1926
It's spring (at least this is the last day of March on which I am writing and it looks like spring!) and this young (?) man's fancy turns to thoughts o£ duck boards on the campus; buds on the Bulletin Elm (the only tree now more famous than the Charter Oak, thanks to Al Dickerson's prolific pen); the last pile of snow in the shadow of the Gym; old John, who used to sell the flapper statuettes and Billicans and Billicants on the steps of Webster. Spring in Hanoverl Wouldn't that be nice to see again? Just to sit on Senior Fence and watch the campus turn green! Senior Fence! Do you remember the famous admonition of the Class of '25 to us which read, "Plant not thy petulant prazbies on the holy planks of Senior Fence, lest painful pulsations penetrate thy puny pratts?" Right now I'd submit to the pulsations, however painful, just to plant what is now no longer petulant nor puny on the planks as preferable to being cooped up here in a stuffy office. Hanover I could go for, right now! But—there's a column to get out.
Bob Cleary, Jake Jacobus, Gib Robinson,Bud Shaver, Bleeck Williams, Brant Wallace,Graham Ford and Charlie Bishop were all in attendance at a dinner meeting of the North Jersey alumni association on March 28. Bo reports that all appeared healthy and sassy. Also present was Charles Bishop Jr., better known as Buster, who is a star third baseman on the Milhurn High School baseball team.
Enclosed with Bob's letter was a snapslw from one of the photomags (purloined by Jacobus from a barbershop according to Bob) which shows a dapper, tuxedo-clad chap standing over a seated and charming blonde female in a very decollete number. The place a night club! The caption: "Sylvia Lady Stanley, who was once Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, is about to dance with Robert Minton—." Believe it or not, it is our own Bob Minton! The boys do get about!
Brant Wallace, on his return from a flying trip to California (on which we reported last month), bears the sad tidings that Bill Nigh is in bad shape in San Francisco, the result of a recent heart attack. Our best wishes for a speedy recovery go to Bill.
A month or so ago we questioned what had happened to Del Worthington's class song. Apparently some people read these notes because JudBellaire reports, by way of Sid Hayward, that Del remembers his song and that Del and RitchieSmith rendered it for Jud and Brant Wallace when Brant and Del visited the coast and occasioned that impromptu class reunion.
The February issue of the Library Bulletin records the interesting information that the rarest book in the library's excellent Mencken collection, "Ventures into Verse," was given, through the Friends of the Library, by Dick Mandel.
The New York Times of March 7 announces the formation of a new brokerage firm, Steckler and Moore, with offices at 120 Broadway, New York. The Moore part of the firm is none other than our own Walter (Walt) Moore 2nd, formerly with Shields & Company. Congratulations, Walt, and best wishes for success in the new venture.
Stew Orr writes that, at a recent luncheon meeting of the Corporate Association of Boston, he sat beside that eminent barrister, Osmer Fitts. Oz was in attendance in his capacity as a director of the Peoples National Bank of Brattleboro and as a member of their pension committee. Stew further states that at another meeting of the Charles- River Dartmouth Club he saw Henry Blake who is now, we are happy to report, up and about again. Also, that he recently saw Herm Trefethen who, with his family, was visiting in Waban for a week or so. Last January Herm, who has been with McCrory Stores for several years, was transferred from Philadelphia to New York in charge of candy for McCrory and now resides at 425 Riverside Drive in the Big City. And did you know that Herm's son is named Harold, just to add to the confusion? Now you can no longer assume, when you meet either of the Trefethen's, that the other is Harold or Herman because now we have two Harolds! And, speaking of Harold (the other one who lives in Boston), he and Charlie Gibson recently had a visit from Paul Leussler. Paul, since graduation, has been with the Omaha Steel Company of Omaha, Neb., but is now looking for a new connection, apparently in the east.
Malcolm (Jerry) Jones has recently been elected to the Board of Directors of Aurora College out in Illinois. Jerry, with wife Lydia and three daughters, lives in Aurora where he is sales engineer for Richards-Wilcox Manufacturing Company. Jerry and Lydia are infanticipating a son momentarily.
Arthur (Art) Nathanson has just become associated with Munn, Liddy and Glaccum, attorneys at 24th W. 40 Street, New York, where he is specializing in patent and trade mark law. Art, with his wife Henrietta and their two sons Robert and Tohn, lives in Merrick, N. Y.
Frederick (Fred) Seeley announces that he and wife Josephine, son Jonathan and daughter Mary, are still residing in Meadville, Pa., w ere Fred is Associate Professor of English at Allegheny College. He says that he can report nothing has happened to him in the last year and he ain't got no news of nobody else from the class. (I need a refresher course in English, Prof!)
