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Echoes of the Princeton game (remember that it was played in what amounted to a hurricane). It would appear that the January issue of the MAGAZINE with "no report" on '19ers attending the game was entirely inaccurate. Your Secretary, being only an Army and Air Corps retread, should have known that a little bad weather would not stop the Navy '19ers from attending the game.
The following from Cap'n Eddie Fiske, former mariner and curler extraordinary, "Brother (Commander) Munro and I are not at all pleased with your write-up of the Class News in the January ALUMNI MAGAZINE. As a matter of fact, he and I remarked down at Princeton on the day of the game that it was too bad that the classmates had all collapsed. Just for the record, I would like to have you know that there are only four sailors in our class, namely, Madam Munro, Louie, Miss Anne Fiske and the writer. We all stayed through practically the whole game. There wasn't another classmate to be seen anywhere, particularly in the open. Don't you agree with us that it is too bad that the boys really can't ,take it any more?"
The above was related to Rear Admiral(ret.) Paul Halloran who, with Ken Huntington and your Sec. represented the class at a recent New Rochelle University Club dinner dance. Paul immediately took issue with the fact that the above-mentioned worthies were the only ex-Navy classmates at Princeton. Despite hoisted storm signals, Paul navigated his way from near Ossining, N. Y., to the game and back, which trip was really something, what with fallen trees and wires, no gas stations operating, and calls home Catherine indicating that there was no light or heat, and trees falling all over the Halloran estate. All of the foregoing gives you some idea of what happens when you don't keep the Sec. posted on what you are doing. Vaughan Little, with Fran, also advised that he was in Princeton, but, however, makes no claim to sitting through the game as they were "safe and secure in the Cap and Gown Club."
After last month's squawk about not hearing from enough of you, your Secretary found that his inimitable filing system had gone askew, and that he really had some letters of which no mention had been made. With due apologies to the classmates concerned, we can proceed with the notes.
Walt Cooper was in Ponte Vedra, Fla., last winter and as he says "who should show up at the Inn but Fat Jackson, just down to look in on the Jacksonville plant of the Ward Baking Co. He never hits it in July!! While there I saw Norm Sterling and he and his wife showed us his new house at South Ponte Vedra Beach. It is a honey."
Nock Wallis, of the Dennison Mfg. Co., Framingham, Mass., states that,
"The birthday card arrived very promptly to remind me that I pass another milestone. I don't feel any older than I did 20 years ago except when I try to read the phone book without any glasses, or go up two flights of stairs two at a time.... The principal items of Wallis news are these: 1. Sam, after two years at Dartmouth, is now in the U. S. Air Force and at the moment is shipping from San Antonio to Biloxi. 2. Bill, the elder, is back from Illinois, peddling mechanical rubber goods in Eastern Massachusetts. He lives at home with us. No signs of matrimony yet though we keep telling him we are old enough to be grandparents. 3. Maw is still a library trustee, having survived a stirring ( ?) election contest last spring. Five candidates for four offices and she wasn't even next to last. 4. Paw has recently become a National Director and Regional V. P. of the Controllers Institute of America."
Last fall an item appeared in a Worcester paper that the Short Line Bus System of Providence is for sale. The president of the company is no other than our own Chug Sears. At the time Chug stated that the line had not been sold but that there were negotiations with several potential buyers. The company has 300 employees and 90 buses operating about 5,500,000 bus miles per year in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Larry Eastman of Portland, Me., representative of the National Life Insurance Co. of Vermont, writes, "Our one and only, Peter, is 23, a senior at Bowdoin, an ET 3/c U.S.N.R., who has been called to active duty. He hopes for a deferment through the school term. By then he will qualify educationally for a commission. He wants to wear out my old Navy brass, as I don't expect they will call up any 55-year-old Captains."
From Los Angeles San Treat writes that he and Jane hope to return East soon and that they "look forward to again being settled among our old friends." Sandy (San Jr.) is with Aluminum of Canada in Montreal.
A clipping from a Springfield, Mass., paper relates that,
"Richard N. (Dick) Wilder, manager of the Social Security Department here, will address the local branch of the Life Underwriters. He will deal with the expanding features and problems of Social Security. He was engaged in investment banking, real estate and sales promotion before becoming commissioner of conciliation in the U. S. Labor Department, Social Security Board in Washington, in the early period of its organization. Later he was in the Boston, Manchester and Concord regional offices before coming to Springfield in 1940. One of the oldest employees of the Social Security Administration in point of service, Mr. Wilder is an acknowledged authority in the federal security field."
The top ranking textile executive in the class, Cliff Hayes, vice-president and director of Pacific Mills, acknowledges his birthday remembrance from the class.
Murray Hawkins, investment counselor from Los Angeles, was in Hanover and New York recently and lunched at the Dartmouth Club with Batch, Nick Sandoe and San Treat. He also attended the wedding of his son on February 3.
Paul and Adelaide Clements are located at 2127 McClellan Parkway, Sarasota, Fla., how about a note, Champ, on your activities?
From Pittsburgh, Pa., comes a note from Dr. Joe Eisaman. Joe says that "he still finds it necessary to practice obstetrics and gynecology. However, it also is necessary to get into the defert once a year. Our last expedition was down the San Juan River in Utah and the Colorado of Arizona. Because of drought and low water we walked down the rivers carrying our foldboat." Off hand, it would seem as though Joe is in better physical shape than most of us to take part in expeditions of this kind.
The New York Herald Tribune recently carried pictures of two '19ers in the news. First appeared an excellent shot of TomBresnahan (looking himself, with less resemblance to Police Commissioner Murphy). Tom, special representative for McCall's Magazine, in the home furnishings and home building fields, has been drafted by the Economic Stabilization Administration to head its floor covering section.
A day or two later, a picture of Dennie (Dennis E.) Sullivan appeared, with the news that Dennie had been appointed by Governor Paul A. Dever as Commissioner of Insurance in Massachusetts. He was formerly legal consultant in the office of the United States Alien Property Custodian. Congratulations to both classmates.
First call for the 1951 Alumni Fund. There has never been a time in the long history of the College when they need your generous support as much as right now. Faced with a greatly decreased enrollment and mounting expenses, the future of the College as you know it is dependent, to a large degree, on the Alumni Fund. Do better than you did last year, and if you did not contribute to the institution of which we all are so proud, don't fail to do it this year.
THREE SONS set a lively pace for their father, Lou Munro 'l9. They are A!!an, aged 14; Louis, 12; and Charles, 7.
Secretary, 1273 North Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y.
Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.
