1920
By the time these notes appear, Lt. Col.Charlie Mills will have been guest of honor at one of the winter season informal get-togethers put on by the Dartmouth Club of N. Y. Charlie said good-bye to Germany last fall, after 52 months of European service, culminating in his assignment as Transportation Officer in charge of all rail and motor transportation in Berlin. Upon his return here late in October, he became senior instructor of the Organized Reserve Corps' Transportation Courses Section for the 369 th Major Port. Quarters are currently being transferred from 67 Broad to the old Yale Club building at 30 West 44th St. The Mills family, on from Minneapolis, has the housing shortage licked and is safely established in Apt. 52-GA, 150-45 Village Road, Jamaica. Daughter Martha, just voting age, is attending the New York School of Interior Decoration after two years at the University of Colorado. Son Charles III put in time in the Navy and intermittently played varsity football and baseball for Vanderbilt. The remaining member of the family is a fancy Doberman, top for his breed in all Germany, that Charlie acquired for his rough and ready charm but is now trying to acclimate to the more decorous ways of Westchester dog shows.
It will be remembered that the Charlies Mills and Sargent saw a good bit of each other in Europe. The word on the latter is that he too is maintaining military connections in that he has tied up with Boston headquarters of the Veterans Administration. What some of us did not know about Lt. Col. Sargent is that his fine war record with the 301 st Anti-aircraft Bat- talion included a citation from the French for shooting down German planes.
A name that has been rattling around in our secretarial head for more than a year is that of Red Small, chief chemist with the National Institute of the U. S. Public Health Service. One of our most modest and retiring constituents, Red would never let his own name pass his lips, so it has taken some delving into Who's Who and American Men of Science to produce the more recent facts of his career. In the latter volume Red is starred for organic chemistry, and that means that he is one of the thousand (out of 34,000 entries) "whose work is supposed to be the most important." There are only 175 such for the whole field of chemistry. At the end of Red's sketch appear the magic words "alkaloid chemistry, chemotherapy, malaria, narcotics," presumably designating his fields of special accomplishment. He has held his present job since 1939; is editor of the Journal of Organic Chemistry, was U. S. delegate to the opium assay commission, health section, League of Nations; is, without much question, the top man on narcotics in the U. S.
Exec. Comm. Member Leo Ungar has been studiously rounding up the news on the lowaNebraska border. Leo's Christmas card, by the way, showed him and Alice looking younger than ever in winter sports attire, and small daughter Barbara, fenced in by the parental equipment but clinging proudly to her own pair of skis. The Ungars may have had their fill of snow, at that, because they left Council Bluffs to its own devices in March and headed for a month in southern California.
Leo's report concerns itself chiefly with those Omaha stalwarts, Wilbur Fullaway and JohnSunderland. The two have something in commonnamely, daughters Phebe Fullaway and Marcia Sunderland who entered in the freshman class of the fashionable Brownell Hall there in Omaha. Other second-generation members of the Fullaway family are daughter Lizzie, who is a graduate of Bradford Junior College, and son Buddy, now a junior in Central High, Omaha; while Jimmie Sunderland is a freshman in Carleton College, Northfield, Minn.
Wilbur represents locally the Central Republic Cos. of Chicago. Before the war he was half of the tennis doubles championship pair for the state of Nebraska. And the military life must have kept him in condition, because he has lately been touring the state playing both singles and doubles of equally strenuous bad- minton. John makes his living as president of Sunderland Bros. Marble and Tile Cos., but spends some of his happiest hours keeping things in shape on the large ranch he owns in northwestern Nebraska. He is an officer of Omaha's Gentleman Farmers Club.
Executive vice-president o£ a newly consolidated enterprise is Roy Rubel, whose firm of John B. Woodward, Inc., merged on March I, with Williams, Lawrence & Cresmer Cos. Between them they serve as representatives for ig well-known newspapers from the Atlantic to the Pacific throughout the U. S. and the most remote crannies of Canada. That is, the new outfit of Cresmer & Woodward, Inc., lines up all the national advertising for its varied clients. Prior to their consolidation, W. L. & C., established in 1888, was the oldest agency of its kind in the country, although Woodward, born in 1893 ran it a close second.
A good letter has come to hand from DonHarris:
"For the past six years, I have been night Yard Master for the B. & O. out at Cranford Jet., where we interchange with the Central of N. J., so I go no place and very seldom see anybody. Am on steady nights 10 and 12 hours, with one day a week off, if lucky."
In spite of being a railroader, Don's only travel consists of as frequent trips as he can make to see his 17-year-old daughter, who is living with her grandmother on a farm up in Vermont. He himself lives at 421 Walnut St., Roselle, N. J. Apparently his mother and daughter are somewhere in the neighborhood of Bellows Falls, because Don breaks the news that Wade and Bertha Smith are at West Palm Beach for a four-month sojourn. Meanwhile son Warren, just graduated from Dartmouth, has stepped into the midwinter breach at Smith Auto Sales.
Cambridge correspondent Ray McPartlin reports that Red Tillson has been elected a corporator of the Home Savings Bank of Boston. So this month, on our quiz program, we are offering the usual bundle of household accessories for the cleanest-cut 25-word explanation of exactly what a corporator is. The other item from Ray concerns Rog Horton, whose son Roger Jr. has entered Springfield College to get what it takes to become an athletic coach. Previously the young man had been touted by the local press as the best infielder that Worcester's scholastic circles had seen in many a long day.
Paul Richter, on his way through New York shortly after the New Year, contributed a piece of first-hand information on Jerry Kahn of Cincinnati. Still with the bond firm of Breed and Harrison. Jerry is vice-president of the local Bankers' Club, which he originally helped to organize. Like so many other Cincinnati folks he devotes a lot of his spare time to music.
Bill and Dorothy Fuguet helped themselves to a two weeks' winter vacation, skiing, etc., on a piece of family property at Keene, N. Y„ not far from Lake Placid Cy Rounseville confesses to election last year as president of the Troy Cooperative Bank of Fall River, Mass., and vice-president of the Union Savings Bank there. But he still makes his living as treasurer of New England Laundries in Somerville
Seen on the Boardwalk at the American Association of School Administrators' annual Washington's Birthday-time convention in Atlantic City: Jim Frost, who is rounding out a 17-year term, running a union of school districts with headquarters in Putnam, Conn., and whose boy will be ready for college in another year; and Art Pierce, Wellesley, Mass., school supt., who acted as discussion leader for a session on "Relating Teacher Salaries to Competence."
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y. Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass. Class Agent, Box 315, Hanover, N. H.
