1938
Labor Day means many things to many people. To the earnest, or at least well-intentioned, class secretary it suggests that another college year is starting ... and another issue of class notes is due.
Labor Day came early this year, but inevitably a lot of things have happened since June, and much news of noteworthy accomplishments of a number of classmates has come to hand.
Word was received just too late for inclusion in the June Alumni Magazine of an address by the Honorable Joseph John Jova, United States Ambassador to Mexico, to the United States-Mexico Conference on Border Industrialization, in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. John's address was reprinted in its entirety in The El Paso Economic Review, a publication of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research of the College of Business Administration of the University of Texas at El Paso.
Marking distinguished achievement in quite another field of endeavor, announcement was made in July of the appointment of John Rand to the new position of Outdoor Education and Safety Officer of Dartmouth College. After service with the 10th Mountain Infantry Division in World War II, John returned to Dartmouth in 1945 as general manager of the Outing Club and was named its executive director a year later. Since then he has held various offices with the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association, the National Ski Patrol, the Eastern Amateur Ski Association, and the National Ski Association, and has also served on several Olympic Ski Games committees, representing the National Collegiate Athletic Association. John coauthored The Dartmouth Book on WinterSports and has written two technical manuals, Inter-Collegiate Ski Racing Rules, and ForestFire Suppression Techniques.
Another author among the members of the amazing class of 1938 is free-lance writer Red Boutilier. Red had an article with his own photography work in the March issue of Yachting on the Chinese junk Oothoon, which cruised the Maine coast last summer.
A stock market advice and investment analysis column by one Dan Dorfman quotes Julie Westheimer at length. Julie is identified as a general partner in the brokerage firm of Baker, Watts & Company.
Moving closer to home (my home), I'm always happy to report on visits of classmates who stop by. One who did, this past summer, was Lew Parker, a resident of Camden, some 30 miles to the east of here, also the home of Dutchand Nancy Holland, Lew is a director, or trustee, of the Bath Marine Museum, truly a treasure trove of fascinating memorabilia of this country's sailing ship era. Last year Lew and Frances took an extended trip to the Baltic, where Lew pursued further lore on Norse sailing ships and sailing ships history.
Another always welcome caller was Bill Lyle. Bill is still an executive of, and traveling for, the paper and packaging firm with which he is associated. No one answered when I phoned him a couple of weeks ago, and I suspect he and Betty may have been visiting their children and grandchildren in Salt Lake City or Wyoming.
As a visitor instead of a visitee, I spent a thoroughly delightful July afternoon with Alexand Libby Jones, watching this year's Friendship Sloop regatta. It was a classically perfect Maine day and a truly beautiful sight.
Another classmate and wife, seen on the main street of Damariscotta late in the summer, were John and Pinky Nelson, returning to their Concord, N. H., home after a Maine vacation.
Gil Tanis directed another successful session of his Dartmouth Institute during the month of July. The Tanises then vacationed on Cape Cod with children and grandchildren, but by the time this column is read they'll be back home in Hanover and prepared to welcome '38-ers to pre-football game gatherings in their supremely hospitable way.
The summer did not pass without the loss of another of our classmates. A formal obituary of Bob Matteson appears elsewhere in this or a later issue of the Alumni Magazine. The deep sympathy of his classmates is extended to Julie and their children.
You will all have received the final figures on last spring's alumni fund campaign. The results are gratifying, both over-all and for the Class. In his first year as head agent, and of course the first year after our pretty sensational reunion-year effort, Dick Holt did a tremendous job, and he deserves the praise and the thanks of us all. For the future, he writes that he sees room for further improvement. Let's all plan ahead to help him make that hope a reality.
Dartmouth in force at the 25th annualWorld Scout conference in August,Copenhagen, Denmark: (l) John Parish'36, international commissioner, BoyScouts of American; Robert C. Dorion '47,international commissioner of Guatemala,and Professor William E. Slesnick,member, International Committee, B.S.A.
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