1930

Having kept close to my office desk and even closer to my snow shovel, it's nice to know that some of the boys have been enjoying a change in atmosphere and warmer climes. Bud French and Celie returned the latter part of January from an extended stay in California. It was a sunny seventy-five degrees in San Francisco when they left Chuck Faye at the Ferry Building to return home, but Bud's description of the weather he found upon arrival in New York is hardly befitting these columns. Si Chandler likewise decided to shed his overcoat and spent about three weeks in Venezuela during February, looking over the local operations down there which are generally managed from New York, where Si is more usually to be found. Come June of 1949 and reunion in Hanover, it may well be that our reunion costumes or otherwise will reflect the Latin-American influence. How do you look in a sombrero? .... Dick Funkhouser has furnished his address to us as 2431 Bryant Street, Palo Alto, California.

On January 28, R. H. Macy & Cos., Inc. announced the election of Kirt Meyer as vicepresident in charge of merchandising women's accessories of Macy's New York. Kirt has been with Macy's since 1931, when he became associated with its executive training squad and most recently has been Merchandise Administrator of the women's accessories groups in New York. Those in the merchandising business are unanimous that this is a well-earned and well-deserved promotion for Kirt In January the announcement was made of the election of Ray Olsen as assistant cashier of The National Shawmut Bank of Boston

Since last August Warren Phinney has been in Hartford, Connecticut, with Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, in the Mortgage Loan Department, but it was not until the first of the year that Warren was able to locate a house and bring his family down from Wakefield. Warren commented that he disliked leaving his home and friends around Boston but, as yet, hadn't been able to break the habit of eating; and, accordingly, he and his family were acclimating themselves as Connecticut Yankees.

News from Maurie Chait, who is now merchandise manager for Gilchrist's in Boston, makes us realize that we are "getting on" and that there may be some justification for bald heads, larger waist lines and the other attributes of middle life, but for Maurie there is a good bit of reliving his own younger days. Maurie was married during his freshman year in Hanover and his first child, Phyllis Joan, was born in 1929. Phyllis is now a sophomore at Pine Manor but is very regularly spending weekends in Hanover visiting an undergraduate. This romance might well follow the pattern of her mother and father of twenty-one years ago. Maurie's other child, Neil Stuart, is thirteen years old Bob Keene's North Country home is completed and Bob reports that the establishment is now open on Dogford Road, Etna, for any and all skiing enthusiasts. ... .Elly Gilbert is doing soloist work in Pelham, New York, and goes each Saturday with a Red Cross group to Halloran Hospital.

Nelson Blake is the co-author, with Oscar Barck Jr., of a new book entitled Since 1900:A History of the United States in Our Times, published by The Macmillan Company. This volume of 847 pages tells of the major economic, social, political and cultural developments of these last almost fifty years and is profusely illustrated with photographs, cartoons and maps. Nelson, after graduating, earned his A.M. at Brown University and his Ph.D. at Clark University, and he is now associate professor of History in Syracuse University Wilson Wright, who is economist for the Armstrong Cork Company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is also the author of a newly published book entitled Forecasting forProfit—A Technique for Business Management.

A welcome letter from Dick Parker was received from Luxor, Egypt. Dick is field director of the Oriental Institute and, during each year from October to April, directs operations at the permanent headquarters of the institute, Chicago House, in Luxor. This work of the institute has been operated since 1924 (except for the war years) with the objective of copying the extant reliefs and inscriptions of the temples of ancient Thebes. This last fall Dick and his family arrived in Egypt at the height of the cholera epidemic, found that train service from Cairo south had been stopped as a health measure, and Dick therefore moved his family and the rest of the expedition to Luxor by chartered planes. Dick has hopes of getting to Hanover this next May upon his return from Egypt Ave Raube, who directs the Management Research Division of the National Industrial Conference Board, spoke before the Cincinnati Employment Managers Club on January 14, on the subject of "Employee Attitudes." Joe Hancort exhibited a water color, "Seine Boats," at the annual exhibition of the Boston Society of Independent Artists held during January. It was only by reason of a press notice concerning this exhibition that I learned of Joe's hobby of pencil, water color and tempera sketches.

At the Boston Alumni Association dinner on February 4, 1930 was well represented. EdButterworth sat at the speakers' table, representing the North Shore Dartmouth Club, Charlie Raymond and Dick Bohlen came up from Providence, and Jack Fitzpatrick came down from Worcester. A "before and after" party was jointly held by 1929 and 1930 in a private room at the Statler Hotel, the festivities of which greatly added to the evening. Others present at the dinner included HerbChase, Pete Lillard, Bill Fletcher, Paul Reeves,Nels Flanders, Alex McFarland, Roily Booma,Hal Booma, Dick Barnard, Sam Carlisle, JackRich and Rog Ela.

IN CAIRO: Dick Parker '30, whose duties with the Oriental Institute take him to Egypt six months of each year, shown with his wife (left) and two children at the Cairo airport just before flying to his base of operations in Luxor. At the time a cholera epidemic had halted all other modes of travel.

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