1932
It is a pleasure, after a number of years in which this column has contained no news of him, to record a recent visit to yr. sec'y from Sterling Treat Apthorp. Appie has been with Standard Oil of Ohio since 1933, until last June engaged in marketing and research. Since then he has been Industrial Relations staff assistant on special assignment. One of the assignments, which brought him into this area, was to study the intricate problem of job evaluation, and Appie will head up the SOO job evaluation program during the next few years. With 7000 employees he has his work cut out for him. He brought with him pleasant news of Alice, and pictures of Sterling Jr. (aged 9 1/2), Susan Ward (6), and Nancy Day, who was a year old this October.
Mary Chandler, that sharp-eyed scanner of the news-sheets, sends in an item which has all the savour of a mystery story. It all started in Algeria, where Lt. Comdr. E. B. Meader had charge of a naval station. After a while the commander began to ship to this country, it was alleged, a series of wooden boxes marked as containing "antique weapons" garnered in North Africa. When the commander himself returned, he began to be shadowed by a hawk-eyed officer of Naval Intelligence: a lean, blond gent who had had a lot of practice in shadowing, as one of the members of District Attorney Tom Dewey's Homicide Squad back in the Thirties. Well, to make a long story shorter, the commander was presently involved in court-martial proceedings. Reason: the boxes marked "antique weapons" actually contained machine guns, automatic rifles, bayonets, and live ammoall modern, all serviceable, all swiped (it is alleged) from the U. S. Government. The hawk-eyed Naval Intelligence shadower: Lt. Carroll A. Boynton of your own class.
The pleasant old harbor city of Portsmouth, N. H., was the scene of the marriage on August la last of Mrs. Ann Treadwell of Bronxville to Lt. Frank Peyser USNR. Ken Kendall was best man, and the wedding was solemnized at Little Harbor Chapel. After he gets out of the Navy Frank will return to the practice of law. Another August wedding of interest to class members was that of Chuck O'Neill to Cornelia Rockwell in Paris, France.
The boys are still getting promoted, and deservedly, too. Latest earners of higher insignia are Major Dave Kirby, Major Ed Truex, Capt. Steve Butterfield, Capt. Bill Sauer, Major Lindsay Beaton, Capt. John Wright, and Lt. John Clark. Guy Cruse is an architect at 49 Federal St., Boston. Harry Rowe works for Houghton-Mifflin Books at 2 Park St., Boston. Hank Kingdon now inhabits Indianapolis, at 5840 Winthrop Ave. Bob McConnochie lives at 6 Gerlach Place, Larchmont, N. Y. John Mcßae is in the nation's capital, 2720 Wisconsin Ave. Capt. A 1 Gerould has a very complicated address which adds up to the fact that he's bee-busy in Berlin, Germany. Ronald Olmstead is treasurer of the Utica Drop Forge and Tool Corporation at Utica 4, New York. Graham Butler is an account for the Parker Pen Company in Janesville, Wise. Johnny Croly is still down in Tucson (3849 De Soto). Bill Cole, one of our outstanding young diplomats, is foreign service officer at the American Legation in the Conquering Lion of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa. Charlie Boak lives at 220 Broad St., Harrisburg, Pa. Frank Jaburek (long time no hear from) lives at 3327 Euclid Ave., Berwyn, 111.—an avenue laid out on geometrical principles. Elmer Mather lives at 15 Avalon Place, Wethersfield, Conn. Chuck Meyers is in Mt. Bernon N. Y. (96 Parkway West), and Stu Thatford at 37 Glenwood Road, Baltimore 21.
Bo Wentworth is out of the Army after much foreign service, and may be reached at Room 1801, 80 Maiden Lane, N. Y. C. j.. On the desk here is a swell letter from Whip Walser describing how the Yanks moved in on the Nips, but that will have to await a later issue.
My kingdom for some more news of you lads in khaki, blue, field green, and mufti. "You caint build no walls," as the feller says, "withouten you got bricks." You send the bricks and I'll stick them together with a fair grade of mortar.
Secretary, 178 Prospect Ave., Princeton, N. J. Treasurer, 7 North St., Old Greenwich, Conn.
