1923
Sherm Baldwin writes that Metty Morse dropped in on him recently and they had a good old home week. Metty is manager of Purchasing, a Conover-Mast publication in New York, lives in Larchmont when he's not aboard his sailboat on Long Island Sound. Metty's daughter entered Abbott Academy in Andover'this fall.
Ralph Duffy, whose rapid rise to political prominence in Worcester has made a lot of good news in these columns, was recently reelected President of Worcester Area Council of the Boy Scout organization in which he has been very active for a. number of years.
On the receiving end when promotions were passed around, Bill Streight is now a captain. How about dropping us a line on it, Bill?
Jim Young, who suffered the loss of his wife last year, is with the John T. Slack Corp., of Springfield, Vt., where he is living with his son and daughter. Things don't move so fast up there that Jim can't find time to write a few letters, so scribble a line to him and say "hello."
Doctor Art Scullion who's been on the sick list for quite a long time just answered a request for some information to bring us up to date on his activities since '23. Art graduated from U. of Maryland Medical School in 1926, interned at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York till 1928, when he established his present offices at Cliffside Park, N. J. He married Marie C. Hellstern in 1938, was made a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1942, and is now visiting surgeon in several New Jersey hospitals. In addition to his medical practice( Art is also active in the United National Bank of Cliff side Park where he is a vice president and director.
L. A. Partridge '11 sends us a clip from the Hartford Times about his friend and "our boy" Charlie Rice. The clip quotes a commendation received by Charlie in a newsletter from the "New Guinea Beach Club." The tribute reads: "He left the cleanliness of that New England city, its neat lawns and pleasant houses for a thatched hut in New Guinea, working from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. because he can thereby give definition to a deeply ingrained moral purpose, and not least because his job allows him intense human satisfaction." Some appreciation of Charlie's devotion to his worjc can be gained from the comment which followed: "Mr. Rice, a Red Cross Field Director, handled 750 cases during a month and was able to close 549 of them, an enviable record considering the variety of the cases and the distance and difficulties involved."
"Lyme" Armes '12, another of the faithful who are keeping a watchful eye on their friends in '23, writes, "It'may be old news to you, but if not, you'll get a lift out of this: your old campus classmate, Sgt. Bob Maxwell, is one of the comparatively see-lect few Yanks on the fighting front in Russia .... picked for the very hush-hush expedition of men who established those shuttle-bomber bases behind the Russian battlelines in twice- fought-over country not yet identified."
Jim Broe sends voluminous clippings from Boston and Brockton papers reporting the appointment for life, by the Governor, of Luke Callan as Judge of the 4th District Court (Middleboro) of Plymouth County. Jim says, "You will recall Luke with his red sweater .... he will make a whale of a good judge because he has the maximum, of toler- ance and good sense.... as Middleboro is located on the way to Cape Cod, it is well that '23 has a Judge thereabouts." Congratulations, Luke, and years of success to you!
Chick Burke and his family have moved from Worcester to their new home in Princeton, Mass. Chick recently gave a talk on black-market operations in gasoline, but maintains that isn't the reason he moved. Must be true, for all accounts say the speech was great.
"From authoritative sources"—to wit, Woody Gauss, Bill Whipple and Brooks Palmer—comes the latest word of Stan Ungar. Stan, former Park Avenue physician and now a lieutenant colonel and flight surgeon with the 9th Air Force, has been wounded by a sniper's bullet and will receive the Purple Heart. He had previously been decorated with the Air Medal. Some of you have probably read newspaper accounts of Stan's discovery of vermin and filth throughout Nazi military estab- lishments in France. With Stan when he was wounded was Lt. Col. Richards Vidmer, former sports writer. They were both struck by the same bullet.
If it weren't for our friends in the other classes (as well as a few faithfuls in our own), there would many a time and oft be slim pickings in this column, such is the extreme reticence and innate modesty of '23! Which is to say that Ernie Earley tells us Jim Doyle has recently been elected president of the Brake Lining Manufacturers Association. Congratulations, Jim, and may you always be able to stop without a skid.
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