1932

Congratulations are in order for Fred Leyser upon his marriage to Mitzi Rambusch April 8. In attendance at the ceremony were Bill Lieson and Charles Meyers. Fred writes ebulliently about his young bride, born the year our class graduated and, as he says, "meant for me."

Congratulations are also in order for DeakMack. We received a N.Y. Times article from Bob Fendrich (the only classmate now serving on the Alumni Council) which announced the wedding of- Deak Mack's daughter Hadley to Edwin Ralph Stroh in Grosse Point, Mich. Fendrich also reports bumping into A 1 Zinggeler at a Wayne, N. J., bank. It appears that Al had been playing golf with both MorryHubbard and Fred White in an all-1932 struggle at the Essex Falls Club in Connecticut.

Congratulations to Frank H. Westheimer for receiving an honorary degree at Tufts University's 122 nd commencement last May. Frank joined the faculty of Harvard as a visiting professor in 1953, became full professor in 1954, and chaired the chemistry department from 1959 to 1962. He assumed his current position as the Morris Loeb professor of chemistry at Harvard in 1960. Frank has been a National Research Fellow at Columbia University and received honorary doctor of science degrees from Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, and the University of Cincinnati.

A newspaper clipping from the WinchesterStar of Massachusetts indicates that BenMarshall has joined the Winchester Realty Company after serving most of his career with the Real Estate Department of the Gulf Oil Corporation.

Also working hard is our class coordinator LeonWarner, who had a busy summer at his farm Ellerslie "putting up 9,600 bales of hay and having three to four grandchildren with us for the last eight weeks of summer." He says, "Our 15-year-old one comes from Montana, is a top skier, a great help on the farm, an excellent student, and I hope he will go to Dartmouth. He is all for it right now." Leon and wife Mary sailed on the Royal Viking Star cruise ship to Alaska from San Francisco, joining former president John Dickey and some other Dartmouth graduates. He had previously visited for two weeks with his son and family in Park City, Utah.

Working hard to stay young is Ben Drew of South Vershire, Vt., who was written up in a news release as the oldest member of a 13-boat, 28-person flotilla that made the annual sevenday voyage down the Connecticut River from Hanover to Old Saybrook, Conn., last May.

Alex Christie reports that he had a visit from Marv and Carmen Chandler earlier this year. It appears that Marv has recently severed the last of his business connections and is now footloose and fancy-free. Both of Chandler's sons now reside in the Los Angeles area so that they can hardly be faulted for seeking a base on the West Coast. Alex says this about Marv, "The news is that the Chandlers have sold their home in Glen Ellyn, Ill., where they have lived for the past 24 years, and have bought a place in Carmel, Calif. They intend to spend approximately six months of the year in Carmel and six months in Tequesta, Fla., where they have owned a beach front condominium for the past eight years." At the same time that Alex was sending me this bit of interesting information, Richard Parkhurst' 16 (a stockholder of Nicor Inc.) sent me a copy of the stockholders' report that had more news of Marv. Chandler served as president of Nicor for a good many years. The 1978 report carried these good words from NICOR president C.J. Gauthier about him: "What can one say about a man who has left such a vital imprint on a major U.S. Corporation? I can think of nothing more fitting than my words at our 1971 annual meeting, when Marv, in his typical unselfish manner, stepped aside as chief executive officer to provide for a more orderly transfer of authority at the company he held so dear. I quote: 'In 1954, Marvin Chandler, as a brand new president, took the ingredients people, pipe, and plant, added in liberally the spice of his person, purposes, and principles, stirred well, long, and vigorously, and came up with an amalgam: Northern Illinois Gas, which is known worldwide as one of the most respected, dynamic, innovative, risk-taking companies in the entire utility industry. All the while Marv was also freely giving of himself in local and national affairs, earning for himself, as well as for NI-Gas, renown not only for profit orientation, but equally for social consciousness and action. ... Therefore, with these thoughts in mind, I hope you will join me in wishing an outstanding leader and human being, Marvin Chandler, a long and healthy retirement."

Your obedient servant,

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