1936

As we start another year it is gratifying to mention the class' performance in the Alumni Fund which was a new high for us; was over our quota; and almost $3,000 more than last year. We also had two more contributors this year. For the Alumni Fund Endowment Fund we had one contributor from the Class for $314. FrankCurtis and all his agents deserve our congratulations and thanks for their efforts.

Although you have all probably heard, the lobster party in Maine was the biggest yet with 73 in attendance, including a lot of new faces. Unfortunately, we missed the event because we were in Copenhagen.

This fall football weekend on October 11, 12, and 13 is scheduled for Stone End at Sunapee and if you receive this before then we urge you to come even if just for after the game. There will be a meeting of the executive committee on Friday night, as usual. Two weeks later, on the Harvard game weekend there is another 1936 gathering and many are staying at the same place. The report on Dartmouth '36 in Greece was highly enthusiastic and plans are now being formulated for a photographic safari to East Africa as the next project. More of this later.

A note from Fred Babcock tells us that the change of address we passed along was premature. He is in the process of changing his residency but it has not been accomplished although he spends more time in Florida than anywhere else tending to his large cattle business and other interests.

A paragraph in The New York Times stated that Matthew Marks resigned as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tariff and Trade Affairs as of June 30. Matt is an expert in the field of antidumping and countervailing duties. He has been in government service since 1941 and plans to go into private law practice.

Bill Curtis came east from Boulder, Colo., to attend the Alumni Council meeting in Hanover in June. He also attended the meeting of the National School Boards Association which was in Hanover about the same time.

Congratulations to Phil Gilbert who was elected to a three-year term on the Alumni Council of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Phil is a partner in the law firm of Gilbert, Segall, and Young in New York City and lives in Ossining, N.Y.

Last May I had a note from Lowell Haas '35 concerning Pete Wright's address in Guatamala. He also mentioned that FrankWeston was going to retire to Rancho Santa Fe, but that I should check with Frank. The Harvard Business School Bulletin has announced that Frank becomes Visiting Arthur Lowes Dickenson Professor of Accounting and will teach the fall term course "Problems in Corporate Reporting." Frank and Elsie live in New Jersey and he has been a partner in the public accounting firm of Arthur Young & Company. Active in various groups in his profession, he is on the Council of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and a vice president of the American Accounting Association.

Several members of the Class attended the wedding of Cliff and Phyllis England's daughter Elizabeth in Portsmouth, N.H., last June. Present were John and Nancy Sawyer, Ted and PatAndrew, Dick and Janet Knight, and Phil McInnis. John Sawyer reports a "Great Gatsby" setting for the reception at ClifFs place at Straw Point, Rye Beach, N.H. "A four-acre lawn stretching to the ocean from the mansard roofed mansion, tents, orchestra, etc."

Hope you noticed in the July AlumniMagazine the review of a new book by JoeBishop, the Richard Ely Professor of Law at Yale and mentioned in our last column as a Foundation award recipient.

Chuck Aaron and Dick Crosby are both incororators of a new summer music festival which is putting on several concerts each season in the Tip Top Lodge at King Ridge Ski Area in New London, N.H. The first year was apparently very successful and they plan to continue next year. Pep Minte's wife Ricki was in the cast of a production of "Barefoot in the Park" which was a dinner theater special at the Lambs Club in New York.

I know many of our classmates keep busy with a variety of business and personal activities but, unfortunately, we don't hear about many of these, since the individuals concerned fail to let us know. There are some exceptions, however, and one is Gil Sykes who seems to be busier than most. Among recent events in his life was a quail and dove hunt in South Carolina with a business group, and a trip to Greece with Bill Wyman and other '36ers from which he has 1,300 feet of movie film and 207 pictures he'll be glad to show anytime. He has been on two salmon fishing trips, one on the Gaspé Peninsula and the other in New Brunswick. He brought back two salmon from one of these and figures it takes about 1,000 casts to hook one and then you lose one out of three because of light tackle. He appreciates what he catches. Gil played in several golf tournaments this year with an increased handicap of four strokes. He did get his first hole-in-one at Mountain Lakes Club in Lake Wales, Fla., with a 181-yard five-wood shot on the 11th hole. Lastly he and Ann managed to join the group at the lobster feast in Maine in August. Busy guy, what about some of you others?

I was sorry to hear that Dick Dorrance has decided he must give up as co-editor of Tithe. He and Frank Kappler have done a great job for many years.

Hope to see many of you at one or another of the games this fall or other Dartmouth gatherings and hope some of you, particularly in the Midwest, South, or Far West will take a moment to drop us a line which we can pass on to your friends here.

Also remember that it is little more than a year and a half to Reunion!

1936 gathered at the Dick Mortons' home in Hilton Head this spring for a bit of golf.(From l) Madine Morton, Bill and Mim Macurda, Vin Wentworth, Eloise Gibney, Dick,Gib Wentworth, Al Bigney. Three of the four alumni have been to all seven reunionssince graduation: the other missed only one. Can anyone equal these records?

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