1923
The cliff-dwelling contingent of the class uncorked the '43-'44 season on the thirteenth of last month with another of the Dutch Treat evenings initiated last year. Held at the Dartmouth Club in New York, these informal, no-reservations-in-advance events snare a growing attendance, because there's no obligation to spend the entire evening, or even to remain for dinner. October's Dutch Treat party showed a very respectable turnout (numerically speaking, at least). Johnny Moore usually starts the ball rolling, and Al Whaley keeps it moving by sending out the notices.
Sherm Baldwin writes, "At the annual meeting of The Dartmouth Club of Worcester County, George Mason was electedvice president, and Chick Burke to the executive committee." Says he ran into George and Jo Weston and their two sons, George Fuller (fresh off his Gleasondale, Mass., farm), Maj. Stan Ungar from Westover Field, and Ralph Duffy, all at the Holy Cross game. Speaking of Ralph Duffy, Sherm says that in the forthcoming elections in Worcester, Ralph runs for the Board of Aldermen, totally unopposed. So it seems Worcester is in for a good, clean administration, whether they like it or not. Congratulations, Ralph!
On Friday the is, the Alumni Council will begin its annual fall meeting in Boston. Announcement of the meeting includes the statement that "Carl A. Gray '23 of Plainville, Conn., nationally known authority on vocational planning, has kindly consented to... . tell the group about the noted 'Connecticut Plan,' also known as the 'Gray Plan,' of which he is the author and which has attracted such wide attention as a practical plan for solving vocational problems of both the war and post-war periods."
Another social planner in our ranks is Tom Norton, who, after graduation, taught tor three years at Brown, then went to Columbia where he received his Ph.D. in 1932. Tom's field is economics and the administration of labor problems. He has been commissioner of the N. Y. State Board of Mediation, executive secretary of the Shipbuilding Stabilization committee of OPM, member of the Federal Advisory Council on Social Security, and industrial consultant of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Department of Labor. Now on leave from the University of Buffalo where he holds a professorship in economics, he is vice chairman of the National War Labor Board, with offices in New York. Tom married Miss Verna Cutler in 1927. They have two children, Joyce and Thomas Lowell Jr., and live at 38 Manchester Road, Tuckahoe, N. Y.
More news from Cleveland tells of Spike Hamilton's efforts to develop orchestras a little faster than selective service breaks 'em up. He's now working with his third group since the war started, and has plans ready for a fourth if needed. He has directed the WGN staff orchestra in Chicago, written many songs, and is heard over a mutual coast-to-coast hookup eight times a week.
Dr. Ralph Noble, Vermont Commissioner of Education, is out in front on anticipating post-war educational problems. His talk on the subject high-lighted the summer conference of state school superintendents at Randolph Center.
Maj. Jim Taylor has been named chief surgeon of the Army Air Force Hospital in Greensboro, N. C. He left his private pracjoin the Army Medical Corps. You'll remember that Jim served for a year in France in the first World War and was discharged with the rank of first lieutenant. He later joined the Navy, which he left in 1930 with the rank of lieutenant (jg). Jim's wife and daughter are with him at the Greensboro post.
Pictured in a "slick" magazine with a gorgeous gal before a microphone, Horace Taylor's background is a huge U.S.O. banner, showing that Horace is employing his rare talents in a good cause.
Lt. Bill Taylor o£ Port Washington, L.I., calls his home-port New Bedford. And "somewhere in the south Pacific," recently, he found a retrospective note in the name of a passing Navy tug. Looking twice before he could believe it, he saw
"Menemsha" painted on her boards. Menemsha's pretty close to New Bedford, and to unpronounceable.
And now the rest of you Taylors will have to wait a bit, until we can start a special "Taylor Topics Column" or "Taylor Club News" or something of the sort.
Never mind that "corporal" business any more. It's Sergeant Win Weser now. Win is still in Hq. Btry., 427 th AAA Bn. at Fort Brady, Mich., but he's been transferred from personnel to operations work, and is happy about the change.
More promotions and some changes of address coming up next month.
Secretary, 84 Hillside Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y, Treasurer, 32 Ridgeland Terrace, Rye, N. Y.
