1936
Although Easter is behind us and, the anticipation of warm breezes is everywhere, most of our news is still from the cold winter months. During the Washington's Birthday school vacation week, I managed to pay a brief visit to Hanover and noticed on the Inn's "Dartmouth's In Town Roster" the names of Mr. and Mrs. William Hoffmann. It was a fine week for a winter vacation except that the New Hampshire slopes could have used some additional snow cover. The campus still bore traces of Carnival with crumbling ice sculptures in front of dorms and fraternity houses.
On March 5 the stockholders of the First National Bank of Boston met and elected their Board of Directors including a new member, David Putnam, president of the Markem Corporation of Keene, N.H. If any of your money is now in Dave's hands, rest assured that he has had experience in this field. He is also a trustee of the Cheshire County Savings Bank of Keene and is a member of the boards of Ludlow Corp. of Needham Heights, Mass., and Hussey Manufacturing of North Berwick, Me.
Only a few months ago we reported that Bax Fullerton had been appointed sales manager of the Cleveland Turning Division of Warner and Swasey Co. Actually Bax was made a vice president in October with responsibility for sales. He is a past chairman of the Statistical Committee of the National Machine Tool Builders' Association and the author of two books and several articles dealing with the machine tool industry. Another new vice president is Ralph Butler of Bronxville, N. Y. Ralph has been appointed v.p. and marketing director for Knudsen-Moore Inc. Stamford advertising and public relations agency.
In nearby Greenwich, Conn., the Planning and Zoning Board of Appeals is keeping a firm stand against the onslaught of garden apartments, Minnie Pearl fried chicken stands, and the ubiquitous gas station. All these appeals are faithfully recorded by the secretary, Paul Lynch, a member of the Board since 1961. Paul commutes into New York daily since he is assistant general counsel and assistant secretary of Metromedia.
After a 15-year interval Graham "Pop" Beckel has returned to the teaching staff of the Westfield High School in New Jersey. During the interim period he taught at Queens College for three years and then joined the Croft Educational Services in New London, Conn., where he was editor for classroom teaching materials and subsequently director of educational services. He has authored many social science texts and feels he can only write for young people if he is working with them. The current work in progress is entitled ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council of the United Nations) which reduces to human terms the problems facing all of us throughout the world. Another project is "Great Turning Points in American History," a looseleaf booklet providing techniques, materials, and evaluative criteria tor the teaching of economic, political, and social history.
When it was recently reported that the Reverend Jim Lancaster had assumed new duties as the associate minister of the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ, no mention was made of his home church. Jim will leave South Hadley and will establish his office in the First Congregational Church of Amherst. A service in his honor was held on Feb. 8 at the South Hadley First Congregational Church to recognize his 16 years of service and his new appointment. Jim and his wife, Peggy, live in Granby.
The wedding of Stephanie Brooks, daughter of Ed and Ruth Brooks of New York City, to Donald Elliman Jr. took place on February 21 in St. James Episcopal Church. Among the attendants were the sisters of the bride, Mrs. Peter Pockel and Mrs. John Foehl and her brother, Edwin Brooks 2nd. The reception was held at the Union Club.
The January-February Harvard Business School Bulletin reported on the class of '38 reunion held on Nov. 6 through 11 at the Belmont in Bermuda. Among those attending were Oliver and Mary Brown. Those business school graduates do things right, for they are already planning another reunion in '71 in Hawaii. We hope Ollie has a big travel budget for that year, since '36 will have our 35th reunion in Hanover that June.
The Class Officers meetings will be held in Hanover on May 1 and 2 this year. We always have an informal reunion of '36ers in the area at that time. If you plan to be in the area, please let Phil McInnis, Dana Rd., Hanover, know so we can include you in the group.
It was amusing to read the critical comments on the Dartmouth Players Carnival production of Lysistrata. The consensus was "raunchy," but that reminds me of a Players production some thirty years ago in Robinson which received the same comments. I think it was called "Tom Tyler's Wyfe," written in 1582. On the other hand Dartmouth has been picked as one of the ten colleges to perform in the second American College Theater Festival in Washington, D. C., April 27 through May 12. The performances will be in Ford's Theater and the new University Center Theater of George Washington University. Perhaps we can enlist Dick Spong's services to report on the competition.
Hope spring finds you on stage and enjoying the show. I could use some news.
Secretary, 160 Judson Rd. Fairfield, Conn. 06430
Class Agent, 28 Dunbarton Dr., Nashua, N.H. 03060
