1930
How the Class of 1930 responds when thecall goes out! When your Secretary was downto so few news items it appeared we wouldhave to fill this column with old jokes out ofthe Jack o'Lantern, a letter to several fellowsacross the country brought in the followingnews.
First to reply was Cliff Vogt in Clevelandwho wrote:
"Ed Sprankle was recently promoted to a full Vice President in the Commercial Loan Department at the Central National Bank. His son Ted is atending Kenyon College in Ohio, and Linda, 13, is attending the local grade school. He and his wife Jean have no trips to report.
"Frank Neff is on a six-week trip to Spain and Italy and will return next week. Mary Jane and Frank originally had planned a two-week quickie but it grew and grew. Frank is one of New England Mutual's ace agents being a member of their Leader's Association for several years. This means sales of over a half a million dollars annually. He was seen at all the Shaker Heights High School swimming meets during the winter suffering all those agonizing seconds that his step-son Dave required to do the 50-yard freestyle. Frank had coached him during the summers for the past five years.
"Ed Neff is President of the Erico Manufacturing Co., a company founded by his father years ago while he was Professor of Civil Engineering at Case Tech. Brownie has pushed the company into a much larger, diversified outfit which manufactures specialized railroad equipment. He has been hitting the road for the past two years setting up sales divisions and distributors and is looking for a capable sales manager. He and Tootie did take out time for skiing at Mt. Tremblant this winter. Their oldest daughter, Anne, is married and Connie is attending Pine Manor.
"George Fisher is Secretary and Advertising Manager of the Fisher Brothers, the largest chain of food markets in northern Ohio. If it's a Super-Super, it's Fisher's! George tells me he and Jeannie spent spring vacation with their children seeing the sights in N.Y.C. Jana is a Freshman at Skidmore, Linda attends Laurel School for Girls here in Cleveland, and Chris is in the third grade at Hawken School for Boys - no fun at all.
"Ubiquitous Lee Chilcote has been so many places and done so many things I can't begin to describe all of them. He spent part of Christmas time at Sun Valley with Ronnie, who is a senior at you-know-where. He has been to the West Coast a couple of times on business. He met Kay and daughter Kathie, a freshman at Smith, Lee Jr. and little Pat, just turned five, in Florida during spring vacation. He has had numerous trips East where he has seen all of you fortunate guys who can get to Hanover frequently. I've never seen anyone so conscientious in fulfilling his capacity of the Alumni Council. He knows all the Deans at the local high schools from whom he receives intelligence on the best boys in the class and I've heard him name a boy as low as a sophomore whom he is watching as Dartmouth material. In fact, he is Mr. Dartmouth in Cleveland. The fact that he is President of the A. A. Chilcote Co. which makes photomounts and other trade accessories and an officer in the Brewer-Chilcote Paper Co., seems to be an avocation.
"I'll send more on the remainder of the Cleveland Thirty Crew at another sitting. Marian and I will surely be at the fall meeting of the Executive Committee of our class."
Karl Rodi writes of busy life in California asfollows:
"I haven't seen any fellows in the class for some time except Chuck Robinson, who is back from San Francisco and is looking fine.
"These are indeed busy years. Our oldest daughter Tina received word yesterday that she had been accepted as a freshman at Stanford this fall and is very excited. This spring she has been most enthusiastic about her tennis. She is currently the fourth ranking junior player in southern California and still has a year after this one to continue as a junior. I rather anticipate that college will eclipse her tournament activity. It has been a great hobby for her through high school and I hope her younger sisters will follow along.
"I am just finishing a four-year term on the Beverly Hills School Board which has been a very-satisfying experience in limited public service. There have been a number of interesting problems to deal with, one novel one dealing with the discovery of oil adjacent to the high school property."
Probably many of you noticed in the press the announcement of Fran Horn's resignation as President of Pratt Institute effective August 15. Lacking any definite knowledge of Fran's future plans, we just assume that he is going on and upward.
It was good to get a letter from Don Shaskan in San Francisco and he was good enough to send along a clipping from The San Francisco News of a feature article on his wife, past president of the Northern California Mental Health Association, and as active as Don in matters of mental hygiene. From the article it becomes clear that Don's wife is successfully pushing through a bill in California which would make it possible to give mental health service to a wider segment of the population than now gets help. Don writes:
"I am still poking along at my job as chief psychiatrist at the local VA mental hygiene clinic; doing a little teaching at U.C. Med. School where I am still asst. professor of psychiatry; but getting my biggest kicks out of the development of group psychotherapy in the west. I am the western representative of the American Group Psychotherapy Association.
"My daughter Isabel, is doing very well as a soph at Stanford. My oldest boy is a senior in high school and the other boys are in jr. high. This gives their mother some time off."
"See Milt Fleishman, his charming wife and three lovely children. Otherwise go up to the DOC hut at Donner summit at times. Passed nearby on Washington's birthday and they were really snowed in."
In Providence where Dick Parker is head ofthe Department of Egyptology, he writes of atrip abroad during the coming summer:
"I can tell you that I plan to attend the next International Congress of Orientalists which is to be held in late August and early September at Munich and Gladys and Beattie are going with me. We shall be away about two months in all, which will give me the opportunity to do some research, especially in Brussels and Vienna. I have just about finished a study of an extremely interesting papyrus from the Vienna collection and I need to make a final check of some of my readings and of the arrangement of the fragments which make it up. It is in a very poor state of preservation. We expect to spend some time in London and Oxford and then a few days in Paris on the way to Vienna."
