1933
As announced in the recent issue of the newsletter, the sudden death of Class President George Farrand on October 17 at his home in Upper Montclair has been shocking, not only to his family but to all members of the Class. We all mourn his loss and our warmest and deepest sympathy goes to George's family. An obituary appears in this issue.
By the time you will be reading these class notes (the usual six-week delay between deadline and publication) we will all feel a sense of relief and undoubtedly pleasure over the football season, but the 14-0 defeat by the University of Massachusetts in the opening game has left a bitter taste in the mouths of many alumni, and Holy Cross and Princeton are in prospect for the next two weekends.
A bright spot in the current news is the fact that Jarv Chapman's stepson is in the Dartmouth Class of 1978. Congratulations, Jarv, on the only 1933 representation in the incoming class.
Among those expected to attend the 1933 in-formal reunion on the weekend of October 12 in connection with the Princeton game, are Bob(Trask) Cox and wife Shirley who will be en route to Los Angeles, Calif. Their stint as Peace Corps Volunteers in Tunisia was over on September 30, 1974 and they are traveling to Hanover and Los Angeles via Germany and Boston.
Ted Purcell is co-author of a chapter on "Two Major Corporate Strategies Toward Full Minority Participation In Business" in an article, "Corporate Social Policy In A Dynamic Society."
Word has been received from the Alumni Records office that Pete Mehler has recently retired after more than 40 years of service with DuPont. He joined DuPont in 1933 and most recently was associated with the plant in Waynesboro, Va. We would be interested in hearing more about your immediate and future plans, Pete.
Byron McCoy served as academic delegate at the Inaugeration of Sister Mary A. Polworth as president of the College of St. Joseph the Provider on October 5th in Rutland, Vt.
Through Stu Finch, secretary of the Class of 1942, I have received word that Gil Beebe is chief of epidemiology and statistics for the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Hiroshima, Japan. Gil is one of three Dartmouth Alumni among the seven Americans on the Commission staff.
Class dues for the coming year are now payable according to the notice that you have recently received from Treasurer Sam Cunningham.
Jean and I had the pleasure of helping Meland Ruth Katz celebrate Ruth's winning of the womens club championship at the Quechee Lakes golf course. It's good to be #I, and the Katz's have a delightful location and house on the edge of the golf course.
Dumps (Dr.) MacCarty tells me that he is planning to retire in February, 1975 from the Hitchcock Clinic in Hanover, with which he has been associated as a radiologist since 1942.1 am sure that Dumps and Harriet will enjoy their added leisure to the fullest with more time for their mutual interests in hunting, fishing, and Ski-Doing.
John Thompson reports that he and his wife Kathleen had a productive and pleasant summer spending all of August in South Tiverton, R.I. He also saw Bob Mitchell at a Metropolitan Opera performance in Boston last spring.
John and Phyllis Rockwell are "happily domiciled" in their new home in Eastman, the four-season recreational community being developed in Grantham, N.H., by Controlled Environment Corp., of which Dartmouth College is part owner.
Recent address changes provided by the Alumni Records office include: Russ Ackerman, 213 Lynne Dr., Daytona Beach, Fla. 32014; Walt (Buster) Fairfield, 1541 Elm St., Manchester, N.H. 03101; Roger Moody, 6 Pine St., Arlington, Mass. 2174; Henry Smith, 38 Woodland Ave., Summit, N.J. 07901.
Jane Horton '78, one of the four nationalscholarship winners in a General Millscontest, adds her wide grin to that of companychairman Jim McFarland '33. She isthe daughter of Dr. Ed Horton '54.
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