1939
Labor Day week-end in Connecticut is dark, cold and dismal. The kind of weather that forces even the most procrastinating of class secretaries to remain inside, buckle down with the summer's accumulation of news, and send something up to Hanover for the October issue. Our oldest child Judy received a record player on her fourth birthday today, so if a few passages from the "Teddy Bear's Picnic" are included don't get excited, some vital news about one of your old buddies will follow.
Earlier this summer Bozo Noland was elected president of the Noland Company in Newport News, Va. Through its 24 branches in the Southeast, his firm is the largest supplier of electrical, plumbing and industrial equipment in that part of the country. In addition Bozo has interests in the hotel and banking business in Richmond.
Johnny Steele was one of 12 American newspapermen to receive a Nieman Fellowship award for a year's study at Harvard University. John is a member of the Washington Bureau of the United Press, assigned to the Senate, and covered the UP on the MacArthur hearings. Married, and with two children, he lives in Washington. Another class newspaperman, John Mearns, has been named acting Sunday news editor of the HeraldTribune in addition to his regular duties as editor of the New York Herald Tribune News Service.
Lt. Col. Jim Feely, U.S.M.C., returned from 11 months in Korea in June, and is now in command of the Marine Air Group at the Squantum Naval Air Station in Quincy, Mass. During his 11 months, he flew 55 combat missions giving close air support and reconnaissance to Marine ground forces, and was awarded the Bronze Star and two Air Medals for outstanding performance.
In Houston, Roge Stanwood has shifted from Tide Water Associated Oil Co. to Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. as assistant to the vice-president in charge of gas supply. Walt Leach has been appointed production planning manager of the William Carter Co. in Needham, Mass. If any of the class feels he needs a raise, would suggest you read BudGriswold's article on the management of salary raises under recent Wage Stabilization Board rulings, in the August issue of the Journal of Accountancy. Since that is one of the magazines my wife does not subscribe to, I haven't read it, but would be sure Bud had some good angles. Out in Cleveland, BobWarner got his picture in the paper as assistant administrator of the Cleveland Regional Blood Program of the American Red Cross, but have no further information on Bob's activities in Cleveland.
In April Henry Glovsky, after a slam bang campaign, was elected to the State House of Representatives from the Beverly, Mass., district. Hank has been practicing law in Beverly since he got out of the army, and lives with his wife and two sons at 15 Columbia Rd. Lawyer Bill Green has resigned as deputy attorney-general for the State of New Hampshire to go into private practice with the Manchester law firm of Sheehan, Phinney & Bass.
Vital Statistics: Dr. Bob Clymer was married in June to Miss Fay Virginia Hess in Reading, Pa. Bob has recently completed his residency in Urology at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, and after a wedding trip to Colorado will practice in Reading. Herb Hirschland was best man.... RalphHolben was married to Gudrun Hogseth on May 3 and also in Reading. Miss Hogseth, a native of Bergen, Norway, has lived in Washington the past two years as a member of the staff of the International Bank. Ralph and his bride will live in Paris where he is working with ECA.. .. Bill Atwater was married in Scarsdale July 6 to Miss Bette Benedict Kennedy. Bill is associated with the FetzerAtwater Corp. in White Plains, and makes his home in the Crestwood Garden Apartments, Tuckahoe.... Our one and only birth announcement for the month is a rather important one for the Brooks family at least. Our third child and second son, Richard, was born July 7 in the Stamford Hospital.
Dr. Dick Hadley led the Dartmouth Club of New York to the golf championship of the college clubs in the Metropolitan area with a 75 over the course at Rye. This was the first time since the league's inception that neither the Princeton Club, the defender, nor the Yale Club has won.
Sidelines: Harriman Jones received his degree as Doctor of Philosophy (Romance Languages and Literature) from Harvard in June .. . and Ward Porter received the same degree {Sociology) during Harvard's June Commencement. ... Col. Dave Schilling was named the outstanding aviator of 1950 aviation and will receive the 1951 Harmon International Aviation Trophy at the White House later this year... . Saw Bill Carter and Bob Schill for lunch last week. Bill back from a month on the Maine Coast with his family, and Bob settling in his new home in Westfield, N. J. ... Johnny Osoinach living in Champaign, Ill., teaching Marriage and Family at the University of Illinois and writing a master's thesis on the place of power in social organization. ... Gordon McCoun and his wife were up from Lima, Peru, during the summer and spent a day at the Inn... . Dick Schumacher, living in Garden City, N. Y., with wife and two children, is tax accountant for Union Carbide and Carbon Corp.
Ben Ayers living in Houston, a Marine Planning and Construction Engineer with Stanolind Oil and Gas Co.... Johnny Litchfield back in the Army and living in Washington. .. . Capt. Doug Younger with the 40th Tank Bn., 4th Inf. Div., APO 39, c/o P.M. N.Y.C. ... Paul Dorsey in the paper box business in Louisville, Ky. ... Howie Stoughton reports seeing George and Betty Boswell quite often for weekends in Northampton. Howie is Treasurer of the Hart Mfg. Co. in Newington, Conn ....Johnny Cathcart writes from Richmond, Va., "Been in Richmond three years—interesting job (Supervisor Dupont Cellophane Plant)—wonderful friends, healthy children. Recreation golf, square dancing, sailing and swimming at Virginia beach.". .. Earlier this year Dr. Harold Robinson started the private practice of Internal Medicine in Lafayette, Calif., and as of March this year had a new son, making three children in all.
Secretary, 79 Linden Ave., Conn. Treasurer, The Hanover Bank 40 Worth St. Bldg., New York 13, N. Y
