1948
"Oh, to be in Hanover, now that April's there!" With apologies to Browning, your humble scribe seeks your indulgence for one or two flashbacks on the springtimes we knew when we were still traipsing the paths of our College on the Hill in the days some 40 (yes, 40!) years ago when we were still undergrad followers of Eleazar in and around Hanover.
Guess we all remember the replacement of the clean, white snow around the town by the sludge and splattered mud of the "schlump" season plus the duckboards across the campus, this followed by the gradual drying out of the slop and the emergence of the first green grass, this accompanied by the bright crispness of those spring days of late April on into
May. The skates were hung up, and softball on the campus replaced the hockey of Occom Pond. The urge to get out in the clean fresh air led to white-water canoeing on the White, the Ammonoosuc, and the other high, fast streams roaring toward or into the Connecticut. Golf bags began to be carried out Rope Ferry Road to the Hilton Field links, and the first tennis courts were cleared and lined for action. The roads to Smith, Skidmore, and Wellesley were lined with hitchhikers and undergrad piles of junk passing for cars on the weekends and the road to Colby Junior on any day of the week. Tough spring hiking in the White Mountains was eagerly undertaken with the new season and the fast clearing snows, rock-climbing on the cliffs outside Norwich and up the river at Fairlee, rappel practice down the outside of Bartlett Tower in College Park near the Bema. Diehard skiers found the last great refuge of their sport on the excruciatingly exciting cornsnow and high vertical walls of Tuckerman's. Men of Dartmouth, spring in Hanover! Is this the way it was?
Lloyd Krumm passed to us a marvelous article about Harry Shaw from the Palmdale, Calif., Valley Press, written on the occasion of Harry's retirement from Lockheed after almost 33 years. Harry, a Connecticut Yankee, has held almost every civic post in his southern California desert community high in Antelope Valley in addition to being an active leader in Lockheed's crucially important security program. He and Myrna have also found plenty of time for outdoor sport and for their family. Harry, who attended law school after Dartmouth, became an FBI agent before joining Lockheed. He has also been "Mr. Dartmouth" in his Mojave Desert region for many years, in charge of seeing to it that all candidates for Hanover are interviewed by alumni. Harry now intends to go into real estate so he can remain fully active. He'd be a great contact if you're looking for property in southern Cal! Congratulations, Harry. Do you ever see other '48s, such as Bob Herrick, in nearby La Jolla?
Lloyd, too, deserves congratulations. After a long career with Federal Paper he has just become export sales manager for Mead Corporation, a Dayton firm having $2.7 billion annual sales. He expects to travel abroad extensively during his tour of duty, following which he and Joan will live in Eastman, N.H., just down the road a piece from Jack Park in the Dartmouthsponsored community southeast of Hanover. (Last we knew Bill Jones also owns property there as do the Lois McAllisterReeds.)
Those of you who watch TV will have followed the development by Fran Hummel, VP/marketing for New Britain's Stanley Works, of advertising over the years since 1973 for Stanley's hand tools. Fran developed the emphasis for his firm on the man-in-the-house do-it-yourselfer as Stanley first concentrated on the home market which had previously been only a secondary part of the firm's business. You all by now know the jingle "Stanley helps you do things right!" Next came emphasis on family repair and restoration projects such as the old house. Now Fran is taking a further evolutionary step in enlarging Stanley's markets. This time the woman of the house becomes the target. Watch this summer for the spot covering the woman in love with the old window in the loft, Fran's latest imaginative approach to marketing.
Bud Gedney, who provided the above data on Fran, advises there were 14 members of '48 and guests at the candlelit table for dinner together in the big Inn dining room on Saturday night, February 15 at the '48 mini-reunion. Those coming the shortest distance were probably Joeand Helen Smith from Portsmouth while the farthest travelers were Lloyd and Joan Krumm plus Joe Hickman and Anne Clark from New Jersey. Earl Chambers reports that during the weekend he had the pleasure of getting to know Joe for the first time. "A real prince," he said.
A lift of Eleazar's mug to Walt Cairns and Warren Daniell. Walt has become president of a new Arthur D. Little subsidiary in Cambridge called ADL Enterprises. It has $15 million in capital and engages in Walt's exciting specialty, the commercial development of new inventions through small companies. Warren again ran the Boston Marathon last April, completing it for the sixth time. Wow! He will tell you that even more importantly he and several fellow executives purchased ownership and control of the noted New England engineering firm, Anderson-Nichols and Company of Boston. Warren, a Thayer grad, is CEO and expects to continue finding work for his company in the four corners of the globe. Eleazar should be proud of them both.
Several '48s have recently shown their love for and loyalty to our College on the Hill through a willingness to write on matters in Hanover rather than be content to sit by and merely watch. You may or may not agree with positions recently espoused in writing by Bob Douglas, PeteFoster, Dirk Kuzmier, Bud Munson,Jerry Poole, and Dave Richards, among others, but they are true Dartmouth men whose loyalty on being willing to put their pens where their mouths are in support of your Dartmouth and mine deserves our admiration.
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