1934

The discipline of the deadline is difficult enough with just the ordinary temptation to goof off. But what's a fellow going to do when he's confronted with a double-dipped, super-duper distraction - like trying to write this column while, outdoors, autumn tries to lure you with all of its heady beauty and, indoors, a small table radio demands that you listen to the Dartmouth-Harvard game? So, with one eye on the foliage, one ear glued to the radio and two fingers on the typewriter keyboard, here goes....

Laurie Herman, for more than 25 years a top advertising authority on Chicago and Detroit newspapers, has been appointed advertising director of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times and Evening Independent. This is the third time Laurie has heeded the call of the newspaper profession. Previously, he had been with the Chicago Daily News for 18 years, advancing to retail advertising manager. Then, after three years as executive director of the Waxed Paper Merchandising Council, he served 7½ years as advertising director of the Detroit News. The past two years he was a partner in a supervisory investment syndicate. Long prominent in Detroit civic affairs, Laurie also is active in the Newspaper Advertising Executives Association and the Sales and Marketing Executives Association.

MR. PRESIDENT - Sey Dunn, former dean of the college of liberal arts at Alfred University, named new president of Mid-Missouri Associated Colleges, an organization of five mid-Missouri liberal arts colleges. Our congrats to Sey, who has served the academic world with distinction - at Hobart, Gettysburg College, University of Michigan and Alfred.... At hand is the financial statement of the First Michigan Corporation of Detroit, New York, Chicago, Columbus and intermediate points. In the list of voting common stockholders, with the title "President and Director" is the name David H. Callaway.

FATHER-SON HONORS — No sooner had we caught up with the news that DaveHedges had been selected as one of the new members of the Alumni Council than word filtered down from Hanover that his son, Dan '68, had been elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Dan, a government major, has a better than 4.7 scholastic average.

IVY TIE - Al Baldwin's beautiful daughter, Nancy, engaged to Army Pvt. Henry G. McWhinney 3rd of Morristown, N. J. Their nuptials will have an all-Ivy flavor since the bridegroom is a graduate of Princeton and of Harvard Business School.

IVY CONFLICT - The Big Green clash with Harvard was a reminder that the loyalties of the Hank Werner family were badly divided. Hank and one son, Peter '68, watched from the Dartmouth side; son Tom from the other side. Tom's Harvard '71.

REPORT FROM HANOVER - Class Treasurer Ed Brown, who was kind enough to keep score for the absentee Class Secretary, reports that the autumn class dinner following the Penn game was one of the most successful yet. Among the 55 present and accounted for were the Browns, Walt Crandells, Bill Daniells', the Clarence Davies', Buzz Edsons, Bill Emersons, Harry Gilmores, Dave Hedges', Al Hines, Al Jacobsons, Art Leonards, Wit McConnochies, Steve Meigher's widow, Denny; the Rollie Mortons, Nick Nanos', Lee O'Keeffes, Fred Robbes, Bill Schermans, Stan Smoyers, Harry Gilmore, and Bill Wilson.

Sorry we had to miss it. We were off playing hookey in Europe, undertaking a genealogical survey, among other things. For example, we found that (and we take this method of advising Gene) that the name Orsenigo is real big in northern Italy. That's the name of a major metallurgical firm in Milan. And we even found a town named Orsenigo. In a Naples hotel lobby, we chanced to meet and chat with an Air Force colonel (Harold Ostrander) from Southbridge, Mass...., who turned out to be a long-time friend of Jake Edwards. He reported that one of Jake's sons had recently been assigned to Vietnam.

Bob Palmer, vice president and treasurer of Cluett, Peabody & Co. Inc., retiring Dec. 31 after some 33 years with the firm which his father once served as president. Bob, who broke in with the company as an assistant in merchandising shortly after graduation, became a vice president and director in 1946 and moved up to his present position in 1959. Retirement will mean relaxing ina new home at Shreveport, La....

Paul Ebbitt, first in with his class dues, comments that "The letters to the Editor on the Governor Wallace incident were the liveliest reading to appear in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE in 30 years...

A TIME OF SADNESS - From his Mother (Mrs. J. P. McCann) comes the distressing news that Harry McCann's wife Mildred died suddenly on Sept. 2. She had been in failing health for some time. Harry and his two sons - Joe, a former Marine captain and veteran of Vietnam, and 13-year-old Charles, a high school junior - are keeping house in Lynbrook, N. Y. A married daughter, Barbara Yorkis, lives in Washingtonville, N. Y. Harry, whose dad was Class of 1907, is merchandising manager for Sanforize, a division of Cluett, Peabody & Co., New York.

And sadness for Ed Hill, whose beloved Barbara passed on Sept. 18 at Needham, Mass. To Harry and Ed, our deepest sympathy....

Herb Heston, who does a superb job of it for Smith College, teamed up with Cliff Jordan in Hanover at summer's end and ran a one-week school for new development and alumni fund directors - teaching them the fundamentals of fund raising. Herb had 108 "students" from colleges throughout the country. The school was sponsored by the American Alumni Council. Says Herb: "If they didn't learn much about the fundamentals of fund raising, at least they all went home as new devotees of Dartmouth." Herb also is interested in knowing if any '34s have daughters at Smith.

A WISH — May the glow of the Christmas season warm your hearts with happiness and may the New Year be the best of all.

Secretary, 7113 Millwood Rd. Bethesda, Md. 20014

Treasurer, Thayer School, Hanover, N. H. 03755

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