1951

It's checkbook time again—Uncle Sam by April 15, Dartmouth by June 30. If you give more to Dartmouth this year, you can pay Uncle less a year from now. Dartmouth needs your support, and you owe it to her. But perhaps you have a "mad-on" about coeducation coming to Hanover Plain.

In that event, let me share with you portions of three unsolicited letters on the subject. The first comes from ChampSmith's wife Joanne, who writes that, while their daughter and only child Bryant may not weather the competition for admission, "at least she has had an opportunity to apply for admission in the Class of "76" and to be the Smith family's fourth generation at Dartmouth.

Fred Chandler is a new vice president and general manager of the Fastex Division of Illinois Tool Works, Inc. of Des Plaines. He joined ITW recently after being president, National Screw Manufacturing Company, and vice president, Chandler Products Corporation. At Fastex, Fred has been general manager since mid-1971. He and wife Jane live at 475 Ash Street, Winnetka with John, 16; Catherine, 14; Christie, 13; and Carolyn, nine.

A letter from Woody Klein, written just after the Trustees' decision, got buried on my desk. He wrote that earlier in November he had been in Hanover to address Frank Smallwood's Government 31 class on "Why New York City Cannot Be Governed." Woody was accompanied by "wife, Audrey, and daughter, Wendy (Class of 1984)." Also in November, Woody was elected as one of 40 members of the Westport, Conn., town meeting.

On the other side of the coin. DaveHilton concluded a recent letter with the following P.S.: "I just interviewed my first female candidate for Dartmouth today." He had no further comment on that subject.

Our Chicago insurance man par excellence resides in suburban Winnetka with wife Ginny; son David, 12; and daughters Linda, 9, and Laura, 4. Extra-curricularise, Dave busies himself with Dartmouth fund raising and interviewing, and the Episcopal Church, as lay reader in his parish, chairman of the Diocesan Budget Committee, and member of the Standing Committee of the Diocese.

Oakland (Calif.) stockbroker PeirceMcKee has been recruiting football talent for Dartmouth. (How about cheerleaders?) In the fall, Peirce intends to visit Hanover with oldest son Jeff, a quarterback who gained over 1100 yards in eight games as a junior. In his copious free time, Peirce is a Boy Scout Patrol Dad. Youth Activities Chairman of the Orinda Rotary Club, Senior Warden of his Episcopal Church, co-president (with wife Roxy) of the school Parents Club, and a Little League coach.

Mish Cohen is making quite a name for himself in the field of philosophy. Formerly with Rockefeller University in New York, he is now Professor of Philosophy at City University of New York. He has been a Senior Fellow at the Yale Law School and a part-time visiting professor there and in the Yale political science department, and will soon fill the same role at the Yale Drama School.

As for "off terms," Mish taught at Berkeley last summer and will be teaching at Harvard this summer. He is the editor of a new quarterly, "Philosophy and Public Affairs," of which the first issue appeared last fall. Mish and English-born wife Margaret have two children: son Matthew, 6; and daughter Megan, a year and a half.

News from Minneapolis ... Dick McFarland, senior vice-president, was recently elected president of Dain, Kalman & Quail, Inc., regional investment banking firm... Judge Jim Rogers was reelected Assistant Chief Judge of the Hennepin County Municipal Court and also to the legislative committee of the Municipal Employees Retirement Fund and a member of the Executive Committee of that group.

Dave Saxton has been appointed vice president—corporate planning and development for Howmet Corp., Greenwich Conn. Dave joined Howmet last September as director of corporate planning He was formerly with American Standard Inc., as director of its New Ventures Division.

Following graduation, Dave served with the Marines for two years and attained the rank of captain, then earned a Harvard M.B.A. He was successively associated with Booz, Allen & Hamilton, management consultants; manager—new products with R. J. Reynolds Co.; and vice president of Flurodynamics, Inc., and president of its Flurotex Division.

The Time-Life complex gave pete Martin a new assignment about a year ago. Time loaned him to the corporate development part of Time, Inc., to devise ideas for special interest monthly magazines which would rely largely on their readers, rather than advertisers, for financial support. Four are in the works: Well (a magazine for health), Money (a magazine of personal and family finance), and two others, as yet unnamed, on photography and films/TV.

I recently had dinner with fellow Manhattamte Jay Wolf, who left Creative Management Associates in 1968 to do freelance casting for films and TV. He was at ABC for a year and a half and did some work for NET, including "Hogan's Goat" and Arthur Miller's "A Memory of Two Mondays."

Jay is now co-producing, with a former Smith girl, what will hopefully be a Broadway play called "Ring Round the Bathtub," a family comedy about the '30s. Bachelor Jay spends his weekends and summers in a glass house in East Hampton, Long Island.

While we were having a pre-dinner drink at Jay's apartment, Fred Brown's wife Roo called. It turned out that Jay was trying to get Roo to try out for the female lead in "Ring Round the Bathtub." I got on the horn and learned that Fred had left IBM to become production manager for Maark Corp., manufacturers of Head Ski Aluminum Rackets, of Cranbury, N. J.

The Browns have three children: Elizabeth, 14; Charlie, 13; Timothy, 12; and two dogs. The whole family starred in a recent local production of "Fiddler on the Roof." Fred and Roo also sing in a Princeton, N. J., moonlighting singing group known as "The Private Parts." They get as far North as Fairfield County, Conn.; and I heard them last Spring at a Boy Scout fundraising bash in my old suburban Philadelphia stomping ground.

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