1938

The 1974 Alumni Fund campaign and 1938's 35th are both past history now, but they were events and achievements in which we can and should take great pride. At the same time and by the same token, while each of us can say that collectively '38 proved that it really is amazing, the successes that were achieved were primarily accomplishments of individual class members

- Bob Hallock and his many fund drive helpers; the major gift donors, without whose generosity the class' fund records could not have been set; and Paul Urion and Carl vonPechmann and his reunion committee. These men surely deserve the Wah-Hoo-Wahs of all of their classmates.

A good and much appreciated letter and clipping from Rollie Jones (sub-signed "now known as 'Bill' ") was received just after the July notes were filed. Rollie is vice president of sales of Towmotor Corp. of Cleveland, and the clipping is a news release reporting his election to the office of president of the Materials Handling Institute, described as "a national trade association of United States manufacturers of material handling equipment, systems, communications or control systems and normally user specified essential component parts. The association consists of over 300 member-companies whose products are used in plants, warehouses, piers, terminals, plant yards and throughout the whole area of transportation and distribution."

On the more personal side, Rollie regretted that he wouldn't be able to make Reunion and hoped that "somebody tapes a recording of the auction. It would be fun to listen to on a cold winter's night in Cleveland." Maybe next auction. Maybe next Reunion. He and Nance have three sons, living in Santa Ana, Calif., Phoenix, and Cincinnati, and a grandchild.

The Christian Science Monitor recently carried a story and picture of Massachusetts House Representative Jerry Bly of Saugus, in connection with Jerry's crusade aimed at setting up a no-smoking section of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Rep. Bly is quoted as saying he is "in danger of being asphyxiated" by the smoke of cigars and pipes around him during debate. "I mind if IN smoke, and I'm speaking up," said Rep. Bly. "If we must dirty politics, we can at have clean air."

Good luck, Jerry, in what seems to your class secretary a thoroughly worthwhile endeavor have more success than I and likeminded alumni seem to have with the restoration of the Dartmouth Indian symbol. To put it m°re positively, may we all eventually achieve success. And I'll keep on wearing my Indian symbol tie, in evidence in the picture in the '38 Class Notes in the June issue, at all football games I attend. Jan's sister made that tie for me many many years ago, long before the unfortunate attempt to discredit the symbol was initiated. I am very fond of the tie, and of the Dartmouth Indian symbol, and of Dartmouth.

Ted Thome, now a resident of White River Junction, Vt., sends a kind and thoughtful letter to be sure that other '38ers are informed of GilTanis' great success with the Dartmouth Institute, the continuing education program which Gil heads. The 1974 program spanned the month of July, and, as Ted writes, "nearrecession no twithstanding, it was fruitfully attended by many intellectual, business, and artistic heavyweights and a good number of their wives." Gil merits high praise for his successful development of the Dartmouth Institute.

A press release from Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation of Houston reports the promotion of Gross Williams to rate supervisor in the marketing and rates department of that company. Gross and June live in Shreveport, La.

The July Alumni Magazine was a long time coming but finally was received here in early mid-August. As usual, and as is right and proper, the better part of the issue is devoted to Commencement and reunions. In the opinion of your secretary, the phrase "the better part" aptly applies, for there were lesser and less desirable parts of that issue ... and the lesserest and least desirable is the account of the Alumni Council action on the Indian symbol. I think that the Council vote was unfortunate. I don't think the vote reflects the majority opinion of the alumni. And I know that the anti-Indiansymbol tone of the report is irritating.

News of the election of James V. Garvey as vice president and treasurer of GTE Sylvania, a subsidiary of General Telephone & Electronics Corporation, was released to Stanford, Conn., morning newspapers in early August. Since joining GTE Sylvania in 1942 as a methods analyst, in Salem, Mass., Jim has served as division manager of manufacturing costs, division comptroller, and corporate manager of internal auditing. He was named comptroller of the electronic components group in 1966 and has been vice president, comptroller for the group since 1969. In the office to which he has just been elected, Jim has over-all responsibility for the treasurer's department, including administration and investment supervision of the company's pension and profit-sharing plans, bank relations, and acquisition analyses.

At our class business meeting last June it was voted, as was reported in the July issue, to hold our fall reunion Princeton game weekend, October 12, pre-game at Gil and Fran Tanis' in Hanover, post-game at Bob and Clare Reeve's at Quechee. If these words reach you before that weekend, let them serve as a reminder to attend both these always-enjoyable '38 gatherings.

1937 got in on both SideS of the Presentation to Henry Beetle Hough, editor of the Martha's Vineyard Gazette, of the Elijah Lovejoy weekly journalism award. At left isHarold Putnam '37 and wife Glendora, chairman of the Massachusetts CommissionAgainst Discrimination and at right, William Rotch, president of the InternationalSociety of Weekly Newspaper Editors. Bill is editor of the Milford, N.H., Cabinet. WifePatty is a sister of our late classmate Pete McLane '37.

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