1954
MORE HOT FLASHES
Well, there really isn't much time left! Just about 30 days from now over 100 of your classmates will be gathering in Hanover to compare hairlines and paunches. Some of us have neither, some both, some only one. Aren't you just a little curious?
All it takes to reserve a place for you, the bride and all of the kiddoes is a mere pittance, viz $25. The weekend program has developed into a real winner with something for everybody. Music, sports, tent parties, dancing, college up-date seminars, a super picnic, and fellowship galore are all yours at an unbelievably low price.
There is one further inducement. The Classes of '52 and '53 with whom we will have several joint functions are also expecting record-breaking turnouts. We may all have only one 20th Reunion, but it certainly looks three times better this year! Don't wait, drop your check in the mail today to Pete Barker, 398 Sound Beach Avenue, Old Greenwich, Conn. 06870. (Your deposit is completely refundable if you notify us of a change in plans by June 1.)
In looking back at last month's article I realized I may have waxed a little sentimental in reviewing my career as class secretary for the past several years. 1 take a different view today as 1 look at the dwindling supply of material with which to fill this column, and request all of you on behalf of my successor that you keep the information flowing to him so that this column can go on with some degree of interest and participation. Because of the paucity of information available this month, I am once again forced to go through some items of a dateless nature and so I beg your forgiveness if any of the following bits of news seem too much like ancient history.
Probably the biggest source of news, of course, comes to Dick Barker during his annual solicitation for class dues. On the return card many classmates do in fact jot down bits of information which Dick is kind enough to spread between FredAlpert and myself. Sometimes the bits of information are extremely sparse, but nevertheless it is a good way of keeping the follow-up going. For example, on the reply card from Edward K. Scott is attached a business card reading E. K. Scott, C.L.U./Assistant Vice President Manu Life, Toronto, Ontario. That is all the card says, but in case anybody needs a good insurance agent in Toronto you now know whom to contact.
Another bit of aged news, this one ap- proximately seven or eight months, comes from Nashua, N.H., concerning James E. Conlin who was appointed plant manager of the J. F. McElwain Company, a manufacturer of footwear in that city. After leaving Dartmouth, Jim took an M.B.A. at the Wharton School specializing in industrial relations. The following three years he was employed as personnel manager for the Continental Baking Company and then joined the personnel department of McElwain. Jim, his wife Elaine, and five children make their home in Nashua and I hope the family has access to the company store because putting shoes on five children can be an expensive proposition. '
Back last Summer, the Boston Globe Financial Section contained a very flattering article on the National Hardgoods Company. The president of that company is none other than Sheldon M.Woolf, and the occasion of the article was the annual stockholders meeting at the New England Merchants National Bank in Prudential Center. While decrying the spring rains of last year, Shelly hoped that the company would be moving ahead and seemingly this appears in the light of later actual fact to have been true. National Hardgoods operates lease departments in discount stores throughout the United States and these departments sell houseware items, lawn and garden supplies, lamps, lighting fixtures, and gift items. At the end of last year the company operated 61 units and planned an additional 17 units to be operating by the end of this current fiscal year. The article also described that the company was going to be experimenting with a pilot store in conjunction with Robert Hall, a national clothing retailer, which recently reported entering the mass merchandising of non-clothing items. This would appear to be a very interesting experiment inasmuch as Robert Hall, a substantial division of United Merchants and Manufacturers, would be an ideal partner with whom to attempt such an experiment.
Another bit of news from Dr. James J.Chandler (through Dick Barker) which reads as follows "for the record: elected Chairman of the Department of Surgery, Medical Center at Princeton University in March 1972. Additional appointment as Princeton Med Center's Geographic Full-time Chairman of the Department of Surgery subsequently with appropriate appointments at the Rutgers Medical School. (Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at Rutgers) awaiting approval by the Board of Higher Education of New Jersey." While Chandler was sewing things up down in Princeton, Edwin J. Hayes was assuming the managing directorship of Quaker Oats Ltd., a subsidiary of Quaker Oats Corp. located at Southall, United Kingdom. -Ed joined the English subsidiary in 1969 as general products manager, and had served subsequently as director of marketing since 1970. He was associated with General Mills for 11 years before joining Quaker in 1967 where he first served as a brand supervisor and then as a product group manager in the Grocery Products Department Marketing Organization in Chicago.
Another note from last summer, again through Dick Barker, comes from Gerald H. Smith Jr. writing from St. Feriole Street, Prairie du Chien, Wis. Unlike the idyllic existence of the "summer of '42", Gerry writes that "the summer of '72 had seen lots of change for the Smith family - Jane, our boys Craig and Scott, and I. It all started in June when we purchased the Prairie du Chien Marina, Inc. and I left the management consulting firm of A. T. Kearney, Inc. and we moved from Hinsdale, Ill., to the beautiful banks of the mighty Mississippi. Since then it has been a bit hectic meeting the needs of hundreds of boaters, moving and selling boats and motors, getting the boys in school, saving a sinking boat, setting up the house boat rental operation, mowing lawns and (rarely) sleeping." Since the time ought to be right to take him up on it, Gerry extends an open invitation to a cup of cheer for any men of Dartmouth vacationing in the Southwestern Wisconsin area.
A. Kenneth Patterson Jr. has been made vice president, marketing services, of Masonite Corporation's Hardboard Division. His new responsibilities will include advertising and sales'promotion in building products. Kenneth joined Masonite in May, 1972, having held a number of positions with Corning Glass. He and wife Jane are the parents of Lisa, 12; Mary, 9, and David, 5, and live in Lake Bluff, Ill. Kenneth has served as an Alumni Fund Agent for a number of years.
Well, that should do it for this month, but if you want to go out in a blaze of glory over the next two months I certainly would appreciate any news you can gather up and shoot my way. Look forward to seeing you all at Reunion.
Secretary 58 Birchwood Lane Hartsdale, N.Y. 10530
Class Agent, 60 Crest Road Chappaqua, N.Y. 10514
