1935

Here we go into March season of St. Patrick's Day duck boards on the campus Spring's attempts to encroach on Winter via very uncomfortable weather and dog days in Hanover. And with that uncomfortable introduction in mind let's move on to the news of the month.

Publishers' Weekly has the following to say about an old classmate who has been little heard from for many a moon. "Thomas A.Bledsoe has been appointed managing editor of Rinehart's college department. For the past five years Tom has represented Rinehart in the South and Southwest, and in New York, New England and Eastern Canada. Besides Dartmouth he attended the University of Louisville and did graduate work at the University of Illinois where he also taught."

Here's a clipping to the effect that Dr. FredMebel, "specializing in diseases of the skin," has opened an office in the Professional Building in Levittown, N. Y. Fred, you may recall, has had an office in Manhattan on 55th St. for some time. Don't know yet whether this means giving up his New York City office or not. But from the fabulous stories of its growth Levittown ought to be a most profitable place to do business. At least it must contain an awful lot of square inches of skin.

Charlie Tobey, lately returned to Concord, N. H., from Washington, D. C., to enter politics hit the headlines of the Concord papers when, as representative-elect, he Bled a bill to require political committees and candidates to report the complete identity of all campaign contributions. The article states: "Asked why he was sponsoring the bill, young Tobey said that the measure speaks for itself. It is what I feel would be beneficial to the state and its people in the conduct of our public affairs." Charlie, by the way, helped handle his father's campaign for re-election as state senator last fall.

NEW ARMY JOB FOR BONNIWELL Al has just been promoted to a Lt. Colonel in the Adjutant General's Department with headquarters in Chicago. He enlisted as a private at the time of Pearl Harbor and, at the end of the war, came out as a Captain. Remaining in the service he went "steadily up the ladder to his present rank." Al is married to somebody we don't know and has a seven-month-old daughter according to the newspaper report. PLAINFIELD MAYOR ADDRESSES POST That's Mayor Carl Crane, of course, and he spoke to the American Legion in their new Memorial Home in Plainfield, N. J., last November on the subject "Communism and Its Inroads." Carl picked up a lot of first-hand information on the subject while working as an FBI agent. Last year, I think it was, we reported on the extensive list of civic affairs which kept Carl away from home evenings. Apparently he's still at it.

Here's a few items picked up at the last New York Class Dinner as noted on the back of an old theater stub. Jack Egan is leaving the big city and his home in Darien, Conn., to join the Samson Corporation working out of Cleveland. They manufacture conveyor equipment and Jack will be regional sales manager covering Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky. At last report he was still looking for a place to live in Cleveland with a preference for Shaker Heights although he didn't know why. He needs at least four bedrooms for all you Real Estate boys who may be interested. In addition he is willing to bicker over sale of his cozy estate at 13 Oak Shade Avenue in Darien. If Jack isn't there it's OK to talk to his wife.

Dick Millard New York clothing manufacturer is opening up a new factory in Portchester, N. Y.

Dick Sylvia formerly with the now defunct New York Sun is now on the copy desk of the World Telegram same city.

Al Ritchie has been on loan from Bell Laboratories in New York to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, teaching a course on design of switching circuits for automatic controls. It's the first time such a course has been taught and we say high time, too. With 33 graduate students in the class Al had to spend two days a week in Boston from September through December. He was lucky enough, however, to connect up with DaveBuxbaum and spent his nights at the Buxbaum's house in Wellesley. Al didn't mention it but there's a well known girls' school nearby which probably needs a course in switching circuits, too.

Have just received word that Dick Halversen has left Shanks Village, N. Y., where he was free lance writing, to become Athletic Director of Eastern Military Academy, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. He is living at 30 Soundview Drive, Huntington Bay Hills, Long Island, N. Y.

Shortly after the first of the year New York rolled out some kind of a welcome mat for Bo Kreer who arrived in town from Chicago to talk over his new job as Vice-President of McCann-Erickson with his bosses. Bo will be in charge of all creative work in the Chicago office. Bamford, Lane, McCarty and Bankart gathered at Toots Shor's to extend Bo a welcome and find out what the hell was going on. After four martinis I've kind of forgotten but it was a lot of fun and we hope the new veep can get back fairly often on the same basis. Incidentally, after 13 years of trying, the Kreers finally added a boy to their stable of one daughter born December 6. I guess it's those martinis again but I can't remember his name.

F. M. ATKINSON ELECTED TO YOUNG PRESIDENTS A press release dated January 18 announces the election of Fred Atkinson, 36, president of the Atkinson Milling Company, Minneapolis, to the newly formed young Presidents' Organization. Fred became president of his company at the age of 27 and his firm has gross annual sales of $10,000,000 and employs 80 people. Don Rogers is Vice-President of the same company but apparently they haven't organized the Young Vice-Presidents Group yet.

The Last-Leaf-on-the-Tree Club is about to lose another member in good standing. Brother Robert Hage is planning to be married in late May to Henrietta Hoag of Loch Arbour, N. J. The bride-to-be is a widow and is presenting Bob with two children a boy 13 and a girl 14 and if that doesn't keep him busy nothing will. This announcement leaves the club with two lonely members Gilchrist and Frank Specht. You two will have to be responsible for an awful lot of wives at the 20th unless you join the ranks. Continuing news of others as well as himself Bob reports on a recent visit to Hanover of Charlie Sewall and his wife Molly. Seems Charlie is back in the Navy as a Lieutenant Commander and only recently returned from the Mediterranean where he was operations officer of an air group aboard a carrier. He had a few weeks' leave and left the children with their grandmother while he and Molly took a vacation. He is now spending a month in Florida prior to more sea duty.

Well, gang, this column is rather disjointed, but so am I, what with client due in town tomorrow, the train strike, the war, new taxes, and Lord knows what else. So let's all go to bed and have a good night's sleep and we'll take up our problems in another month. See you in April.

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