1936

"Dartmouth in San Francisco" will be the first college conference to be held on the West Coast in 15 years and all alumni are invited on May 17, 18, and 19. In addition to Dr. Kemeny's address on "The State of the College, at a banquet in Chinatown, there will be an all-day program Saturday with Professors Gordon J. F. McDonald and Alan T. Gaylord, Medical School Dean James C. Strickler '50, and David E. Scherman '36 on "Critical Choices for America in the Decade Ahead." Ed Drechsel is a member of the committee for this event. Other events included are a welcoming luncheon on Friday, a wine gala in a Victorian mansion, abd a champagne brunch cruise on San Francisco Bay. A good chance to catch up on members of the Class out there. For tickets, etc. contact Derek Knudsen, Suite 2424, One California St. San Francisco, Cal. 94111.

From the Harvard Business School Bulletin comes news that Sev Vass of Mexico City reports his retirement from the board of directors of Ford Motor Co. S.A. of Mexico. Our last news of Sev was that he was general manager of that Ford operation so perhaps he's retirng or moving. Kendrick R. Wilson Jr. has been named vice chairman of the board of Avco Corp. Greenwich, Conn.

Some of you may have heard or read of an American diplomat last December who was "roughed up" in Leningrad. Although no names were mentioned you may be interested to know he is the son of our Class of '36 permanent cheerleader. Happily, he and his family are back in this country in good health.

A page from the proxy statement of the 1st National Bank of Boston contains the name of David F. Putnam as a candidate for reelection to the board of directors of the bank... You may recall the Tithe account of Dave's heart attack and subsequent bypass heart surgery. Happily Dave has apparently recovered fully from his problems if his present activities are any criteria, - chairman of the board of Markem Corporation, Keene, N.H.; chairman of Markem (Europa) N.V. in Holland; Markem (U.K.) Limited and Milford-Astor Limited in England; and Maclin Products in Canada, director of the Bank of the Ludlow Corporation and Waters Associates, Inc. in Massachusetts; a distributing director of the New Hampshire Charitable Trust; and a trustee of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New Hampshire. We're glad you are well again, Dave.

Fred Warne has been elected vice president of the board of directors of Ethyl Corporation in Richmond, Va. Secretary and general counsel of the firm, he joined as general counsel in 1955 and was elected corporate secretary in 1969. He earned his LL.B. from Harvard Law and then was associated for a time with a New York law firm. Fred and Sue live in Richmond and are the parents of two older daughters and David, 10.

Art Funk and his wife Genevieve live in Gainesville where Art is a Professor and Chairman of the History Department at the University of Florida. He reports that he had the pleasure of hosting distinguished visiting lecturer Carl Brindenbaugh '25 during his visit to the campus in January.

Two '36ers have recently embarked on new ventures in the advertising field. Stephens Dietz has formed a partnership to offer consulting services to either agencies or advertisers in coping with the rapidly changing evolutions in the advertising field. He will continue as a consultant to Arthur D. Little, Inc. Robert Prentice has retired after 18 years with Lever Bros, New York, and set up his own business in Connecticut as a management consultant in advertising and marketing. His speciality is improving the relationship between advertisers and their agencies. Bob and Theo have two sons - Stephen, an accountant who has gotten engaged recently, and David '69, Tuck '71, who is still single and works for an advertising agency in Toronto.

When we receive address changes we send cards trying to elicit more information which we can use here as well as bring our files up to date. Fortunately some people respond but we wish more classmates would drop us a line of explanation or news - even a postcard. In any event, Joe Cunningham has written to explain his move from Maryland to Puerto Rico. He and Virginia have a 90- acre coffee farm which hasn't been worked for ten years. They are working to bring it back into production along with citrus and plantains. They also plan to build a number of guest houses but must get the farm reactivated and their own home built first. They are living in what was the farm manager's house for which Joe added the running water along with other building projects, clearing land, plowing, planting, etc. Joe continues to work as a consultant on expositions and this arrangement lets him continue as exposition manager for the Packaging Manufacturers Institute and the Machine Tool Show. Russ Page visited, in early February which apparently involves preplanning, since the last two kilometers to Joe's house are barely passable by car unless a four-wheel drive. The Cunninghams hope to enventually offer a real vacation place for those who really mean it when they say they want to get away for a bit. No telephone, no delivered mail, no daily paper except by going to town, but electricity and modern plumbing, warm days and cool nights.

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