1920
The Reunion snowball is putting on weight. Deliberately, the Committee is timing its moves so that premature enthusiasm will not melt away with the spring thaw; but the boys are moving, nevertheless, and getting things in readiness for the big homecoming day of June 22. Chairman Moulton has still more hired hands, working hard for mighty low wages the same including Fred Buschmann (western Massachusetts and Connecticut), Eddie Bowen (up-state New York), Ben Ayres and Doc Miller in Worcester, Abe Winslow and Dick Kimball on the Pacific Coast, Harry Worth and Bill Sullivan assisting George Macomber on the Boston campaign. Shortly after this issue gets in the mails it is safe to say that the Coml mittee will begin applying pressure in a variety of ways, using all the persuasive techniques that Professor Frey's marketing seminar may have uncovered at Tuck School.
Out in Chicago Laddie Myers has put together a sort of committee of the whole, as good a method as any of guaranteeing solid Reunion representation. Insurance-man Myers probably thinks of it as a group policy. He has Don MacKay, Hersh Chandler, Fred Hamm and Nate Whiteside all pledged to Reunion attendance and all working with him scouring the countryside for additional recruits. FrankMayer, Leo Ungar and Ed Curtis have signed on the dotted line already. Notes on the Frank Mayer family: Wife Katherine was a finalist in the 1950 Chicago district golf championships; Frank Jr. will graduate from Andover this year. And on the Whiteside family: Nate 111, skiing for Kimball Union, placed a nice fifth in the cross country phase of the New Hampshire and Franconia Ski Club competition January 27, finishing ahead of no less than 12 of his elders (but not betters) from the College on the Hill.
The Les Willard family has been prominently in the news lately. Les was Father of the Bride on February 3, when daughter Jean became Mrs. Warren Goddard Dellenbaugh in a ceremony at the Greenfield Hill Congregational Church, Fairfield, Conn. Jean was graduated from Kendall Hall School, Peterboro, N. H., and Connecticut College. Her husband, who in the meantime was attending Deerfield Academy and Williams, is now with the Flofilm Division of the Diebold Company, Norwalk, Conn. The recent story on Les himself is that he has been made Works Manager of the combined Bridgeport and Stratford plants of Manning, Maxwell and Moore, Inc. The Bridgeport Post, as of January 20, reported: "Mr. Willard has had many years of varied industrial experience with such companies as Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation, U.S. Hammered Piston Ring Co. and Grafton and Knight Mfg. Co. He joined Manning, Maxwell and Moore in 1943 as production control manager of the Bridgeport plant. For the last three years he has been works manager of the company's Stratford plant." The ownership of a nice piece of property, handy-by out the Lyme Road, guarantees that the Willards will be out in force for Reunion.
Featured in the Portland Sunday Telegram and Sunday Press Herald for January 28 was an announcement by Watkins ("Maine's Leading Cleansers") of the appointment of JimRobertson as executive vice-president of the company. Mr. Watkins himself, in making the appointment public, pointed out that Jim "is nationally recognized as one of the industry's best qualified executives. His relationship with our employees has earned their confidence and loyal support. His duties as Production Manager have well qualified him in our company tradition of fine quality service. His new position will enable him to bring about an even greater improvement in our service to our customers." Jim, in a typically modest statement, accepted "the executive responsibility of this traditionally Maine business with sincere pride and deep humility."
The romance of Tom Davidson and Mrs. George F. Malcolm, originally reported by Honorary Classmate Dr. Baketel, culminated in their marriage at York, Me., on December 28. The wedding took place at "Folly Farm," the new Mrs. Davidson's beautifully restored old home there in York, close to her new home, "Orchard Farm." Tom's best man was Mr. Robert Beatus of Jersey City.
Various items have been pried loose from Jack Holt, who breaks a long silence in most interesting fashion. His son was married way back at 25th Reunion time to Cynthia Tomlinson of West Hartford, the Holts' home town. Now Jack Sr. is a leading contender in the Grandfather Sweepstakes, with three grandsons Robert Tomlinson Holt, past three and a half, Roger Wolcott Holt, getting on towards two, and John Wolcott Holt III, born last December. The father of this brood is in the advertising business, while their 1920 grandpappy is "still in the paper business at the old stand vice-president of Rourke-Eno Paper Co., local jobbers in Hartford and New Haven." Jack has lately been shifted from the printing paper end of the business to the industrial paper angle, with emphasis on the packaging of material under government contracts. Like one of those if-you-can-read-this stories, Jack closes by saying: "Hope you can read this. I can't, which is one reason I hate to write letters." Bring another excuse, friend, the next time you're late to school.
Larry Clarkson is another who has been much too long unheardfrom. In school work up to 1945, he is now on the civil service roster out in southern California and is at the moment on the payroll of the Los Angeles Flood Control District. The accumulation on his desk sounds like lots of others we've heard about. He's up to his ears in work, with plenty of overtime, but keeps 100% sold on California as a place to live and work. The home of the Clarksons, happily married for 20 years, is in Baldwin Hills Village in the southwest area of Los Angeles.
A neighbor of Larry's, Forby Forbush, has been with the Bank of America for the last year of so. Two of Forby's three daughters are now married and he has been a grandfather for a year and a half, since the arrival of Kurt Warren Kalmbach. According to Forby, "Kurt's dad," (who married Barbara Forbush) "is a senior law student at U.S.C., and his uncle is line coach at Michigan, so I may have some difficulty getting him headed for Dartmouth."
Oil tycoon McGoughran has been hitting the trail lately. He got as far as Denver for a check-up with the Zack Jordans and confirmed all the sensational reports about Zack Jr., the new national punting champion; dropped in at the Fred Hamm homestead to pick up the broadcast of the Dartmouth-Princeton game; exchanged greetings by telephone with FrankMorey of the Glens Falls Moreys. Frank reported satisfactory scholastic standing by both daughter Keren and son Brockett at their respective halls of learning.
Bill Nelson is in retirement in Aiken, S. C.; can be reached at P. O. Box 370.... Sam Stratton addressed the annual dinner reunion of Middlebury's New York and New Jersey alumni in New York City January 26.... CarlNewton is prominently mentioned as one of "a whole phalanx of lawyers" retained by one of the parties to a contest for possession of a harmless but handsome little French poodle. ... Johnny Prentiss, still running the same well-known printing and publishing business in Keene, N. H., has moved into a new home in nearby Westmoreland Depot.... Similarly Don MacDonald, lately moved to Boston in the interests of Time, Life and Fortune, chooses to commute to work from Andover, Mass.
A parting shot concerning Reunion: Do you think at times of one roommate or another whom you may not have seen or heard from over the years? Why not drop him a line and ask about his reunion plans? If everyone who is thinking seriously about attending the Thirtieth persuades somebody else to do likewise, we'll find ourselves without any question enjoying the best 1920 party ever.
DUTIES DOUBLED: Leslie T. Willard '2O, who has been named Works Manager of the combined Bridgeport and Stratford, Conn., plants of Man- ning, Maxwell and Moore, Inc. For three years he was Works Manager of the Stratford plant.
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