1955

Thanks to the sharp eye of Red Hennigar plus the generosity of Steve Cady and The New YorkTimes here is an article about Jack Krumpe which I thought you would enjoy.

'Racing Goes to the Campus for Recruits' - While aides minded the store at Aqueduct, the president of the New York Racing Association did some low-key recruiting yesterday at Queens College,

" 'The mental challenge of handicapping got me interested in horse racing,' Jack Krumpe told the college's Thoroughbred Racing Club at its weekly meeting. 'Now what I find fascinating is the whole scene.'

"Several dozen students, their books on mathematics, chemistry, French and economics, nodded approvingly. A little earlier in the day, Room 153 in the Academic Building had been used for classes in Hebrew conversation and Greek. Now the racing scholars were listening to a guest lecturer who spoke their language.

" 'My brother took me to the races when I was about 15 years old' said Krumpe. 'I was fascinated. When I got out of Dartmouth in 1956, I went to work for a big corporation in Manhattan. Then one day I woke up and said. This world's no fun. What is there in it I really like?'

"The answer was horse racing. Krumpe landed a job as an internal auditor with the N.Y.R.A. and began the rise that carried him to the presidency.

"Explaining why he had accepted the club's invitation he said, 'the important thing about my being here is to show you we're human. We're selling fun. and recreation, and we need your business.'

"Krumpe was in good company during the weekly 'free hour' during which the college's registered clubs hold their meetings. Over in Room 207, Father Edward Flannery and Bishop Snyder discussed 'Christian Roots of anti- Semitism.'

"In 153, Krumpe was surrounded by mimeographed fliers bearing the Thoroughbred Racing Club's motto: 'Academia Pro Equibus' (Knowledge for Horsemen). He wore a conservative tweed jacket, gray flannel slacks and blue-gold tie, hardly the kind of outfit to hold out a promise of racetrack tips.

"All Krumpe could offer on that subject was: 'The peril of playing horses I suppose, is wagering too much. But I'm sure by now you've learned the value of moderation in anything.'"

(I'm sure he learned that in a Humanities course at Dartmouth.)

The '55 contingent in Tokyo, Japan, has at least three members. Jim Sherman and ToshiroHiroka were pictured in a recent photo in this Magazine at a Dartmouth Club of Japan luncheon. Jim is club.secretary and invites alumni visiting Japan to contact him at Ltd. New Tokyo Bldg., 3-3-1, Marunouchi. Taro Shindo lives in Takarazuka where he was recently visited by Joe Kagle.

Joe is now Professor of Arts at Guam University in the Pacific. He has announced the publication of a major art work and is offering a pre-publication purchasing opportunity for his classmates. If you are interested please write him in care of Vel 'us Mar Art Works, Box 368, Penn Yan, N.Y. 14527.

Dave Miller advises that he and Betsy were joined by Buck and Cathy Kuttner, Nelson andCarole Nicholson, and Dan and Tamara Nixon at the Alumni College last summer. They described it as a fantastic vacation for kids and parents and highly recommend it to all Dartmouth families.

Keep your thermostats down and your gas tanks full and April will be along before we know it.

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