1951
Because I must compose my copy for this column at least a month before you read it in print, I sometimes become forgetful about what will be happening by the time you read the column.
Somehow I forgot that April was the beginning of Dartmouth's annual Christmas season. It's the time of year when each of us should play the reformed Scrooge to make it a happy next academic year for the students on scholarship, the faculty, the libraries, Hopkins Center, and all of the other things which make Dartmouth a leading liberal arts institution.
Christmas present is the annual Alumni Fund. Dick Dutton heads up the loyal crew of '51 solicitors as our new head agent. I sincerely hope that none of you needs Scrooge's Christmas Eve nightmare to give you religion so that you will do your part to make it certain that Dartmouth will reach its $2,500,000 goal this Spring.
But I also have a Christmas past to mention, one which has been running the year round recently, namely the Third Century Fund. As I am certain all of you know by now, a 1970 Christmas season spurt of generosity pushed that drive over its goal of $51,000,000, a figure which some of us, undoubtedly bemused, would like to think was inspired by our Class number.
Workers from our Class did their share in that endeavor, Jack Weingarten, Houston area chairman, achieved the highest percent of dollar quota—470%—and had one of the highest participation percentages.
Other classmates serving as area chairmen were new Class Agent Dick Dutton, Northwestern Connecticut; Al Karcher, Rochester, N. Y.; Wes Nutten, Los Angeles; and Hunter White, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Ralph Hand worked as an area vice-chairman under Hunter; and "Buck" Scott and I, before I absconded to Manhattan, in that capacity in Philadelphia.
Joe Boissy has been promoted to the newly created position of executive vice president of Payne-Jones, Inc. (Now that you have reached that pinnacle, Joe, you should fire the company PR man. The newsclip I have doesn't say a word about what your company does.) In any event, Joe joined them in 1955 as a sales representative and was promoted to vice president in charge of sales .in 1965.
In addition to his Dartmouth A.B. in economics, Joe holds a master's in economics from George Washington University. He is a member of the village planning commission and a director of Thousand Islands Girl Scouts Council, Lewis Counts Historical Society, and the local United Fund. Joe and wife Rosalee have three daughters, Leslee, Amy, and Barbara.
Joe Baker has been named to head the Correspondent Banking Department og State Street Bank and Trust Company og Boston, which he joined in 1969. Joe is s graduate of the Stonier Graduate School og Banking, Rutgers University, as well as Dartmouth. Rog McAllister is now chairman of the Art Department of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.
A year or so ago, "Casey" McKibben departed Baghdad-on-the-Hudson for home territory, Colorado, where I suppose that they do not, like the cigarette companies, have to advertise that breathing the atmosphere may be hazardous to one's health.
In New York, "Casey was regional sales manager for Conover-Mast Publishing Company and director of Client Services for Technology Communications, Inc. He was most recently advertising director of Colorado Magazine. "Casey" is now on the sales staff of Woodmoor Corporation, developer of a master planned residential community in Monument, Colo. Other Woodmoor projects include development of Roxborough Park south of Denver, Den- ver's Heritage Square, and property on Mexico's Sea of Cortes.
Charlie Blood was recently elected a director of the First National Bank of Farmington, Me. He has been a pulpwood dealer for a number of years. Charlie served as a selectman for the Town of New Portland, Me., for five years and is president of Section Eight of the State School Board Association. He and wife Shirley have five children.
Yes, classmates, there is a Kentucky; and we have busy classmates there, two of whom I am about to tell you about. From a newspaper picture, it appears that Rabbi Bill Leffler, president of the Lexington Public Library, has sprouted a goatee and a modest Fu Manchu mustache. Bill spends much time at the Federal Narcotics Hospital there and is working on a teachers' guide on the subject for upper elementary school classes.
Double Doctor (M.D. and Ph.D.) Dave White has been raising hell about polluted water in Lexington. He is chairman of the Sierra Club's Cumberland Chapter. At a recent public ecology forum, Dave confronted City Commissioners singing the praises of the city's sewage treatment plants with visible evidence, in the form of samples, of the effluents the city was discharging into nearby streams.
Secretary, Apt. 32-A 45 East 89th St. New York, N. Y. 10028
Class Agent, Reader's Digest Pleasantville, N. Y. 10570
