1940

As the deadline approaches for this month's column, I find myself with a woefully short supply of fresh communications to become the keystone for interesting reading. Once more, let me beg, plead, and cajole you to action, with information about yourself and your family and an up-date on your business, community, and other extra-curricular activities. More than 400 other classmates are interested in what you are up to, and I at least try to accommodate.

Bill Joseph, completed his undergraduate studies at Harvard, writes that he has been most fortunate to be involved for most of his life with the fine arts, doing cast abstract traditionally-oriented sculpture and very colorful wall hangings. "After all these years," he. writes, "I have a mature style of my own." Bill, who resides in Sidney, Ohio, excludes commercial work from his endeavors, although he tried in 1979 to do some very extensive sculptures for the Federated Department Stores headquarters building in Cincinnati with Herb Landsman, but unfortunately Herbie was taken terribly ill at the time. Anyone with access to the March issue of Harvard Magazine will find an interesting write-up on Bill and his work.

Another abstract artist whose activities have been chronicled in this column previously is Tom George, who works and lives in Princeton, N.J. The Betty Parsons Gallery on West 57th Street in New York City will exhibit his recent paintings from May 12 through May 30. This will mark Tom's 11th exhibition at the Parsons gallery since he began showing there in 1959. Tom and his family spend their summers in Norway, where he draws the mountains and fjords, but he claims to respond to rocks, trees, water, and sky in many places, the White Mountains being among his favorites. Tom's work is included in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, the Guggenheim, the National Museum of American Art, the Tate Gallery, the National Gallery (Oslo), San Francisco Museum, Yale Art Gallery, Princeton University Art Museum, and Dartmouth's art collection, to mention only some of the many places where his oils are on exhibition. So, if you have a desire to view mountains with all their power and majesty as expressed by Tom, there's a good chance that a museum near you will have one of his works.

Thanks again to "Cap" Palmer '23, a source of welcomed information, we received the news that "in a reversal of the traditional scenario, a top commercial director has exited the production arena to join an ad agency." JerrySchnitzer, head of Gerald Schnitzer Productions in Hollywood and New York for over 15 years, has assumed the post of broadcast director for Eisaman, Johns & Laws Advertising in Los Angeles. As a spot (commercial) director, Jerry won numerous awards in the people/dialogue/humor category.

It won't be for lack of effort by ArtOstrander and his band of hard-working ACAs should the class of '4O fall short in this year's Alumni Fund campaign. On opening day, Art could report the achievement of just over 44 per cent of our $95,000 goal, with only 23 per cent of the class participating. Compared to the other six classes in the years 1935 to 1942, ours is at the bottom of the heap. That's not in accordance with past records, which found '40 at or near the top consistently. So, as a friendly reminder and forgetting becomes easier each year find, complete, and mail your pledge now. Art always has a warm "thank you" waiting.

While on the subject of shelling out, BobMacMillen has asked me to repeat the announcement contained in Bob Austin's newsletter suggesting that reservations be made early should you have an inkling that you want to be counted "in" for the 1982 William and Mary weekend mini reunion on the schedule for October 8 and 9 a year hence. Bob and BettyBunker were the first to indicate their intent with an accompanying deposit for one of the rooms Mac has reserved for the class. The Bunkers were among those in attendance at the Williamsburg mini reunion last fall. Forward your $40 check to Mac at 308 Blunt Alumni Center, Hanover. N.H. 03755.

Over the weekend of the Greater Greensboro Open last April 4, Howie and Kate Tallmadge demonstrated southern hospitality at its best when they hosted Dartmouth families, including the Bunkers and Hal and LouisaMcAllister from our class.

At the end of October last year, John and SueKnutsen posted their Christmas card mailing for those going overseas. Lo and behold, at the end of February one came straggling back covered with rubber-stamped notations. LewLambert, you were the intended recipient, but the "No Such ..." referred to you at King Faisal Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. So, if your mail has been light of late, Lew, maybe you had better check to see on which list your name is to be found.

So that I will have something to begin the next column, I'll hang on to a couple of letters, but please!

This inspiring photograph from 1939'sarchives commemorates a Dartmouth Club dinner in 1960 that the late Red Jensen '39, a victim of polio, attended. With Red are classmates Tom Brooks, left, and Doc Tower.

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