1934

The times a-changing are, at Dartmouth as elsewhere, but not the weather on the Hanover Plain: it's still unpredictable in early May—balmy one minute, brisk to brusque the next. Or so it struck this aging frame at the May 5-7 Class Officers weekend, at which '34 was represented by chairman Tom Beers and his Mary, treasurer Ed Brown and Barbara, class agent Jake Jacobson and Boots, bequest chairman Art Leonard and Jan, newsletter editor Bill Scherman and Gerri, and your secretary and his newly acquired Mabel.

Weather aside, it was a memorable weekend, information-packed and, if you'll parm the expression, inspiring. The gist of what was discussed at our meetings has since been made known to you by President Kemeny in his four-page report in The Bulletin. For our immediate benefit, however, details were given on the 11-semester Dartmouth Plan by coordinator H. W. Hoisington Jr. '48: on housing arrangements for the men and women of Dartmouth by assistant provost Marilyn Baldwin, and on "the art of admissions" by director Eddie Chamberlain '36. Their talks, plus those by students, Dr. Kemeny, and others, added up to a startling and impressive fact: not only is the College changing, constructively, on virtually every level, but—thanks to computer-aided shortand long-term planning and expert administration—the changes seem to be proceeding with astonishing ease and speed. And, in the opinion of most of the 263 officers of the 68 classes attending, without any loss in the quality of education or in the "Dartmouth experience" that is our common heritage.

My random notes on the Weekend include kudos for Ed Brown, cited as Class Treasurer of the Year, and for Junieand Ann Kneisel and Bub and HelenMcAllister for having produced daughters who will enter Dartmouth this fall as members of the Class of 1976(!) ... the pleasure of meeting Jeff Jackson's brother, Dick, secretary for '39, of seeing Orv Dryfoos' brother, Hugh '40, elected president of the Class Secretaries Association for 1972-3 ... and of spending a delightful evening with Harry and Prue Gilmore at their fabulous, skylit home on Valley Road, and another with Ed and Barbara at their place, a quarter-mile from the Gilmores', on Balch. The get-together at the Browns' was graced by Helen, Alden Clark's widow, and by Bill and Irja Wilson.

Bill, Mary Hitchcock's tennis-playing administrator, looked remarkably fit. Which leads, none too subtly, to Line Daniels' "trust"—in a recent note to Ed Brown—that our treasurer has "continued [his] running, and [is] in good shape." For his own part, Line writes from Bethesda, Md., "I have kept up on swimming, and jog when no pool is available. See GeorgeCollins once in a while and ErnieBarcella taking his daily morning walk as I drive to work. We live only a few blocks apart." George himself reported to Ed some months ago that he "just got back [to Washington, D. C.] from two weeks at our St. Croix 'Business Condominium.' Will be retiring next August and will start out with a safari on 'Casa Chica,' our houseboat, going the Great Circle route to Florida by way of the Erie Canal, Great Lakes, and the Mississippi." And this from Ernie: "Louise and I walk, walk, walk—and are planning our retirement home." (Retirement? What's that, Ernie?)

Leon Lindheim is one, among scores of '34s, who might raise that question. Lee, our leading numismatist was elected executive v-p of Cleveland's Continental Bank on January 31, according to a Plain Dealer item forwarded in March by ArtMoebius of Aurora, O. Art quotes Lee as having heard a fellow-Cleveland banker, Bob Lindstrom, deliver an excellent talk at a Rotary meeting in February. As I was saying just the other day to Dave Hedges,Bob (R.C.) Palmer, and the other bankers in the Class, it's amazing the way you moneymen stick together.

Which of course brings up the Alumni Fund campaign, and the efforts that Agent Jacobson and his 80 aides are making to get us all to support same, generously, ere it closes on June 30. Jake said, as of May 7, that we were doing "fair"—in that many regular contributors were increasing their gifts, but that only slight headway was being made toward enlisting support from the hundred or so guys who didn't give at all last year. Here's hoping, fervently, that before this month ends, each one of us will indicate a practical desire to be a part of the new and better Dartmouth now abuilding.

Busy Jake still had time to send along some non-campaign news: "I recently visited Kansas City and had a two-hour, two-drink private reunion over lunch with Phil Eckels. Since we hadn't seen each other since 1934 we had some misgivings as to whether we would recognize each other in the hotel lobby, but we managed and had a most enjoyable visit. Phil is fine and has four children with two married daughters living in the East, one I believe in Goshen [N.Y.] and the other in Westchester. He has promised to try to make a '34 lunch in New York. [These lunches are held on the second Tuesday of each month, at 12:30 p.m., at the Dartmouth Club. Call Scherman, (212) 350-2262, the day before, if you'd like to attend.]

"I had a pleasant call [Jake continues] from Dick Houck recently when he was making a one-day visit to New York [from Chattanooga, Tenn.] and we had lunch together—believe it or not—at the Princeton Club. Dick is fine after recovering from a ticker problem through the winter and is back working on a limited basis."

Tom Cass, executive vice president and a director of Container Corporation of America, Chicago, has been elected a director of The, General Fireproofing Company, manufacturer of office furniture and equipment. Tom, who organized CCA's first research laboratory, began his career with the company in 1939. Tom was elected vice president in 1958, executive vice president three years later, and a director in 1964. He is in charge of all domestic fabricating operations.

Now, even later news, gleaned from highly personal sources: on May 10, AlanHewitt took half-a-week oS from bookrecording for the blind and those of failing sight to go to Hanover and address drama classes at Hopkins Center. Among recent fan-letters on his recordings, Alan reports, was one from Mrs. Pudge Neidlinger. And on May 27, Maj.-Gen. Clarence Davies USAFR, fresh from two-and-a-half weeks' active duty with SAC, went to Hanover to present the "Davies Cup"—an annual award set up by his friends, Dartmouth and non-Dartmouth alike, in honor of his 60th birthday last March—to the College's undergraduate tennis player of the year.

And a healthy, happy, 38th-after-graduation summer to you all.

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