1938
As foretold in last month's column, deponent made the long and arduous journey via the New Haven to New York for the March dinner, not only for social and news purposes but also for organizational reasons as well. It has long been the feeling of this department that over-organization is something to be avoided, but a certain amount of operational personnel is of the highest importance.
Bill Lyle is doing a vefy good job as editor of the Pace-Setter, as anyone can plainly see from the physical fact that it is now coming out at decently frequent intervals. I had a long conference with him and found him enthusiastic about the way things are going. He and Carson are really getting the Fund Drive going this year, so that our final showing should be much better than last year's disappointing result. It is not the province of this column to urge upon you the need the College has for funds with the steadily rising costs and the decreasing income, but it may be in order to plead a little bit that you be prompt in your response to the Agents' requests. If you rush in your contribution, it saves them so much time and effort and starts the drive off that much more favorably. Remember that they are giving of their time, and the least you can do is to save them as much of that as possible; so how about shipping off that check right now?
Mallory has very generously accepted the job of Class Memorial Fund chairman, in accordance with the desires of the class as ex- pressed at the last reunion. He is going to appoint a couple of helpers, probably one in Boston and one in the Midwest to get things going. There will be more about this in an early edition of the Setter. The Class has already expressed its desire that such funds as may be collected should go for financial aid to the offspring of classmates who died in war service; Mallory and company will be devising ways and means of raising the necessary money.
The New York dinner, while rather small in point of view of turn-out, was a most enjoyable occasion. It is always regrettable that the Secretary should have a job which confines him pretty much to one area, so that except for Boston, where the reportorial staff is excellent (Ganter), most of the other news of the class must come from correspondence. The visit to the Metropolis gave me at least some chance to talk with a group not so often mentioned in these notes.
Among those present at the dinner were: Herb Harries, Ben Lane, Lew Parker, BlaineMallory, Pres. Downer, Jim Towne; JordanColton, Bud Lynch, Don Boyle, Bob Reeve,Pat Gorman, Dick Nelson, Whitey Mays, FredPickering, Ray Ammarell, Ray Berquist, PaulFeakins, Bob Frese, Dick Chase and Marshall,Brownell and Emerson from Boston, Newport, and points East and West. Festivities included a very tasty repast at moderate cost, a few portions of the cup that cheers, and post-prandial free-hand activities at the Dartmouth Club and elsewhere.
Ben Lane, executive with Bauer and Black (medical and sanitary supplies, if you didn't know) is looking forward to a new job come June. He is the pappy of two offspring, Ben 111 and Joan and actually is at present Eastern Office Manager for said purveyors. HerbHarries is located near Paterson, New Jersey, as a salesman for Santos Chemical Co. Downer was still at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn studying leather chemistry, I think he said, but expected to move to Buffalo in the not too distant future. (He did—see new address.)
Jim Towne lives in Darien, Conn., and is with Air Reduction Co. Blackie Boyle is still in the printing business, and Reeve (three kids) selling insurance and winning squash championships. Nelson sells yarn out of Paterson but lives in Montclair. Ammarell is with the Luce interests (Time Mag.). Berquist is Personnel Director for American Cyanamid. Frese is with Hardy Plastics. Chase with Merck & Cos. (Chemicals). Gorman, obviously, is still advertising manager for Philip Morris; Pickering is at the moment unemployed; and Feakins remains as a ferryboat captain for that jitney line, Grace & Co. The last, incidentally, is aboyt to become the proud recipient of a case of scotch and a barrel of beer for winning a certain wager from Washburn.
Via the Old Reliable Clipping Service comes news that Walter Averill, the genial host of Poughkeepsie (Nelson House), was reappointed vice-chairman o£ the National Hotel Exposition to be held in New York next November. In addition to being president of the Nelson House, Walt is first vice-president o£ the New York State Hotel Association, an associate vestryman of the Christ Church; a director of the Vassar Hospital; and a member of the University Club and the Dutchess Golf and Country Club.
From the same source, "Alexander CalderJr., executive vice-president of the Union Bag and Paper Corp., has been elected a director of the Savannah Citizens and Southern" (a bank).