Rleecker (Bleeck) Williams (last seen by this scribe trying to untangle traffic on the Merritt Parkway on the way to the Yale game last fall) is Exec. V-P and director of The Barco Corporation of Paterson, N. J. in the investment management field. Last July, after twenty-two years with the Peoples Trust Company of Bergen County, Hackensack, N. J., where he was Trust' Officer and Ass't Secretary, Bleeck embarked on his new career! More power to you! (but is our editorial face red for such tardy reporting!)
Al Will cox reports that he still carries on in his Own business, A. M. Willcox & Associates, publishers' representatives, at 420 Lexington Avenue and that his interests are the same (I quote): "Skiing, farm in Vermont, showing and riding thoroughbred hunters, drinking whiskey and music." That last part—"drinking whiskey and music"—gets me. The word "drinking" is undoubtedly a participle when considered with the word "whiskey," but what about with the word "music." (Paging Prof. Fred Seeley!—again I got troubles!) A good drink of music is probably a swell idea—at any rate, this month's neatest trick.
Edward Everett (Ed) Emerson, the eminent educator and entrepreneur of the Emerson School in Exeter (what alliteration for an illiterate editor) reports that Andrew Rankin, son of WaltRankin, is a student at his esteemed educational establishment.
An early morning call from the airport, which aroused me from my matutinal slumbers, turned out to be from Carle Blunt who was pausing briefly in Buffalo en route to Canada. Unfortunately, the pause was too short for more than a brief phone conversation, but I did learn that Carle is heading up the Chicago Community Drive this year and will have his hands full of work. Can't imagine a better man for the job, however! Luck to you!
At the 1949 annual meeting of the Harris Trust and Savings Bank in Chicago, Warren(Fellie) Fellingham was elected a Vice-President of the bank! Congratulations! Fellie has for many years been an Assistant Secretary of this bank with which he became associated shortly after graduation. Another banking tycoon in the class, and it couldn't happen to a nicer guy! The foregoing information re Fellie's promotion was relayed to this department by one Henry L. (Hank) Parker III, who very modestly neglects to mention that he, himself, is a rather important guy in the Harris Trust and Savings organization in the trust investment division.
Don MacKay, the legal light of Quincy, Mass., evidently treats the practice of law as an avocation. In a recent note he mentions that, among other things, he devotes some of his time to being President of the Quincy Chapter of the American Red Cross, Commander of Quincy Post 95 of the American Legion, Judge Advocate of the 94th Division and President of the Quincy Bar Association. Whattsamatter ? Ain't there no crime in Quincy to keep a lawyer busy?
Benjamin (Ben) Zaeder, who resides with his wife Ethel and two sons John and Jeffrey, in the nearby hamlet of Erie, Pa., is a sales representative for American Steel and Wire Co., works out of the Buffalo office and travels eight counties in New York and Pennsylvania for the outfit. Ben says he hears regularly from Frank Poor (now in Newburyport, Mass.), visited the Poors at the Cobb Camp in Maine last summer and expects to see Frank this summer when he goes home to Worcester on vacation.
Lawrence (Larry) Kennison, now on active duty as Lieutenant-Commander, U.S.N.R., at Headquarters, 3rd Naval District, New York, with title of DORCSA (you've got me, there!) is on leave of absence from the Mathematics Department of Brooklyn College. Larry and his family, consisting of his wife Jean, son John, and two daughters Jane and Hope, live in Hollis, N. Y., and Larry was recently elected a deacon of the Queens Baptist Church in Queens Village, N. Y.
It is with, regret that we learned of the sudden death of our classmate, William DavidGoff Jr., in Concord, Mass. on March 20, 1949. Our heartfelt sympathies go to his wife Gladine and daughter Joan. An In Memoriam notice appears elsewhere in this MAGAZINE.
February visitors at the Hanover Inn were the Rev. and Mrs. Richard (Wee) McClintock and children, Barbara Jean and Richard Jr., and in March, Charles (Chuck) Webster and John P. (Perk) St. Clair and his nephew.
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RECORD-BREAKING '26 FAMILY: George L. Peirce of Boston and his Dartmouth Tribe gathered in their tepee in Auburndale, Mass. "Bus" Heydt contributed this family scene, totalling ten including the twins Helen and Randall Peirce born in 1947.
Secretary, 514 M. & T. Bldg., Buffalo 2, N. Y
Treasurer, 131 California Dr., Williamsville 21, N. Y.
Class Agent, Mandel Bros., 1 North State St., Chicago 2, Ill.
