1923*
By the time this reaches you there won't be any doubt in your minds that the 1942 Alumni Fund campaign is off the mark. Your agent will have beseeched you and Irish Flanigan via his priceless " '23 to U" Green Sheets will have implored you, to dig. To dig promptly! To dig deep!! Have you? Yes—swell!! No—why not?? It would be presumptuous of me to try to add anything to their sincere appeals but as an ex-agent I can speak with feeling when I suggest that you put yourself in the place of that agent. Remember that you are only one of probably 25 men he is following up. Think of the number of letters, notes, post cards, etc. he has to write. And don't forget that it's all extra work for him, that he's got to give some time to the business of making a living too. Did you ever write a letter and not get any reply? Like it? Don't ignore him! Acknowledge his lettera penny post card will do. Let him know what you're going to do and when. Just remember he's got a job to do and that you can help him do it. Give him a break!!
Prior to a few weeks ago I had considered a 100% secretarying performance to consist of nagging a fellow sufficiently to eke out of him a post card or maybe a letter. But now boys I've come up with a super 100%er. This new approach is to flood a fellow's mail slot with letters and post cards to the extent that his wife will get so tired of picking them off the floor that to stop the flood she'll go to the extreme of answering herself. Mrs. Don Russell is the good wife so victimized and crashes through with the information that after a number of years in Philadelphia in the window-screen business she, Don and family (Barbara 14, Don Jr. 10 and Philip 8) hied themselves to Detroit three years ago where Don became associated with E. G. Budd Mfg. Cos. at that time manufacturers of car bodies but now tied up in defense work. Under Don's hobbies Helen listed only golf but that was underlined no less than 18 times so I suspect a bit of golfwidowing to be prevalent in the Russell family. Only trouble now is that since receiving all this good news an address change has come through placing the Russells at 414 Jericho Rd., Abington, Pa. So Helen while we all thank you for this opportunity to hear of you and Don, don't forget we'd like to know about this latest move too!
From way out in his native Spokane we hear from Bob Paterson. By all standards of business and civic attainment it would be more appropriate to say we hear him from Spokane. Vice Pres. Spokane Dry Goods Cos., owner and operating head of The Crescent Department Store, Pres. of the Chamber of Commerce, past Pres. of the Retail Trade Bureau and director of the National Retail Dry Goods Ass'n to mention a few. Bob also announces that his and Mrs. Bob's (Margaret Leonard) only son Robert Leonard will enter Dartmouth in the fall of 1944 which according to my calculation will graduate him on the date of papa's 25th.
Jack Creighton reports in from Newark, Ohio that he is manager of the W. T. Grant store there. Just after leaving Hanover in 1923 Jack joined the United Fruit Cos. and was sent to Costa Rica for three years banana-gathering. 1926 marked his start with W. T. Grant and he has worked up through various departments and smaller stores (last stop Waterloo, la.) to his present position. During this Grant tour he has taken unto himself a wife and three youngsters Elaine 10, David 8, Roger 5. Any of you Ohioans who find yourselves anywhere near Newark will find a big WELCOME on the Creighton door mat.
Hal Fitz our Washington news-scooper crashes through with a description of the annual Washington dinner. Hal lists himself and Gus Meleney as the regular Washingtonians in attendance most ably supported by Pudge Neidlinger, the principal speaker, who delivered one of his usual pride-inspiring talks, Jim Landauer with the Public Buildings Administration arranging the decentralization and moving plans of many government agencies, Kip Couch representing Celanese Corp. on defense contracts, and Tay Smith long-time member of the bank examining staff of F.D.I.C. now stationed in Washington.
Hal Fitz also announced that on Jan. 14th he passed out cigars for William Hal Fitz—number 2 for the Fitz family, Barbara Wilson now approaching her fifth birthday Sherm Clough has jumped from ice-building to ship building i.e. Frigidaire to Bethlehem Ship Building Corp. at Fore River, Mass Spring is here—Hen Moore's daily Boston Herald column has undergone it's usual seasonal transformation from skiing to Rod and Gun .... and just at the time when Hen Perkins, Stan Richmond and the rest of the skiing diehards are shouting that the best skiing of the year is on tap
Phil Bowker has taken his political fighting togs out of moth balls, this time to gun for Congressman George H. Tinkham for his affiliation with the Nye-Wheeler bunch.... the annual town meeting at Lexington, Mass. was held recently and under the able guidance of Arch Giroux, chairman of the board of selectmen, notably adopted a program of wartime economy and tax reduction which it is hoped will serve as an inspiration to other Mass. communities.
Secretary, 8 Fenimore Road, Worcester, Mass. Class Agents, ster St., Brookline, Mass.; JOHN E. MOORE, Monroe Calculating Machine Company, 11 Park Place, New York, N. Y.; CHARLES J. ZIMMERMAN, 1 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Ill.
