1935

About the time this article goes to press, classmates will be gathering in Hanover for our annual fall meeting. This year's visit will be memorable in this respect. It's Dartmouth's first term as a coeducational institution. The Class will observe the changing times by inducting, as an honorary member, Miss Ruth Adams, former president of Wellesley College and newly-designated vice president of the College. She graduated from Adelphi College in 1935, so it's entirely appropriate that we be the class to adopt her. Our discerning president, John Wallace, observes that she is "attractive, well-informed, enthusiastic and articulate." Welcome Ruth Adams to the ranks!

While no major business confronts the Class at this fall meeting, we certainly should pay tribute to Yank Price for his remarkable leadership of. the class in the Alumni Fund drive. For the second straight year, we captured our Green Derby by a wide margin. Our dollar total of $72,232 was the highest of any class, except those holding special reunion drives. A wha-who-whatever (sure miss those Indian chants) for Yank on this superb performance.

It has been a summer to remember (or forget). Busy, cold, wet. Never in the 25 years we have lived in Chicago have I seen so much rain. Yet, , despite recurring cloudbursts we can only imagine the horror that "Agnes" created in Pennsylvania. MortBlum writes from Kingston, Pa., across the river from Wilkes Barre, "Bravely digging out home and business, and find myself about where I was in June 1935." Mort's son, Jon, is now a junior at Hanover, and made the varsity squash team. "A goal I never could achieve; now I can identify."

Peg and Ed Mitchell spent an afternoon with us while back for Stateside leave from Paris, where Ed is president of Texaco France. Ed had hoped to catch Dartmouth luncheons in New York and Cleveland, but was in town the wrong days. Even a trip to Vermont to see Curt Lamorey, now retired from Texaco was jinxed by "Agnes." So, as far as catching up with other classmates is concerned, Ed writes "I guess I'll have to settle for calling on BenHarriman the next time I am in London."

I was pleasantly surprised to catch up with Ted Harbaugh at the July House-wares Show. He and Kay have their first grandchild, a daughter born to son Bryce and his wife, Judy. Bryce is getting his masters degree in Far Eastern studies at the University of Michigan, and leaves in September for the University of Tapei, in Taiwan, to study Chinese. Ted himself has tackled an ambitious extra-curricular project, raising funds for a racially integrated Community Center in an impoverished section of Toledo.

Ted joined Hall Colton, Charlie Hausserman and me for lunch at Chicago's famed Stockyards Inn. We had a May gathering of the clan, which drew nearly a dozen classmates, among them: Bill Walrath from Madison, Wis.; Don Koehler,Jack Egan, Ed Freeman, Willie Ogg,Herb Ostrow, Frank Wright, Colton,Hausserman and myself. Art Bamford had promised to fly out especially for the occasion, and we're still awaiting his excuse! He didn't show.

Egan reported he is now sales manager of the North American Door Division of Jim Walter's conglomerate, and, after 16 years of being caught up in mergers and acquisitions, has become quite expert in fancy footwork. Willie Ogg announced that he has retired. Koehler left that afternoon to graduate the last of his four daughters from college, and is looking forward to less pressure and more sailing.

The group set Friday, December 1, for its next luncheon, and hereby invites any wandering '3sers to converge on the Windy City for some pre-Christmas cheer.

Several classmates have taken on impressive "new responsibilities. George Colton was elected a trustee of Skidmore, perhaps to better understand the problems of coeducation at Dartmouth. Bill Chapman was made executive vice president of the First National Bank in St. Louis. NeilRoberts became president of the United Banks of Colorado, a combine of 11 banks throughout the state with assets of over $1-billion. While admitting to being busy, Neil and Lee plan a trip to Greece this fall.

In assuming leadership of the United Presbyterian Church, as moderator of its General Assembly, Will Heckel expressed this conviction, "In this lonely, aching, hating and emotionally-disturbed world, the Christian Gospel was never more relevant and the work of the Church was never more needed." He will serve a one-year term.

Cribbed from the Tearbag! Dick Stern pulled off a big diamond-mining contract with the Liberian government, the first ever for this emerging nation. Bob Morris, after retiring from business, won election to the DuPage County Board, in west suburban Chicago. Sid Diamond is enjoying semiretirement so much he is planning to resign from his New York law firm to spend his full time on photography and writing at Tucson, Ariz.

Biddy Chase has been given a clean bill of health, after a bronchoscopy and lengthy convalescense. Fritz Beebe is reported up and about after minor surgery. Bo Fleming spent four weeks in the hospital "getting various bits and pieces of my innards to behave themselves." He and Marge are settling in at Key Biscayne with all intentions of making it their permanent home.

We do have one piece of sad news from the summer. Fred Hickock passed away July 31, after a long bout with cancer. He had had a distinguished career in banking in New Hampshire, and was president of the New Hampshire Association of Mutual Banks when he died. I know all classmates join me in extending sympathy to Roberta and their son Jeff.

A postcard from Bud Cahoon reports he and Eileen toured southwest England, London and Portugal earlier this summer. Fred Raymond writes that Hilda and Lowell Haas and Bette and he "done dumb" Mt. LeConte, near their home in Gatlinburg, Tenn., five miles up and eight miles down! I was most impressed until I got this card from Rocky Rockwell:

"I've had a resurgence of Alpine climbing with my wife Heidi. During the past five summers, we have been to the Canadian Rockies twice and the Swiss Alps twice. Last summer we did the Matterhorn, my 3rd ascent of it. The first was just 37 years ago." I'm out of breath just reading about it!

Bob Hage, Director of Financial Aid at Dartmouth and a nationally recognized leader in that area of college administration, was honored this summer with election as a Fellow in the Society for the Advancement of Financial Aid Management in Higher Education. In his citation it was said: "As much as any other person, Mr. Hage can be credited with having trained the first generation of modern Student Aid Personnel, in training sessions through the late fifties and early sixties. Equally outstanding, in more recent years, has been his contribution in assisting in the planning of aid programs, the organization of the offices, and the training of personnel to staff them at a large number of institutions under a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In the conduct of his own office and the administration of student aid at Dartmouth College, Mr. Hage has maintained the same high standards of professional competence and ethics which he has urged upon his colleagues in training sessions and professional meetings year after year."

Closing briefs: Bobb Chaney's youngest, Mary, was married July 1 to Andrea Manzin. Nancy and Fred Depinet report celebrating their 22nd anniversary this summer. Jack Rubin has joined a Hartford, Conn., law firm. Jim Higgins writes he is matching golfing skills, or lack thereof, with Eddie Hinman in Ottawa in late August. Walt Pruden has joined Scofield Realty Associates in Greenwich, Conn. Dick O'Daniel will serve as associate-chairman of the Tri-County United Fund budgeting committee in the Harrisburg area.

Well, I've run out of space. We'll catch up with the rest of the mail next month.

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