1912*
Jim Fitzpatrick writes Pett Pettingell from Apollo, Pa., under a letterhead which lists paint, roofing, glass, lamps, pipes and fittings, fishing tackle and ammunition, that his "letterhead is not as fancy as GriffGriffin's, but hope in time to work up tothe tinsmith line and hair business, but ama bit doubtful if we ever reach the windmill stage."
Griff Griffin's letterhead referred to by Fitz reads as follows: "Hardware, agricultural tools, plumber and tinsmith, dealer in stoves, furnaces, boilers, radiators, windmills, tanks, pumps, pipe fittings, bathroom supplies, paints, oils, fertilizers, lime, hair, cement, grass seed and garden seed." Incidentally, Griff is judge of the local police court.
Mary Knapp is one of the directors of the Aloha Camp, and active manager of Aloha Hive at Lake Fairlee, Vermont.
Roy Lewis writes that it is so long since he has played golf that he doesn't even know what his handicap is. He hasn't even looked at the new set of clubs he won last year, he is so busy scratching to pay college bills, mowing the grass, and weeding flower gardens. His two girls are at Skidmore. Mary is taking a five-year nursing course, and left last July for hospital training, after which experience she will go to Cornell, Yale School of Nursing, Presbyterian at New York and other places. Betty is taking the lab technician's major, and they are both enthusiastic.
Chick McElwain announces a new partnership for the general practice of law under the firm name of Carroll, McElwain and Ballantine, with offices in the Kentucky Home Life Building, Louisville, Ky.
Doc O'Connor was Commencement speaker at the Tuskegee Institute, and announced the grant of $161,350 for the establishment of a great infantile paralysis center for colored people, at Tuskegee. Your Secretary has a copy of Doc's address, which was written on the subject of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, of which he is President. The HartfordTimes of August 11 published a picture of President Roosevelt, together with the chairman of the committee for the celebration of the President's birthday at Hyde Park, N. Y„ handing a check for $1,329,- 100.36 to Doc for use in his National Foundation. Doc's speech is now reprinted in pamphlet form, and was the subject matter of an editorial in the August number of American Business Survey.
Dick Remsen's second son, Bill, won the highest honor in a class of 128 at Choate School last May,-the so-called "Seal Prize," in recognition of his outstanding contribution to his school in his sixth form year. Bill has been president of his class for two years, and will go to Hanover this fall. Ray Tobey was one of the happiest people in Wallingford after the prize was given out.
Joe Richards sends word from Harvard, Massachusetts, that he has a new-born son.
Your Secretary talked with Brian Robie at Los Angeles. He is a musician and musical shorthand teacher, and goes deep-sea fishing at San Pedro and Redonde.
Bill Shapleigh writes from Kansas City that after 18 years in the mid-west and 15 years with the organization for which he has been consulting engineer, some time next month he is coming home to Portland, Maine, to start a valuation department with the Cumberland County Power & Light.
Hen Stevens attended the Hanover holiday last July, where he also helped initiate an educational film service. Hen has a fine orchard of Mcintosh apples at Durham, where he is a professor at the University of New Hampshire.
Tabe Taber's son, Elwin Jr., is with the W. T. Grant Company at Beaver Falls, Pa.
Hap Wanner has a new address at 5017 Greenwood Avenue, Chicago, 111.
Red (Ralph H.) Whitney has a new address with B. F. Goodrich Cos., Akron, Ohio.
Your Secretary has a letter from Ralph M. Buck, better known as "Bucky." His only son, Samuel Lloyd, was married on May Ist of this year to Miss Hazel Olander of Houlton, Maine. Sam is connected with Bucky's "Plywood Corporation" in the mill at Houlton. The daughter, Betsy Louise, now years old, spent a very busy summer at the Belmont Hill Day Camp, and is now entering the first grade of the Belmont Day School. Bucky is still President of the "Plywood Corporation" with general offices at 250 Stuart Street, Boston, and mills at Houlton and Patten, Maine. Bucky writes that he would be delighted to have any of the gang drop in at any time, preferably just before luncheon.
The Secretary was pleased to have John Hunt and his wife, Celia, call as they motored through Rochester on their return from a vacation in Maine. Unfortunately, the Secretary was not at home, but John was good enough to follow it up with a letter. The Hunts moved to Rochester, Massachusetts, on April 18, 1939, and John is serving in the Rochester-Lakeville Larger parish, which is twenty miles across, and comprises three distinct parishes, all Congregational. John's Sunday schedule is to travel four miles to hold a Church School at nine A.M., thirteen more miles to preach at 11:30, four miles for an evening service, and Christian Endeavor. He says it is fortunate that he can use the same sermon at each church. On Friday afternoon they travel nine miles for a Junior Endeavor. Celia has three Ladies' Aids in which she has to keep the peace. John is broad-minded, for once a month he has a Larger-Parish Get-Together in the community hall, and ends up with a dance. John says that at 53, he has tackled the hardest job he has had. He lives right out in the rural in a parsonage built in 1838, after the model of Noah's Ark, and in which they are still promising to install a heating plant. His son Leland went to Dartmouth in 1930, and after a year and a half transferred to Middlebury, and graduated in 1935. Then he entered Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and did three years of work. A year ago last August he married a Middlebury graduate of '37, and they are now working in the Congregational Church of South Amherst, Mass. John's other son, Mansfield, graduated from Bowdoin in '37, and then went to the Harvard School of Education. Since then, he has been fighting his way through the University of Maine for special courses in education, and is now teaching in Mexico, Maine. To have purchased all that education on a minister's salary marks John as one of the first-class financiers of 1912.
Barrow Lyons writes from the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington.
Ralph W. Tackaberry (Tack), who is with Howard T. Beaver and Associates, Fund Raising Consultants at Chicago, recently completed a campaign in Milwaukee for the Curative Workshop. Tack wrote Doc that an advantage which he enjoys in his work of fund-raising for eleemosynary institutions is the rendering of service for fundamentally sound and much needed endeavors.
Secretary Rochester, N. H.
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