1951

Secretary, 231 Wakefield Dr., Charlotte, N. C.

Treasurer, 2205 N. Lake Dr., Milwaukee 2, Wis.

A hearty hello to you all from a new class secretary. It's a formidable undertaking to follow Dave Leslie's six years of readable jottings, but I'll do my best. One thing I want to ask you now and will ask you many times again is to write to me.

It was a great pleasure to me to be able to handle the class newsletter for the past couple of years, because I enjoy keeping up with members of the class. But the content of both the newsletter and the class notes here in the MAGAZINE really depends on you, for there can be little to say if you don't let us hear from you. So please drop a brief note, at least once a year and more often if there's a reason.

One of them tells me that Paul Hodgdon is on the administrative staff at Spaulding Fisher Co. in Rochester, N. H., and is still a footloose bachelor ("and I hope they won't hold that against me," says Paul).

Another scribbling indicates that Rog Johnson is pounding math into the heads of rambling wrecks down at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, and is the proud papa of three-year-old Alan.

Jack Giegerich and Jim Bovaird ought to qualify as the Armstrong Cork twins. Jack is peddling that outfit's products in Toledo, Ohio, while Jim is selling in Evanston, Ill.

And while on the subject o£ reunion, a word about the class machinery for the next four years — until the '61 reunion. A nom- inating committee chosen by the past officers recommended a slate of eleven class members for the class executive committee, which will administer the affairs of the class. This recommendation was unanimously accepted at the reunion class meeting.

The members are Dave Leslie, Bob Leavitt, Frank Smallwood, Bob Bowler, John Boardman, Pete Henderson, Gary Mansur, Dave Hilton, Jim Balderston, Loye Miller and Herm Christensen.

This committee then elected the class officers — president: Mansur; treasurer: Henderson and secretary: myself.

And now, on to other news. We hear that Howie Phillips got his law degree from Harvard last June, and Don O'Dowd also collected a Ph.D. (subject unknown) from the Crimson. And Fred Lord has left New York for Great Barrington, Mass., where he's with Wheeler & Taylor, Inc. and will sell real estate and insurance.

It's a bit late, but congratulations are still in order for poet and essayist Bob Pack, who received a 1l,000 grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in New York last May. Bob attended Columbia after Dartmouth, and lately has been poetry editor of Discovery magazine and a teacher in the poetry workshop at the New School for Social Research.

Also in the arts, it's a pleasure to hear that Rog McAllister won first prize in a watercolor display at a Springfield, Mass., Museum of Fine Arts display. Rog's winning painting was a skiing scene.

Many of you will already have heard that Frank Smallwood left the Alomic Energy Commission in Washington to succeed Tom O'Conneil '50 as executive assistant to President Dickey in Hanover. Frank was with the lead underwear boys for four years, after receiving his master's degree in public administration from Harvard. He, Ann and two cute daughters were established in Hanover in time for reunion.

And it's a coincidence that as Frank leaves the AEC, Dick Barnes joins their staff in Washington. Dick moved over from an administrative position in the Navy Department.

Another recipient of a June degree was Ted Hazen, who received his master's in agricultural and biological chemistry from the University of New Hampshire. And a note from Montclair, N. J., tells us that Bob Caterson is teaching French and German in Montclair High, and will introduce a course in German there this year.

Sel Atherton, after traveling New England for the Manufacturers Trust Co. of New York, has settled down in Auburn, Me., as manager of that town's branch of the First National Bank of Lewiston. And we understand Art Baldensperger is a development cordinator of sales for CBS-Hytron somewhere in the Boston area.

We ought to say a word about engagements and weddings, and word of a number of them has come through the summer. Bob Meyer and Sara Jean Dixson are planning to be married Sept. 21, and so should be happily united by the time you read this. Sara is a graduate of the University of Missouri and Bob, the last time we heard, was with a paper firm in Kansas City.

Congratulations are also in order for Dick Halloran and Carol Prins of Muskegon, Mich., who expect to take the matrimonial walk next June. Carol is now a senior at the University of Michigan, where she's majoring in political science and working on the university newspaper. Dick, after finishing his M.A. in political science at Michigan last June, is putting in busy weeks with McGraw-Hill Publishing in New York.

Out of Hanover comes the word that Ed Lathem and Dr. Edith French will be wed in the fall or early winter. A graduate of Skidmore and McGill Medical School, Edith is a staff pathologist at Mary Hitchcock in Hanover and also teaches at the Dartmouth Med School. Ed, of course, is director of special collections for Baker Library and literary editor of the venerable publication which you're reading.

Comes the word that Dr. John Per-Lee and Dorothy Ann Kerner of Larchmont, N. Y., were married last June. And thereby hangs a tale. John doesn't know it, but he's responsible for my meeting my own wife (she had a blind date with him, but an upset stomach detained him and she went out instead with a fellow who eventually introduced her to me). Getting back to the subject, Dorothy went to Woman's College in Greensboro, N. C., and finished an M.A. at Columbia in June. John's a resident at New York Hospital.

A birth announcement from Jean and Bab Bowler tells us that young William Grier Bowler II weighed in at six pounds 12 ounces last August 4.

And Joan and I are proud to announce that our firstborn, Lissa, bounced on the scene at eight pounds ten ounces July 23 (you should be proud of yourself, John Per-Lee).

The wedding of Tom Schanck '52 and Barbara Burgoyne in Oak Park, Ill., brought together this Dartmouth group (l to r): Kent Calhoun '52, Pat Harris '52, the groom and bride, Pete Schanck '60, Bob Nightingale '52 and Fred Merrill '32.