1930
WOODSTOCK, OCTOBER 18-19, .1963
Hear! Hear! (and heed) the clarion call to our informal gathering in this, our 34th (gad!) year out of Dear Old. That's a trite way to put it, but seriously, Ed Butterworth and his committee of 100 have flooded the mails with inducements to attend, to which it is hoped you have responded in unprecedented numbers, and this should indeed be a very satisfying interim reunion, coupled with a meeting of the Class Executive Committee on the afternoon of the 18th. If you haven't made a reservation at the Woodstock Inn, come along anyhow, join the fun as only Ed can concoct it, and every effort will be made, by the committee, to tuck you in somewhere.
The summer has been newsy as far as 1930 is concerned, yet there does not seem to have been anything tremendously startling. Horst Orbanowski has been out sailing his Atlantic class boat, Ann, again, all over Long Island Sound, and winning his share of weekly races. Charlie and Ann McDonough took another vacation trip to Spain and remembered your secretary with a card extolling the food in Madrid. Sam Stayman has continued to be in the contract bridge news, placing third in the Life Masters' pair championship held in Los Angeles early in August, and in New York in lune, as a member of a 4-man team, winning for the second successive year the Curt H. Reisinger Cup.
The Governor, of course, is a daily news subject and our space easily could be filled with political matters in which he is concerned. We have intended to minimize political affairs in this column, particularly those involving Democrats, and consequently mention only two items about Nelson. Some or all of his art collection has been filmed by NBC for a special color television show of five such collections, to be presented some time this winter. On June 10 Nelson drove a gold finished Impala off the assembly line at General Motors' plant in Tarrytown, the 50,000,000th vehicle produced by the Chevrolet Motor Division.
Good news from Chicago this summer was the announcement that Newell Rumpf has been named president of the Harris Trust and Savings Bank of that city. He's had a steady increase in responsibilities since joining the bank after graduation. In 1943 he was elected assistant cashier and three years later moved up to assistant vice president. In 1948 he was made a vice president and just two years ago, senior vice president. Newell also has a busy life away from the bank as director of the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry, the Methodist Old Peoples Home, and Clark Equipment Company, plus trustee responsibilities for the Chicago Wesley Memorial Hospital and the Provident Hospital and Training School.
"In grateful appreciation by the Jewish community of Rochester for distinguished leadership and exemplary devotion to the community welfare." So reads a plaque presented to Leon H. Sturman at the annual dinner of the United Jewish Welfare Fund. This sums up Lee's 30 years of volunteer service in several separate organizations, and he was quoted: "If you take no part in community service, you've lost something. These things are important events in your lifetime and you can't afford to miss them. It's a sense of participation in the challenges of the age."
Fred Page is another man engaged in com- munity service, presently heading the Moun- tainside Hospital Planning and Development Committee, Montclair, succeeding the late Josh Davis '27. Fred was a member of the Glen Ridge Town Council for six years, and of the Board of Adjustment for a suc- ceeding six years. The hospital project is implemented by its Development Fund, a continuing fund-raising plan whereby sup- port for capital improvements is obtained without the necessity of periodic intensive community-wide campaigns.
Another classmate giving of his time to community effort is Dr. George Lord who has been named assistant campaign manager for the 1963-64 Sanford-Springvale (Me.) United Fund.
And one more - Stew Warner, community leader and veteran United Community Chest campaigner, has been named general chairman of the 1964 fund drive in Paterson. Stew is president of Warner Woven Label Company in Paterson, and has served in various capacities with the Greater Paterson Council of Churches, the Broadway Baptist Church, YMCA, Salvation Army, Eastern Baptist College of St. Davids, Pa., and the New Jersey Bank & Trust Company.
Back in July, my home town paper printed a list of amateur golf champions of New Hampshire over the years, and it was interesting to remember that Hank Ekstrom won the title three times — in 1929, 1932 and 1933. The only other recognizable Dartmouth names in the list, going back to the first tournament in 1906. were the Proctors, son and father, in 1923 and 1924, respectively.
Sincere and hearty congratulations to KirtMeyer, appointed vice president and manager of Macy's Herald Square store as of August 1. He is commuting to New York these days to Penn Station; we don't run into him on the trains any more and haven't been able to offer congratulations in person. Our chairman reports further on Kirt, that his name appears on a large bulletin board outside the excavation for the new Macy store in downtown New Haven, and that the application to the State Liquor Commission for its liquor permit was made in his name. Just how this may work, we don't know, but obviously he is a good man to know.
One morning in July while buying a film in a store in Barnstable on the Cape, we encountered Gordon Hoxie, who turns out to be an old-timer of about 40 summers in Dennis. We had a pleasant chat with Gordon and Betty, who seemed somewhat concerned that son Chris was really wearing himself out with 14-hour days in the scenery construction and shifting crews of the Dennis Playhouse.
Gordon Shattuck has been appointed cotton fiber specialist by the Strathmore Paper Company of West Springfield, Mass., with which he has been associated nearly 30 years, the past few in charge of the company's purchasing operations. This is good news for the last previous word about Gordon had to do with a heart attack he had suffered, and this indicates a satisfactory recovery.
Fran Horn, president of the University of Rhode Island, was Commencement speaker at the Quinnipiac College graduation and guest speaker at the Cum Laude awards meeting at Tabor Academy. In June he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Brown University. In the citation read by President Keeney of Brown his bold voice in educational policies was recognized; as a Dartmouth man might have turned the particular phraseology used, Fran had been heard as "Vox clamantis in metropolis." Fran has been elected a trustee of Windham College, Putney, Vt. In other academic locales we noted that Meade Alcorn was the Commencement speaker at the Low-Heywood School graduation in Stamford, and that Charlie Rauch spent a week at Brown, teaching at the Graduate School of Savings Banking.
Tom Donovan, who has taught English at Mount Hermon School since our graduation, has been honored by the award of an Independence Foundation chair established by the Philadelphia-based fund, formerly known as the Donner Foundation. The five preparatory schools to which its grants for similar purposes have been made were chosen on a number of criteria, collectively characterized as measures of "educational vitality."
Fred Scribner has been elected to the Alumni Council as a member-at-large for a three-year term. He is credited with having received honorary degrees of Doctor of Laws from five colleges, including Dartmouth.
Since the previous class notes were written the deaths of Hank Embree, Tom Dunnington, and Paul Cusano have been recorded, and In Memoriam notices appear in either this issue or the next. We shall all miss Tom's friendly presence at our class gatherings, while in Hank's passing, both the Class and the College have lost a real stalwart, a loving son of Dartmouth, for which no task he might perform was ever refused.
Not to dwell at length on the attrition in the class, nevertheless, it is a sobering subject. We have obtained some detailed actuarial data covering the 37 years of our class history, which we will summarize in a later issue when news items prove to be fewer and farther between.
Hope to see a record number of '30 guys and gals in Woodstock on October 19th.
1930 Political Power: New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller in Washingtonholds a jovial reunion with classmatesand U.S. Congressmen Bob McClory (l),Illinois, and Herm Schneebeli, Penna.
Secretary, 30 Boxwood Dr. Stamford, Conn.
