1944

Merle Hagen's newsletter has already told you all about the world's largest '44 reunion October 26 for the Harvard game in Hanover and we'll simply add here that we'll be having the same sort of "do" next fall for the Penn game October 11. Then, if you've got your 100-year calendar handy. Harvard returns to Hanover again in 1976, October 16, for the fifth time in this millenium, and we'll roll out the barrel for that one, too.

There are 136 Dartmouth Clubs in the U.S. and overseas and six of them have '44 presidents. Al Winkler is in southeast Connecticut; Frank Martell in Washington, D.C.; JayDowning, Littleton, N.H.; Ed Knight, Charleston, W. Va.; Bill Roberts, Great Falls, Mont., and Bill Hirons in foggy old London.

Other club officers include job placement chairman Rog Antaya in Baltimore, HarryCarey in southern Mass., and Dick Mayberry in Rochester. Beyond that we have Dan Holley as secretary of the Glens Falls, N.Y., Club and Jack Jenness liaison officer of the Long Island club.

Winkler, Martell, Antaya, and Jenness were all in Hanover November 8-9 for Club Officers Weekend and to watch Dartmouth win at football.

Gene Callaghan is doing his bit on the fuel crisis front. He is currently in Washington, employed by the Office of Coal Research and engaged in a demonstration plant program to manufacture boiler fuel from coal. "For the chemists in your audience," he writes, "this means adding hydrogen to the coal molecule. The more hydrogen added the more valuable the liquid product that results." But I guess we'd best not hold our breath: Gene says commercialization is still about 10 years away.

The fall issue of Yale Law Report had a onepage feature on one of its graduates, President Gerry Ford. The same issue had a four-page feature on one of its professors, Joe Goldstein. It began: "Intellectually and physically, Joe Goldstein is a man who seems always to be in motion. In 1972, for example, he read a paper at the Twentieth Anniversary Celebration of the Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic at the Clinic's anniversary celebration in London; in Feb. he gave a seminar on family law in Frankfurt, Germany; and from May to July he was a Fulbright lecturer in Japan. More recently, he spent June of 1974 in Germany, returning to New Haven for a few days before leaving with his wife and four children for a summer in Maine."

Investment banker Needle Allen is pulling a nice turnabout. He stepped out of the banking rat-race and took three months off to "reflect and refresh" and he's now involved in a new series of "turned on" activities. These include his family, being a trustee at Berkshire School, investment and financial interests, and a new outfit called Liquid Capital Income, Inc., "the modern way to save." Needle and Jean are due to become grandparents this December via daughter Ginger. Other kids: Sarah is living in Hanover and teaching in Woodstock; Margie is teaching in Japan; Mark is a sophomore at Colgate; and Dave is high school president of his senior class.

Biophysicist Spence Baird is another fellow doing some pondering. From the shores of Puget Sound; "Am in transition, may drop out, may be self-employed, may go back to work, taking a year off anyway to see how it goes. Puget Sound, always beautiful, superlative this fall."

SBANE stands for Small Business Association of New England and Jack Stephenson came on from Michigan to attend its October 20-23 rd seminar in Hanover. He also managed to take in the Princeton game in Hanover the week before. The fellow just likes to commute to Hanover, that's all ...

Speedy Don Burnham logs a lot of kilometers, too, making it to Hanover to join Dr. MarshTenney as fellow members of the 11-man Medical School Development Committee. Theirs is sure a lazy assignment: raise 20 million for the Med School in the next three years. Tax deductable if any of you have an old mill lying around...

And speaking of flying carpets, modern man Hardwick Caldwell, president of Modern Maid Inc. and corporate vice president of the firm's parent organization, McGraw-Edison Co., has been named president of McGraw-Edison's newly formed major appliance group which includes Modern Maid; Speed Queen of Ripon, Wis.; Air Comfort of Albion, Mich.; and International Metal Products of Phoenix, Ariz. I suppose I should know, but what do you suppose an Air Comfort is? Does? Says?

For those of you whose hearts have always been set on driving a Bricklin, Bill Hufstader is your man. A Bricklin? you ask. Yup, it's the first privately made delux sports car since the Tucker came and went some years back. Bricklin is a 35-year-old millionaire who hopes to have 10,000 of the things on the road by next spring: Bill is a Cadillac dealer in Pittsburgh and has just gotten the Bricklin franchise. If you rush you may be able to get one for the wife for Christmas ...

New Jersey insurance and real estate man Budd Welsh says: "In October I stopped in to see Chevy king Jack Shearer in Burlington, Vt., after driving daughter Debbie back to the University of Vermont where she's a freshman dental hygiene student. Jack had a big August clear-out sale not much left on the lot. I'm looking forward to another banner reunion!"

Word from George Pert in New Jersey is that he has changed jobs: from Guideposts Associates to Sales & Marketing Executives International, Lexington Ave., NYC.

That's it. Have a Merry Christmas. Blessings.

Secretary, 309 Crosby Hall Hanover, N.H. 03755

Treasurer, 815 E. Schantz Ave., Dayton, Ohio 45419