1929*
Karl Michael has finally done it! The other night at Hanover his swimming team came from behind with a victory in the last event of the meet, the 440-yard relay, to defeat Harvard 39 to 36—Dartmouth's first victory over Harvard in the water.
At last week's Alumni Dinner in Boston the following showed up: Phil Rising, Dick Sanders, Squeek Redding, Hal Ripley, Walt Gutterson, Gus Herbert, Don Dudley and Judge Jaquith. Of all these old men the two whose appearances haven't changed at all since Hanover in June 1929 are half-miler Rip, a Tel. & Tel. executive now with a wife, a boy, a girl and a dog, and Outing Club Dick, who has recently forsaken his native St. Paul for Cambridge and a fine new job with J. L. Hammett Co., text book publishers.
Jim Armstrong of Wilton, Maine, agent for Hartford Fire Insurance Co., has three children: Jimmy, 8, Dick, 5, and Madelyn, 7 months. For recreation up that way they go mid-winter bobcat hunting, than which there is nothing tougher.
Percy Russell has become a resident partner in the Washington office of the law firm of Kirkland, Fleming, Green, Martin & Ellis. Also to his recent credit is Percy, 3rd, born last December 3, who joined the company of Patricia Howard, age 31/2
Other credits recently posted: Nancy Lee Cooley, born Sept. 17, 1941, Buffalo, N. Y. (Al) John Megathlin Wilson, born Sept. 27, 1941, Hyannis, Mass. (Ken) Gertrude Ann Corrigan, born Nov. 1941, Bradenton, Fla. (Slim) Thomas Fitzhugh Soriero, born Dec. 18, 1941, Austin, Tex. (Cal) Edward Stephen Walsh, born Jan. 4, 1942, Baltimore, Md. (Eddie) Christopher Coles, born Jan. 26, 1942, Cambridge, Mass. (Bill)
Father Al Cooley doesn't seem a bit discouraged over the turn his automobile business has taken, although he is in the market for a farm, where he can let his two girls run—the older is Karen Elizabeth, born March 7, 1940.
Father Slim Corrigan's Crescent Farm is one of the largest white leghorn poultry breeding plants in the South, producing high quality breeding stock for commer- cial poultrymen in the southeast, as well as eggs for fresh markets. And when it comes to a family, Slim modestly claims the tops, for, in addition to the baby there are the twins, boy and girl, and Michael, 7, and Gene, 8.
Father Ed Walsh's tin can business is in about as much of a turmoil as the rest of us, what with the WPB curtailing the use of tin in cans for beer, coffee, petroleum products, etc. But just watch the old can industry, Ed will find them a substitute. Among other things Ed relates that last December he had a call from that eminent and slightly bald Diagnostician from Boston's Lahey Clinic, Dr. Frank Pray Foster, who was off on a junket that included nosing around at Johns Hopkins; and that things seem to be well by "Ole Purse" in Nashville.
As for young Christopher's father, the Venezuelan Senor Doctor Coles, well, he and Eleanor came up from Caracas shortly before Christmas just to make sure that their son would be born an American (U. S. A.), what with Carl Spaeth and his Pan Americanism making us all the brothers we should have been generations ago. Then, besides the principal business at hand which Eleanor took care of so well, Bill has been operating side trips to Washington and New York in his capacity of general counsel of the Venezuela Development Company, whose Caracas Hotel is nearing completion and the grand opening. Doctor Coles and family plan to return to Caracas soon.
It was referred to in "Information Please" and reported in the press, but it may have escaped general circulation that Carl Spaeth accompanied Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles to the Pan American Conference at Rio de Janeiro.
Marv Braverman spoke before the annual meeting of the American Bar Association held in Indianapolis last September. His subject was railroad reorganizations in which problem he specializes for R.F.C.
Bob Monahan has written an article which is featured in the February issue of American Forests, on winter wartime activities in the National Forests. In January Bob was promoted from Photo Editor to Publications Editor in the Chief Forester's office of the United States Forestry Service.
Red Kennedy has moved self and family (2 boys) to Norwood, Mass., to take on a new job in charge of priorities for the Kendall Cos. of Walpole. Ralph Butler works there too, on market research.
Jim Hodson, secretary of the Washington Railroad Association, recently addressed the Seattle Chamber of Commerce on the subject of "Railroads and Defense."
They say that Charlie Gaynor is writing a show for Sheila Barrett, and that she is currently singing one of his numbers "Why I Don't Want to Sing a Patriotic Song."
Steve Nordblom is in the merchandising department of F. Dittmar & Co. Inc., Philadelphia, manufacturers and importers of surgical instruments, is busy with war contracts. Reports that Eric Burgess, in spite of getting quite bald, has recently been appointed Captain of Supplies, Marine Quartermaster.
Eddie Ellinger is with Union Aircraft Products Corporation, New York, a 24-hour-day, 7-day-week proposition.
Will Torbert's travel business, "The Nomads," begun as an avocation to his teaching, has become so absorbing that he retired from teaching last year to devote all his time to the business. At home he has a year-old son, Ellison Lowrie, who was rugged enough to go on one of the trips last summer. Will reports that Larry Lougee wrote a script and filmed his debut into serious amateur moviedom last summer. "Trappers Reyenge" stars Larry himself as the game poacher.
Johnny Davis reports three children: Jean, 11, Debbie, 6, and Johnny, 2. He manufactures name plates for National Defense, occasionally sees Tom Maynard in Middleboro strolling his baby.
A 1 Downing, after several years with the public accounting firm of Ernst & Ernst has joined the auditing staff of Air Reduction Corporation. A short time ago in Chicago he ran into Charlie King and discovered he was manager of the Chicago district.
Bill Morgan reports a recent New York class dinner attended by Baehr, Brittan, Chinlund, Goldsmith, Griffin, Heath, Hedger, Hubbard, Jamieson, Hewitt, Lougee, Morgan, and Torbett. Bill's present extra-curricular activity is the Air Raid Warden Service which he recommends most highly. "I reached the conclusion that I could be of more help to my wife and child by being on the job outside, than I could in sitting in a blacked-out room, wondering where the next bomb was going to hit and having to depend on somebody else in case they needed help."
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