1933
I find the preparation of this column quite confusing. First, since all Alumni Magazine material has to be submitted approximately six weeks prior to publication, I am writing in late January what you will be reading after the middle of March. This is compounded by the fact that I have recently received the January issue, as you have, which I wrote in November, as well as proof for the February issue which I prepared in December.
Furthermore, the temperature here in southwest Florida has been 80 or above every day since the holidays, which is in sharp contrast to January weather in most parts of the country. A note from our class notes editor, Joan Hier, tells me that the morning temperature in Hanover on the day of writing (January 18) was 24 below zero.
To confuse things even more, because of daylight saving time people in this area rising before 8 a.m. are forced to start their day in the dark, and sunset does not occur until 7:15 p.m.
Having assured me during our 40th Reunion of his willingness to be helpful as a "regional reporter," John Faegre has come through with an interesting report on his family, as well as a progress report on the highly successful scholarship program of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of the Northwest, and special notes on classmates in that area.
John reports that his family are fine. His wife Florence is a trustee of Wells College, Aurora, N.Y.; son Chuck '63 is a practicing attorney; daughter Mary is married and lives in Moscow, Idaho; they have four grandchildren (three boys and a girl) and are expecting another soon; John and Florence spent Thanksgiving, 1973 in Idaho.
In 1950 John launched a far-reaching scholarship program for the Dartmouth Alumni Association of the Northwest and he has served as chairman of the Scholarship Fund Committee since its inception. The Fund has total principal of $235,164 (as of July 1, 1973), with an increase of approximately $60,000 during the year ended June 30, 1973. The income of the Scholarship Funds for the corresponding year was $14,000, and $101,165 has been granted to 29 Dartmouth students from that region, entirely from income. The continuing growth and success of the program is assured by the fact that a total of over 240 alumni have agreed to be billed for over $4,700 each year, to add to the principal. This is an outstanding personal accomplishment, John, and a great contribution to the Northwest Association and to the College.
Other '33ers about whom John reported: JimMcFarland is a new director of the Federal Reserve District Bank, as well as chairman and chief executive officer of General Mills, Inc.; Lyman Wakefield is with Piper, Jaffray and Hopwood, a brokerage firm, and he has been treasurer of the Northwest Alumni Association for many years; Wood Foster is partner in the law firm of Oppenheimer, Brown, Leach and Foster; Tom Hale's son, James '62, is in John's law firm, Faegre and Benson; Pete Mankowski retired in 1967 and moved to California (the Sea Ranch, a development community on the seacoast north of San Francisco); FredHelmholz is still associated with the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., and he expects to retire within three years to Cuttyhunk Island, Mass.; and Bill Fobes is district sales manager of Braniff International Airlines.
Bill Dowling joined the ranks of the retired on the first of this month, according to a release from Research Triangle Park, N.C. The announcement came from Burroughs Wellcome Co., of which he had been vice president, secretarytreasurer, and general counsel, as well as a member of the board of directors. Bill joined the company in 1946 as secretary and general counsel after practicing law in Utica, N.Y., and completing his military service. What plans for leisure time. Bill?
Hal Mackey has come up with news that his wife's oldest grandson, Clifford L. Fitzgerald III, has been accepted for early application in the Dartmouth Class of 1978. This is another first for the Class of 1933, as far as I can determine.
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