1926

When that doughty Hanover threesome of Hayward, Merrill and Morrison agreed last fall to resume their editorship of The 1926Bulletin, we looked forward with guileless pleasure to further intimate glimpses of the current Hanover scene through their observant eyes and fluent hands. What we got, at ..least in their only number to date as we write this, was so much red-hot class news, complete with assorted political views, that this column wobbled dizzily on its pedestal. Competition may be the spice of life, boys, but let's not get this situation too spicy; it's three against one, after all, and you fellers are too good at it, with your questionnaires and political polls, and all! (Thanks, nevertheless, for the grand job you are doing and also for the items you have generously forwarded for the use of this feeble competitor.)

Doctors bury their mistakes; purveyors of class news, on the other hand, sometimes receive welcome messages pointing out theirs. The picture of the 1926 sons (a worthy gangl) published in the March issue, was the result of a cooperative effort by Sonny Drury, the MAGAZINE editors and ourselves, and somehow during this triple play the boy in the middle of the second row, in the picture, who really is Bill Sharp Jr. '50, got listed in the caption as "Charles V. Fryer." Our sincere apologies to Bill Jr., and also to his pop, who wrote calling attention- to the error and saying that he got quite a kick out of seeing young Bill's picture in the MAGAZINE, that he (pop) has seen more of Hanover in the past two years young Bill has been there than in the previous twenty, and that he has a second son, David, 9, headed in the same direction, to prolong his active association with Hanover for many years to come. Bill happened to lunch with Ed Hanlon, his old Hanover roommate, shortly after the picture was published, so we also received a nice note from Ed, always one of our most reliable newshawks, pointing out the error. Ed also said he sees Bob Harrington from time to time, Bob being treasurer of the Massachusetts Protective Association and associated insurance companies, of Worcester, and an investment client of Calvin Bullock, with whom Ed is associated in New York.

Thanks to a fine letter from Canfield Hadlock we can now enlarge upon our recent brief paragraph announcing the birth of his fourth youngster, Nancy. Family-wise Canfield's timing was somewhat later than most of the class, but he surely caught up in a hurry, both in numbers and in cosmopolitan distribution, with Danny 61/2, the oldest, having been born in Delaware, Harriet in New York, JOJO in Tennessee, and Nancy in Virginia. A snapshot of this handsome foursome and their parents may be found in an adjacent location in this issue.

Just prior to the war Canfield was doing process development work for the du Pont Engineering Dept. in a plant near Wilmington, and held a commission in the Army Officers' Reserve pool. Entering active service in the spring of '42 he arranged to be assigned to the Technical Division of the Chemical Corps at Edgewood Arsenal, figuring his chemical training would there be most useful; and so it was—for a brief two months in the summer of '42. In September '42 he was suddenly and unexpectedly transferred to the Corps of Engineers, and to a District about which no one at Edgewood Arsenal knew anything—an outfit called The Manhattan District—which at that time consisted of about a dozen officers. From then until separation from the service in November '46, Canfield served with the Manhattan District in various technical capacities, with bases first in New York and later at Oak Ridge, with a good bit of traveling around this country thrown in and culminating with three months in Europe in the summer of '46. Thus the bare bones of a most intriguing and newsworthy story, and the wish that it could be told in real detail. Now back with du Pont, at Waynesboro, Virginia, Canfield is a Research Supervisor engaged in process development of cellulose acetates, happy to have his family together again and more or less permanently settled in their own home. His letter closes with some interesting news of Frank Knowles, a fellow du Ponter of many years' standing. In 1946 Frank became Assistant Plant Manager of du Pont's Chamber Works, the plant near Wilmington whence Canfield left for the army. This is the largest plant in the du Pont organization, employing some 5500 people and making a wide variety of products ranging from dyes through Freon refrigerants, neoprene, and sulfuric acid to tetraethyl lead for gasoline. "A fine and merited promotion for Frank, and I hear he is doing a very good job in his new position," a statement which we are sure applies equally well to Canfield and the jobs he has done both with the Manhattan District and with du Pont.

The Walton Company, of which Ken Weeks is president and treasurer (and Mrs. Weeks is secretary and assistant treasurer) has completed construction and moved into its new plant at 600 New Park Avenue, West Hartford, Connecticut (new mailing address: Box 5, Elmwood Branch, Hartford 10, Conn.) Ken may well take pride in this completely modern and attractive one-story building of 12,000 feet in which the company's general offices are located as well as the manufacturing departments which produce its line of electrical foot control switches and tap extractors. Surrounding property of the company provides a recreational area for the employees, ample parking space and plenty of land for future expansion as successful growth continues under Ken's able guidance.

Two of the oldest firms of publishers' representatives—Williams, Lawrence & Cresmer Co. and John B. Woodward, Inc.—consolidated the first of March under the new firm name of Cresmer & Woodward, Inc., and Del Worthington became one of the four principal partners in the new organization. Del went into the publishers' representative branch of the advertising business back in 1936, when he first became associated with the Chicago office of the Williams, Lawrence & Cresmer concern. He was elected vice-president of the firm in 1944. According to the account of the merger in Editor ir Publisher, the new firm will be one of the largest in the field, representing some 28 of the better-known newspapers in this country and Canada. Del and one of his partners will head the Chicago office, wiiile the other two will be in charge in New York.

Notes and Comments (Boston Division): We bumped into Reg Hanson in the lobby of our building the other noontime and found him looking right in the pink, which he should have been, having just returned from three weeks in the Florida sun. It was a well-earned vacation for Reg, his first real one since our twentieth reunion Mac McDavitt busted into print recently on the local financial pages as the principal speaker at a dinner of the Financial Advertisers Association of New England Stew Orr says that Phil Woodward, one of our local lawyers, is quite a tax expert and lectured on the subject in a course Stew took last winter The weekly Boston lunches continue to thrive; as of the present writing, however, we have shifted from the Ambassador, which closed, to a spot called The Smorgasbord, at 17 Province Street. Wednesdays at one continues as the meeting time.

THOSE HAPPY HADLOCKS: At long last, we of the class of 1926 may have a look at the Canfield Hadlock family. Here they ate, left to right, front row, Harriett, Danny, JoJo; back row, wife Josephine holding Nancy, and the master himself.

'26 ROUSTABOUTS WRANGLE RODEO ROUNDUP: Charlie Starrett '26, famed as "The Durango Kid" of Western movies, paused recently in Washington during a personal appearance tour and the above photo was taken by wife Mary with Hub Harwood s camera. Flanking Charlie are (left) Coyote

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