1941

After a long hard New Hampshire winter, it's beginning to look like we might have a little spring by Memorial Day. Here it is, the first of May and most of the snow is gone, the trees are beginning to bud, and we're six weeks into the Alumni Fund Drive.

From the looks of the last report on the Alumni Fund, it must have been a tough winter everywhere. Only 96 men, or less than 19% of the potential 514 contributors, have come through to date with contributions which total $7,517, or less than two-thirds of the $12,156 we recorded last year at the same time. We're still bringing up the rear in the Green Derby. Our 18.7% participation index is far below 1933's 31.6% and below the total Fund's 25.8%; and our 20.4% of objective attained is also behind 1933's 48.2% and the Fund's 33.0%! With the smallest dollar objective and the second largest number of potential contributors, 1941 should be leading its Green Derby, not running dead last! BobThomas and his aides can't do it alone. Let's go!

Frank Myers has been named editor-publisher of the Middletown (Ohio) Journal, one of four newspapers making up the Chew Publications chain in the Mid-West. Frank's late father was the first publisher of the Journal in 1925 after it was acquired by Chew. Frank joined the Journal immediately after graduation. During World War II he served in Europe as an infantry captain, returning to the Journal in 1945. In 1951 he became general manager of the Piqua Call, another Chew paper. He remained in that capacity until 1964 when he returned to the Journal as general manager. Frank is active in civic affairs as a trustee of Middletown Hospital, as chairman of trustees of the First United Methodist Church, and as a director of the Barnitz Bank, the Civic Association, and the Middletown Area Chamber of Com- merce. Frank and his wife, Patricia, live in Middletown; their married daughter, Kathryn, now Mrs. Richard Patten, lives in Columbus, Ohio, and their son, John, is a sophomore at Princeton.

Dr. Harvey Dworken, a Cleveland Heights internist, has volunteered for service aboard the hospital ship "S.S. Hope," now in Kingston, Jamaica, where it has been since mid-January, beginning its second decade of service. Harvey is associate professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University and chief of the Gastrointestinal Unit at University Hospital in Cleveland. He will serve a two-month tour of duty on the Hope, as one of more than twenty medical specialists serving on the ship in addition to the 125 members of the permanent staff.

Bill Cashel, president of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania since last October has added another to his growing list of business responsibilities. On April 1 he became a member of the board of trustees of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company. In addition to the foregoing positions, Bill is also a director of the First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Company and the Philadelphia Bicentennial Corporation. He is a trustee of the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society and a member of the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Economy League. He also holds memberships in the Franklin Institute and in the Chambers of Commerce of Philadelphia and the United States. A busy man!

Your secretary doesn't get much news or correspondence from the Class, but occasionally some other thoughtful alumnus tries to help. The latest address in my file for George Cruze is in Illinois, but I am indebted to Lyman Milliken '27, for a newspaper picture of George and his wife tripping the light fantastic at the Champagne Ball of the Annapolis Fine Arts Festival at the Hilton Inn, Annapolis, in early April. Milliken's comment on the margin: "Still light on his feet!" George, now that we have tracked you down, how about an update on your activities?

Sadly, I must report here once again the passing of a classmate. Dr. Joe Hill, who resigned as president of the Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn last December because of ill health, died at his home in New Haven, Conn., on April 19. The deepest sympathies of his classmates are extended to his widow, Jean, and their children, Joseph Jr., and Laurinda.

Secretary, 9 Oak Drive Bedford, N. H. 03102

Class Agent, 942 Woodcrest Rd. Abington, Pa. 19001