1943

In your travels this summer, I hope you took our dandy new class of 1943 directory with you and made use of it to get in touch with classmates in your vacation or business environs. Let me attest that this can be an exhilarating and pleasing experience. While in Maine during August, I spoke with John E. O'Donnell of Auburn and once again marveled at the variety of interests and occupations within the class.

Jack, who holds a master of forestry degree from Yale, operates a business in Auburn involving aerial photography and mapping all over New England. Many of these maps are for tax purposes, and Jack says it's a self- sustaining operation since, with the growth of communities, maps must be constantly revised. Jack's wife Jacqueline works with him. Two of their children, John and Lynn, are in local schools, and son Michael is a sophomore at U.N.H., where he made the varsity swimming team as a freshman. Daughter Margaret '78 is following Dad's footsteps and is a geographer in the regional planning office in Auburn.

Jack will be in Spokane in the fall for a convention. At home, he serves as a Little League coach and administrator. Mutual interests in appraisal work keeps him in contact with JohnHyde of Concord, and he also keeps in touch with roommate George Graham,

The class is once again represented on the Alumni Council through the election of BudHall as a Region II member. Bud represented the College at the inauguration of the new president of Brooklyn College in April.

As no doubt otherwise noted in these pages, Charley Donovan's wide-ranging services to the College were recognized in June with the presentation to him of the Dartmouth Alumni Award. Recognized therein were his services to the class as newsletter editor, secretary, and president. Well done, Charley. Couldn't happen to a greater guy.

Eddie O'Brien's "Sweet Refrain" spells it out in more detail, but mutual congratulations to all '43s are in order on reaching $100,000 in the 1980 Alumni Fund campaign, achieving second place in the Green Derby among nearby classes ("Wait 'til next year!"), and well exceeding our dollar objective.

As of September 1, George Munroe, chair- man and chief executive of Phelps Dodge Corporation, also takes on the presidency upon the retirement of the incumbent of that post. George announced the creation of a five-man top management team which includes Bill Seidman, one of three vice-chairmen. As noted by George, an interesting managerial aspect is that all of the five-man team are within viewing distance of retirement, and the team will concentrate on developing a new generation of corporate leaders.

What happens to first-string varsity football greats? Here, according to Women's WearDaily, is what happened to one of them:

"His credentials are impressive: executive positions at two brand-name giants, Olga and, before that, Catalina sportswear, as well as heading his own business, Viewpont Designs, a marketing consultant firm to knitwear mills.

"So the question is inevitable. Why did Maurice Dampier accept the presidency of Glydons, Inc., a small (annual volume $4,500,000), Los Angeles-based intimate apparel company, best known for its refined Frederick's-of-Hollywood look and a recent strike, whose picket-line tactics led to a near riot at the factory?

'lt offered me a tremendous challenge,' replied the low-keyed 59-year-old Dampier, in what is perhaps an inevitable answer."

There follows a three-column article adorned with Damp's smiling face, considerably less grim than his gridiron portrait in the Aegis.

With deep sorrow we record here the deaths in recent months of William E. Brayton, Gene H. Dawley, and Carey B. O'Connor. Obituaries will appear in this or future issues of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

Charles Mahoney Donovan '43 received a Dartmouth Alumni Award at a ceremony in June. His citation praised his "impressive record of volunteer work," including services to the College as an enrollment worker, class agent, fund-raiser, newsletter editor, class secretary, member of the Alumni Council, class president, and member of the class executive committee.

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