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THIRTIETH REUNION June 12-14, 1972 '41 OUT
After almost six years of pleading for something with which to fill this modest column, it seems as if all Hell's broken loose on the month or two before our (delayed to 31st) 30th Reunion. Where were you guys when I needed you?
For openers, I'm sure that many of you have heard the latest on our number one military man. General John C. Meyer, the leading American fighter pilot ace of World War II, has been nominated by President Nixon to head the Strategic Air Command. Frank, who will succeed Retiring General Bruce K. Holloway, has been serving as the Air Force's Vice Chief of Staff. As commander of fighter units based in Europe in World War 11, Frank flew over 200 combat missions in which he destroyed 37 enemy aircraft.
I had another Air Force press release, which I seem to have mislaid, but, quoting from memory, I am reasonably sure that Lieutenant General Bob Dixon, who is Vice Chief of Staff for Personnel of the Air Force, recently announced the promotion to Brigadier General in the Medical Corps of former Colonel Sol Lifton.
Former Assistant Managing Editor of Life Magazine Roy Rowan is back in the publishing business, according to a recent press release. "On the Sound" magazine, which is celebrating its first anniversary at the New York Boat Show, is getting set to publish its second monthly magazine, to be named "On the Shore." This publication will be patterned after "On the Sound," but where the latter is directed at the wateroriented residents of New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts, "On the Shore" will seek its audience in the coastal regions of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. Scheduled to come out in May, "On the Shore" was originated by Roy as part of his concept for creating a series of special magazines for special waterfront regions. Future magazines are also planned for the Gulf, San Francisco Bay, Puget Sound and the Great Lakes.
A recent discussion leader at a panel program devoted to the subject of "Managers—Who Develops Them?" at McQuire Air Force Base was Dr. Joe Rich, Assistant Professor of Management at Rutgers University College, the evening, degree-granting college at Camden, N.J. In addition to his Dartmouth degree, Joe holds a Master's degree in Personnel Psychology and Vocational Education from the University of Illinois and a Doctor's degree in Group Dynamics and Management from Temple University. Joe served as Manager of Personnel Resources for the St. Regis Paper Company in New York City prior to his appointment to the Rutgers faculty in 1969. He is also a past president of the Management Development Forum.
Clint Reynolds has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Paul Revere Life Insurance Company and the Paul Revere Variable Annuity Insurance Company. Paul is vice president, investments of the Paul Revere Corp., the Paul Revere Courier Fund, Inc., and is vice president, investments and a director of the Paul Revere Equity Management Co., the Paul Revere Equity Sales Co., the PR Realty Corp. and the PR Financial Corp.! (Honestly, the foregoing was taken verbatim from a clipping from a Worcester, Mass., paper!) After leaving Hanover, Clint was graduated from Harvard Law School. He joined the law department staff of the Paul Revere in 1948, and served as assistant counsel and associate counsel prior to becoming an officer in its investment department in 1959. Since 1969 he has been located at the headquarters of Avco Corp., Paul Revere's parent in Greenwich, Conn.
A recent letter from Phil Hall (with an attesting picture enclosed) told of another "mini-reunion of '41 at Dexter's Inn in Sunapee on Carnival weekend. In addition to the Halls, those in attendance included the Bill Hammonds, the Steve Winships, the Frank Simpsons (Dexter's Host and Hostess), and Bill Broer with his date lean Hill. It sounded like a great party, and might be something to consider for future winter get-aways!
Hed Miller has been elected president and a director of the Somat Corporation of Pomeroy, Pa. Somat is the originator and leading exponent of the pulping method of waste handling. They manufacture all types of systems for food service operations, hospitals, schools, industry and other institutions, including the destruction of classified documents in government and other sensitive installations. Prior to joining Somat, Hed had served as president of the Whittaker Thermoplastics Corporation, a vice president of the Dover Corporation and president of the H. B Egan Manufacturing Co.
Thanks to wife Peggy, a copy of the Ed Gages' Christmas letter brings us up to date on the Clan Gage:
"Carl, 16, a junior at the Choate School, is very much aware of how soon and how fast college is approaching. He is in the midst of a demanding and difficult academic year. He spent an interesting summer working as a stand-in in Paramount's production of John Knowles' novel 'A Separate Peace.' It was filmed in Exeter and is to be released sometime in the spring. The decision to work wasn't as difficult as the one to cut his shoulder length hair. He found it a valuable and interesting experience and materially rewarding.
"Ed, 14, devoted his whole year to finding 'his school.' He finished eighth grade in June and then spent the summer in summer school where they had a challenging Outreach program. He is now a freshman at Gov. Dummer Academy. He has entered into the school life well and is finding a good balance at last between sports and studies. He got an award for his work in freshmen football and is now on the freshman hockey squad.
"Tom, 11, is in sixth grade at Exeter Junior High School, misses the company of his older brothers and is 'bugged' by a young lady named Susan. He is filled with imaginative and sometimes impossible dreams and as his parents we hope we will have the patience and flexibility to see him through his adolescence His compilation of many, minute and assorted facts is unending, and he is the undisputed Score 4 champion of the family. When Susan isn't following one of her brothers or the animals around, she is talking. She'll be four in February and her consuming desire is to go to 'big school like Tom,' write a letter to 'Carl down at Choate,' or 'play Hockey like Ed with a bag, stick and a pucker' because 'shes hockey costume and shes' skates are ready.' Her energy is exhausting.
"Ed's law practice and his duties as a judge keep him hopping. In his spare time he's putting fence in or wetting down the hockey rink or generally keeping the 'Exec' from blowing her stack. Peg devotes most of her time trying to be a sensitive receiver to the multi-faceted 'input' of the active skipper and the crew, a major job in itself."
More on the reunion plans from Steve Winship: Moderator for the panel discussion on "Changing Careers (not jobs) at 50" will be George Herman, our CBS correspondent and moderator of the weekly Washington panel show, "Face the Nation." All of the panel, except one, have made a radical change in their lives at around age 50, and all have their special stories to tell and observations to make. Included on the panel will be EdMcMillan, now preparing for a teaching career after having been a partner in the brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, Monk Larson, who has changed from a career in law and business to work on education with emphasis on the relationship between educational institutions and the public as voters and taxpayers, Frank Simpson, who moved from a career as a manufacturing executive to become the innkeeper at Dexter's Lodge at Sunapee and Alex Fanelli '42 now executive officer of the college, after being for many years in the U.S. foreign service. Completing the panel, but not having had a career change, is Dr. Robert Sokol, chairman of the College psychology department who has studied the subject of career changes, and has followed the fortunes of Dartmouth's 25 year classes for some years.
More on the reunion next month, and, hopefully, more news from the class.
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