1928
Bill Harris, Burton Holmes' successor, returned from South America the end of January in order to keep a number of lecture engagements in Athol, Mass., Worcester, Mass. and other Eastern cities. The following letter is evidence that The Vagabond Traveler is living up to his name:
"I've been filming in the Virgin Islands (just no virgins left to date) as well as Curacao and Cuba. Filmed the drive from La Guaira to Caracas in Venezuela. These are all test films taken for television. I may eventually land me a show in that field—had a successful audition last October. Now need that Sponsor. Always something needed.
"You ask where I have been since last Spring. Well, I spent April in North Africa filming, May in the Mediterranean for the same purpose— Italy, Malta, the Riviera, the Balearics, Spain, Gibraltar and Lisbon. June in England and in July took the trip to the North Cape. The result is that by the first of March I'll have new literature out describing two new travel lectures— 'The Lands of the Mediterranean' and 'Land of the Midnight Sun.'
"In England last June I did my first bit of 'professoring.' I was Fellowship Lecturer at the London College of Citizenship delivering a course on 'The History of Latin America and Its Influence on Present Day United States.' Evidently it went over well, for I have been asked to return this summer. Yet I have declined as I can't become involved in too many fields all at once— what with travel lecturing, radio, writing and now television—hours for sleep seem to be getting fewer every week. I am winding up my lecture season April 30 and sail for Europe on May 8. Expect to stay over all summer filming and collecting material for travel articles."
The Hanover Inn reports that Barney Nova and son and Mutt Jennings and wife were February visitors .... Ed Lilley, in addition to being a salesman for the Boston investment firm of Draper, Sears & Co., is also president and treasurer of E. F. Lilley Co., jewelers in Milford. He has a daughter, 13, and a son, 7 .... Norm Nash's oldest son Donald is a space salesman for Esquire. Don served two years in the Seabees 1944-45 (18 months overseas), spent a year at Bridgeport University and a year at N. Y. U. Bob Nash, 19, is a student at the Yale School of Music ....Abe Ziskind is an executive of the Crescent Corp., Fall River, Mass., dealing in mill liquidation and mill machinery. He and Rose have two sons and a daughter.
After reading of all the '34 men with five children, it occurred to me that I have been lax in reporting on some of the more prolific members of our class. George and Betty Hoitirook head the list with five girls and two boys ranging in age from 14 to 3 years. Next comes the five-children bracket: Jack McGrath has three boys and two girls, Sam Magavern has two boys and three girls and Al Langenus has four boys and one girl. How do they support so many children? Well, George is vice president of the HolbrooK Grocery Co., Keene, N. H., which helps hoi the food bill down. Jack is general merchandise manager of The Lindner Co., Clevelan department store, Sam is a partner in a Buffalo law firm and Al is Eastern sales manager of the music publishing firm of Boosey Hawkes, 30 West 57 St., New York.
Not previously reported as being in the four-children bracket are the following: Ham Hagar, statistician for the First National Bank of New York; Fred Stone, personnel officer of the Harris Trust & Savings Bank in Chicago (his youngest he calls simply "Sweetie"); Hank Moore, vice president of George W. Moore, Inc., Waltham, Mass., manufacturers of set screws; Tim Paige, contractor in Springfield, Mass.; John Harlow, Tucson, Ariz., landscape architect; George French, works manager of Globe-Union, Inc., Milwaukee (automobile batteries); George Lee, general manager of the H. D. Lee Co., Trenton (overalls) and recently president of the Dartmouth Club of Central New Jersey; Bill Lord, partner in law firm of Nighswander & Lord, Laconia, N. H.; George Pitts, president of the Pitts Corporation, Jamestown, N. Y. (hardware); Bill Lary, oil salesman for the Texas Co., Sunapee, N. H. (Bill Jr. at 15 is 6' 3"); Jerry Warner, Foreign Service Officer in Tokyo; Bill Watson, New Britain, Conn., surgeon; and Jim Gillard, Muskegon, Mich., obstetrician. Write me if you know of any omissions from the above list.