The local papers in New Jersey all paid tribute in March to Charlie Humiston upon completion of his 25th anniversary with Prudential Insurance Company. Charlie is a member of the Bernardsville Board of Education and Senior Research Analyst in charge of Marketing Research for Prudential's Ordinary Agencies Department.
At the same time in Morristown, N. J., Bill Blanchard filed for a second term as Republican State Committeeman. You may remember that Bill is president of the William L. Blanchard Company, a construction firm, chairman of the Harding Township Planning Board, and a director of the Morristown Trust Company. Good luck to you, Bill.
After not hearing from him for years and years, Fred Tangeman was quick to reply to the call for news and wrote:
"Suppose I start with our arrival in California in 1947. Our oldest, Judy, was nine years old at that time and the young one, Jan, was about a year and a half. I was working for Pillsbury Mills at the time but left there in 1951 and since then have been free lancing the elusive dollar in various enterprises. I sometimes wonder how my good wife put up with the roaming spirit that seems to have started back in '30.
"I guess I'm not the only one though because it wasn't long until I bumped into Bill Fieldcamp, who later went to Oklahoma; Heinie Swarthout, who lives in Burbank; Chuck Robinson at Glendale, Nate Blumberg and Box Ball at LaCanada, Frank Hardinge at Arcadia (incidentally these towns are all suburbs of los Angeles); Alex Hughes who was living in South Pasadena at that time, and Bill Nickerson who I understand has now returned to the East.
"This was quite a crowd, when we got together, which we managed once a month until jobs took some of the gang elsewhere and today our socializing is more or less confined to a meeting of two or three couples now and then.
"Just writing this reminds me that I've made a lot of mistakes, one of which is failing to appear at reunions and I'm sure now I'm the loser. Certainly, I shall try to make the next and try to resume where I left off a long time ago."
In mid-May while your secretary was attending a seminar on the matter of making successful mergers, I was delighted to see that in another seminar at the same time Wilson Wright, economist for Procter & Gamble, was giving the outlook for the second half of the year in the field of consumer goods.
Those of you who are fortunate enough to receive the "Ford Times" must have been gratified to see in the April issue a feature article on "The Keenes." The article written by Corey Ford and illustrated by Paul Sample '20 gave Bob and Louise a grand write-up and rightfully so, on their lodge.
Another letter this month comes from "Tail" Rumpf which brings us up to date so very well on his activities:
'Outside of being a junior, junior assistant class agent for several years, my activities in connection with Dartmouth College were rather slight until about ten years ago when I interested myself in the interviewing program. One thing led to another and eventually I found myself in charge of the enrollment and interviewing program for the State of - After serving in this interesting but rather frustrating activity, I couldn't see my way out of the picture other than to take on the presidency of the Chicago Alumni Association for a year ending this March. Now I am kind of a lonesome character, having been retired to stud, but I do propose to keep my hand in on local alumni affairs at least.
"I am still married to the same gal and this June we will celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. I was unable to persuade our son to enroll at Dartmouth, hence he is a sophomore at Indiana University. My daughter is a junior in Evanston High School and it is just possible that she may come East to school, which would delight her parents.
"I continue with the Harris Trust and Savings Bank as a vice president in the loaning activities, and in connection therewith, travel about in Michigan and Wisconsin.
"Unfortunately, the Class of '30 has sort of fallen apart at the seams in the Chicago area but both Hank Embree and I hope that we can arrange a get-together sometime this summer for a "'30 Up." I see Mickey Emrich, Len Schmitz, Freddy Schmidt, Chuck Simmons and Dick Ziegler occasionally but indeed not frequently enough."
And finally as you read this column, Fred Watson and his Class Agents have just about a month left in the 1957 Alumni Fund Drive. As this is written early in May, the Class stands second only to 1929 in the Green Derby with every chance of going on to win if you, and you, and you, have all done the necessary. Fred wants every, gift, large or small, and for those medium sized gifts, don't forget this year "how about raising your sights to the $100 level?" $22,550 is the goal and let's reach it quick.
Wayne Van Leer, who has completed 20 years in the Naval Reserve as a captain, continues to represent the Stran-Steel Corp., (a division of National Steel) in Government sales in Washington. Van writes that he has switched musically from the guitar to the Hammond organ and brings us up-to-date on some Washington news:
"A very gala Dartmouth occasion was the highly successful appearance of the Dartmouth Glee Club here in Washington, D. C., on April 2. Seen there were several classmates, Fred Jaspersen, Fred Scribner, Ed Conklin and Jack Hodges. We have made an attempt to slant one of the weekly alumni luncheons toward the Class of '30, hoping to round up about 15 or more classmates, but our anchor man whom we want to honor especially, Meade Alcorn, is heavily booked during the spring and we have had to put it off.
"Ed Conklin is Vice President of Birely and Company, Investment securities, a rapidly-growing organization. Graybar Electric Co. has Fred Jaspersen as its Washington District Manager and we know he and they are doing fine.
"We made a surprise call on our Thayer School roommate and classmate, Dick Squire, about three months ago in his impressive office as General Manager of Hahne and Co., one of the leading department stores of Newark. Win Stone, our other roommate, visited briefly at Christmas. He's, of course, professor of English at N.Y.U. and Secretary of the Modern Language Association."
Fred C. Scribner Jr. '30 (second from left) was sworn in April 18 as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, in which position he will supervise operations of the Internal Revenue Service. With him (l to r) are Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey, Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams '20, and Meade Alcorn '30, chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Secretary,Reading, Vt.
Class Agent,1501 River Rd., Wilmington 3, Del.
