1944

So, the long summer's journey into fall is behind us and this corner trusts you and yours are all cheerfully back at your posts or slots or whatever and that you have a 10-month supply of beer in for the going TV football "season" ... if, indeed, Mom is still putting up with it and you.

A number of things have come across our desk since we were last with you, and none with any more clout to it than the announcement from the board of directors of the L. M. Berry and Company that effective September 1, John Berry moved up from president to chairman of the board and chief executive officer and Bill Craig was promoted from vice president - sales to the presidential spot. All the two of them have to keep them out of trouble is overseeing the telephone directory advertising for over 500 Bell and independent phone companies in more than 10,000 cities and towns throughout the U.S. and Canada. Tennis, anyone?

Incidentally, Bill and Liz did the European bit this summer, four weeks trotting through France, Germany, Switzerland, and Germany. Highlight for Bill was a return to Heidelberg where he was stationed for six months in WWII interrogating prisoners.

Walter Burke, chairman of Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp., resigned as chairman of the executive committee and a director of Fairchild Industries, Inc., citing the need to cut back on the many assignments taken on over the past few years. That was in July. The previous May he had been named a director of The Bank of New York Company, Inc., and he is also on the boards of the Brunswick School in Greenwich, Union Theological Seminary and The Boys' Club in N.Y.

Mid-west promotions: Mac McPherson, director of research and development of Clow Corp., has been elected a company corporate vice president in Winfield, Ill. Clow diversifies in pipe, valves, and waste treatment equipment. And BudBaker, the Ohio VW king, has been appointed manager of public relations for Midvo, Inc., distributor for VW, Porsche, and Audi automobiles in Ohio and Kentucky.

Deep in the heart of Texas, Houston to be exact, Fred Heidner, a senior tax analyst for Exxon USA, has been named manager of the tax department of Exxon Chemical USA. A long, time resident of Houston, Fred has been with the Exxon organization since 1948, when he started as an accountant. After serving in a variety of tax positions, he was named supervisor of income and franchise taxes in 1963 and five years later became senior tax analyst.

You remember in June we reported that Dick Ettinger, California book publisher, was busy prepping for the 2,500-mile Transpac sailboat race to Hawaii. Well, how'd he do? He got second place in his C-class, that's how he did, and a handsome trophy to show for it. Still handsomer, he says, is the first-place trophy he won later for the traditional Windjammer Race, an overnight affair to Santa Cruz. "A prestige affair," he says, "and really something to win." Meanwhile, back on shore, Dick received an honorary degree from Whittier College this past June 2nd. Doubles, anyone?

On the move: Hanover will never be the same with the departure of the Wemo Epplys, from our sun and snow to California's sun and sand. After 25 years in the shadow of Baker Library, he came down with a dopey thing called the Raynaud's Syndrome where cold effects the tips of your fingers and toes. "California, young man," the docs told him and off went the family to Santa Barbara. Wemo hopes to get his tennis backboard product into operation out there.

We thought for a minute that Jack Handy. Connecticut architect, had moved from West Redding, Conn., to Stratford. Not so. He just changed his college mailing address from home to office so that #5 son Marc would stop opening and eating his Dartmouth mail. Or using it to line his rabbit-hutch, or whatever. Anyway, Jack says he sees Al Hormel (commerical artist) regularly at Little League games, Al being president of the Weston Center Little League; and that CharlesWilder stopped in for a recent hello, he now being a professor of English at Grambling University.

Then, Doc Dick Sholl has moved to the extent of building himself a new home in Janesville, Wise., where he and Cynthia spent a busy summer erecting stone walls and laying underground drains and hoses and then planting new lawns. Their John was a '71, Rick a '73 and then they have Rob entering this fall as a '77. Kids, anyone?

In Hanover for the first time since WW II, we sighted U.S. Government geologist Dick Meyer who was in town for a lecture at the Thayer School. We not only sighted him but we had a beer with him and he seemed genuinely impressed with the state of the Dartmouth union, and that included the presence of the distaffs.

Nice chat with Budge Griffin, Union Carbide in Newark, who is an awfully happy fellow now thai he doesn't have to commute into NYC any more.

Littleton, N.H.'s Jay Downing continues to toil for the telephone company but his heart is in his 80-acre farm outside of town where he breeds and raises Morgan horses.

Don Currier, in Hanover with daughter Robin "looking at colleges," says he is still "peddling pills" for the drug division of American Cyanamid out of Simsbury, Conn., and looking forward to early retirement, say in another five years or so. Can't argue with that, says I.

Herb Storfer, executive placement firm out of White Plains, reports that he has suddenly disvered salt water and he is out most weekends with the family on his newly acquired Bristol 216 sailboat.

Sadly, three deaths to report: Chet Harris died in January 1971 of a heart attack; Bill Brewster died July 28 of exhaustion; and Sandy McCreery was killed in an automobile accident August 8 while camping with his family. All of our sympathies to the survivors. Obituaries will appear in due course.

Hope to see many of you on the 'fifty this fall. That's it. Blessings.

Secretary, 309 Crosby Hall Hanover, N.H. 03755

Treasurer, 815 E. Schantz Ave., Dayton, Ohio 45419