Ev Field is store manager of Calico Corners, Inc., a mill outlet store on Route 22 at Bedford Village, N. Y. He says, "We have had a swell year, the merchandise is gorgeous, the prices right and the future looks good. Proud to list among our customers Art Kneerim, Win Taylor, Bill Dietz and Mo Heath '29."
Jim and Helen Campion spent the month of March in Texas and claim that Texas is the only state they had never seen—they are also interested in finding out how they can make their store the Nieman-Marcus of New England.
Our thanks to Wayne Van Oman for sending a clipping from a Manchester, N. H., paper saying: "Atty. Roger E. Sundeen, well known Manchester lawyer and president of the Manchester Taxpayers' Association, was elected chairman of Mayor Josaphat T. Benoit's newly formed Manchester Industrial Committee. After studying the local industrial picture, this committee will return a public report of its findings, and a recommendation as to whether the city requires the establishment of a permanent, paid industrial agency." A picture of Roger added interest to the clipping.
Jim Campion has edited and published a collection of candid pictures of Dartmouth student activity in a book called The Dartmouth Scene. Get a copy, you'll like it.
When asked what his outside interests are, George Slaw son said, "My wife objects to my cultivating good-looking outside interests, but I do engage in such strenuous activities as stamp collecting, shooting bridge and have been known to engage in dishwashing when I could find no way to avoid it."
Gordon Graham is assistant program director of station WCBS of the Columbia Broadcasting System, in New York City. He has two children, Carol, 15, and David, 6....
Jim Mullen is dispatcher for the Atlantic Refining Co. in Allston, Mass., and lives in Lexington. His hobby is exploring the hills and lakes in Maine and New Hampshire, and he hopes to retire there some day.... DeoGranger is manager of the Wire & Cable Dept., of U. S. Rubber Co. in Buffalo .... As a hobby John and Esther Noeltner keep a small greenhouse. In the spring they raise their own garden plants and have enough left to sell and pay greenhouse costs. Their daughter Carol is 18 and J. W. Jr. is 13. John is assistant production manager of the Ross Heater & Mfg. Co. in Buffalo.
Chuck Bennet sees his fellow Connecticut commuters, Rog Vernon, Lew Beers and Hammie Hammesfahr frequently. "Rog is recovering from a busted kneecap, suffered just prior to New Year's Eve. Lew is worried about the possible phone strike. Hammie has just returned from California; he is a very serious member of the Darien school board, with two very cute daughters going through the works. I still can't see how Hammie manages to look just about the same as he always did. Vernon and I show the ravages of Time! Our food editor told me she had a wonderful time at the Poultry Convention in Kansas City talking with Gil Swanson and Craw Pollock. She said Craw gave a marvelous speech, tracing the history of the poultry business." (This brings to mind Craw's sidesplitting "lecture" on the alimentary canal at one of our Green Key shows.)
Dick Smith, a department head at Raytheon Mfg. Co., Waltham, Mass., now has three boys, 6, 4 and a new little fellow one month old. Dick gets to Hanover once a year for the Cornell or Columbia game in the Fall .... Fred Titus' son is home after being in Japan with the Army—he is in business school. Fred is assistant controller of Madigan-Hy-land, consulting engineers, and lives in New Rochelle Al Walker is assistant treasurer of Mackenzie & Winslow, Inc., Fall River, Mass., lumber concern Jimmy Fowler is a full professor of History at the College of William and Mary Rib Foster, who has been manager of the Dallas office of Blyth & Cos. since 1946, says, "We enjoy Dallas and never have to worry about overcoats or galoshes. Texas is just about all it is cracked up to be."
We're getting a late start on the Alumni Fund campaign this year, so do your bit by sending John Flanagan your contribution now.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa. Treasurer, 2 Princeton PI., Montclair, N. J. Class Agent, 415 Green Lane, Roxborough, Phila., Pa.
