1937

When Al Bryant was writing these notes modesty prevented the listing of his own accomplishments, but now the wraps are off, and we may quote from the Stamford, Conn., paper announcement that a Claflin University Club concert would feature a soloist who was president and leader of the Dartmouth Glee Club some 25 years ago. Al also has sung with the Juilliard Choral Group in New York, the paper pointed out, was a soloist at one of the Boston Pops Orchestra's concerts on the Esplanade, and has sung in several musical comedies and operettas. In December he appeared with the Delphi Opera repertory group in a presentation of "Hansel and Gretel."

Election returns are still coming in. Last month we reported that Democrat Tom McIntyre was established in Washington after his Senate victory in New Hampshire. What we overlooked was the victory of Republican Bob Barry, one of the two honorary members of the Class of '37, when he carried New York's 27th District in Westchester and Putnam Counties to be re-elected to his third term in Congress.

Meanwhile down in Maryland Sam Dillon, apple grower turned politician, won election to the Maryland House of Delegates in a campaign that involved more than 5,000 house calls. Sam informed Washington County voters he had lived all his life in the county "except for school and college — Mercersburg Academy and Dartmouth College (1937 cum laude A.B.) - and three and one-half years in the amphibious forces of the Navy - Bizerte, Gela, Salerno, Anzio, Southern France, and Okinawa."

"At the present time," he continued, "I am an orchardist - Green Lane Orchards — and an innkeeper - The Alexander Hotel. I also serve as director of the Hancock Bank and a trustee of the Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies. I have been president of the National Peach Council, representing peach growers in 30 states, the Maryland Horticultural Society, and the Hancock Rotary Club. I helped found the Hancock Library and was a trustee of both the Washington County Free Library and the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts from 1941 to 1954."

What Sam might have added was the old saying that if you want a job done, give it to a busy man. Apparently the voters felt that way, and in January Sam began his term at Annapolis.

One further note on the Bud Butterworth saga; a snapshot of Bud and family dressed in fur parkas, scrunched under an Eskimo skin boat on the shore of Point Barrow, Alaska, last summer.

Carl Erdmann writes that he and Carolyn are looking forward to son Lee's graduation at Hanover next June, and that daughter Chris is happy at Vermont College in Montpelier.

Inland Homes Corporation, manufacturer of low cost homes, has announced the selection of John Lindsay as western division sales manager. John will be based at Inland's Clinton, lowa, plant. He'll be responsible for recruiting and training district salesmen and supervising the servicing of Inland's builder-customers in the western division. Before joining Inland, John was division sales manager for National Homes Corp. in Tyler, Texas. He has also been self employed as a project builder.

It is a temptation to print warmed-over Christmas news letters, but we are reluctant to do so without knowing how wide a class circulation they may have received already.

Russ Stearns, in Washington on his sabbatical, makes a pitch for the local Milford, N. H., newspaper to run wife Lee's column on home cooking. We are holding out until we get some samples, preferably brownies, with plenty of chocolate, and a little on the gooey side. Margie Stearns is a junior at Smith and a Zoology major. Steve is a freshman at the University of Vermont and Jonathan is a freshman at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Md.

Don McKinlay writes from Denver that he and Barbara have reached what he calls the "Dispersion Point." This is not as serious as it sounds; it means their children are scattered, with Sue a freshman at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill.; Dave a sophomore at Thomas Jefferson High School, and Tom in the sixth grade at Garland Country Day School. He adds that "the practice of law, tennis and skiing, not to mention my wonderful family, keep me out of some mischief - but not away from college admissions, teacher pay problems, court modernization legislation, fund raising for various institutions and THE party."

One final thought: with our son Peter a senior at Dartmouth it has not been difficult to find excuses to visit Hanover, but nine times out of ten we find ourselves there on a football weekend or late Sunday night. The tenth time was last month when Patty and I spent two days seeing the college "in depth," as they say.

Next time you are in Hanover you will tour the Hopkins Center, of course, and probably marvel at the expanse of playing field under the arch of that unbelievable field house, but if you haven't done so already, take time to explore a little further. Get someone to show you through the New Medical School complex, from its new dormitories to its electron microscope. Wander up to the computer room on the top floor of the new Math-Psych building. Go down to Thayer School and try to catch Dean Myron Tribus long enough to get caught up in his dream to develop an engineering program "so good that the big schools will have no choice but to follow our lead." Make an opportunity to hear Dean Waldo Chamberlain discuss plans for the summer program.

The old college is going places. It is developing the physical plant necessary to do the kind of job it wants to do, it is attracting the young, dynamic, and imaginative faculty, it is moving ahead into a frightening, exciting world - and we wish we were eighteen years old and starting all over again.

Secretary, Mt. Vernon St., Milford, N. H.

Treasurer, 133 East 79th St., New York 21, N. Y.