1938
Whether you realize it or not, you will soon have been out of college for ten years, and in the ordinary course of events that means that a TENTH REUNION is coming up. Ours is scheduled for the weekend of June 18-19-20, one week after commencement. The new staggered reunion program will not affect us this year, and we will not be reuning with our contemporary classes, as we will in the future. Art Soule and Earl Ward have already gotten things rolling, and a lot of fellows in Boston are already working on plans for the weekend. Art couldn't find anyone who would volunteer as chairman of the wives' reunion committee, so he has decided to leave that feature up to Bud Walls and the rest of the broken down bachelors in the class.
One of the most important items on the agenda for reunion weekend is the class business meeting, at which a secretary, a treasurer and a seven-man executive committee, all to serve for the following five years, will be elected. Wright Mallory has been appointed chairman of the nominations committee, and anyone having any suggestions for nominations can forward them to him at the AnchorHocking Glass Corporation, 50 West 40th Street, New York City.
Our far-flung intelligence system has been productive of several choice bits of scandal during the summer, and it is only because of the MAGAZINE'S space limitations that they can not be included. But we do have some others that can.
Art Koeppel writes from Maywood, N. J.: On May 27, 1947, 7 pound 3 ounce Arthur E. Koeppel 111 arrived and has been doing very well ever since .... the three Koeppels are established in their own (and the mortgage company's) home here in Maywood Young Buzz has already been entered in the files of the College for consideration with the Class of '69.
And he also says that he is planning to stage a Dartmouth shindig down Jersey-way soon.
John Slattery, having forsaken the Manhattan canyons for those of Sansone and Montgomery Streets in San Francisco, comes through the Frisco fog with another good letter:
After shedding the Navy life, I went into the home office of the Royal Group in New York and became semi-settled at a desk for a year .... then out to San Francisco as supervisor in the Inland Marine Department.... brought out my wife and two children .... and settled down to this incomparable climate and good living.
Bob Archibald, featured guest performer inthis space last winter, underwent a fairly serious operation last spring but reports that heis now clicking in good style. He says that hesaw Latta McCray '37 when Mac was in LosAngeles and often sees Johnny Merrill '37.
And from Indianapolis, under the heading "Indianapolis Stork Club News," comes some hot dot dope from Bill McMurtrie:
After due deliberation and much thought over a period of many months, Joanna and I finally decided upon Dusky Friday, June 13, as an acceptable date for the arrival of William Hogin McMurtrie Jr.—to be called Hogie and definitely not Junior. That makes two males now—wild Jim having just celebrated his third birthday Buster Walls stopped through on his way to California and I see Lew Williams, working at Stewart-Warners, occasionally .... this burg isn't a magnate for '3Bers. ....Jack "Torch" Griffith has threatened to visit us, but is afraid of the bunk bed he'd have to sack in on, so he's failed to show so far Businesswise I've been caught with my hand full.... local sales and southern Indiana keep me hustling and then I've recently been initiated as National Sales Market representative for this branch of General Outdoor Advertising.
The husband of Mrs. Carl F. von Pechmann, one-time member of our class according to official college records, has advised me that Lisa von Pechmann arrived on Father's Day last spring. I haven't quite figured out the implication of that one yet, if there is any.
Muff Davis wrote from Cleveland, where he is beating gongs for the advertising sales division of Life Magazine, that he was to be married on June 24th, and unless someone tipped off his fiancee (which I assume did not happen) she is probably now his bride. Speaking of being married, Muff said, "Seems like time I did. Swell gal name of Jane Blythe. Mattimore, of course, to be the best man after myself in the program. Saw Rockwell in Pittsburgh the other day."
I now find another communication, which I had put in the July issue of Captain Billy's Whizbang as a marker, from Mrs. von Pechmann's husband. He says, "Mattimore called me the other day (Syracuse), going through town in a pouring rain in a rented auto with no windshield and a pouring rain. (Has anyone else ever seen an auto with a pouring rain?) Big operator. Next day I ran into MarshLand in Rome—he's in Personnel and Industrial Relations for Revere Copper and Brass. Two children. Next day ran into Red Boutilier in Utica. He's done a million things since we left Hanover. Lives in Clinton, New York. Also two children and works for Gannett papers. Reporter for the Utica Daily Press. Looks pretty rugged, so I know he's getting more exercise than I am. Hosmer's working on some new hair tonic, but I can't see any improvement." If there is any, I'd like to be on the mailing list. The New York Journal of Commerce says that this same Hosmer was recently named head of the underwriting department of the Excelsior Insurance Company.
Jim Kingery and a partner started an industrial relations firm in Chicago about a year ago—Kingery and Garrett Nathan Straus was elected vice-president and director of Nathan Straus-Duparquet, Inc. last May Coke Barton staged another bang-up beer picnic for the Boston group a few months ago. .... Boit Wiswall reports the arrival of his daughter Cynthia on May 1; his older daughter, Andrea, is now 4 1/2 The Hanover Inn register shows that John Emerson, Frank Frey,Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sharpe, Bob Cataldo, Warren Flynn, Dr. and Mrs. W. R. Lansberg, Mr.and Mrs. G. H. Fox, Alex Jones, Mr. and Mrs.Beldon G. Bly, and Mr. and Mrs. Ike Owen have all been on the Hanover scene recently. .... Sam Main is in John Loves Mary in New York.
George Porter and Lela Faith, of West Hartford, were to have been married in June. Lela is a Wellesley girl. Ed Curtiss and Doris Sweet, also of Hartford, were married on May 10. Ed, who was in NATS during the war, is now affiliated with the Ensign-Bickford Company and is president of the Frozen Food Company. Hilda Hirsch, of Fayette, Mississippi, and Dave Berliner, were married on March 2 in New Orleans. Hilda is a graduate of Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans. They will live in New York. Congratulations and best wishes to you all.
Don't forget that REUNION comes in June.
Secretary, 4 School St., Concord, N. H. Treasurer, Suite 1160, 208 S. La Salle St., Chicago 4, Ill.
