1939
Thanks to a couple of long distance telephone calls and the persuasive qualities of Chuck Grant, this New Year's Day., 1950, finds me assuming the duties of class secretary. Thus in addition to the usual problems of New Year's Day, I have a column to write. I must admit Chuck needed some help, as he is taking a full program of studies in history at the University of Penn, with the target a Ph.D. in a few years and a job teaching in one of the N. E. colleges. At the same time he is carrying on as Philadelphia representative for his father's firm, thus leaving little time for any other activity. This might be a good time to confirm Chuck's very generous offer of our guest room to any transient 39er passing near Darien, made in last month s column. Sue and I will be delighted to see you
The class records, carefully preserved for us in old beer and dog-meat cartons by DickJackson, have yielded very little in the way of news, with the one exception of a very interesting letter from Hod Mecklem in Manzanita, Ore. written during the summer. Hod writes, "I have been logging out here in the famous Tillamook burn for the past three years and am just in the throes of selling out. I found a purchaser just before the log market went to hell, so can congratulate myself on getting out from under just in time. 1 am putting in a bid for a $4.00,000 road construction job in eastern Oregon. If I get it, I'll either be on my way to making a little money or going broke. I've got a little girl six, and a boy four."
Being an avid reader of social columns, especially in out-of-town papers, I picked up the marriage on November 10, of WentworthK. Brown to Miss Jane Elizabeth Tarbell in the Congregational Church, Keene, N. H. Both are members of the English faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. You can find them at home 1649 Fifth Ave., Troy, N. Y.
On the sports page: Bob MacLeod again made the headlines as the subject of a feature article in the December 29 New York Herald Tribune, part of a series of articles about the present activities of former athletic stars. Included in the write-up was a good picture of Bob and mention of his pet hate: the two-platoon system. Bob said he thought the coaches had taken over too much control and responsibility, and didn't think specialists belonged in a team game. He objected mainly to the specialization rather than the frequent substitutions.
On the business front: congratulations to Don Wheaton, elected assistant secretary of the Central Hanover Bank and Trust Co. New York City, while over the bridge in Brooklyn, Bob Schill was selected as assistant secretary of the Brooklyn Union Gas Co. Don has been handling out-of-town business for the bank in several of the southern states. Bob lives over in Westfield, N. J., and reports the birth of a son, Todd, now three months old. Dick Ruebling has shifted from the Western Electric Co. in Kearney, N. J., to Arthur Anderson & Cos., a public accounting firm at 67 Wall, New York City. I have seen Dake Horn occasionally. He is buyer of children's shoes for Lord and Taylor and lives in Greenwich, Conn. The last time I talked with Dake, he told me Bob Alpert had been in to see him. Bob has his own shoe manufacturing business, and is making a very clever aviator type boot for children. I had a very pleasant chat with Dick Monahon just before Christmas in Woolworth's store on Fifth Ave. Dick is an officer in a Newark, N. J., packaging concern, and told me his firm supplies most of the gift boxes used by such chains as Woolworth's. He looked fine in spite of his daily commute from Long Island through New York to Newark. Said he was working on something to shorten the distance.
Hort Wainwright has just moved from Bridgeport to the Revonah Woods section of Stamford, Conn. Incidentally, Revonah is Hanover spelled backwards. Must be a great neighborhood, Hort. Also learned from Hort that Duke and Julie Lyons had their third boy on December i, and are moving into their new home in Woodbridge, Conn., not far from Bob and Mary Dickgeisser.
Doc Jessup is in charge of the hospital and medical program of the Sperry Gyroscope Corp. at Great Neck, L. 1., N. Y. This is a shift for Doc from a general practice in Bronxville, and he seems to be really enjoying himself. Also reported that farther out on the island at Smithtown Branch, Doctor Jack Khulke has a new office and is delivering babies, "like mad." Another class doctor, Morris Seligman, started the practice of medicine in Concord, N. H., after a tour of duty with the Army Medical Corps and postgraduate work at the Bronx Hospital, N. Y. C. He wa:s married to Miss Rhya Levine on May 10 in New York.
From far-off Menlo Park, Calif., Beth andJack Gray report the birth of a daughter Kathelin on August 26.
Since the making of resolutions is customary on New Year's Day, I would like to propose one for the class; namely: that each member write the secretary at least once during the year.
Secretary,' 79 Linden Ave., Darien, Conn. Treasurer, 445 Rochelle Terrace, Pelham 65, N. Y. Class Agent, American Bankers Assn. 12 East 36th St., New York 16, N. Y.
HANOVER PR BUST JUNE 16-18
