1929
The successful accomplishment and passing of the Seventeen Million Dollar goal of the 200 th Anniversary Development Program early this summer obviously marks a peak in the history and continued growth of the College, and the culmination of a great deal of work by many individuals and many "teams" of workers. Perusing only two issues of the Program's news sheet, "The Capital D," has revealed the following small portion of the many '29 workers towards the goal: Gus Wiedenmayer, chairman of Special Gifts and Paul Jameson and Irv Levitas, Division Chairmen, Northern New Jersey; Levon Nahigian, Division Chairman, Central Westchester, N. Y.; Bill Andres, Region II Chairman and Ed Richardson and John R. Hubbard, Chairmen of the North Shore and South Shore areas, respectively, of the Metropolitan Boston area; Pete Boras, assistant area chairman for New London, Conn.; John Brown Cook, area chairman, New Haven; Jim Hodge, Norwalk chairman in the Southwestern Connecticut area; Marv Braverman, area chairman, Washington, D. C.; Art Nighswander, area chairman, Laconia, N. H.; Fred Armstrong, area chairman, Portland, Me.; Dick Brown, executive committee for Detroit Area; and Ed Chinlund, one of the three co-chairmen, Pittsburgh area. In the Northampton, Mass., area Ellie Cavanagh, as President of the Upper Pioneer Valley Dartmouth Club, was an honored guest at their opening meeting. Our very sincere and hearty thanks go to these classmates and to the many others who gave so much of their time and efforts to help make the goal.
Bill Morgan writes that he is very happy to see another Dartmouth man, particularly a member of the Class of '29, come into the paper industry and his attached clipping indicates that Bill Bunn has been named director of advertising and sales promotion at the St. Regis Paper Co. Bill has been a vice president at Cunningham 8c Walsh, Inc., the agency for St. Regis. He previously was associated with Newell-Emmett, the predecessor of Cunningham 8c Walsh. He was manager of that organization's market research department for ten years. He and Mrs. Bunn have lived in Merrick, Long Island, for the past eleven years and have a daughter, Dorothy, eighteen, who attends Mt. Holyoke College.
Joe D'Esopo has had three 25-year anni- versaries in five years - our Class 25th Reunion in 1954; his and Bea's 25th wedding anniversary in 1958; and in July, 1959, the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Dartmouth Travel Bureau. Many of you will remember that the Travel Bureau, originally owned by Gile & Brackett, was taken over as a student organization in Robinson Hall, run on a heelers' basis, and that the student selling the most business had an opportunity to buy the business the following year. After graduating, however, Joe worked in the bank and spent his after-hours' time at the Dartmouth Travel Association learning the intricacies of the business and subsequently acquiring the organization. The first office was upstairs in what is now the Campion Block. They later moved downstairs and shared an office with Western Union. Shortly after WW 11, they moved to their present location on Allen Street in the building which formerly held the Big Eats Cafe where Joe worked as a busboy while in college.
Early summer, Paul Woodbridge came to New York to put Janet on a plane to Scotland. They dropped in at the Dartmouth Club and met up with Bud and Lyn Foulks,Johnny Cornehlsen and Bob Ramage and the good news came out that Bud had just become an assistant vice president of American Express Co. A follow-up letter from Paul also tells that Wen Barney is now fully recovered from cardiac troubles of a few months back, that he saw Ben Leavitt, who still holds forth at the University of Florida, on occasion of "directing photography on a picture that involved shooting, most intimately and therefore most interestingly, alligators, cottonmouths, thousands of ibis, egrets, heron and other birds and animals native to Florida." He also saw, en route, Bill and Adelaide Henretta at their new home at 454 Sullivan Road, Statesville, N. C., and learned of their new toy manufacturing business called Playworld Toys, -Inc.
Ed Coddington, chairman of the history department at Lafayette College, addressed the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society of Wilkes-Barre, Penna., late last May and the title of his lecture was "Wyoming Valley Troops at Gettysburg." Ed is an authority on the history of the Civil War and is the author of a forthcoming book on the Battle of Gettysburg. In early June, Dud Orr was the commencement speaker at St. Anselm's College in Manchester and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. A little later in June, the Merchants Mutual Insurance Co. announced the appointment of Ed (EdmundS.) Harris as assistant secretary of the company. His previous duties have been enlarged to include the developing and servicing of special risk accounts in Massachusetts in addition to being special agent in charge of Eastern Massachusetts territory and Rhode Island. He entered the company's employ in 1930 and has served in the various units of the company. He is a past president of the 1752 Club. Late June brought word that DavidDudley of Dedham, Mass., had been appointed music instructor at the King Philip Regional District School in Franklin, Mass. After graduating, Dave attended the Boston University School of Music and later taught in the Newton Public Schools. He has a broad background in the music field having been arranger for several name bands. MidJuly brought word that Dick Clark had been appointed a member of the Gloucester (Mass.) Planning Board for a five-year term. Upon graduation from Harvard Law School in 1932, Dick entered his father's law office in Gloucester and has practiced there for the past 27 years, with the exception of nearly two years in naval service during WW 11. Dick is vice president of the Essex County Bar Association. Daughter Ann is now Mrs. Warren Mansur; Dick Jr. will enter his sophomore year at Harvard this fall; and Paul will be a junior in Gloucester High School.
With the news that Coach Blackman is changing the offense for the Ivy League title defense this fall, it will be extra interesting to watch for Carter Strickland's son Seth '60 (6'-3" and 218 lbs.) at right end and son Carter '62 (6'-3" and 210 lbs.) backing up DeHaven at center.
As mentioned last June, mark down June 13, 14 and 15, i960, for the 30th Reunion in Hanover and we hope that you will be able to take in some of the pre-reunion gettogethers being planned between now and then in various parts of the country. Special word of those of you who are coming to the Yale game and can come around to your secretary's for a drink after the game - drop a line, so indicating (see address above column), and we'll send you a card telling you how to get there from the Bowl. Do it soon as the mails aren't as fast as they used to be!
Secretary, Center Rd., R.F.D. 4 Woodbridge, Conn.
Treasurer, 2 Gateway Center, Pittsburgh 22, Pa.
John Moxon '29, formerly executive vice president, on July 1 assumed the post of president of the Carpenter Steel Co. of Reading, Pa., one of the country's largest and oldest producers of specialty steels. In addition, he also became president of Carpenter Steel of New England, Inc., the company's subsidiary in Bridgeport, Conn. Before joining Carpenter in 1941, he was associated for fourteen years with the Guaranty Company of New York, and then was a trust officer with the former Guaranty Trust Co. of New York. His son John is a junior at Dartmouth.
