1930

Here's hoping that the summer has been a good one for you,—that the fish were biting, that the sailing winds were fair, that the water was just right for swimming, and that when you got back the lawn and flowers weren't completely brown. Now that the ticket applications have been sent out from Hanover and Labor Day is a thing of the past, the good old summertime must be well on its way.

It's not too early to make your plans for next year, so circle your calendar for the month of June of 1949 with green pencil and make sure that your vacation will include 1930's reunion in Hanover. The dates and details will come at a later time from Si Chandler but the important thing now is to make your resolution and plans so that you won't miss "the Twentieth" (although it does come a year early under the new reunion plan).

Newell Rumpf now writes from Harris Trust and Savings Bank in Chicago on a letterhead bearing the title "Office of the Vice President." This latest promotion was made by the Board of Directors on July 14 and is a further step on the ladder by Newell from Assistant Cashier in 1943 and Assistant Vice President in 1946. The new promotion didn't prevent Newell from attending the Annual Chicago Alumni Association Picnic, at which Bob McClory, Secretary of the Association, was taking care of many details and where Newell spotted Freedy Uhlemann "between beers." (My informant failed to disclose whether said beers were merely part of the landscape or were connected with Rumpf or

Uhlemann, or both.) Ed Butterworth is now an Assistant Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, appointed on July 1 to be in charge of a Massachusetts housing project involving millions of dollars. Ed is attempting to cover this assignment and also to continue his private legal practice in Lynn. Not incidentally, Ed and Roily Booma were the principal planners and hosts of a Boston Alumni Association Clambake held at Nahant, which was a big success Ev Low joined the Hosiery Division of Burlington Mills Corporation as a Sales Director during July Ray Bernhardt moved from New Rochelle and from his job as Controller for Schwarz Laboratories, Inc., and is now established in Buffalo, where he is with Rugby Knitting Mills. In May Vic Borella, who has heretofore been Director of Industrial Relations for Rockefeller Center, was given a newly created post of Manager of Operations. This advancement is further recognition of Vic's capacity for an almost unlimited amount of work, as he will continue to hold his position as Director of Industrial Relations.

George McClellan remembered the Alumni Fund and 1930 from his post in Kyoto, Japan, where he is Corps and Region Assistant Education Officer specializing "according to the book" in teacher training, in-service training, and experimental schools. Hbwever, George says that most of his time to date has been spent in the reorganization of secondary schools as a result of new laws which require nine years of free compulsory education instead of the previous six. George combines trains, jeeps, and shoe leather for his traveling throughout Southern Japan, having worked in 15 of the 19 prefectures in the Corps I area....: We may now have an opportunity of seeing Dick Parker more often than in the past. Dick, who heretofore has been with the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, was named as Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University and will undoubtedly be living in or near Providence. Tiny Tasker's picture appeared in the New York Times (and how thin he did look!) with the accompanying story that he had returned to Republic Aviation Corporation to serve as assistant to the President on special assignment. Tiny organized and directed F-47 (Thunderbolt) Fieid Service on a worldwide scale for Republic during the war.

A special vote of thanks is due from all of us to Class Agent Jack Rich and his assistants for the wonderful showing which 1930 made in this year's Alumni Fund campaign. Jack modestly says that all credit is due to his assistants and to the class in general, but we all know the amount of time and effort involved in the Alumni Fund campaign. The record of 418 contributors from the Class of 1930 is a tribute, not only to the individual members of the class, but to the interest of 1930 in the welfare of the College.

Headmaster Snub Poehler of Clark School, who will be living at 15 Barrymore Road in Hanover after December 1, reported on "visiting firemen" to the Hanover scene during this summer. Al Phillipson caught Snub on the steps of Clark School one day for a visit and the day before that Snub met Captain JackSmith in Enfield. Jack was taking a few days off from his duties in Pensacola. Snub reported that Bob Keene has now definitelygiven up New York City and is in the Hanover region permanently with his family. Snub and his family spent two weeks with Bill Bragner on Lake Mascoma and at an educational conference at Keene Snub met Ed Downey.

The summer months have not been lacking in additions to our records of vital statistics. In August the announcement was made by Prince and Princess Alfred Hohenlohe of Stainach, Austria, of the engagement of Princess Hohenlohe's daughter, Sylvia Southard, to Johnny Tiedtke, with the further announcement that a fall wedding is planned. Johnny's attractive bride-to-be attended schools in Vienna In May the announcement was made of the engagement of Miss Helen Louise Borer to Hugh "Jack" Jackson. Miss Borer is a graduate of Moorestown Friends School and Connecticut College for Women Our eagle eye spotted the news in a movie columnist's bit early in the summer to the effect that Collie Young would marry Ida Lupino sometime this summer State Department Executive and farmer HarryCasler announced the arrival on April 29 of Christopher Graham Casler and delayed only a matter of three weeks in requesting admission papers for his son and heir in the Class of 1970.

AI Hayes received one of the three substantial prizes awarded annually by the University of Chicago for excellence in undergraduate teaching. A 1 is an associate professor of English at the University of Chicago, having served on its faculty since 1943 One evening this last May Class Treasurer CharlieRaymond was aroused by a long-distance telephone call from someone representing himself as Odell Smith of the Class of 1930 and berating him for failing to keep the class solvent. (Apparently he was one of the many who didn't hear Charlie's report at our Fifteenth Reunion.) Delicate probing by Charlie revealed that Odell was none other than ArtBrown and that the background noise was Roly Belknap. Apparently it is an annual custom for those gentlemen to celebrate Derby Day at Leominster Downs, with mint juleps and other essentials of that occasion

Those of you who are horticulturists should well consult AI Marsters, who was recently made Vice President of American Optical Company and who received an enviable writeup in the Boston Herald of August 15. The story reported A 1 as saying that he merely kept "doing what comes naturally," but also disclosed that he takes great pride in his importing of tuberous rooted begonias from California.

Visitors at the Inn in Hanover during the summer months included Bill Howe and his family, Bill May, Ted Wolf, Win Stone, TomPierce, Al Marsters and Av Raube. I am looking forward to some of it in late September and October. How's to meet me there?

Secretary, Herrick, Smith, Donald, Farley & Ketchum i Federal St., Boston 10, Mass. Treasurer, 24 Jennys Lane, Barrington, R. I. Memorial Fund Chairman, 9g Hudson St., New York 13, N. Y.