1946
As we are reminded frequently, this is the time for the Alumni Fund campaign, and JimLynch and Dave Weld urge your continued, thoughtful, and generous support. Our class has achieved fine results in recent years. Perhaps some of you had a chance to note the record of giving that was reported in a table in the December 1983 ALUMNI MAGAZINE. The class of 1946 came in sixth out of all classes in the total giving for the Campaign for Dartmouth.
At a recent meeting of the trustees of the Mount Sinai Hospital in Hartford, ArnoldCartin was elected its chairman. He is chief executive officer of Capitol Light and Supply Company of Hartford and has served also as a member of the advisory board of the Wholesale Bureau of the Hartford Chamber of Commerce as well as on the Governor's Flood Disaster Committee of the American Red Cross.
During a recent phone call with Bill Craig '44, vacationing and golfing at Naples, Fla., along with other snowbirds, it was good to chat with his old Dayton friend Dick Scharrer, who was down from Sanibel for a day visit. Dick reported that fellow Daytonian "Gus" Gillaugh is momentarily in Switzerland for a meeting of New England Life general agents, but is looking toward to lightening his load and retiring from that role in the near future.
Harry Colmery of San Marino, Calif., has just been elected to the board of Los Angelesbased Evalucom Inc. Evalucom specializes in evaluating the communications effectiveness of TV, radio, and print advertising. Harry is currently president of Colmery, Douglass, Hartwell and Jackson, an investment banking firm. He serves on a number of other boards, including Clayton Industries of El Monte, Hershey Oil Corporation, and Prepared Products Corporation in Los Angeles, and he is also a trustee of Occidental College. Previous affiliations include Glore-Forgan, Staats Inc. as executive vice president, Lehman Brothers as a partner and managing director, and the Crocker Bank of Los Angeles, where he was senior vice president, finance.
Frank Guarini, U.S. Representative from Jersey City, was among the officials who attended a recent Trenton press conference announcing a new $40-million science center to be built on a 32-acre site in Liberty State Park in New Jersey. Welles Fendrich is the current chairman of the privately-sponsored Research and Development Council of New Jersey, which initiated the planning and feasibility studies. The science center will occupy 200,000 square feet with "hands-on" exhibits, a science theater, classrooms, a library, a career center, and other facilities to educate students, teachers, and the general public. This site, close to the New Jersey Turnpike and with a clear view of the Statue of Liberty, was chosen over some 100 other locations for its accessibility. A photograph of groundbreaking ceremonies for this project accompanies this column.
A note from Tony Anthony of Buffalo reports that he has joined RKR/Dial-A-Phone Inc. as its president. His company is an Interconnect Telephone company and custom designs telecommunications and information processing packages, including handling sales, installation, and maintenance services.
In October, Sam Florman added an honorary doctor of science degree from Manhattan College to his other honors. The citation describes him as "champion of liberal education for students of engineering, chronicler of the bond between technology and culture, and spokesperson for the holistic dimension of the engineer's mission within society." Sam has spent a large part of his career articulating the relationship between technology and the general culture. He has written over 100 articles dealing with the subject, which have appeared in Harpers, The American Scholar, and The New York Times Magazine. His fulllength books include Engineering and theLiberal Arts, The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, and Blaming Technology, his most recent effort.
John and Marion Copenhaver of Hanover advise that son John III '72, Tuck '75, is now "making swaps" in the investment banking operation of Citicorp in Manhattan.
It is with deep regret that we report the death of Harlan Frederick Besse Jr., who passed away on September 1, 1983, at Shelbyville, Ky., of a heart attack. He had retired recently from General Electric and was operating a dairy farm near Louisville. Harlan was a native of Concord, N.H., did graduate work at the University of New Hampshire following Dartmouth, and had been an electrical engineer and marketing executive for General Electric in Louisville. Harlan is survived by his wife Dorothy and daughters Diane and Carol who live nearby. Our deepest sympathies go out to the entire family.
Please keep in touch. Best regards.
"x" marked the spot at the ground-breaking ceremony for a proposed $40-million Science/Technology Exposition Center at Liberty State Park across the Hudson River from the WorldTrade Center. Two members of the class of 1946 were involved in the occasion: Frank Guarini,left, U.S. Representative for the 14th district, which encompasses Liberty State Park, andbeside him New Jersey Research and Development Council chairman C. Welles Fendrich Jr.Pictured with them are, left to right, Jersey City mayor Gerald McCann; science center president Robert A. Fuller; and Samuel J. Faiello, president of the firm directing the project.
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