1951
My description of my last month's verbiage as "a boomerang column on people coming back to some place they were before' fell short of the mark. Why? A twin boomerang item had to be cut to accommodate the space limitations of an energy crisis foreshortened magazine. I start this month's column with that item.
"Jerry" Mitchell and wife Nan left suburban Beantown to return to Mother's in Hanover, N.H. In Jerry's case, Mother's name is “alma (with a small "a"); in Nan's case, it is Barbara. College Secretary Sid Hayward's widow Over the years of her Alumni Mag Class Notes editorship, I came to know Barbara very well and dubbed her, I believe justifiably so, 51's favorite mother-in-law.
The move jobwise was much farther. Jerry spent 16 years with IBM, being moved hither and yon, almost driving a class secretary trying to maintain an up-to-date mailing list to a straitjacket. The next time I encounter Nick ("The Kat”) Katzenbach, ex-U.S. Attorney General and now VP and general counsel of IBM, who taught me in law school, I must remember to complain.
Jerry and Nan are taking over the Dartmouth Travel Bureau from the D'Esopos, who have run it since 1934, when the B&M ran mucho steam trains a day to Boston, New York, and Montreal. Jerry and Nan may be moving in at just the right time, when the fuel shortage in the Northeast is enticing residents to a winter vacation - provided, of course, there are enough planes to get them out.
Nan's credentials for the Mitchells' new enterprise look even better than Jerry's. She worked for the Dartmouth Travel Bureau in the early '50s, for SITA in New York City when Jerry was in that area, and for the Montclair (N.J.) Travel Agency. Older son Bill is a junior at Phillips Exeter Academy; younger son Jim is frolicking in Hanover.
Southern California banker John Greenwood chanced jobs just over a year ago. After almost ten years with United California Bank, he was named a vice president of Toronto Dominion Bank of California and manager of its new Los Angeles main office. (Are the Canadians turning the tables on us?) Wife Joan, a Ph.D., is a professor of English at California State University, Fullerton, and has served as chairperson for the department. The Greenwoods have two children: Neil. 12. and Mary, 10.
Charlie Russell has changed not only his job but also his location. After 19 years of casually insurance underwriting, most recently in Rhode Island, he is now Insurance Manager for Amerace Corp. at its Manhattan headquarters.
So you think we have oil and gasoline shortages, what about Europe? Ask Bill Brooks, who last summer left an assignment with a Texaco affiliate in Paris to become general manager of Texaco Belgium in Brussels. Bill and wife Ship have two sons.
As for petro-chemicals domestically, ask Franz Yeomans, supervisor of marketing services for Mobil Chemical, who lives in Fairport, N.Y. (suburban Rochester). Franz has two sons who hope to make it to Hanover, Charles, 17, and David, 16, and a daughter, Elizabeth, 11.
Jim Keegan is a general surgeon and "all-round M.D." practicing solo, as of last April, in Milford, Conn. He and wife Joan have a daughter, Jo Ann, 15, and two sons, David, 13 and John, 9. Jim and classmate Bob Shannon interview Dartmouth applicants for admission.
Geologist Jim Wylie reports that he is still prospecting for minerals and also doing some building in the Santa Cruz (Calif.) area. Jim lives in Aptos with wife Margie, daughter Robin, 17, and son Renny, 14.
Al Folger lives on the delightful island of Nantucket, where he paints. Al reports that he hasn't done any surf scenes for a couple of years but that his winter snow scenes of Nantucket “are selling.” Al has two daughters, Martha, 23, and Anne, 20. Martha is presently a Mormon missionary in Plymouth. England.
The College publishes annually a directory of alumni officers. The current one lists 13 classmates who are officers of alumni clubs - eight presidents, two secretaries, and three enrollment liaison officers - one Area Enrollment Director, and five District Enrollment Directors.
Six of our 13 club officers serve clubs in Connecticut! Bob Hopkins and Hank Sanders are president and secretary, respectively, of the Fairfield County club. The other Connecticut presidents are "Sandy" McDonald, Darien-Norwalk, and Dave Saxton, Greenwich. DickDutton serves as secretary, Northwestern Connecticut; and Dr. Bob Sirkin, as enrollment liasion officer. New Britain.
Our remaining club presidents are CharlieHood, Greater Boston; Joe McDonald, Palm Beach County (Fla.); Andy Pincus, Berkshire County (Mass.); Len Smith, D.O.C. of Northern California (an unique alumni club); and Will Wolfe, Western Michigan (who - here we go again - is erroneously listed as a '50). Enrollment liaison officers Wes Hanington, Maryland, and Ken Way, Berkshire County (Mass.), round out our club officers.
Among our enrollment chiefs, Judge JimRogers doubles in brass as District Director for Minnesota and Area Director for that state plus the Dakotas and Montana. Our other District Directors are Pete Bogardus, San Francisco-Marin North California; Ken Little, Minute Man and Sudbury Clubs, Mass.; Dr. Rog Shannon, Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington; and Pierce McKee, East Bay California.
Pierce reports that he was recently elected to a two-year term as a director of the Orinda Association, a quasi-public group in his community which acts as a sort of unofficial town council. His DED activities included emceeing a Christmas enrollment luncheon at the Bohemian Club in San Francisco. (For those of you unfamiliar with the Bay area, let me reassure you that the Bohemian Club is not a hippie joint, but very much an establishment place.) Son Jeff, freshman quarterback, was a speaker. Berl Bernhard's son Peter, by the way, was the freshman punter.
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