1938

A Harvard Business School press release reports that Seymour Ellis was graduated in mid-December from its three-month Advanced Management Program. He is identified as president of Ellis Enterprises of New York, and it is noted that the class was made up of "161 senior executives from business, government, and the military ... from the United States, Canada, and 21 other countries." Congratulations, Squee! (Which may not be your nickname anymore, but it was, 35-37 years ago around the Sigma Nu House.)

Congratulations also are in order for John Rand, who has been named to the board of directors of the National Safety Council, representing the Council's Public Safety Conference. John has been executive director of the D.O.C. since 1946, is widely recognized as an authority on mountain and forest operations, and is chairman of the Public Safety Conference's Winter Sports Committee and a member of the executive committee of that conference. His committee is concerned with non-occupational safety, including such recreational activities as hunting, boating, camping, mountaineering, snowmobiling, ice fishing and skiing.

Art Motch has been elected 1973 president of the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute. PMMI estimates that its 123 member companies produce the packaging machines on which 90 per cent of the nation's consumer and industrial packaging is performed. Art, executive vice president of R. A. Jones & Co., Inc. of Covington, Ky., will oversee the Institute's domestic and foreign, promotion, service to members, and the PMMI Pack Exposition. Who said good things come in small packages?

A Christmas card from Bruce MacMeekin tells of his great pleasure over a visit to Hanover last fall. He mentions visiting with Professor Herb West, President Kemeny, and classmates TedThorne, John Scotford, Nick Bielanowski, EarlWard, and John Rand. Bruce' address is 3924 Empire Way South, Seattle, Wash. 98108, and he would be pleased to hear from any friends and classmates.

It's with sadness that I write that none of us will again be able to visit with Nick Bielanowski, word of whose death in Hanover reached me in early January. The sincere sympathy of the Class is extended" to Nick's widow, the former Charlotte Martin.

About the farthest your secretary ventured from Damariscotta (where winters are wintry, though no more, maybe a little less wintry than Hanover) during the past month was Brunswick, 25 miles1 west, for the Dartmouth-Bowdoin hockey game in mid-December. It was a dark and stormy night, and we were happy not to have had to go any farther, but it was a pretty good, earlyseason game, won by the Big Green, 4-1. The Maine Dartmouth Club of Portland had arranged for a pre-game get-together at the Bowdoin Alumni House, and that was a pleasant gathering, in most attractive surroundings. The vintages of the alumni present seemed closer to those of the undergraduates than to ours, but the Amazing Class of '38 was represented by Dutch and Nancy Holland, who now live in Brunswick, and Jim andJan Briggs.

One of the places and events your secretary didn't venture to, and he was sorry not to have made it, was a '38 luncheon in Boston December 11. However, Bob Egelhoff was there and in Maine on business soon thereafter, and he stopped in here for a chat and gave me a run-down of those present, as follows: Bob Hallock, Dan Marshall, Paul Urion, Charley Hitchcock, John Adams, Dick Stoughton, Ed White, Frank Brett, Bob Egelhoff, and Pacesetter Editor Dan Marshall.

I gather that ways to improve '38s alumni fund record were discussed. I suggest that the College's restoration of the Dartmouth Indian symbol will make a great many alumni a great deal more willing to contribute a great deal more to the Alumni Fund.

Class Treasurer Gus Southworth sent me PresDowner's class dues billing, on the back of which Pres wrote as follows: "Gus: I'll pay the dues and I'll accept coeducation but I'll be damned if I'll go along with the Alumni Fund giving anymore until this Indian symbol nonsense is resolved. Wah Hoo Wah! (signed) Pres."

I find it very hard not to agree with Pres' reaction, and I know that there are many and many of you who feel the same way. If you do, won't you please write (or write again, if you already have) to Alumni Council President Vincent W. Jones ('52), 900 So. Fremont St., Alhambra, Calif. 91802; or your Alumni Council representative; or Board of Trustees President F. William Andres ('29), 225 Franklin St., Boston, Mass. 02110; or any member of the Alumni Council or Board of Trustees whom you know personally.

It was heart-warming to me, and I hope to you, to see the cover of the December AlumniMagazine. The Dartmouth College coat of arms, with Christmas embellishments by Scotty Scotford ... and the College motto ... and the Indians ... looked mighty good to me. Dartmouth is a great college. Dartmouth has great traditions. Let us keep her great. Let us keep her great traditions.

Secretary, Box 187, Damariscotta, Me. 04543

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