1934
It is with deep regret that we report the untimely death on April 6th of Arnold Golding. Arnie, who was only thirty-three, succumbed to coronary thrombosis at his home in New York City. He was president of two Manhattan hotels, Essex House and the Hotel Chatham, and a director of the Sterling National Bank and Trust Company. A necrology notice will appear in next month's issue.
We now have belated word of some February nuptials, southern style, and hasten to pass it along. Al Seit.ner and Miss Joyce Blum were the principals, the place Jacksonville, Florida, and the time was February 27th. Joyce is a New York girl and Al of course is by this time a solid Jacksonviller. Another Floridan turns out to be Frank Foster who is on the staff of the city recreation department in Lakeland.
Skipping up to tight little, right little Rhode Island we see by the Providence Bulletin that trumpet-man Hank Rigby played a plenty praiseworthy hand during his wartime stint with the biggest brass section of all, the U. S. Army. On April Bth he was awarded the Medal of Freedom, a decoration given civilians for exceptional service with the military forces. Hank's citation refers to his work with the Military Intelligence Service in Washington and says "His ingenuity and resourcefulness in the development of a publication which provided Allied military leaders and policymaking groups with intelligence information constituted a contribution of vital importance in the conduct of the war."
Still another clipping advises that ChetBirch has been appointed vice-president in charge of advertising of the Andrew Jergens Cos., Cincinnati. He will direct advertising on all Jergens and Woodbury products. Golfers of Cincinnati, lookout!
Undoubtedly one of the busiest citizens of Greenwich, Connecticut is Nels Krogslund. Nels, who is principally an executive of Allen Brothers, Inc., leading automobile distributors there, also finds time to act as a director of Flocked Products, Inc., and of Meridian, Inc., besides which he manages to handle the secretary-treasurer slot for the Greenwich Republicans and the vice president one for the Connecticut Dartmouth Alumni.
In Dayton, Ohio, we hear from Sam McCray who is practicing law there. Adds that he occasionally runs into Bob Corwin, Bill Emerson, Bob McCloskey and Harry MacKinnon.Perk Bass is another lawyer, being the anchor man in the Manchester, N. H., firm of Sheehan, Phinney & Bass. In addition he is once again sitting in the New Hampshire State Legislature. Still among the legal gentry, we come to Dick Barrett, now a partner in the Cincinnati office of Dinsmore, Shohl, Sawyer & Dinsmore. And then there's Fred Wolf, who after a spell as Chief Counsel, Non-ferrous Metals Price Branch, O. P. A. in Washington and a subsequent hitch in the Naval Reserve, is back as a partner with his old outfit, Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen of Philadelphia. (Perhaps Fred is just the Philadelphia lawyer who can tell us why it is that attorneys clingso tenaciously to the elegant appellation "Esquire." Not that we dislike it, mind .... in fact we are invariably set up no end when mail comes in addressed that way. Makes us feel downright genteel.)
Over on the medical front we have a couple of specialists in Internal Medicine. Milt Spitz is practicing in that field in St. Louis and on the side is doing some lecturing at the Washington University Graduate School of Social Work. George Ham is another who holds a certificate of specialist in Internal Medicine. He is presently "spending two or three years in the mysteries of psychoanalysis in order to better correlate mind and body from a research viewpoint." During the war George put in five years of Army research, picking up several commendations on the way. His current locale is Chicago. Another medico is SidCohen who has changed his last name to Carter and his working address to Montefiore Hospital, New York City.
Jack O'Brien is service manager for Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., in Chicago. Relates some turbulent times out there what with present business and housing conditions but sends his best to all and dreams of a vacation in New Hampshire! Meanwhile from North Carolina comes a note in the hand of BillCall'ihan: "After four years and eight months of the army and then about six months more in Washington with the Department of State as a foreign trade analyst, I'm now back in the life insurance business. Am agency supervisor for the Pilot Life and travel out of the Greensboro home office."
Also in life insurance is Bill Stowe, associate editor of the Managers Magazine, official organ of the Life Insurance Agency Management Association in Hartford. This is a bureau of life companies which functions for the good of the industry on an institutional basis. Says Bill: "The Association gives two-week schools for agency managers. I've recently joined the lecture staff; spent the last half of February helping to give a school at Mineral Wells, Texas, came back to Hartford for a week and went to Excelsior Springs, Mo., for another school. A third is scheduled for the Chateau Frontenac in April. Meanwhile I have a booklet to write, which makes life interesting."
And from Cleveland Lindy Lindheim reports "Had to miss reunion because the Continental Bank, of which I am cashier, was in the process of moving to new and larger quarters. If any of '34 come through Cleveland they are invited to visit the city's most up-to-date, modern bank."
Quite some time ago Lt. Col. Dick Fowle checked in with word that he was in the hospital at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. He was then "on military leave from Field Operations Division, Office of the Social Security Administrator, Washington. Served from August 1942 to March 1946 in General Mac Arthur's procurement policy sections in Australia, the Philippines, and Japan." Now we learn that Dick is living in East Aurora, N. Y., which must mean that he is out of khaki and once again in good health. After earning an M.F. degree from the Yale School of Forestry in 1936 followed by two years of study at Harvard on Wildlife Management, Art MacGregor has settled down in Orleans, Mass. as a cranberry-raiser. "It's tough getting started," says Art, but he's hoping to be set for the big rush next November.
One of the most interesting jobs held by a '34 is that of Fred Rath. Fred is a key man at the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site in Hyde Park. Another such is the new post of Neal Richmond who is librarian in the Library of Congress in Washington. One more book custodian is Bob Newman, Head Librarian of the Berkshire Athenaeum, the public library of Pittsfield, Mass.
A mighty busy guy these days is Ben Benoit of the Underwood Corporation. "Since February" writes Ben, "I've been holding down the position of Chief Inspector in our Hartford plant and haven't had time to breathe since." Don Sandy has switched from Pennsylvania to Rockefeller Plaza where he is employed with the Foreign Refining Coordination Division of Standard Oil of New Jersey. At the other end of his twice-daily subway ride is Brooklyn. Black gold claims the interest, too, of StanKarstedt. He is assistant advertising manager for Continental Oil in Ponca City, Oklahoma.
Well sir, that just about does it for May. Well be hoping to drop in again next month. 'Til then, you just lope along lazy-like, will ya now?
Secretary and Treasurer no Fulton St., New York 7, N. Y.
