1940
Here begins another season of meeting monthly deadlines in the delivery of such news as your secretary has at hand. The all too short summer respite gave opportunity to gather the news results of a few personal encounters with '4os, and to assemble at least enough material to start the new column year off. From now on, although I won't belabor the point, I hope that a few more of you will pause to give me some news of yourselves. It is what you're doing now and whom you have seen lately that provides the meat of this copy.
We start out with a mixture of good and bad news. The good news, of which most of you are aware, concerns 1940's triumph in maintaining its top ranking in its own class group participation in the Dartmouth Alumni Fund campaign which concluded last June. Fred Porter and his hard-working assistant agents supplied the propelling force, and you provided the gifts, which kept us in first place just a percentage point ahead of the closerunning '42s, enabling us to win the Green Derby for the third successive year. The bad news is that both Fred and Dick Bowman, our Indian Drum editor, have tendered their resignations. Fred is faced with the problem of finding new living quarters for the Porter family next spring, and Dick feels he'd like to quit while he's ahead. They both deserve a rest, but they'll be sorely missed! At this writing, we have no replacements in mind, but if there are any of you who have a yen to take on either of these jobs on behalf of the class and College, I'm entertaining any and all suggestions or applications. Both Fred and Dick deserve our loudest applause and heartiest thanks for the meritorious job they have done these past two years. I, for one, will greatly miss their superlative assistance in service to the class.
On the reporting side, the mailbag presents news of three classmates who have been located overseas for a couple of years or more. Jim McElroy sent a note from Belgium with his Alumni Fund Gift which filled in his activities since July 1949. Sickness of his wife Elsie and their son Jimmy Jr. prompted a move from his Brussels home to the country early in 1950, and a later recuperation stay on the French Riviera. Happily, both wife and son are now recovered, and Jim has recently returned full time to Brussels and his business, which takes him all over Europe and as far south as the Belgian Congo and French Africa. As you read this, he will be concluding a trip to Spain and North Africa. He hopes soon to come back to the States for a visit and, meantime, sends regards to all from his address at 102 rue de la Loi, Brussels, Belgium.
Around the world a bit, Bill Harriman writes that he misses not being in touch with the '4O group. Ann and he were expecting their third child in August after a long hiatus. Billy and Larry are rugged football materia] of 9 and 7 years now. His work goes well, and he's now Creole Petroleum's ranking district geologist, handling the one very active district in Eastern Venezuela, where he's discovered two new pools of oil this year. Bill would like to hear from Keith Benson, Bud Krone, GerryTorborg, Fred Porter and anyone else who feels like writing him c/o Creole Petroleum Corporation, Quiriquire, Monagas, Venezuela.
From the father of Ed Fritz we learn that Ed has been teaching English at various Army centers scattered throughout Europe. He went over just two years ago under a two-year appointment from the University of Maryland to assist in the Army's program of providing its personnel with courses leading to a regular college degree. His assignments have taken him all over Europe, England and North Africa.
Dick Pearson '2O has forwarded a scoop sheet from the MacMillan Company, publishers, which states that Scott Dillingham has recently joined forces with that company to carry the MacMillan banner (contracting educational book sales) into Western New York State. Scotty obtained his masters degree from Massachusetts State Teachers College while teaching part-time in the New Bedford (Mass.) school system. Prior to that he held various positions with the Brookline Chamber of Commerce, S. S. Kresge Cos., Coaters, Inc., and in teaching in the elementary and high school levels. His wife Constance and their five-year-old daughter Sally should find additional variety in Dill's new endeavors.
The newspaper clippings gathered during these summer months have brought us news of a number of other '4O relocations and business or professional advancements. GeorgeBurleigh, who has been teaching at the Plainville (Conn.) High School on and off since ig4i, with a four year stretch in the military service, left in August to teach for one year at the Grammar School, Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, on an educational exchange grant awarded by the Secretary of State under the Fulbright Act. George obtained his Masters degree at Middlebury College last year after previous study at the University of Connecticut and Trinity College. Bob Draper has just been made a partner in the CPA firm of Konopak & Dalton, in Toledo, 0., where he has been laboring both before and since the war. He and Esta are mighty proud of their yearold baby boy. Don Tenney, who started selling insurance even before he graduated from Dartmouth, has just been made manager of the San Francisco branch office for Continental Assurance Cos., having graduated from his own general insurance agency representing Guardian Life. Beezie Smallwood, (Wilbur R.) has succeeded to the post of district sales manager for the General Crushed Stone Cos., of Easton, Pa. He and Ruth make a home for their three children in Baldwinsville, N. Y., outside of Syracuse, where Beezie spends his spare hours on the golf course and in the local theatre guild. Fred Pillsbury, who successfully practices law in Springfield, Mass., has just taken on the additional duties of handling the legal history courses for Western New England College. Fred obtained his law degree at Harvard right after the war. He's not entirely new at the teaching game, having conducted courses at American International College and for the American Institute of Banking in past years.
Forty's only clergyman Rev. Lawrence L. Durgin recently accepted a call to become minister of Central Congregational Church, in Providence, R. 1., where he took over in July. Previously Larry had been minister of the Norwich (N. Y.) Congregational Church for five years. Since his ordination ten years ago, after studies at Oberlin Graduate School and Union Theological Seminary, Larry has held pastorates at Cornish, N. H., and Orient, L. 1., in addition to Norwich. Between parish calls, Larry and his wife Eunice keep busy with church community activities and their two children, a daughter, 7, and a son, 3.
Not much to report on the matrimonial or birthday circuits. Dr. AI Johnson, who is presently with the New York University Dept. of Medicine at Bellevue Hospital, New York, will have been wed to Ruth E. Waters, of Berkeley, Calif., by the time this reaches you. Jamie and. Dee Anne Thomas have just announced their third child's arrival, born April 14, named Dee Anne, thus making it two girls and a boy for them. Dave and Carol Davenport are delighted with the arrival of (I think) Carolyn Babcock Davenport, on June 26. Beyond that, there must be many more to be named and duly recorded in the class files, but I haven't received the word as yet from you fond parents.
That's all fbr now. By the time this appears in print, Holy Cross will have put the Big Green team to the test in Hanover, and the annual Penn-Dartmouth fracas will be headlines. Although no specific roundup plans are known to me, I'm sure that any of you who chance to attend a home game at Memorial Field this fall will find the welcome mat out at the Jud Lyons' or the Lew Lamberts'. Look them up and write in the news of your game reunions.
Secretary, 322 Canterbury Road, Westfield, N. J. Treasurer, 88 North Main St., Concord, N. H.
