1929

The class party at the Boston Alumni Diner was a lot of fun thanks to the arrangements which Ollie Holmes made for a private room and all the fixings. Johnny Quebman was there. He is sales manager of the Attleboro Refining Company, lives in Norton and has two children, Carol 12 and Jack 5. JohnnyDavis, the President of the Colonial Brass Company of Brockton has Jean 16 and Debbie 11 and Johnny Jr. 7. Hank Stein, back from a war-time practice in Washington, is again a Boston lawyer, living in Brookline. He has Constance 11 and Claire 5. Ollie Holmes, the impressario, has Nancy 13 and Jane 11. Morton Jaquith, a town father of Clinton among other things, modestly omitted the family statistics but I know that he has two lovely daughters and a young rascal named Peter, all of whom spent the mid-winter vacation attending the Ski School in Hanover, returning home unscathed and very enthusiastic.

Art Rose of Newburyport has a son Ronald who is entered in the class of '52. Cap Capalbo who practices law has Beverly 13, June 11 and Nancy 7. Red Ardiff who has his own insurance business in Danvers has Bill 10 and Ginger 6. Herm Liss heads the Bond Department o£ Scudder, Stevens & Clark. Phil Mayher is District Sales Manager for Bauer & Black and lives at 72 Marlboro St., Boston. Walt Gutterson teaches school in Weymouth. Dick Johnson is the proprietor of Arthur L. Johnson & Company, imported clothing and specialties, Boston. Allah Lovejoy sells insurance in Boston.

Squeek Redding is again practicing law here in Boston. Phil Gage has picked up the wholesale furniture business which he left when he went into the service and is getting it back in shape again. Art D'Elia is a Cape Cod Doctor, Ralph Butler, formerly director of market research and manager of milk filter sales of Kendall Mills is now with McKinsey & Company, management consultants, as marketing consultant in Boston, and director of American Marketing Association and past president of the New England Chapter. John Dickey and Bill Andres complete the list save for the big surprise of the evening, and our most travelled classmate, George Hersham who gives Miami, Fla., as his present address and who is currently on the ground after all these years of circling the globe. He plans to strap on his wings again soon though. He thinks it is safer up there.

Another recent visitor from afar was HaroldHirsch of Portland, Oregon, the original promoter and successful manufacturer of the White Stag line of ski equipment and winter sports clothing. Here in the East on a business trip, Hal flew over from New York to spend a weekend in Boston getting Morton Jaquith to rally round the Boston members of his Memorial Fund—2s-Year-Gift Committee consisting of Herm Liss, Phil Mayher, Chris Born and Dick Barrett. Hal and his wife spent the rest of the weekend with Herm and Lucy Liss and expressed delight at having seen so many classmates in comparison with the scarcity on the West Coast where they are few and far between. He mentioned especially Sim Cantril who practices medicine in Seattle and has become one of the country's outstanding medical figures in the field of cancer research. Speaking of doctors, when I told Frank Foster what I had written about him in the March issue of the MAGAZINE, he explained that the Alaska expedition was a real adventure but that the service accomplishments in which he takes special pride were the real contributions to medical science made by the Medical Service of the Army Air Forces. For better than three years Frank was Chief of Medical Service at the Air Force Regional Hospital, first at Denver, later at San Antonio. A great deal of significant progress was made under Frank's direction, especially in the fight against rheumatic fever, the air forces' most serious medical problem.

Joe O'Leary has moved from Washington, D. C., to Chicago and as of February 1 became Assistant Professor of Accounting at Loyola University School of Commerce. Herb Wollison is selling for Commercial Shearing & Stamping, Inc., in Chicago. Bob Can, Chairman of the Political Science Department at Hanover has been appointed Executive Secretary to President Truman's Civil Rights Commission in Washington. Fran McEntee announces the formation of a law partnership specializing in tax matters under the firm name of McEntee & Willis, 315 W. 9th St., Los Angeles, and Marvin Braverman announces the formation of a partnership for the general practice of law under the firm name of Braverman & Ketchum, Barr Building, Washington, D. C. Herm Magnuson has just been elected a member of the Board of Selectmen of Manchester, Mass., and made Chairman. Herm served with the Navy for four years aboard a mine sweeper in the Mediterranean area and is now associated in the florist business with his father and brother. He is married and has one son.

Jim Hodson, assistant Western counsel of the Northern Pacific Railway Company wrote recently from Seattle as follows:

Hessie and I returned last week from the Alumni Council meeting in Chicago, which was held in connection with a large dinner meeting of the Chicago Alumni. We had a grand time and I hope struck a blow or two which will be of benefit to the small college in New Hampshire. The '29 class group sat together at the banquet and continued thereafter at a small class gathering, which settled all the problems which are usually settled at such gatherings. Present were Earl Fyler, Bob Drake, Charley King, Norm Bankart, John Clements and wives, as well as our own John. Herb Ball was also there. He was in Chicago on business and knew nothing about the Dartmouth meeting until he and I bumped into each other in the coffee shop at the Palmer House, whereupon he joined us. The whole thing was a great success. Incidentally, (we saw a lot of lads from the classes of '26 to '32, inclusive, but I presurpe their activities at the meeting will be reported in their appropriate class notes. However, I should be derelict if I did not mention one Hugh Johnson ('30) who has changed not a whit in 20 years. Hugh attached himself to the '29 group and did much to take us back to our -care free undergraduate days."

TRUSTEE'S HOLIDAY. Florence and Dudley Orr '29 watch one of the Carnival ski events after Dud had finished a bit of official college business.

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