1935
Hope you all had a good vacation. Looking back it seemed like an awful short summer and whatever / had for a tan has certainly gone back where it came from. But here we are facing another fall of football and magazine deadlines. Fortunately, since June, we have accumulated a hat-full of cards, notes, letters, scribbles, and clippings, mostly concerned with fellow classmates.
Let's begin with a pat on the back for BobNaramore, one of the hardest-working class agents I ever ran into. After he beat and bludgeoned us into a Green Derby first place which we held for some time, the class of 1928 finally snuck up in the final count and nosed us out. But Bob did push us into setting a record. We produced 483 contributors, the largest number of men ever to participate in the Alumni Fund in any one class.
September 2 Lou Bookheim, who, you may remember, was doing all that interesting government work on Russian contracts, entered into general law practise with the firm of Greenbaum, Wolff and Ernst, 285 Madison Ave., N. Y. C.
Dick Upton, our New Hampshire politico and majority leader of the House of Representatives, has announced his candidacy for the speakership of the 1949 legislature. He had been boomed for the 1947 speakership a year ago when he returned from four years in the service but sidestepped a three-cornered fight and gave his support to another candidate. Fellow-legislators feel that he will win the speakership hands down this time. And, brother, we're all for him, too.
Bob Lowell has been made Assistant Director of Public Relations for the United States Rubber Cos. and has moved to New York to take up his new work. Check the schedule below, Bob, and join us at the club.
On June 21 Ralph Specht was married to Trudie Erb in East Orange and another fine bachelor disappeared. We've had no further word but presume they are back in Philadelphia where Ralph works for United Shoe. Brother Frank was forced to take his feet off that Washington desk and return to New York when Congress broke up this summer. Now he's playing the market again and broadening his beam in a stock-broker's chair.
Last May 21, Dick Eberhart became the daddy of a girl, Patricia Wesley, his first, and Cliff Mills, that old baby man, was the obstetrician.
And on April 17, Em McAlullen, with the help of his good wife, produced daughter number two and named her Joan.
Bob Ross, who finally broke away from medicine long enough to join us at a dinner, has been with the Psychiatric Institute in NewYork since January, 1946. His home is in Port Washington, Long Island. "Doc" went to Columbia Medical, interned at Bellevue and while there married Marion Channel. Thence to the Jersey City Medical Center and into the Army as a flight surgeon with B-29's working out of Guam. The Ross's have a daughter Marion born in January, 1943, and a boy, John R. III, born two years later to the month. Speaking of babies, as we seem to constantly, George Colton and Ruth made it three with Margaret Anne, born in Hanover last May
Here's the first word we've had on SamMilesky in many a moon. Sam, who had been a teacher of Math and Social Studies in the South Junior High School, Waltham, Mass., left his home town this summer to become an instructor in the Michigan School for the Deaf in Flint. He will also teach mentally and physically handicapped children. In between all this he is continuing his studies in the University of Michigan for his master of psychology degree. Along with Sam went his wife and two daughters, Joan Ann, 4, and Barbara, 5 months.
Ed Henriquez sailed up to New York from Panama for a six weeks' business trip and second honeymoon last spring. He has two children, a boy and a girl, and is with his father in the import business.
Tom Lane, ad chief for United Rexall Drugs, was recently made a director of the Advertising Federation of America along with such people as Luckman of Lever Bros, and Oveta Culp Hobby. More about Tom next month.
Another bachelor has found himself an anchor. On June 30th Bob Sellmer married Beatrice Boyko of N. Y. C. The bride, who attended schools in Prague, her birthplace, and Paris, did graduate work at N.Y.U. and served as a WAC in the last war. Before coming to this country she had been a- ranking figure skater in Czechoslovakia. She and Bob first met while he was in an Army Hospital recuperating from injuries received during the battle of Naples. And who was the best man? That old standby and still staunchly single. Mac McCarty.
Clippings: From the Boston Herald, June 11: "Charles F. Nayor of Brookline was appointed by Governor Bradford today to the State Outdoor Advertising Authority. It is expected that the Governor will designate Nayor as head of the three-man advertising board." From the Boston Globe, June 28: "Walter S. Bucklin, president of the National Shawmut Bank, yesterday announced the election of John Wallace of Belmont as assistant trust officer." From the Concord Journal, July 24: "Mrs. Edmund Billings of Concord announces the engagement of her daughter, Elizabeth, to Harold B. Roitman of Winthrop." Hal is associated with the firm of Grant and Argoff.
There's good news tonight. Gilchrist has finally been heard from and the class records have been found, so call off the dogs. Gil arrived in New York during July to take a four weeks' refresher course in labor law through the American Bar Association. The records came along with him. Seems that Gil has been running a local Cleveland suburban weekly newspaper along with two other guys and having a fine and busy time of it. Between them they do the writing, printing, selling, and general housekeeping. The paper has a circulation of about 1,600 copies and from the way Gil looked he is delivering all 1,600 of them himself. If they can find a full time editor or full time delivery boy Gil wants to go back into law. In the midst of Gil's visit, GrantMeade arrived from Philadelphia for a couple of days of research in N. Y. He spent the summer writing a book on military government based on his experiences in Korea plus his background in political science which he is now teaching at Haverford. Whether he got his information or not I don't know. When I last saw the two of them they were heading south for the nearest beer.
Hanover visitors: Ralph Colby sent his good wife Barbara and two children to Hanover for a month's vacation and Ralph joined them on his time off. Sandy Brown was up doing work in Baker to break the routine of his M.I.T. duties. His wife Ruth and two boys were with him visiting her father who is Prof. Wright of the Philosophy Dept. Bob and Sylvia Lovegrove passed through the campus and Bob, loyal dad that he is, registered son Robin, age 5, for the class of 1964. Dero Saunders, vacationing from Fortune Magazine, spent part of the summer with his wife in Norwich. And the following either drove through or spent a night or two enjoying the beauties of New Hampshire in summer: Bill Moran, .ArtFisher, Bill Fitzhugh, Bud Cahoon, EddieDyer, Rocky Rockwell, Ed Reich, Bob Naramore (he's always up there), Ted Steele, DickUpton, Phil Conathon, Phil Guyol, Bob Smith,Dick Hirschland, George Goodman, Bill Short {from California no less), Dick Carpenter, BillRussell, Boyd Rogers and Sel Hannah. All very lucky guys!
Announcement: 1935 is holding a class cocktail party at the Dartmouth Club of New York, 37 E. 39th St., on Saturday, October 18, from 5 to 7 and on into the night. We held one last spring, brought out 58 people, and had such a good time we've been requested to do it again. Bring your wife or date. If you're planning a business trip to New York over that weekend, we'll expect you.
And here's the schedule for N. Y. Class dinners for the rest of the year. Jot 'em down on your calendar in case you're coming this way. All at the Club. Nov. 6, Dec. 9, Jan. 7, Feb. 10, March 10, April 6, May 6, June 8. That's all.
IT MUST HAVE BEEN A GOOD YARN: Bob Hage '35 (extreme right), executive secretary of the Hopkins Center Project, holds forth at the Hanover gathering of class and club officers, and gets varying reactions from three classmates: left to right, George Colton, executive secretary of the Alumni Fund, caught in a pose of open mouthed wonder; Reg Bankart, class secretary, somewhat skeptical; and Bob Naramore, class agent, in a state of suspended judgment.
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