1944
My records on Saturday, April 1, showed 22 known bachelors in the Class of '44—that is, fellows who had answered questionnaires and listed themselves as untouched or tainted. On Sunday, April 2, that number dropped to 21. Up Rochester way, Andy MacDowell (Eastman Kodak) became the groom of Kitty Badger of Chicago environs. No word on where they honeymooned, but when you start at near-50 it probably wasn't a cross-country ski tour.
The remaining die-hards, as noted in the 1969 25-Year Reunion Book are: SydBowers, geologist in Saudi Arabia; RalphBowman, NYTimes in city of the same name; Fred Campbell, life insurance in Peterborough, N. H.; Nick Daukas, physician in New Haven Bill Duffy, retired in New Haven; Don Dunbar, professor in Nova Scotia; John Eaton, advertising in NYC; Bill Foye, College of Pharmacy dean in Boston; Jack Grimm, Colgate Palmolive Co. in NYC; Randy Lomas, furniture manufacturer in Hopkinton, N. H.; FranMurphy, medicine/psychiatry in Fort Lauderdale; and Jack Murphy, lawyer in Boston.
Also, Bob Nystrom, opthalmologist in Abilene, Texas; Fred Potter, retired in Dover, Mass.; Walt Prosser, Near East College Association in NYC; John Rexford, Concord, N. H.; Marty Shea, banker in NYC; Bob Williamson, professor at Kent State; Dud Wilson, comptroller in NYC; Hal Woods, plumbing and heating in Waban, Mass,; and Stan Zarod, real estate and politics in Indian Orchard, Mass.
We were kind of thin at the annual Boston Dartmouth dinner April 4, five in the audience and two on the podium. The latter two were Jack Haffenreffer (diversified manufacturing and investments) who was elected unanimously as president of the greater Boston Dartmouth Club Association. Sharing the platform was HarryCarey (bank president in Seekonk, Mass.) recently elected president of the South Dartmouth Club of southeastern Mass.
Out front, rooting, were Bill Foye, pharmacy college dean who is coming to believe that deaning is not as much fun as teaching; Gus Pratt, taking it very easy and collecting gentle hobbies after his second heart attack; Clint Gardner, down from Norwich, Vt., from where he runs his Shopping International mail order business and talks proudly of the opening of his third store in Simsbury, Conn., on February 5. Incidentally, Clint and his wife will circle the globe this spring, 45 days instead of 80, searching for exotic things for import and sale in the U.S. They speak all kinds of languages, darn 'em, so they turned down my offer to carry bags and play interpreter.
Also on hand were yours truly and Ezz Hale; I, looking for copy for this column and Ezz down from Rochester for a bit of gentle drumming on the Alumni Fund front. He, too, is off to the moon this summer, or more specifically to Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Manila and hopefully Australia and New Zealand. Ma and the three kids will be going, too, and they don't want any help, either! So, I will cut wood in my woods this summer.
No one should be surprised that at the end of the season Joe Vancisin was awarded the Doggie Julian Award for outstanding contribution to basketball in New England. Joe has been head coach at that Ivy School in New Haven for 16 years.
Also on the go, Leonard Rieser, off for six months on only his third leave in 20 years as a member of the Dartmouth faculty. He will be mixing scholarly business with pleasure on trips to Mexico, England, Continental Europe and possibly Africa. He will return to Washington three times where, as president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he will "explore aspects of the role of science in this country and elsewhere."
From Clippings: Dan Donahue, president of the LaSalle Street Corporation in Chicago, has been elected director of Gould, Inc., batteries, engine parts, filters, electronic devices, instruments, etc. JackGrimm, vice president and general manager of toilet articles for Colgate-Palmolive Co. has moved to become vice president of the firm's International Division. He must have his two-suiter continually packed, as he is responsible for all of Colgate's subsidiaries in South America and Canada.
And we have yet another new judge for you this month: the former mayor of Newton, Mass., Monte Basbas, was appointed special justice of the Newton District Court. Incidentally, there was a picture of Monte in the April issue of this publication and it listed him as a '45. For shame! I will have to get after the Class Notes editor, whoever she may be ...
It didn't take any persuasion at all to accede to the request to run photographs of a couple of our hardworking classmates. First, Ross Higier agreed to take on the assignment as Chairman of the Memorial Gifts Program for the Class of 1944. It will be his job to contact the families and relatives of deceased members of the Class interested in giving to or establishing memorial gifts. This type of giving has been meaningful in the past, and Ross says he is looking forward to carrying that tradition forward.
Another key appointment by head agent Ezz Hale is that of Johnny Morse who has agreed to take on "special cases." In case you wonder what that's all about, it's quite simple—Johnny will be trying to get alumni fund gifts from fourty-fours who have not, for whatever reason, given to the Fund in recent years. Johnny promises to use his extensive Mafia connections to good advantage ...
Finally, Monte DuVal, spoke at graduation ceremonies in Hanover on April 1 for the first group of medical school MEDEX graduates (former military corpsmen). Monte's name also appeared in a UPI dispatch a diligent watcher mailed to me. It was in a story about a venereal disease report in Washington and it quoted a commission chairman name of Webster: "Existing measures of control, while doubtless valuable, are of limited effectiveness," Webster wrote in a letter to HEW assistant secretary Dr. Merlin K. Duval. "Clearly, new tools are needed."
That's it. Blessings.
Secretary, 309 Crosby Hall Hanover, N. H. 03755
Class Agent, Lawyers Co-operative Publ. Co. . Aqueduct Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. 14603
