1938
As anticipated in last month's class notes, '38 did have an informal fall reunion Princeton game weekend, October 12, featuring a meeting of the class executive committee in Crosby Hall Saturday morning, and gatherings at Gil andFran Tarns' and Bob and Claire Reeve's, before and after the game, respectively. I was unable to attend (and I'd have missed a lot of people if I'd been there), but Carl VonPechmann most kindly supplied the names of a lot of the celebrants. Carl wrote as follows:
"The picnic at Gil's attracted a bigger crowd than I've ever seen, and, while the weather got more sullen as the day progressed, it wasn't bad enough to dampen the enthusiasm. I'll give you some names of those who were there, but I didn't write them down, so I may skip some. Bob Harvey, Dick Francis, Bob Ross, Jack Russell, Charles Hitchcock, Dave Rugen, Dave Duffy, Squee Ellis, Tommy Towne, Dawkins, Gus Southworth, Phil Leach, Bob Stearns, Win Mayo, Jack Hull, Bob Emlen, Fud Mather, Tanis, Alex Jones, Bill Lyle, Parker Holden, Ray Ammarell, John Nelson, Bob Foley, Herb Harries - all with wives, and I'm sure I've forgotten some one." Thanks, Carl, a very great deal, for this listing.
Those present at the executive committee meeting included President Squee Ellis, DickHolt, Dawk Dawkins, Phil Leach, Treasurer Gus Southworth, Reunion Co-Chairman Scotty Scotsford, and Carl VonPechmann. Ways to maintain the enthusiasm and class solidarity engendered by our 35th Reunion and our outstanding record in the 1974 alumni fund campaign were discussed. Planning ahead for '38 to still be amazing in 1975, the committee settled on next year's weekend of October 11-12 for our fall get-together. Penn will be Dartmouth's opponent in Hanover that weekend.
The committee also spent some time in consideration of the problem of those who have ceased to be in touch with the Class and the College. Some committee members were of the opinion that the Alumni Magazine subscriptions of classmates who have not paid their class dues or contributed to the alumni fund for a number of years should be terminated. Others believed that communication may still be reestablished with disenchanted members of our class. It was left that efforts to this end (reestablishment of lines of communication) will be made.
The meeting ended with the welcoming of Dick Holt as 1938 class agent.
If your secretary may return to the Dart- mouth football season again for a moment, he would like to requote his prediction last month, "that the season will look a lot better when you're reading this, in mid-November," and to stick by my guns. This is being written the Monday after the Yale game. Undeniably, it's better to win than to lose . . . and it's tough to lose; but it seems to me that with the way our season started this year and the number of injuries our squad has suffered, the Big Green has done pretty darn well. To have lost to this year's powerhouse Harvard and this year's powerhouse Yale by a total of only seven points, when just a break or two would have enabled us to win either or both of those games, is pretty great. Jake and his staff and the entire squad have a lot to be proud of and nothing to be ashamed of.
Bob Emlen most kindly sent me a clipping of a feature story and picture from the Bergen County, N.J., Record. The headline reads "Cycling rector - sermon on wheels" with the sub-head "Religion in suburbia," and the picture is of Bob Harvey, pedaling to the pulpit (or, with equally good alliteration, pumping round his parish). As most of us know, Bob entered the ministry at the age of 40 after serving in the Navy in World War 11, from which he was released with the rank of commander, and in business. Since his ordination 18 years ago Bob has worked in the parish, campus, and ghetto ministry and has had two books published. His present parishioners are the 250 family congregation of All Saints Episcopal Church in Beaconfield, N.J. We should all be proud to have Bob Harvey as a classmate.
Sox Calder's achievements in his business field are recounted in a press release from the American Paper Institute, date-lined New York, N.Y., October 10, "Alexander Calder Jr. chairman of the board, chairman of the executive committee, and chief executive officer, Union Camp Corporation, has been elected chairman of the American Paper Institute's board of directors." Sox, who served as API vice chairman this past year, was named president of Union Camp in 1956, chief executive officer in 1960, and chairman of the board in 1972. He is a trustee of the Institute of Paper Chemistry and a director of the Bank of New York Company, Inc., the Bank of New York, and Seaboard Coast Line Industries. He also serves as a trustee of the Tax Foundation, Inc., trustee and member of the executive committee of the Mountainside Hospital, Montclair, N.J., and as a member of the conference board and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Bill Lyle sort of combines ecclesiasticism and business background with his good and muchappreciated letter commenting on the Princeton game gatherings and family matters. The letter is written on the letterhead of Bill's church. The Uniting Church of Christ, in Amherst, N.H., which had to shake his sophomore year's roommate of 39 years ago til he read Bill's explanatory opening, "I'm all out of stationery, so, as treasurer of U.C.C., I'll assert my prerogative to use this stationery!" Bill cited the fall reunings as follows: "Biggest crowd ever at Tanis' before the game - most of the regulars and a lot we don't usually see there. That is such a good place to gather before the game!" (Ed. note: How true how true, and we should all be deeply grateful to Fran and Gil.) "Many showed up later at Reeve's - Quechee - after the game."
Bill's and Betty's youngest is co-captain of his Pop Warner football team (5 and 0 as of October 17) and plays both offense and defense, and their next is likely college-bound next fall. Then their older two are much older, and the Lyles have grandchildren too.
It is with sincere regret that readers of these notes are referred to the obituary of GrossWilliams, which appeared in last month's issue of the Alumni Magazine.
Coach Bob Blackman and Vin Turecamo'37 on Martha's Vineyard, adjusting toland after a summer cruise on Vin's boat.
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