1937
We took it upon ourselves to send the following note on our class stationery to Vice President designate Nelson Rockefeller '30. "On behalf of our class we are proud to salute you on your new appointment and extend sincere congratulations and hope for your success in this all-important job. We are also proud of our classmate Senator Tom McIntyre whose congressional recognition seems steadily on the increase even to making the lead article in TheWall Street Journal recently." We added a bit more but it seems appropriate to honor the number two man of our country with formal recognition from the Dartmouth family. It was also partly prompted in relief from so much national agonizing over the Washington scene of late.
Our summer was marred by the news of the death of Frank O'Brien. We sent a note to Rita to whom the Class extends deepest sympathy.
At the May Class Officers Meeting Fran Fenn was honored by the College as Bequest Chairman of the Year and presented .a beautiful picture of Dartmouth row. It was richly deserved for all the devoted time and inspiration he gives his job. We were also informed that the six alumni magazines in the Ivy Group (Brown and Columbia are not members) contracted with Mort Berkowitz to serve as advertising sales representative. If you can steer business in Mort's direction it will be helpful to the Group and to this Magazine in particular. His address is listed on the bottom of the contents page of each issue.
Taylor & Fenn Co. (business unknown to us) announced the election of Bruce Manternach to their board of directors. Bruce went to Yale Law School and is a partner at Robinson, Robinson & Cole in Hartford. A kudo for Ben Doran, elected senior vice president of Union Camp Corporation. He joined them in 1956 as director of chemical sales when Union acquired Thorsen Products, an affiliate of which he was VP. Ben became general manager of the chemical division in 1958 when it was established as a separate entity, then VP in 1964, and a director in 1967. Incidentally, we recently chatted with Al Romanow whose corrugated box company in Boston has grown rather substantially with trucks marked Romanow buzzing around the New England area. Al said he gets all his box material from Union Camp, has a good relationship there and no shortages so far (Ben, kindly take note). He has installed several giant folding and printing machines and has about 30 employees, many of them Puerto Ricans or other minority groups whose work attitudes he compliments highly. Al's building is only 100 yards from Crawf Ferguson's large Victor Coffee plant and they team up at Rotary meetings.
Sam Dillon is running for Congress, 4th Congressional District of Maryland. By the time this hits the streets we should know if he was successful. Syd Lansburgh loaned support writing a letter of solicitation for funds to members of our class akin to the campaign last year for Tom McIntyre. Sam called us while passing through Boston in June from his daughter Anita's graduation from Colby College in Waterville, Me., sounding very enthusiastic about the challenge involved. We might add that his campaign letterhead was most impressive.
A surprise call from Sherry and Al Bryant this summer. His dad passed away in February so the family gathered at their growing-up home in Weymouth to settle the house situation. We mentioned awhile back that Charley Pingree was in Sao Paulo on a banking mission but missed Al who has in Japan at the time. The Bryants were at daughter Betsy's graduation from Wooster College in Ohio and also spent their usual July vacation at Lake George in company with Fern and Bill Coe. There was also mention made of Olive and Joe Tardiff. Al's brother, Len '35, runs the Hooker Chemical Company, Joe's former business connection before retirement, and the Tardiffs attended the marriage of Len's daughter.
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