Class of 1924
Jim Newton, who supposedly went out airing between chapters of his fiction writing, one Sunday afternoon recently, rough tom the police, the Boy Scouts, relatives and the newspaper reporters when he did not return. The front page disappearance on Tuesday was followed by a dispatch next morning that he had returned to his residence in Cambride safe and sound. Jim explained that he had gone on a trip but had not informed his family.
Ted Lamb (dark) of Toledo and one of Ohio's political luminaries rated a "Memo" of Walter Winchell's Girl Friday which gives a clue to his more recent activities—"The Toledo Blade says thanks got information from Ted Lamb, the C. I. O. lawyer."
Fortunately the newspapers have been sufficiently concerned with '24 to provide still another item this month. A benevolent alumnus in Philadelphia, not of the class, forwarded an editorial interview by C. William Duncan of the Philadelphia Public Ledger with Hal Cowley, March 3. By -mere coincidence a recent visitor to Worcester from the research staff of the Columbia Broadcasting Cos. related that his former co-worker at Ohio State, Hal Cowley, was engaged in an educational project with the N. W. Ayer Advertising Agency in Philadelphia. This may account for the locale of the interview first referred to.
The interview, much too long to quote in full, though interesting, does give an extensive insight into Hal's work as professor of psychology and associate in educational research at Ohio State. To Mr. Duncan, Hal divulged his ideas on leadership—"a person going somewherewho can take other people with him." From studies at Joliet Penitentiary, the U. S. Army, and the undergraduate body at the University of Chicago, he concludes that to be a leader, a man must have three traits—self confidence and plenty of it, the quality of making decisions quickly, and the ability to stick to his decisions once they are made.
He breaks sharply with Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, who he claims takes few educators with him in his efforts to "make theAmerican college completely an intellectual institution, concentrating all itsenergies on the training of the mind ofthe student . ... or as the proponentof the German intellectual system, whichprescribes training of the mind of the student and foregoes everything else, whereas the British philosophy is to train notonly the mind but the whole man."
To Mr. Duncan, Hal appears a large man weighing 200 pounds, with prematurely gray hair and clean-cut features, who is widely sought as a consultant specializing in personnel administration in industry and educational institutions, and who currently is assisting two college boards in selecting new presidents.
Dana Haskins got as far as Pinky Booth's office here in Worcester the other day in his travels out of Boston for the Interstate Commerce Commission;
Our records show no word from Pat Donnelly for at least three years. He turns up in Arlington, Mass., 63 Brattle St., with business title of insurance broker.
It should be no breach of faith, but perhaps a source of comfort to many, that Prenny Gallup has placed the sales of Meigs & Cos., his Bridgeport, Conn., readyto-wear store, well ahead of the figures for February and March, 1937. Your scribbler recently thrust Mrs. Spaulding into the Gallup sanctum as a decoy. When he barked "Yes?" (how these department store executives brace themselves for a complaint) we barged in just in time. One need look no further than Prenny's face to find a good reason for his improved business. Certainly he shows that he has been doing some tall hustling.
Ed Spargo, long in the electrical manufacturing business, has resigned to join his father in the Bridgeport Warehouse Cos. Prenny also vouched for the health and good spirits of Stan Lonsdale. The two of them have recounted fond memories these past winter evenings, of a long pleasant week-end together in Walpole, N. H., to attend a summer wedding, which grew into an unexpected summer vacation near Keene and a trip to Hanover. The Gallup sons on two ventures to New Haven this winter have been well imbued with the old Hanover spirit at Yale-Dartmouth basketball and hockey games.
If you all were included on Putty Blodgett's mailing list, you by now have had a chance to order maple sugar, soft or hard, and maple syrup as put up the Blodgett way at Roaring Brook Farm, Bradford, Vt. For the foregoing ad, "my fran'," this column will accept one nip of your syrup free.
Secretary, '12 Haviland St., Worcester, Mass.
