1954

This column has the possibility of being the shortest one in history. As I sit down to write it, I just received Herb Hillman's marvelous newsletter, just loaded with class information, some of which duplicates what I would have had to write and some of which I wish I had to write. However, not wishing to be redundant, I will make every effort to include in this column what Herb has not already covered.

It appears that Pete Liebman is having a great year as a leading Volkswagen dealer in New Jersey. Pete is quoted in an article in 'Fortune magazine which discusses the resurgence of the Volkswagen in the American automobile market. According to Pete, "Our dollar volume is 25 percent ahead of our best year ever." New Jersey Alumni Fund solicitors take note.

Joe Migely has been named chief executive officer of Drovers Bank of Chicago. Joe has been president of the bank since April 1985 and served as senior vice president from the time he joined the bank in 1984. Drovers Bank in a member of the Cole-Taylor Financial Group which includes three other banks in the Greater Chicago area.

Prior to joining Drovers, Joe was senior vice president of Marine Bank, Milwaukee, and senior executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Bank of Highland Park, Ill. For the first 21 years of his banking career, Joe worked for the First National Bank of Chicago where he rose to the position of vice president. Joe is a corporate director on six Chicago-area and out-of-state corporations. He is also a trustee of Lake Forest Academy. He is involved in numerous community and charitable activities.

Ralph Destino has been elected chairman of the board of the American Cancer Society, New York City division. Ralph, who is chairman of Cartier's, is a longtime volunteer for the society. The New York City division which he now heads has more than 60,000 volunteer workers and plays a major role within the national structure of the Cancer Society. Ralph has served as the General Crusade Chairman for the New York City division over the last three years. Our best wishes to you, Ralph, in undertaking the responsibility for this major fund-raising effort that is so import to so many of us.

Helen Rattray, Ev Rattray's widow, was the subject of a feature in The New YorkTimes not too long ago. The article was a feature on The East Hampton Star, the responsibility for which Helen assumed upon Ev's death six years ago. Helen serves as the publisher and editor of this 100-year-old paper following the tradition of her husband, a 12th-generation South Fork native. Over the past century the Star's editors and owners have been drawing from only three families, "all firmly rooted in the sandy soil of the South Fork." The South Fork is connected to - or separated from - the main body of Long Island by two bridges and is populated by descendants of the original 17th-century colonists and a newer colony of literary and artistic settlers and corporate pilgrims.

Ev's love of South Fork and the East End of Long Island comes through in his book The Adventures of Jeremiah Dimon: ANovel of Old East Hampton that was published posthumously last year through the efforts of Helen. In a review of Ev's novel, John Cole, former editor of TheMaine Times said, "This book of Everett's is about the East End that has been traded away. It is a good picture about a place you will find only in these pages, even though it is a place where many of you live. For that, more than its charming literary lilt, or its picaresque narrative, it is a work of significance. Defining all that has been lost is often more important than describing what may be found. For everyone who knows and loves Long Island's East End, Everett Rattray defines a place and a past that each of us must

comprehend if the future of that place is to have any rationale." For those of you who want to remember Ev Rattray's humor and talent, his book, published by the Pushcart Press, is available to you.

Helen continues to honor his life not only by seeing that his book was published but by continuing his works so ably as publisher and editor of The East Hampton Star.

The Annual Spring Club Dinner of the Southeastern Massachusetts and South Shore Clubs brought together two '54s in official positions. Dr. John Crowe officiated at the dinner as president of the Southeastern Massachusetts Club, and the übiquitous John Heston was the featured speaker. Since I have heard no complaints, one must assume that both Johns did their usual able jobs.

Have a great summer and write!

John L. Gillespie '54 was honored with the Dartmouth Alumni Award at Class Officers Weekend in May. Since graduation, he has served in the air force, attended the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, has been a member of a number of hotel associations and groups, and is now senior vice president of the advertising firm of Needham and Grohmann. He is a trustee of the Aloha Foundation in Fairlee, Vt., which supports summer camps, and has been involved with the Scarsdale Volunteer Fire Company. He has served Dartmouth as class agent, class secretary (and was named Class Secretary of the Year in 1984), class reunion chairman, and class mini-reunion chairman (he was named Class Mini-Reunion Chairman of the Year in 1985). He received the Class of 1954 Award in 1984 and has led his class to College records during its 25th and 30th reunions. He has been secretary and vice president of the Dartmouth Club of Westchester and is now on its executive committee and is cochairman of the board of overseers of the Hanover Inn.

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