1930
With my vacation having been deferred between four and five weeks and finally having arrived at the point where I was about to forget what was left on my desk and head for the Hanover plain, I suddenly remembered that the MAGAZINE deadline was upon me and that I was sure to lose this highly remunerative position as your Secretary unless something in the form of Class "news" appeared in these columns. So consider these as the hasty jottings of one who is about to jump in the car and, with the carefree spirit of a vacationist, leave his cares and responsibilities behind him.
Gil Lowery was named by Johns Manville Corporation as Manager of its new Tilton, N.H., plant. It is with thanks to Hank Newell, who visited Gil a short , time ago, that we are able to report that this plant manufactures a new form of asbestos paper for installation of electrical work Cotton Holmes is now associated with the firm of Perry R. Marsh, Inc. in the general insurance and real estate business in St. Petersburg. Notwithstanding that Cotton is a booster of Florida, he is planning on reunion this next June Kel Clow, reporting from his usual stand in Washington, said that he spent a couple of evenings with Clark Denny in Frankfurt, Germany, while on a trip to Germany in June. Clark continues in the War Crimes business in Frankfurt. Kel also reported having seen Tiny Tasker, who expects to spend considerable time in Washington while representing Republic Aviation.
Walt Dresser stopped off in Rochester, N. Y. on his return from a trip into Ontario and visited the Joe Golans. To quote from Walt, "They have two of the sweetest youngsters extant and I believe Joe will probably be using them exclusively in Kodak's Cine ads shortly." Joe is currently working almost continuously around the clock and the calendar, attempting to effect an expansion program for Kodak on weekends when it is possible to turn on white lights, but at the same time keeping the place in shape for production in dark room fashion during weekdays.
Clint Ahem was at the Republican Convention in Philadelphia during the summer and expected to see some of the more politically minded Thirtymen but couldn't seem to locate them. On the other side of the political fence, I recently noted that Hughie Mitchell was running for Congress from the State of Washington Sandy McCulloch reports that he is still making teeth but that thev are now attempting to make "the little chompers" of plastic and that he is having his full share of problems in getting this new product into production.
Worthy news events keep Johnny Tiedtke's name continually in print. The latest report is that Johnny has been appointed temporary Treasurer of Rollins College. The news report of this event which I saw gives an indication of how Johnny keeps busy: He is also a Trus- tee of the College of Wooster, Ohio, and for eight years has been a member of its Finance Committee; his sugar and iceberg lettuce business in the Everglades of Florida involve 2,000 acres under cultivation and the employment of 300 persons during the winter season; he is a Director of the Florida Farm Bureau and Chairman of its Sugar Committee; and helped organize a rural electrification cooperative in Glades County, Fla. and served as its President for two years Snub Poehler, principal of the Clark School, will certainly have a busy year. In addition to his Clark School duties, Snub was recently appointed Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Education of the College. The occasion of this appointment was the departure of Professor Ralph Burns for Germany to assume a U. S. Military Government post.
1930's list of batchelors is an ever decreasing one. On July, 15 Bill Lucas was married in Las Vegas, Nev., to Lillian Trent. The bride and groom are living in Portsmouth, Ohio, after a month's honeymoon in California Agnew Talcott was married on October 9 in Garden City, Long Island, to Shirley Whitney, a graduate of Skidmore. Agnew is with the chemical firm of William S. Gray & Co. in New York City.
Visitors in Hanover during October included Ed Frost, AI Marsters, Hal Booma,Rollie Booma, John Bishop, Merrill Hayes and Maury Chait.
A recent list of address changes show that Bob Jordan is now living at 110 Merrit Road, Riverside, R. I.; that Hank Odbert is in the Pentagon in Washington as a Panel Director of the Committee on Human Resources of the Research and Development Board of the National Military Establishment; and HerbMandeville, heretofore of Capetown, South Africa, shows up with a new address in Miami, Fla., where he is associated with the Water Department.
Class Treasurer Charlie Raymond would appreciate your checks for Class dues. As someone said, in these days of rising prices it must have required all of Charlie's Tuck School training to maintain the dues at the same figure as last year. If Charlie maintains them, let's help him out by paying them. And how's to scribble a note of news for your Secretary who, with this last flourish, is about to jump in the car and be off for Hanover.
AFTER STRIPERS: Carl Haffenreffer '30 poses in the Rhode Island surf where he enjoyed the summer exercise of casting for elusive striped bass.
Secretary, Herrick, Smith, Donald, Farley & Ketchum i Federal St., Boston 10, Mass. Treasurer, 24 Jennys Lane, Barrington, R. I. Memorial Fund Chairman, 99 Hudson St., New York 13, N. Y.
