1926
From various tendrils of the grapevinebits of information have fluttered down,many of them concerning milestones passedor corners turned about the first of the year.
Down New York way, Blyth & Co., Inc. of 14 Wall Street, were pleased to announcethat Charlie Bishop has become associatedwith them as an institutional sales representative. Charlie has been a member of theinvestment banking profession since 1927,through good times and lean. He is a pastpresident of the Bond Club of New Jersey,and since 1941 has been with Lazard Freres& Co., in charge of that company's activities in New Jersey, Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Blyth & Co. are rightfully pleased at Charlie's association with them, for he brings them a wide and successful experience.
Also from the Metropolitan area comes the announcement that Ken Schmidt has been appointed manager of the Industrial Relations Department of Wright Aeronautical Corporation, Wood-Ridge, N. J. Ken was with the Manufacturers Trust Company in New York for many years, going from that company to Wright in 1942. He does his commuting from Teaneck, N. J.
From Canfield Hadlock down in Waynesboro, Virginia, comes happy tidings of another sort—infantidings. A daughter, Nancy, arrived on December 9 to join two lovely sisters and brother Danny, who allows that his work is cut out for him to keep this bevy of girls in line. We suspect the daddy of this tribe has quite a story to tell on his account if he felt free (and were not too modest) to tell it. For many years he has been a research chemist with Du Pont, but during the war he was a major in the Army Engineers, with the intriguing address of Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Here in Boston, Stew Orr and Chet Morrison have jointly been receiving congratulations upon their elevation to full-fledged trust officers of the State Street Trust Company, that colorful and renowned institution which The Sat. Eve. Post glorified some months ago.
Out in Buffalo, Paul Venneman has been up to his ears in various Dartmouth projects and figures he may as well give up the practice of accounting for a full-time job with the Big Green. He found himself treasurer of the Dartmouth-Williams alumni group which sponsored the hockey round-robin in Buffalo during Christmas vacation. As secretary of the Buffalo Club, he went on from the hockey deal to the annual dinner early in February, and from that to the traditional visit of the musical clubs in March. Any one of these three events would be a work-out for the men carrying the responsibility. Three in a row must come pretty close to being an ordeal!
Speaking of annual dinners, we had one in Boston early in February which saw the largest turn-out of '26ers since memory of man runneth not to the contrary. Perhaps the move from the Copley to the Statler was responsible, or perhaps the nice weather (slightly above zero and snowing), but at any rate it was like old home week to have three adjacent tables surrounded by GardnerBrown, Steve Mitchell, Syl McGinn, CharlieCollins, Mac Ryder, Jim Sullivan, Joe Batchelder, Hal Marshall, Don Norstrand, HarryHall, Henry Blake, Stew Orr, Henry Bixby,Chet Morrison, Dean Chamberlin, FrankPoor, Win Robinson, Ed Emerson, DonMackay, Ran Cox, Bill Evans, George Peirce,Bob Patten, Bill Barclay, Russ Clark, WaltRankin, Hal Trefethen, Roy Baker and BobSalinger with Sid Hayward taking time out from head table duty to join us when he could. Russ Clark and Hal Marshall were on the pitch as charter members of the new glee club which carried the musical end of the program.
An event of considerable significance in medical annals took place in Rochester, N. Y., last January when the new nation-wide blood program of the American Red Cross got under way with the dedication and opening of the first blood center. In a ceremony attended by many national medical and public health authorities Tubber Weymouth, vice-chairman of the regional program, accepted the Rochester center from President Basil O'Connor of the American Red Cross and pledged that its work "would be carried on zealously and with a deep sense of its responsibility to the National Blood Program and to the health of its region." With Tubber's hand and heart in it the folks out in Rochester probably know as well as we that the job will be done thoroughly and well.
Notes, Comments and New Addresses Dept.: Gordon Linke is now with Aetna Life Affiliated Co., 220 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, and is living at 517 Sycamore St., San Carlos, California Malcolm Merrill is another of those fellers in the hotel business who follows the sun: Ogunquit, Maine, in the summer and Tucson, Arizona, this past winter.
Fred Rowe has been with American Chain & Cable Cos. since 1927, in Chicago for many years, and now recently moved to the west coast at 1233 N.W. 12th Ave., Portland 9, Oregon. During the war, Fred was a Lt. Col. in the Air Force, receiving his discharge in June, 1946.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is back in Washington after its long sojourn in Philadelphia, so the Bob McConnaugheys are once again relocated, this time at 4830 Chevy Chase Drive, Chevy Chase, Md. As we write this the chairmanship of the Commission is open and Bob has been receiving a lot of mention as leading candidate for the job. Jack Kjerner and Bob Cleary, old hockey playmates, bumped into one another recently on a train bound for Philly. Jack is president of American Gas Conversions, Inc., a company dealing in propane gas, with offices in Rockefeller Center at 630 Fifth Avenue. He continues to live with his mother in Crestwood, New York.
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