1951
Two weekends ago as of the time of writing (the Brown game weekend), I mounted a thorough attack on my cluttered desk at home for the first time since my return from summer vacation. Much to my embarrassment, I uncovered some news items which I had had for several months.
As I report them this month, I also offer abject apologies to the sources of those items. If it makes them feel any better, my office desk is even more cluttered. (My boss periodically threatens to lock me in my office until I clean up my desk.)
Wally Bush theoretically practices law in Minneapolis. I strongly suspect that he's now spending much more time around and about hockey rinks than he did when he was fielding the puck as a Dartmouth undergraduate. Last spring, the National Hockey League named him executive of the year. Wally is owner of the Minnesota North Stars and president of the parent Northstar Corp.
Even while studying law at the University of Minnesota, he was the playing coach of a team in an amateur league. Then he was manager of the 1959 U. S. national team. In 1964, Wally headed a group of Minneapolis men who established a farm operation for the Boston Bruins in the Central Hockey League.
In 1966, when the NHL expanded to 12 teams for the 1967-68 season, his group was awarded the Minnesota franchise. P.S. At the June meeting of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, Wally was reelected as an alumnus member of the Dartmouth College Athletic Council.
Back East (of the Appalachians in Baghdad-on-the-Hudson), Keyes Fibre Co. has named Wils Cross executive vice president for domestic operations. Wils is a former vice president and general manager of the packaging division of Riegel Paper Co. He is also a director of the National Flexible Packaging Association.
As of January 1, Paul Meyer became a full professor of mathematics at the Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York. Paul spent the past academic year on leave, teaching one term, and doing research the second, at the University of London. He and wife Mary have three daughters and one son: Lisa, 15; Gretchen, 14; Peter, 12; and Kristen, 10.
After service in the diplomatic corps in Prague, Berlin, Beirut, and Tehran, Haviland Smith returned to Foggy Bottom two years ago. He is currently a Foreign Service Officer working in coordination of intergovernmental economic research.
"Smitty" left Hanover for the Army in the fall of 1950 and returned to receive his degree in the fall of 1953. In the Army, he studied Russian at Monterey. Afterwards, he spent two years in Russian regional studies in London. His government service started with the Department of Commerce before his move to State.
Smitty, wife Martha, and three sons—Gordon, 16; Haviland, 12; and Holbrook, 10, now reside in McLean, Va. They also have an 145-acre farm in East Brookfield, Vt. After their return from abroad, they "bought a Winnebago and are busy rediscovering our own land."
Entrepreneur Al Estrada is engaged in the public utility and construction business in Torreon in north central Mexico. He and wife Maria have four children: Alfonso, 16; Fernando, 15; Maria Rosa, 12; and Arturo, 9.
To the North, in Phoenix, Ariz., BillMiller does investment counseling as a vice-president of Lionel D. Edie Co. He and wife Carli have three children: Janneli, 17; John, 12; and Carrie, 9. Next year you can see Bill on TV as chairman of the Phoenix Open Golf Tournament.
Farther north and west, Jim Danaher is the senior partner of a young (we still are, aren't we?) and bustling law firm in Palo Alto, Calif. He and wife Pat have five sons: twins Steve and Mike, 18; Jim, 16; Peter, 15; and Tom, 10.
Some classmates have stayed back East. Tom Brown, wife Betsey, and sons Bill, 20, and Tom, 19, live in Truro, Mass., down near the end of Cape Cod. Tom is engaged in the real estate business there and also represents a Waterville, Me., outfit selling land Down East.
"Chet" Cotter was recently named director of wines for Charles Jacquin & Cie., Inc. On the road most of the time, his office is officially in Philadelphia and his home on the North Jersey shore. Chet was previously manager of market development for Federal Pacific and director of marketing for the Compactor Division of Carrier Corp.
He is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves, Corps of Engineers, and has instructed at the Command and General Staff School branch at Fort Monmouth, N. J. He and wife Nina have three children: Christopher, 12; Susan, 9; and Jim, 7.
Craig Murphy is now with Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. in its midtown Manhattan office. He and wife Gigi have a son, Craig, 18, and two daughters, Brenda, 16, and Dana, 14. Son Craig was a hometown high school football star in Port Washington, Long Island, applied to and was accepted by Dartmouth, and was then seduced into going to West Point. (At least he won't be playing in the same league!)
THE NEWS IN BRIEF . . . New York lawyer Mike Iovenko, most recently deputy superintendent and counsel of the New York State Banking Department, is now a partner of the Manhatten law firm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & Macßae. . . . Upstate New Yorker Herb Shay is now working for the U. S. Geological Survey.
A feature story on early Christmas shoppers in a recent New York Times reminded me of the fact that, while I am writing this column on the eve of the Yale game, you will be reading it in December.
Thus it's once again time to wish all the members of the Big Green 1951 family—men, wives, and offspring—THE MERRIEST OF CHRISTMASES and A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. Speaking as a crusty, aging bachelor, it's kind of nice, even comforting, to belong to such a large family.
Among those present at the dedication of the Louis K. Diamond Laboratories forHematology Research at Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, were formerClass President Charlie Hood '51 (third from left) and three distinguished '51 pediatricians and hematologists: (l to r) Aaron Rausen, Mt. Sinai Medical School, N.Y.;Peter Dallman, U. of California, San Francisco, and Howie Pearson, Yale.
On the campaign trail for a seat in theVermont Senate, Prof. Frank Smallwood'51 (r) shares a smile with retiring Vermont Governor Dean C. Davis. Republican Smallwood not only won but outpolled Pres. Nixon in Windsor County.
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