Brad Tyndall has transferred to the New England Sales Staff of the American Silver Co. of N. Y., manufacturers of gold-filled plate, with offices in the Industrial Trust Bldg. in Providence. Dave Freeman is now Deputy Secretary of the Boston Museum under Brad Washburn. Dave was in Community Service before this shift, but enjoys his new work putting on a drive for funds under a "Five-Year Plan." Both of these items from Dan Marshall, who is going to work now for Towle Silver in. Newbury port for training and then to Texas, land of Golden Opportunity. Filene's loss is Towle's gain.
If I haven't mentioned it before, DaveBrinkmann is with Lawrence Portland Cement, selling.
Not many 1938's made the big Boston Dinner, but Jim Cotter sent greetings from the bar in a very appropriate form to the 1938 table. A very commendable idea which should be more generally followed, I am sure.
From the Society Section, Bill and RuthCollins are reported parents of Robert Lindquist Collins, Feb. 3, 1950, while the Hanover Inn reports the presence in March of Mr.William H. Bronk of Hudson Falls, N. Y. As a matter of fact, this correspondent, taking advantage of that brief breather known as Spring Vacation, made a quick trip to Hanover, mainly on business, and enjoyed the hospitality of the same hostelry. To catch up on the Address Book:
Firman E. Bear Jr., 2315 No. 11th St., Apt. 103, Arlington, Va.; James Bonrtyman Jr., St. Simons Island, Ga.—Sea Island Boats, Sea Island, Ga.; William H. Collins (see above), Box 432, East Troy, Wis.; DuVal Cravens, 195 Linwood Ave., Buffalo 9, N. Y.; Dr. George W. Dana, 6202 Sycamore Road, Baltimore 12, Md.; RobertM. Egelhoff, Highland St., Marshfield Hills, Mass. (previously reported); James E. Hastings, 2101 Illinois Road, Northbrook, 111.; Philip H. Jacob, Sebasco, Me.; John P. Merrill, 564 Quinobequin Road, Waban, Mass.; Frederick B. Pickering, c/o I. D. Pickering, 578 Forest Ave., Rye, N. Y.; Robert W. Tabor, 8 Wood St., Nashua, N. H.; Richard H. Tisdale, 2956 Willow Drive, Charlotte 7, N. C.; Bruce Tompkins, 37 E. 39th St., N. Y. 16, N. Y.; Graham U. White, 104 Lamed Road, Summit, N. J.; Everett W. Wood, c/o Theodore Wood Jr., Tufts College, Mass.; Robert I. Atkinson, 171 Pleasant St., Athol, Mass.; Russel W.Dow, Box 667, Palmer, Alaska; Prescott W.Downer, Moench Tanning Co., Gowanda, N. Y.; Sidney V. Francis, 33 Rockland St., So. Dartmouth, Mass.; Franz E. Krell, Rockford Consolidated Newspapers, Inc., Rockford, 111.; Lawrence R.Laughlin, 53 Barasford Ave., Lowell, Mass.; ColinMacLeod Jr., Upperville, Va.; Howard B. Mickey, 1616 Shadyside Road, Baltimore, Md.; Howard A.Moulton Jr., 26 Belvedere St., Boston 16, Mass.; Lewis R. Titus, Hockwarld Chemical Co., 108 W. Colorado St., Pasadena 1, Calif.; Dr. Irving E.Brown Jr., Milton, N. H.; Howard E. Casler, 740 Scotch Plains Ave., Westfield, N. J.; Dr. RobertE. Eckel, Dept. of Biochemistry, Medical School, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; James W. Grether, 5105 Ave. L, Houston, Texas (315 Glenwood Drive, Houston 7, Texas—Construction supervisor); Dr. Emlyn H. Marsteller Jr., Phillips-Hall Inc., 11l W. Grace St., Richmond, Va. (Real Estate); Sydney F. Hogerton, 3020 Knox Ave., Minneapolis 8, Minn.; Terrence L.Hollern, 20 N. Wacker Drive, Chicago 6, 111. (482 Oakdale, Glencoe, 111.—Sales Representative, Powell River Sales Corp.); Morrow Peyton, Northwestern National Bank, Minneapolis, Minn. (5814 West Lake St., Minneapolis 16); Charles W. Rice, 388 Franklin St., Wrentham, Mass.
Secretary, St. George's School, Middletown, R. I. Treasurer, 4721 N. Capital Ave., Indianapolis 8, Ind. Class Agent, 16 Colt Rd., Summit, N. J.
