1920
A long and happy summer has brought news from many people and places.
IN THE BUSINESS WORLD: New Assistant to the President of the American Optical Company is our own Ken Spaulding. Pressed to elucidate his responsibilities, Ken shattered his customary silence by admitting that his job is "to help the President as circumstances may require." But those of us who have investigated Asst.-to-President's duties know that they usually entail doing most anything the president does, when he doesn't happen to feel like doing it. That takes know-how, optically speaking, and Ken has it. Perhaps in this connection, he was numbered among the 137 members of the 13th session of the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration last spring. "Our family," Ken writes, "was covering the educational waterfront, the youngest graduating from grammar school, the next graduating from Nichols Junior College, the eldest teaching at Brewster Academy, and the old man going to Harvard."
Hal Bernkopf, only recently general man ager of Boston's Lamson & Hubbard and Brooklyn's Balch-Price, has become vice-president and merchandise director of National Suburban Centers, Inc. We quote the BostonGlobe which was quoting Hal last May 16:
"In the shopping centers, comprising from 50 to 60 stores, shops, restaurants and places of entertainment, tenants, who will handle service facilities in all centers, are national chains, many of the best stores of Boston and New York and a number of the strongest merchants in towns near the centers."
MORE COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY: Jim Chilcott has been elected to the Board of Managers of the Morris County Savings Bank Newt Nash's announcement reads: "J. Newton Nash, surviving partner of Hatch Wolfe & Nash, Barent Ten Eyck, formerly a member of Spence, Hotchkiss, Parker & Duryee and William Potter Lage have formed a partnership to continue the general practice of law, including admiralty matters, under the firm name of Hatch Wolfe Nash & Ten Eyck, 70 Pine Street, New York 5, N. Y." WilburFullaway is manager of the Omaha office of Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis which was opened last April.... Gerry Morse has an interesting new connection, being now associated with Spencer Leubrie in the New York Greeting Card Cos., 621 East 82d St., N- Y. C Pete Potter has made an interim report on the Advertising Appropriation Study co-sponsored by the Assn. of National Advertisers and the graduate school of business administration of N. Y. U. According to Pete, field work will soon get under way with an initial appropriation of 25 grand Joe Carter, Federal tax counsel for B. F. Goodrich Cos. in Akron, has been named Assistant Secretary of the Company.
Ben Ayres was one of 16 Worcester, Mass., life insurance underwriters to receive, in June, the Award and Certificate of the National Association of Life Underwriters of the U. S. Ben previously made good newspaper copy when he became a grandfather May 11, with the birth of a son to Lois Ellen (Ayres) Knight. The Worcester Gazette ran a cartoon, misspelling Ben's name, showing the new grampa with a long white beard and referring to him most irreverently as a "dawgon old coot." Charlie Crathern is another who got in the Worcester papers in May. When the first New England one-day conference of the Air Force Association was held in Charlie's home town, he was one of the head table guests, while younger Dartmouth alumnus, Meryl! Frost, presided as toastmaster.
Bob Van Iderstine's Old North State Insurance Cos. of Greenville, N. C., is really getting under way, after several months of good, tough spadework on Bob's part. A prospectus dated June 15 announced the issue of 100,000 shares in the Company, with the First Securities Corporation as underwriter, and Bob reports a very favorable reception by the public, locally and elsewhere. The company will write almost every form of fire and casualty insurance you can think of.
