16. Another happy—if not expensive—note concerns two weddings given this summer by Harry Hoyt. Harry not only gave away his daughter Linda on July 3 in Martha's Vineyard, but the following week flew to London for his son's wedding. To cap it all off, the Hoyts have forsaken living in Fun City (N. Y. for those of you who don't know) and he's taken up the life of commuting from Connecticut to his position as a V.P. of the Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.
Speaking of commuting brings to mind Sid Harrington. Sid's a trans-oceanic commuter, piloting a Pan Am 747. Sid, almost 20 years ago, held the speed record for trans-Atlantic propellor planes for Ireland to N.Y.C. in just under eleven and a half hours. Now he does it in half the time! Last spring Pan Am had him piloting promotional flights from Boston to Hartford- via Burlington, Vt., to "sell" the 747 to representatives of the travel industry. And while we're on the subject of "overseas" it's a delight to report that Bill Blake and family left July 1 for six to twelve months in Brazil where he's on the faculty of the Cathloic University of Parano in Curtiba, which he says is about as far from Rio as Baltimore is from Hanover. Bill's establishing a laboratory in research on the kidney.
We end this column with the sad news that Atwell "Bud" Smith lost his wife during the summer and that we lost two esteemed classmates, Carl P. James Jr. and Harvey Noll.
Secretary, HUGH DRYFOOS 200 5th Ave. New York, N. Y. 10010
Treasurer, DONALD G. RAINIE 64 North Main St., Concord, N. H. 03301
