1911
That often-referred-to directory was promised you several months ago. The reason for not getting it, however, has been a delay in printing, but the final proof has now been returned so that it should be with you before you read this. However, if you notice any errors or omissions, please notify the secretary.
If when you were listening to the Rose Bowl Game you heard the announcer refer to the umpire, you probably did not realize that he was talking about our own Cap Hedges. This was some honor for Cap, and our congratulations to him. He was chosen for this assignment, and since Coleen was invited as his guest they spent several days in Los Angeles and Pasadena. Cap was in New Orleans on November 23 for the Notre Dame-Tulane game where he was joined by Dave and his wife and Dick and Sam. Sam Hedges is now associated with the Arthur Roberts Hotel Company and located at the Villa Atlantique in Palm Beach, Fla. Cap and Coleen now have two grandsons, Davy and Danny, Danny being born on September 18. Cap reports, as do all the alumni who have attended the alumni reunions where John Dickey was guest of honor, "More than ever we are all for that young man. He sure made a big hit with those Texans."
Apologies for the picture since it contains one of the secretary, but it is the only picture received to date since reunion. This may urge others to enter the competition. Just in case you haven't seen them lately, they are from left to right—Backus, Macomber, Moseley, Burleigh.
Irene Ayers has taken up where Ben left off and with her niece is conducting very successfully a Travel Bureau in the Hotel Eagle in Concord, N. H. She is extremely busy, has built up a fine business, and is very happy at her work.
The Guy Steeves have moved to Rocky Point Road, Old Greenwich, Conn., where Guy is enjoying his life of retirement. Rollie Hastings writes:
Did you ever try to build your "Dream" home, without a priority? No? Well—we did—l mean tried, and, after keeping just a few jumps ahead of the ambulance headed for the Psychopathic Ward, we gave up, and bought a small house and 4 acres near our son's ranch. We are just getting settled. We see the Art Grays and Ray Taylors occasionally. Art has a summer home near us. Just found out that Malcolm Bissell '10 has just bought a ranch near us. Will drop in and see him shortly. So goes it. Best wishes to you all.
Slim Eaton admits that he still is a very active loafer but plans to leave shortly to explore California as a possible final parking space for Grandpa and Grandma Eaton. Slim is now a grandfather for the fifth time, as Edward, class of Dartmouth '37, has a son. This makes him feel like a patriarch, besides the fact that their large house is lively again since their son, Fred and family, have moved in with them for the winter.
A couple of changes for that new directory: Captain Larry Odlin's address is c/o Mrs. L. C. Shiels, 2340 Brantford Road, San Marion 9, Calif.; and Stouder Thompson is located at 7714 Carnegie, Cleveland 3, Ohio.
Sid Backus not only is a partner in the law firm of Backus and Backus in Rochester, N. Y., but is also the supervisor of the town of Webster where he lives, and chairman of the Town Board. He was formerly a trustee of the Webster Town Library; also he has served as chairman of the Red Cross Drive in the town.
While Gerry Barnes was still maintaining his insurance business in Los Angeles he was a captain in the California State Guard up to September 1942, when he took a job on the swing shift at Lockheed for 28 months. Gerry says that it was not with regret that he left Lockheed when the war was over.
Sid Beane, who is the highly regarded superintendent of the Weymouth Water Works, Weymouth, Mass., is also a trustee of the Weymouth Savings Bank, a member of the New England Water Works Association, and also a member of the Weymouth Post-war Planning Committee, and Deputy Chief Engineer of Technical Committee on Civilian Defense. A number of citizens of the community have testified to the high respect in which Sid is held by his fellow townsmen.
The present secretary of Section I of the American Association for Advancement of Science is none other than Harold E. Burtt who is chairman of the Department of Psychology at Ohio State University.
Tide, the newsmagazine of advertising, marketing, and public relations, dated December 6, 1946, has an excellent likeness on the cover page entitled "Sterling of This Week" with the sub-title "Too many department stores have cases of fickle eye." The lead article in the magazine refers to a study being made to examine the relationship between advertisers and department stores. In the article reference is made to the fact that the head of a Manhattan firm of management counselors was referring to John Sterling as a sort of super consultant on the problem of the relationship between advertisers and the department stores. We'll await the answer to the problem in one of the future issues.
Harold Card is now established in his own consulting practice in the field of public relations at 850 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Harold has been training for this for a number of years as he has been principally engaged in industrial publicity and public relations work, particularly in the field of welding.
Some of you at reunion will recall the announcement of Burt Cooper's wife, Lillian, being chosen New Hampshire Mother for 1946. Perhaps it is only fair to list some of the things that she has done. She was Master of the Eastern New Hampshire Pomona Grange for the year 1944-45; a Special Deputy of the New Hampshire State Grange; President of the Navy League in Rochester, 1944; a member of the Board of Rochester District Nurses Association; a member of the Managing Board of Gafney Home for Aged; Chairman of the Home Service; Volunteer Service of American Red Cross; and during the war served as assistant to the Chief Observer at the Center Strafford Observation Post. Meanwhile, her husband has kept busy in many things other than practice of law. He is a director and vicepresident of the Peoples Building and Loan Association; was president of the New Hampshire Bar Association in 1942-43; chairman of the New Hampshire State Probation Board since 1937; has been Uniform Law Commissioner from New Hampshire since 1938; he was president of the New Hampshire Conference of Social Welfare in 1943; president of the New England Conference of Probation and Parole in 1942 and a member of the Executive Committee from 1936-41; trustee and vicepresident of the Golden Rule Farm Homes; and Rochester City Chairman for all Bond Drives.
If you think of any better man with whom to invest $20 for 5 years dues to 1911 than Sarge Eaton, look at his record of responsibilities in addition to his being president of the Howland Dry Goods Company. He is a director and member of the Executive Committee and the Trust Investment Committee of the First National Bank; he is vice president and director of the Bridgeport Hospital; a member of the Bridgeport Hospital Finance Committee and the Executive Committee; he is a director and vice president of the Chamber of Commerce; a director of the Connecticut Public Expenditure Council; he is Ist vice president of the National Retail Dry Goods Association; president and director of the Smith-Murray Company; and director of the Community Chest.
FOUR MAINSTAYS of 1911 form the subject material for this reunion pose. Left to right, Sidney Backus, Stanley Macomber, Harold Mosely and Secretary Nathaniel Burleigh.
Secretary, 1 Webster Terrace, Hanover, N. H
Treasurer, Howland Dry Goods Co., Bridgeport 2, Conn.