VACATION: Leisurely July-August travel took this reporter to Hanover and back by such a roundabout route as Lake Champlain, Glen Falls, and other points. In his haunt just below Lake George Frank Morey was discovered trying to accomplish a full day's work in two hours, possibly because of the opening of the Saratoga racing season that afternoon. Frank's boy is entering Lycoming College this fall. Class Agent Foley, it developed, had fled the Hanover scene, for a summer session sojourn at Columbia, where he gave the course in Recent American History. Dick Goddard was even farther out of town, riding the waves as guest of the Navy through the first half of a summer training cruise in the Pacific. Paul Sample was salmon fishing in Canada, but Mrs. S. accepted for him our sincere congratulations on the "Retrospective Exhibition" of Paul's painting held at the Currier Art Gallery in Manchester, July 15-Sept. 15. This was a marvelous one-man show. "If you ask a New Hampshire resident," says Elizabeth Smith in the August N. H. Troubadour, "which contemporary artist he thinks can best convey the spirit of the New Hampshire countryside, he is apt to answer without hesitation, 'Why, Paul Sample, of course.' " And if you want to see the very latest sample of Sample, watch for the jacket on the first Sandburg novel, scheduled for October publication.
AI Frey, cavorting daily on the courts behind the gym, was working up a fine case of tennis elbow, pausing between sets to confide that George Page's boy is one of the lucky one's getting past Sam Stratton and into Middlebury's freshman class this fall. Mrs. BudWeymouth, interviewed in her Hanover Institute office, admitted cheerfully that she and Bud were working their way through as strenuous a summer as anybody could wish. Bill Carter's boy, Doug, Dartmouth senior was a member of the Perma-frost Expedition to Alaska, conducted this summer by the U. S. Geologic Survey.
WEDDINGS: Marion Adams, daughter of Rachel and Sherm, became the bride of William Sweet Freese, Dartmouth graduate, on July 10. Sister Jeanne was maid of honor and sister Sally bridesmaid, and a reception for more than 200 guests followed on the lawn of the Lincoln homestead. The Freeses will live in Pittsfield, N. H The marriage of Ted Weis's daughter, Elizabeth Ann, to Francis Parsons Wilcox Jr. was solemnized in Toledo. July 17. The young lady had been graduated from Wellesley just a month before An all-Newburyport wedding took place at Stockbridge, Mass., September 4, when Dick Welch's boy Richard Jr. married Christina Sedgwick Marquand, daughter of J. P. Marquand, the novelist.
And that brings us to Silver Weddings, those 25th anniversaries that are piling up for the class. The Sherm Adamses celebrated theirs July 28, the Irv Blaines July 7, the TedBlisses September 5, the Phil Grosses June 9, the Bob Mulcahys June 6, the Jim Parkeses April 26, the Ben Pearsons May 5 and the Gordon Phelpses on the same day, the TinkerLombards on September 10, the R. B. Loomises on July 17, the Bill Lovejoys in September, the Grant Lucases June 28, the Ted Mardens June 9, the Theron Millspaughs April 18, the Pete Potters August 18, the Jim Robertsons June 9, the Pop Rollinses in June, the ChetSmiths April 26, the Don Smiths July 24, the Spence Snedecors June 16, the Warren Turn-ers July 14, the Dick Welches August 25, the Hal Whites June 26, the Keith Coombses September 12 and the Roc Elliotts August 27 (always providing that the class records are in proper working order). Subject to the same reservation, silver wedding congratulations will be tendered during October to the FredCalhouns on the 10th, the Wes Carrs on the 13th, the Art Goodings on the 3d, the JohnnyMoores also on the 3d, the Frank Moreys on the 20th, and the Stan Newcomers on the 17th.
Moreover, while we're congratulating, remember that this same October brings the longest list of 50th birthdays left to US Twenties: Chuck Garnsey on the sth; Jim Daniell, the 7th; Joe Brewer, the 9.th; Art Stockdale, the 10th; Doc Fipphen, the 16th; Buttons Hill, the 17th; Elmer Stewart, the 18th; Roy Davis, the 19th; John Felli, the 20th; Lloyd Young, the 23d; Steve Graves, the 25th; and JackMayer, the 27th.
But we're still young and sprightly. Paul Richter's second child and first daughter, Martha Elsie, was born June 5.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y. Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass, Memorial Fund Chairman, 438 East Elm Ave., Monroe, Mich.
