1933
Last month's moratorium on personal news in deference to a picture of organized class activities in behalf of the College has given us a hatful of items, which, without further ado, we spread before your hungry eyes.
One of our more elusive classmates, GobinStair, has finally been pinned down for us by an item in Publishers Weekly, which relates that he has recently joined the Triggs Color Printing Corp. of New York as a consultant on presentation and design. For the past two years Gobin has been with Graphic House associates. Before that he was art director of Bantam Books. Our detective work has also yielded the information that at various times he has also been associated with Putnam, Cornell Maritime Press, and Presscraft Art Service. Ancient history perhaps, but at least it puts us firmly'on Gobin's trail and should convince you, furthermore, that your secretary is an indefatigable sleuth, who will wring every drop of news from a clipping somebody drops in his left hand.
While we have an established beachhead in the field of presentation and design we might just as well give you the scoop on Roger Kafka. This item has a little moss on it too by this time, since it is based on an article Rog wrote for Point of View, a public relations trade magazine, last year. His piece, called "Your Dignity is Showing," told business executives off for missing the boat in their efforts to communicate facts and figures to their stockholders, employees, and the public generally. While admitting that razzle-dazzle could be overdone "Few stockholders would appreciate a notice of a cut in dividends done up in the form of a Donald Duck cutout"—Rog could see no reason, in a day of TV and streamlining, for business to continue to prepare literature that "still looks as if it were designed to compete for attention with the Congressional Record. " Good point, we'd say, in '49 as well as in '48. As Editorial Director of Geffen, Dunn & Co. Rog has had a hand in planning and writing more than one hundred and fifty booklets, brochures, annual reports and house organs in the past four years. From 1942 to 1946 Rog served as editor of Sea Power, and during this period was co-author of "Warships of the World," a volume which described every fighting ship afloat during World War II. He's done his bit of free-lancing, too, for such publications as Reader's Digest, Coronet, This Week,Liberty and Popular Science.
Sometime this past month Charles L."Lopey" Rich politicked for the office of alderman in Norwood, Mass. No intelligence to date on the outcome. We're posting a reward for the first '33er under the wire in the home office with the news.
Drew Dudley, home Christmas for the first time in some years—handling public relations for the World Bank has had him on the jump threw a wonderful party on Christmas afternoon at the family homestead on Rope Ferry Road, and the Hanover '33 delegation turned out in force. Good to see Drew in the pink and obviously enjoying a fascinating job that runs a wide range, from daily contacts with world leaders in finance and statesmanship to, on occasion, ducking South American revolutions and having a personal interview with Evita Peron.
Charlie Webster rounded up the boys for the Alumni Dinner at the Commodore in New York on January 26, and reported the following at the '33 table: Ken Spang, John Masten,Bob Seabolt, George Smith, George Farrand,Harry Rabinovitz, Hank Smith, Cliff Johnson, Jack Robinson, and himself. Charlie comments that this was a somewhat disappointing turnout, with over a hundred classmates in the area, and plans have been made to get more of the boys away from their slippers and their firesides on that occasion next year.
Charlie is with National Biscuit Co., has three kids, and recently experienced a gerontological trauma when he watched his oldest depart for her first formal dance. John Masten is practising law with Davis, Polk, etc., etc. in N.Y.C.; George Smith is a bank examiner for Federal Reserve. George Farrand recently wrote Lee Eckels of a change in his work, to wit "After nearly fifteen years of public accountancy in varied capacities, I have entered private business as a sort of 'huckster.' Last June I joined the staff of Young and Rubicam, national advertising agency, as assistant to the Secretary and' Treasurer. I have also changed my extra-curricular college affiliation, having joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Business Administration of N.Y.U., where I teach advanced and cost accounting. Our family now constitutes two boys, 12 and 2, and a girl, 9. I guess that is enough to keep us busy and broke for some time."
Bob Niebling has also left the old stand. On February i he left Utilities Mutual Insurance Co. to work for Lionel D. Edie & Co., Inc., also of New York. No further details, but Bob writes that "it looks like quite an opportunity."
In a recent letter Larry Reeves bemoans the fact that he hasn't seen too many classmates recently, but if he feels he's off his game we don't. The following in the way of news is par on anybody's course. He writes:
"On a recent trip to New York I had a telephone talk with Win Hobbs, who now has his family located in Scarsdale while he works for the Corporation Trust Co. in N.Y.C. John Meek has spoken at one of our Tuesday luncheons on his big new job as Treasurer of the College, and Parker T.'Pete' Hart of the State Dep't and president of the Ski Club of Washington gave an interesting talk of the latter's organization's activities. Fred Await also helps run the State Dep't and I see him every now and then. Jim Pimper is still in charge of selling large vessels for the Maritime Commission and is the father of two lovely girls. Gil Beebe who works for the Public Health Service dropped in about two weeks ago for lunch. Don Lincoln is now one of Washington's prominent attorneys but must spend half his time commuting to New York. DickLyon is another lawyer, and is also a recent bridegroom. Cal Milans is doing well as a patent lawyer and spends his spare time looking at his new television set. Charlie Grob is busy as a member of the firm of Pelzman & Grob distributing household appliances. Sted Sampson holds down the Navy Dep't and Vin Youngs practice has gotten so big he doesn't have time to get to our luncheons any more." That, friends, is a swell report on the Washington scene, and, as we said before, par on any course.
Jus Stanley and John Meek were both in town for the Alumni Council meetings Jan. 21-23. They were busy as beavers, but we finally caught up with them on Sunday morning, had breakfast with them at the Inn and a chat that covered ground ranging all the way from '33, the state of affairs of the College, to the reorganization of the executive branch of the government (John has been hard at work for the Hoover Commission for many months, and will wind up that work just in time for a brief vacation before he comes to Hanover about March i), and certain thorny problems Jus has been working on involving basic legal principles in the new spheres of action of government agencies regulating business enterprise.
Another of our holdouts has capitulated to the "weaker" sex. Randolph E. Valensi "was married to Monique Flochel at Loss Vineyard, Union City, N. J., on December 18.
Edward E. Munn has been transferred from the New York to the Chicago office of Marsh & McLennan, national insurance brokers. His new duties will involve specialized and uniform assistance in the preparation and settling of fire and allied losses. Ed had been in the New York office for the past two and a half years.
That, friends, completes the transfer of news items from the hat to the wastebasket, and you have it. Pass more biscuits to pappy.
Secretary, 20 Valley Rd., Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, 2812 Grant Bldg., Pittsburgh 19, Pa.
Class Agent, The Stanley Works, New Britain, Conn.
