1925
Don Moore, New York manuscript scout for West Coast motion pictures interests, took a month off from scouting this winter to vacation in the Virgin Islands.
Bob Pike, whose current address is Intell. Sect. Room 212; OMGB; APO 407-A c/o Postmaster, New York, has been Chief of the Translation Section for War Crimes and is now Historian for OMGB. Bob writes that he just cannot get out of the old Monday, Wednesday, Friday class routine and every one of those mornings at 7:00 has a professor call for an hour's instruction in conversational foreign languages. This comes from ParkMerrow who further states "Bob married while overseas, had a son born, and has just shipped his wife and cheeild to the States." Quite a long trek from x-country running around Hanover Hills, Bob.
Bill and Mrs. Boies spent their usual three weeks recently in Florida near Fort Lauderdale. Last week he saw General Motors' William Howard Megee. They had hoped to look up Jim Howe, but time prevented.
Probably the busiest man in Boston this week is Benny Wemtz, Executive Secretary of the National Screw Machine Products Association. Mrs. Werntz came on from Cleveland with Ben, and he is running the 1949 Annual Convention for that organization. He has two full time secretaries and several others part time, so he really is going at top speed, lienny would normally attend the Class Agents' dinner in Cleveland, but instead will attend ours this week, together with Whitey,Eddie Pease and Ken Nugent, all Assistant Class Agents.
I just saw a photograph of Bob Rhoades being presented with a beautiful king-size Chelsea banjo clock and plaque in recognition of his six wartime years as President of the Last Manufacturers Association, a national trade association in the shoe business. This clock is now hanging in a prominent place in Bob's renovated home in Hingham:
Recent visitors at the Hanover Inn were Doctor Mac Shepard (three times), Nate Bugbee and George Scott from Pittsburgh.
New changes of address include the following: Thomas A. Adams Jr. 525 Hast 89th St., c/o Mrs. Aieta, NYC 28; Derrol A. Johnson, 2416 N. Commonwealth Ave., Columbus, Ohio; Dr. Bernard J.Manning, 113 Locust St., Dover, N. H.; RobertE. Pike, Intell. Bt., Reports Sect. OMGB, APO 407-A, c/o P.M., N.Y.C.; Frederick L. Weston, 1704 West 10th Ave., Spokane, Wash., Auditor; Charles E. Clifton Jr., 835 Chilton Lane, Wilmette, Ill.; Daniel J. Matthews, Carpenter Hotel, Manchester, N.H., Controller.
I note that Bud Petrequin is one of the four on the Executive Committee for this year's Alumni Fund Campaign. I am very grateful to him for a long article in the Cleveland paper entitled "Strictly Business" which deals exclusively with Norm Smith. We will quote it in part:
"A kick in the shins is good for a man once in a while. It jolts us into a realization of what we have been doing wrong or what we should do that we have not been doing. Similarly, a slow, down in business should not be looked upon by corporation executives as a catastrophe. Rather it should be viewed as a stimulus to progress. These are observations of Norman F. Smith, young, dynamic vice-president and general manager of Cleveland's Osborn Manufacturing Co., world's oldest and largest maker of industrial brushes and foundry moulding machines.
"When orders flow in almost unaided, there is a disposition not to disturb the status quo. But when sales show signs of lagging, especially -when break-even points are high, corporation heads suddenly realize that something must be done. There develops an urgent demand for equipment that will cut costs of production. 'And that,' says Smith, 'is one of the bases of progress. New machines and new processes are perfected. These mean more jobs for those who turn out the machines, greater efficiency for the buyer and real benefits in the way of lower prices to the ultimate consumer—the public.' "
The Osborn Manufacturing Company, founded in 1892, employs over 1,000 people, and in 1948 had sales of $8,500,000. Since the war, the company has spent over a million dollars on plant and equipment.
You will note that this column has a Cleveland tinge, and we hope to rotate cities in featuring the Class News from a particular area each time.
IN BAVARIA: Bob Pike '25 was Chief of the Translation Section for War Crimes and is now Historian for the Office of Military Government for Bavaria.
Secretary, Kenneth B. Hill & Co., Rm. 1007 80 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass.
Treasurer, 49 Federal St., Rm. 1062 Boston 10, Mass.
Class Agent, 1721 Broadway Ave., Highland Park, Ill.
