1955

On September 18 the new Class Executive Commitee gathered at the Hanover Inn for its organizational meeting. Jim Nelson, who flew in from Milwaukee, reminded me that Dan Musser was the newly elected chairman of the Board of Overseers of the Hanover Inn. Since I have hardly been deluged with pithy tidbits with which to fill the column, I decided to invest in a direct dial call to Mackinac Island, Michigan, to get some more information about Dan.

Dan has been the president of the Grand Hotel there since 1960. The hotel is purported to be the largest summer hotel in the world and the job keeps Dan out straight from May through October.

I caught Dan between trips to the bank and he took time to report that one of his first acts after taking over the Hanover Inn chairmanship was to stop holding board meetings on football weekends. That former practice has taken about ten rooms out of rentals to house the board on a freebie basis at a time when rooms were in great demand. He now tries to plan the meeting for the first rainy Tuesday in March. Attendance is sparse but there's more black ink at the Inn.

Dan and his wife live in Lake Forest, Illinois, in the winter but he travels east frequently as he has one daughter at boarding school in Virginia and another in Connecticut. His youngest daughter still lives at home.'

A news release from GAF Corporation reveals that Jay Olson, vice president and treasurer of GAF, has been temporarily assigned as assistant to the company president. He will, however, continue to direct overall operation of the treasurer's department.

Jay joined GAF as treasurer in 1970 after having served as assistant treasurer at Continental-Can Company and as vice president and treasurer of Diversa-Graphics, Inc. A native of Bemidji, Minnesota, Jay and his wife, Kathlyn live in Pleasantville, New York, with their three children, Nancy 19, Jay III 17, and Charles 13.

A call to Hank Stephenson (beautifully timed to coincide with the movers' arrival) revealed that he and Joan have left Boxford, Mass., and moved to Kennebunk, Maine, to be closer to Hank's new business. After years in the fuel oil business, Hank got tired of being at the mercy of the sheiks and purchased the Fisher James Company in Arundel, Maine, an office equipment and supply firm. Things are going well and Hank is happy to be back in Maine where he and Joan lived when they were first married.

Hank tells me that he has seen quite a bit of Ralph and Marie Sautter who have a summer place nearby.

Harry Lewis traveled to Hanover for the executive committee meeting from Denver with his oldest son in tow. The lad is planning to apply to Dartmouth and several lesser eastern schools so Harry was in the process of driving a rented car all over New England. He reported that the 55 mph speed limit seems to be taken a little more seriously where he comes from. However he did admit that regardless of the limit it was impossible to hit even 50 on the infamous route 25 which he negotiated on his way from Brunswick, Maine, to Hanover although there are now a few straight stretches of more than a hundred yards in length. When last seen, Harry and his son were heading south to visit Middlebury while the rest of us headed for Memorial Field to watch Dartmouth's opening victory over Penn.

A bulletin from A. C. & R. Advertising, Inc. revealingthat Lou Miano had been named executive vice president of the New York firm prompted us to call Lou to get some information. Lou joined A. C. & R. in 1966 having previously worked as West Coast editor and theater editor for Show magazine and as a staff writer for Look, TVGuide, and ABC TV.

Lou is still a bachelor and says he recently joined the Dartmouth Club in New York but has met only Yalies there thus far. He did say that he had had dinner with Ron Murphy and Alan Murray last summer.

Last year Lou co-produced a revival of Noel Coward's "Design for Living" for the London stage. The play opened while several major strikes were in progress and coincided with the general elections in which his star, Vanessa Red-grave, was running as an anarchist. Despite these handicaps the play ran for seven months and not a single bomb exploded on the stage or in the audience.

Lou also relates that he had the singular honor of celebrating his 39th birthday (about three years ago) with the late Jack Benny. It seems that Lou was being feted by his co-workers at a Los Angeles restaurant when Benny hearing the revelry came over to the table to ask Lou which birthday he was celebrating. Lou's answer elicited the famous Benny stare and the gift of his cigar which Lou intends to have guilded someday if he doesn't smoke it first.

It is our goal to mention every classmates' name at least once between now and the 25th. Unless you want us to make things out of whole cloth you'd better start corresponding. The alternative is a probable libel suit or two.

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