1926
For the fire goblins flicker on the ceiling,And the wine witch glitters in the glass,And the smoke wraiths are drifting, curling,reeling,And the sleigh-bells jingle as they pass.But here by the fire we defy frost andstorm "
And a few hours from the time these notes are written, 1949 passes into the limbo of forgotten things. It was a good year, and the new year can be a better one. But "to be, or not to be; that is the question." For the class, 1950 can be a better year if every member will plan to do just three things. Firstsend a gift or pledge to the Class Memorial Fund; second—send a check for class dues so that we can continue the class group subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE; third start planning now to attend the 25th Reunion in 1951.
You have all received numerous letters from Bob Stopford, our Class Memorial Fund Chairman, and I hope all of you have responded. As you know, our goal is a gift from every man, and that goal should be attained. At the end of the year we have slightly over $13,000.00 in our fund—a good beginning, but we need the help of everyone from here on in to our 25th.
One of the most valuable and least publicized services that alumni render is the interviewing of candidates for admission to the College. A number of our classmates are actively engaged in this work and we think they deserve recognition for their work. Serving as Alumni Councilors are: AndrewJ. (Swede.) Oberlander—in charge of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont; Nathan K.(Nate) Parker—in charge of Western Pennsylvania; James E. (Jim) Traquair—in charge of Southern Ohio; Sidney C. (Sid) Hay ward in charge of Canada and other foreign countries. Interviewing committee chairmen around the country include Phil Benjamin,George Buck, Bob Cleary, Herm Davidson,Gob Des Marais, Doug Everett, Bill Hughes,Jake Jacobus, Ralph, Jones, Don Mackay,Les McFadden, Steve Millard and Art Wilcox.
Dr. Granville (Granny) Knight writes that, since leaving the east in June 1948, he and his wife Eileen have made their home in Santa Barbara, Calif, where he is now practicing, specializing in allergic diseases. Peter, 10, and Sara, 8, also enjoy the California sun, while his oldest boy, William, is now making his own way in Chicago. Granny is a Fellow of the American College of Allergists and is reading a paper on "Tobacco Allergy" before that learned group in St. Louis in January. He says he has seen JoeKinney and Dick Gunthorp on his visits to Chicago, and sees Ritchie Smith and LesMcFacLden in his own home town. Les, incidentally, who was reported lost by the Alumni Records office some two months ago, is located at 36 West Arrellaga Street in Santa Barbara, and tours the golf courses occasionally with Granny, both shooting around 80, which Granny attributes to the sun and good weather. (No mention of smog!) Also, he informs us that Bob and Pense Cleary dropped in for a visit on their recent crosscountry junket. Given time, this department will eventually find out about all the places in which the Clearys visited—even though we do it the hard way.
From Ed Hanlon, our Wall Street correspondent, comes a clipping from a recent issue of Printer's Ink which shows a group picture of the delegates attending the annual convention of the American Association of Newspaper Representatives in Detroit. In the front row, big as life and twice as natural, looking the same as he did in 1926, appears the president of the organization, one D. J.(Del) Worthington of the advertising firm of Cresmer S. Woodward of Chicago.
Another picture, this time from a Tulsa, Okla., Daily World, sent in by J. L. Ferguson 'l5 is of King Dickason, the Vice-President and general manager of DickasonGoodman Lumber Company of Tulsa, and shows him perusing a first edition of the Daily World, dated September 14, 1905, to see how his dad advertised 44 years ago. According to our correspondent, King is in the "pink" and is an important man in and around Tulsa.
The Curtis Publishing Company has recently announced the appointment of Edward J. (Ed) Chaffin as Detroit Publication Manager o£ the Saturday Evening Post. Congratulations!
Royal Baker, his wife Stephanie and son Michael, aged eight, have built and are living in their new home at 60 Ridgewood Road, Attleboro, Mass. Royal is treasurer of the Attleboro Refining Company, Inc., refiners of precious metals, and admits to having won two New England and several lesser bridge championships during the past year.
Robert W. (Bob) Carr says that he occasionally sells a life insurance policy for the Aetna Life Insurance Company but that his wife Ruby continues to support him by working as a nurse for the New Haven Visiting Nurse Association. Bob and Ruby live at 425 Whitney Avenue in New Haven and Bob says he often encounters Ken Foster at the New Haven Savings Bank.
Robert L. (Mac) Mclndoe, his wife Jerry, young Robert, aged nine and Ingrid Gail, aged five, reside at 65 Seaview Avenue, in Northport, N. Y. Mac is still teaching at the Forest Hills, Long Island, High School, which he helped organize in 1941 as Chairman of the Social Studies Department and reports that for the last two years he has had a lot of fun and lots of backaches and headaches engaging in a major remodelling job on his home. According to Mac, he's been doing it the hard way and not just telling the carpenter to "do this and do that."
James E. (Jim) Traquair, the comptroller of the Hospital Care Corporation in Cincinnati, enjoys life with his wife Betty in Newton, Ohio. Last year, Jim was elected to the Alumni Council as member-at-large for a three year term. He says he sees CharlieBishop every now and then, upon the occasion of Charlie's visit to his bailiwick, and that he recently had a visit from his old roommate Edward W. (Worthy) Walters. Worthy, according to Jim, has recently made a change in connections, has forsaken Socony-Vacuum and is now with a candy firm in Chicago. Maybe Worthy will tell us more about all this.
James H. (Jim) Jenkins, the imperturbable Vice-President of the Bankers Trust Company, writes that he and Jean are still happily living at Southport, Conn. Daughter Deborah Anne, 17, attends Kendall Hall at Peterborough, N. H. and Lynn is a student at the (undecipherable) Country Day School. He further reports that in addition to a little golf, tennis and sailing, nothing happened to him during 1949 that is not thoroughly covered in Point of No Return.
That seems to be all the news for this month. Start planning now to be back with the gang for the 25th in June, 1951.... it will be one reunion that no one can afford to miss.... and do something about that Class Memorial Fund gift now!
Secretary, 502 M. Sc T. Bldg., Buffalo 2, N. Y. Treasurer, 131 California Dr., Williamsville 21, N. Y. Class Agent, Mandel Bros., 1 N. State St., Chicago 2, Ill.
