1937
Perhaps unknowingly, but the Hanover Inn has again played host to newlyweds. This time if they were up in their reading matter (i.e. ALUMNI MAG.) they would have recognized the name of Mr. & Mrs. Wolcott Gaines, married Nov. 24, Thanksgiving Day, in Yarmouth, Me., where they have returned to take up residence. As reported, she was the former Margaret Chamberlain. Hubby is a member of the Maine State Police. May we extend congratulations and best wishes from the class.
Another visitor in Hanover at the same time, up from Providence, R. 1., was Dr. BillMauran.
And speaking of Doctors finds us suddenly in the Pink and Blue Booties Dept. Blue ones for Mr. & Mrs. Bill Timbers in Darien, Conn., for William Homer Jr. on November 10; and pink ones for Barby and Dana Douglas in Portland, Me., on Dec. 4, and just in time to make their unique Xmas card which was a Christmas tree with little photos of the whole family for ornaments, the star at the top reserved for the new member, Pamela Jane. This makes four girls for them and four of a kind is hard to beat. They have practically given up the idea of sending any candidates to Dartmouth but feel they will eventually know plenty about girls' schools. (Cheer up folks, just look broad-minded and you can usually wangle a bid to houseparties as chaperones.)
May we also take this belated opportunity to thank all you good people who sent us Christmas Cards—and an extra special candy cane for all who wrote notes. Next year, with a warning nudge from this tapwriter, maybe you gals can all include us in your list and yank the newspaper away from the old gent long enough to add a newsy morsel. Maybe we could plagiarize the Ruggles technique and say "Send your crank to Bank."
Bill Breitinger finally caught his breath and sent along the following: "In the space of two months Jean and I literally pulled up stakes and are starting all over again. We started with a new car, then a new job, then a new house, and finally a new member of the family arrived.
"If you happen to know of anyone who has experienced a similar upheaval in such a short period of time I would like to know who he is and compare notes, any one of the four is enuf to keep a guy nuts.
"I switched jobs completely, was formerly with Socony-Vacuum Oil Cos. in Phila. and am now in the Purchasing Dept. of the Metropolitan Edison Cos., a Utility, in Reading, Pa. We bought a new home here in Wyomissing, a suburb of Reading, prior to its full completion. Then Tommy, our second boy, arrived August 14 prior to our moving. So between trying to get acclimated and learning the ropes of a brand new job with a brand new concern, chasing a building contractor into completing our new home, commuting weekends between Phila. and Reading where your wife has just returned from the hospital with a new baby you have a slite picture of what yours truly was doing during July and August.
"I'm glad to say things have settled back to normalcy at last. We have been in our home a month, baby is doing fine, I like the new job no end and feel the move was worth all the trouble."
From Buffalo, N. Y. comes word that Shields 8c Co., an Investment firm there, announced around the first of Dec. that BillDonaldson had become associated with them and is connected with the mutual fund dept.
And now to a Xmas card from Los Angeles, Calif., from Bob and Lil Cone— (WITH A LONG LETTER-DRINKS ARE ON THE HOUSE, BOYS). Bob is connected with Shepard & Morgan selling real estate in San Marino, which business he claims to be either a peak or a valley on his personal financial graph, but feels he will make out well in the long term picture. Says, too, that most 37ers in that area live across town in the plush Hollywood studios and offices but he does see Ed Skowrup, who is managing the Pasadena office of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, & Beane (sounds like 5 jobs). Also sees big John Merrill from time to time.
With the calendar claiming winter is with us, along comes a letter from the Cranmore Inn, North Conway, N. H., signed by BobKnapp and wife Betty who manage it. To the Knapps and to the Phil Robertsons the Great Spirit has not been kindly as there has been a lack of much-needed snow for their skiers paradise. Also the Knapps still have had no 37ers cross their hospitable threshold. They claim little news other than their two daughters 2 and 4 keep them in line, and that they are kept quite tied down with summer and winter guests with any off-season time well occupied with redecorating, varnishing floors, etc., but both of them agree they've never regretted leaving Boston and Bob's job in a bank for what they have now. So any of us ski enthusiasts can keep in mind as places to go, the Knapps in North Conway and the Robertsons at "Hillwinds" in Franconia.
Thanks to the eagle eye of Ernest Farley, sec'y class of 'lB, we have a class Wah Hoo Wah for Shel Wagner for being elected to the presidency of the huge New York Mercantile Exchange for 1950. He is also president of the George F. Wagner & Co., wholesale dealers in butter and eggs, which business has flourished in N. Y. for 49 years. Shel is also listed as being a member of the shippers advisory committee of the Federation of Railway Progress. The news item covering the above was forwarded along with another small clipping from another section of the same paper signifying that the U.S. hen population had not been notified of the above as the market report simply stated "Egg prices break sharply."
By now some o£ you have probably received some of the return reply penny postcards that are being sent out from time to time in quest of useful info for this highclass pulp. We would appreciate any small favors in getting them back as we are planning on making a Canasta set out of them when we are through with them, and need every one. First one in came from RayBauer in Cranford, N. J., saying he is still with the Road Construction firm of C. H. Winans and enclosed a picture of .his two small fry. Says further that he sees PaulDickson with some regularity, now located in his beautiful new home in Mountainside, N. J. The real stimulus to Ray's reply came from the playing of Dartmouth Undying as part of the album of Big Green recordings his wife placed under his Xmas tree.
The grapevine yieldeth fruit to a rumor that another of the class bachelors is to assume marital status on January 29 in New Haven and he be Sam Lofman. (Hey, Inn, didja get that?) Stan Berenson and StanLappin plan to attend in official capacities.
In an article in the Boston Herald by the paper's political expert we find a current sizing-up of the present younger material for future office of Governor of Mass., and our own Hal Putnam is favorably mentioned along with several other promising prospects as showing considerable ability and being an excellent speaker.
By gum, maybe we'll get that boardwalk to Northampton yet.
A RECENT PROMOTION makes E. James Stephens '36 agency assistant in charge of the pension trust planning division of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. He has been with the company since 1937, when he graduated from Tuck School.
ADORNED with extra-special leis, Lt. Comdr. William H. Storck '37, SC, USN, and his wife Nan are shown as they arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, aboard the USS General Mann. Commander Storck was reporting for duty at the Pearl Harbor Naval Supply Center.
Secretary, 10 Colby Rd., Wellesley 81, Mass. Treasurer, 17 High St., Greenfield, Mass. Class Agent, 1121 Park Sq. Bldg., Boston 16, Mass.
