1944

Continuing the Earthquake-Experience Department, Lee Mantle (finance) writes: "It was a terrifying experience, but we fortunately escaped unscathed and undamaged. I was in bed when the thing hit. It felt as though the house was rising and falling on its very foundations, and sideways. The furniture moved around and the chandeliers swung back and forth. The minute or so of the quake seemed endless and there was reticence to survey the damage, real or imagined."

Incidentally, Lee said that the job situation in California was difficult these days and he was looking to New York for a change.

Turk Capek (clinical psychologist) lives 35 miles away but said . . it scared the hell out of us, anyway. Our house is on a hill above the Pacific and my first thought was that if we slid into the ocean it was sure the wrong time of the year—the water is still quite chilly." Turk was delayed in writing because his wife had a severe coronary the day he got my letter; but he reports that she is home again and making good progress.

Any of you been to Siberia lately? Well, one of our boys made it—none other than Don Campbell (professor of Education at Dartmouth). And would you believe that he took along his new wife Barbara and called it a honeymoon! The Campbells were among a group of 80 educators studying East European universities and secondary schools, and they spent three weeks in Rumania, Poland, Hungary, and Russia. Siberia was part of the Russian itinerary, says Don, and fascinating. More snow this season, however, on the steps of Dartmouth Hall than on the Siberian steppes.

And speaking of our boys making it, Dr. Bill Foye was named Dean of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy at the end of 1970. He says deaning is a demanding job, but he keeps his sanity by retreating weekends to his 60 acres of woods and streams in old home-town of Athol.

Further in the education field, Art Kiendl has been appointed to the newly. created position of president of the Cranbrook Schools in Bloomfield, Mich., effective July 1. Art leaves Mount Hermon School, where he has been headmaster since 1963.

Wally Benjamin recently got his Ph.D. and is now a professor of Finance at California Polytechnique College, San Dimas. His daughter has finished her Mastet of Arts work in Germany; son Bill is on his local campus; he has a new wife, Florence: and he says that he "races a small Lotus car for kicks, sort of retiring and teaching for fun only." How can you beat that combination?

Culled from clippings: Al Myers has been named institutional representative of the Boston branch office of Bache and Co., Inc., members of the New York Stock exchange. Class prexy Phil Penberthy, the cigar king, came out of a smoke-filled back room in January promoted to chairman of the Norwalk, Conn., Board of Education. The Huey Long of Arlington, Mass., politics, Art Saul was elected in February to his fifth term as local selectman.

Down Chattanooga way, HardwickCaldwell was back on a campus as one of three members of the Young Presidents' Organization who took part in a seminar at the University of Tennessee. Bob Rader (equipment leasing) is the vice president, Marketing, of a new corporation called Investment Funding Corporation in Wynnewood, Pa.

We're sure other skiers got in and out of town this past winter without our seeing their tracks, but we can add to the list of Alumni Ski Weekend attendees Dick Pleasants (manufacturers' agent in McLean, Va.) his wife and children, and Betty Reilly, widow of Fran.

Also in town on the intercollegiate sports front were our two '44 Ivy League head coaches: Jack Riley's West Point hockey team lost to Dartmouth in Hanover and Joe Vancisin's Yale basketball squad dropped a basketball encounter. Later in the season, however, Yale dumped the Green down in New Haven.

I can't seem to keep Hank Marshall's son, John, out of this column (WDCR, Senior Fellow, Alumni Council member), but it's the boy's own fault: he continues to win things and be outstanding. The latest is a $3,000 James B. Reynolds Scholarship for graduate study at either Oxford or Cambridge.

Leonard Rieser (College Provost donned his cap and gown last October as Dartmouth's representative at the inauguration of the new president of the inauguration exciting Hampshire College in Amherst. Mass.

Joining Bill Gatlin as-early sign-ons for this summer's Alumni College are LarryFarley and wife (Macys in Albany) and Don Dunbar (psychology professor in New Brunswick, Canada), who will be attending with his father, Victor, Class of 1913.

Bob McLaughry is building an annex to the family trophy cabinet as a result of this winter's activity among his four children. Eight-year-old Lynda and Bill, 13, were local ski champs. Rob, 15, minded the nets for the title-winning Bantam hockey team. and Bruce jumped all winter for Middlebury College and got himself elected next year's co-captain. Old Bob, meanwhile. kept his skis going most weekends. even though he says he may need a couple of "leg transplants" one of these years.

It's Alumni Fund time again. Make out your check and make Ezz Hale and Dartmouth the happiest tandum soutn of the North Pole. Blessings.

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