1944
Those of you in Hanover October 13-14 for the Yale game, don't expect to burst into print here. This is being written aforehand, October 2.
Our happiest task of the season is the reporting of two marriages: "Tommy" Donnelly, widow of Jim and a member of our executive committee, became Mrs. O. Vincent Gustafson last June and she and he are living in their mutual hometown, Worcester, Mass. BetsyReilly, widow of Fran, married Richard D. Sullivan last spring and their address has a tundra ring to it, namely Mobil Exploration, Stavanger, Norway. So huzzah and skol to all four. ...
Newspaper clippings, inky or yellowed, inform that Bob Conroy of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., has been named chief executive officer of Cooper-Jarrett Inc., a long-distance motor-carrier. Bob is responsible to the board of directors for all phases of the company's operations, and how's that for shifting gears in the middle of the hill?
Don Hinkley retired last May as chairman of the board and president of Emery Industries Inc., in Cincinnati, something to do with a merger between Emery and National Distillers & Chemical Corporation. We don't know what Don's retired to or where.
Wall Street Journal tells us that BillMcElnea's Caesars World Inc. showed a fourth-quarter profit of $3.5 million, which was more than twice that of last year for the same period. Revenue rose 47 per cent to $56.3 million, up from $38.3 million, and shares were at 67 cents, up from 31 cents. And if that doesn't come up three plums, read on:
"The largest revenue and earnings gains for the year came from Las Vegas operations," said McElnea, "with Caesars Palace hotel pretax profit rising 42 per cent." Finally, we hope you got to your piggy banks by October 6, which was the announced date for the sale at $10 each of 1.1 million units of Caesars New Jersey Inc., which leased two Atlantic City properties and plans to build hotel-casino facilities there.
Our pipeline to the Marine Corps pours out the word that our only Marine Corps Major General, Adoiph Schwenk, became deputy commander, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific, in August, leaving his double-hatted job as commanding general of the Ill Marine Amphibious Force and the Third Division, on Okinawa. Conjurs up some memoried names and places.
Front-and-center last June for the Alumni Council meeting were Ezz and Pat Hale and Chuck Richardson, and they were among the happy hundreds scrambling amongst our White Mountain alps during coffee breaks. Breathing hard, they agreed that the view from Moosilauke was breathtaking. Ezz, incidentally, has been chosen Rochester area chairman of the Campaign for Dartmouth, and in August he was father-of-the-bride for the last time: youngest daughter Barbara married John Hawley in Rochester.
Those two Dayton, Ohio, fellows who let their fingers do the walking for Yellow Pages, John Berry and Bill Craig, were in Hanover in late September for the ceremony dedicating the Loren M. Berry Chair in Economics at the College. The elder Berry, John's sprightly, 90- year-old father, was supposed to be on hand, too, but a sore tooth (would you believe) kept him home.
A few days later, Leonard Rieser, vice president and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was jetting in the other direction to represent Dartmouth at the inauguration October 6 of Hanna H. Gray as president of the University of Chicago. It was a natural: Leonard got his B.A. from Chicago during the war, and Dartmouth honored Hanna Gray with an honorary degree last June.
The Feldman Law Day, established in honor of Rog and Shirley Feldman's son, Mike '70, held its third annual meeting last March. The theme was "Human Rights, Law and Values," and the principle speaker was former senator Eugene McCarthy.
If you're feeling the lure of Lynchburg these days, be sure to stop in at Carl Koenig's deepfreeze. When we last talked, he and Ruth had the trailer gassed up and were heading for the briny in search of bluefish. "When those blues are running," Carl said, "the Koenigs are not far behind."
Nice getting the latest from John andPriscilla Denison down there in historic Lexington, Mass., but it's hard peeling them away from weekends at their New Hampshire summer cottage (house, really) on Lake Wentworth (near Wolfboro). John is head man at the E. G. Barker Lumber Company and is pleased to have son John working with him. Daughter Hope is applying to Colorado colleges and second son Mark is making his mark in high school. The Denisons checked out skiing in Alta, Utah, last February and found the snow great if the air thin at 10,000 feet.
Looking at some of the talented progeny in the Hanover area: Paul and Alice Jones' Cameron '75 is in Norwich across the river, working for the New England Digital Corporation which he helped found. The company turns out the much-sought-after Synclavier, which for you mechanical dummies is a digital synthesizer that makes music. Dan and ArlineDonovan's Mary Ellen '76 worked for a while as a free-lance writer and is now a full-time staffer with the local Valley News, handy with both typewriter and camera. Ja and MartyDensmore's Jason '73 is vice president of the family Burning Log stores, and he manages the Lebanon, N.H., branch while ma and pa divide their time between Lebanon and Aspen, Colo. George and Rosalind Springsteen's George '80 served as a Washington, D.C., intern with both a congressman and the U.S. Department of Energy.
And from over there in Newport, R. I., and on stationary from the Office of the President, no less, comes a note from Harry and MaryMorse's John '70, identifying him as a lieutenant, U. S. Navy.
That's it. Blessings.
Celebrating the recent dedication of the Loren M. Berry Chair in Economics (fromleft): Vice President and Dean of the Faculty Leonard Rieser '44; Colin D. Campbell,Loren Berry Professor of Economics; President Kemeny; and John M. Berry'44, chairman of the board of L. M. Berry and Company. President Kemeny istalking to John Berry's father, for whom the endowed professorship is named.
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