1938

The activities and life styles of the members of the Amazing Class of 1938, going-on 40 years after graduation, are many and varied, that's for sure. And the sources of the following bits of more or less current information are varied too.

For instance: Carmelo Gugino is a member of the China-Burma-India Hump Pilots Association, and that organization's newsletter, a copy of which was kindly sent me by Ted Thorne, lists him as now the president of the Dinaire Company of Buffalo, N.Y.

Bruce Olson is chairman and chief executive officer of Sundstrand Corporation in Rockford, Ill.

Morrow Peyton, a senior vice president of Northwestern Bank of Minneapolis, has been named to a new affiliate relations position with that bank. (Forty years ago, in Hanover, Peyton used to be called Peyt, and Gugino was Gumbo.)

Jerry Bly was selected for a summer law fellowship at the London School of Economics in England. Jerry has been a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for a number of years.

The Wall Street Journal reported, and Phil Gilbert '36 kindly passed the news on to me, that Dick Gilbert, president of R. A. Gilbert Associates, a consulting and financial counseling firm, has been appointed trustee for Washington Group. Inc., by a federal court in Greensboro, N.C.

Red Boutilier provided the text and photographs for a seven-page layout appearing in a recent issue of the national publication Sailing. Red's story dealt with the restoration of the 1871 schooner Lewis R. French by a group of youths at the North End Shipyard in Rockland, Me,

Ev Wood isn't retiring to Hanover yet after all. His note just arrived as I was putting these notes together. Read about him next month.

Longer ago Bill Blaney wrote me a good and heartwarming letter. Bill had been with Federal Sweets and Biscuit Company of Clifton, N.J., for 28 years as that company's vice president of sales, marketing, and advertising, but a change of company ownership resulted in Bill's being eased out. Following some plenty lean years, Bill is now top salesman and has just been made vice president for sales 'and marketing for a Long Island marketing company.

Another letter, and a very sad one, came the other day from Jim Cotter, telling me the news of the death of his wife Eileen. Dartmouth, and 1938, had no more loyal and dedicated and devoted supporter than Eileen, and we all share Jim's loss. He wanted mention to be made in these notes that '38 was represented at the service for Eileen by Nick and Ida Stronach. Memorial gifts may be sent to Aquinas House, Dartmouth College, Box 147, Hanover, N.H. 03755.

The deep sympathy of his classmates is also extended to the family of Jordan Colton, word of whose death of a heart attack while in Europe in 1975 has only recently been received.

No cultural or intellectual wasteland is midcoast Maine - and, if any one had doubts, the doubts would have been dispelled recently, when the Dartmouth Club of Maine sponsored an alumni seminar at the Treadway-Samoset Hotel ("Treadway" as in Dick Treadway '36) in Rockport, Me., on the theme, "Men and Women: What's the Difference?" This was, as you know, the topic of last summer's Alumni College in Hanover, and the faculty for the Maine program - Professor James Epperson, a specialist in Shakespeare and the academic director of the Alumni College, and Dr. Mai-Lan Rogoff, Director of the Human Sexuality Program at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Mental Health Center - came from Hanover to lecture and lead the discussions. Forty-plus participants attended, mostly, though not all, husbands and wives, and mostly, and in fact I believe all, considerably younger than we. (More and more people seem to be falling into that category.) Anyway, I found the seminar a most interesting and intellectually stimulating exposure. At our age maybe the interest can only be academic, but most of us have kids, and many have grandchildren, and the discussions were thoughtful and thought-provoking.

Driving home from the seminar in the rain, we got football scores on the radio, and "Dartmouth 38" sounded very good, as it always does.

Hope to see/to have seen many of you at the Tanises' or at the game, Cornell weekend.

Box 187 Damariscotta, Me. 04543

'38's Dartmouth FreshmenFather Son or Daughter Henry Beck Kalita Seymour Ellis Janice Robert Lang Timothy Clemens Sandresky Paul Robert Southworth Robert