1944
If you think the admissions office is the only one busy on this coed thing, you're wrong. A lot of us in Hanover have beer, getting calls from classmates with queries concerning their daughters and Dartmouth And some have already hit the Plain, daughters in tow for an interview.
One such was Ham Rowan, secretary of the American Kennel Club, who kindly strolled into my office with daughter Elizabeth. Ham may raise dogs, but believe me Liz isn't one of them. Ray Zrike, royal porcelain in NYCity, didn't make it in person but he was on the blower seeKing details for daughter Joanne.
Out Rochester way a Times-Union reporter did a feature on Dartmouth's move to admit women and he asked 10 alumni in the area how they felt about it. Three of the 10 interviewed were '44s. Dick Mayberry "Basically I don't object to coeducation... it's inevitable in a way, but I think there is still room for a good mens' college..." Andy MacDowell: realistic, it's a good move, although I say it regretfully." And Ezz Hale: "On balamce, it's good... Basically it's to keep in step with the times."
Pinky Corroon, insurance broker, also called, but with a question about Dartmonth's investments. Imagine asking me, an old English major who wouldn't know a mutual fund from a Dunkin' Do-Nut, a question like that... Anyway, Pinky said he's recently taken his younger kids to Washington for sight-seeing and had seen Clark MacGregor, Congressional liaison stalwart and Max Edwards, lawyer.
Warren Leopold, in Buicks on Long Island, drove one north between Christmas and New Years for skiing around Hanover. with him were wife Nancy, daughters Lynn and Wendy and son Tom. The snow was preptty icy for most of their stay, and so were the roads when they headed home; a sleet, storm hit just as they left. Coming into town Same day were Dick Pleasants (mfg. agent in McLean, Va.) and family nd they hit it just right. Eleven inches of gorgeous powder the next day.
Certainly highest kudos are in order for Leonard Rieser, Dartmouth's vice president and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In late December he was elected the next president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the prestigeous 132-old association with a membership of nearly 150,000 scientists and scholars. Leonard is the first Dartmouth faculty member to hold this position, and he succeeds Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commis- sion The parent organization of the AAAS was founded in 1816 by John Quincy Adams, John Calhoun, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, among others, so you can see that Leonard is following pretty good company.
Only one Christmas letter this year, from the Dick Rangers. A bit of swallowing hard in it, in that Dick was moved from sunny California to Michigan where he will be Detroit district sales manager for Autolite Ford Parts Division. Trading „that swimming pool in the back yard for a couple of apple trees in the new yard is kind of tough.
Home on the range in Oklahoma, John Cordell has sold his insurance agency and oil jobbing business in Pryor and moved down the road a stretch to Okmulgee in order to devote full time to his ranch.
Ray Hensler's wife Jeanne kindly filled me in on the doings in that household. Ray left a paper company in Wisconsin to become general sales manager, commercial printing papers, of the Oxford Paper Co. The office is in Richmond, Va., the Hensler's spit-livel in nearby Midlothian. Daughter Barbara out of college, married and living in. New York; son Pete working in Racine after graduation from the U. of Wisconsin last May; and Dave, 16, a sophomore mainstay of the Midlothian high basketball team. Rick Lewis is also with Oxford paper; has been for some 25 years, and is a vice-president. The Henslers, Lewises and the Tom Miners joined forces this past fall as we walloped Princeton.
.We caught a picture of a nice looking gin in a Mendham, N.J., newspaper, and she turns out to be the bride of Bruce Welsh, son of Ralph "Budd" Welsh, Budd is president of The Mendham Agency (insurance and real estate) and Bruce is an assistant scientist with Warmer-Lambert Co.
Can anyone improve on Phil Puchner's life-style? He writes: "Still engineering around Ketchum-Sun Valley and hunting, stung & skiing when there is no work... which all happens at once during winter, so I ski and don't hunt or fish or backpack much!"
No details on his new assignment in Washington, but Bill Turpin has left the Embassy in Mexico City where he was the economic officer.
The benches in Walnut Creek, Cal., must be clean and neat. Boog McLoud (food processing equipment) was elected Park and Recreation Commissioner there in 1970. He doesn't think much of girls, though, or at least not in Hanover.
And why doesn't everyone come to Hanover for the second annual ski weekend, March 3-5? Only $80 per couple for two full days of skiing and splendid camaraderie. See the notice in this magazine.
That's it. Blessings.
Secretary, 309 Crosby Hall Hanover, N. H. 03755
Treasurer, 815 E. Schantz Ave., Dayton, Ohio 45419
