1930

The 1930 Directory which has reached, or is about to reach, each of you was sponsored by the Executive Committee of the Class in the interests of enabling each of us to get in touch with our fellow classmates when away from home or even by occasional letter. There are a few additional copies available if some of you would like to have a copy at your office as well as at home. A slight charge will be made for extra copies, but if any of you are interested, please get in touch with Charlie Widmayer, 101 Crosby Hall, Hanover. Credit for the actual publication of this long-needed Directory goes to Charlie who volunteered, in addition to his time-consuming duties as editor of the MAGAZINE and director of the News Service, to do this special job in the interests of the Class. If your name appears in the Directory without any business or professional connection, it is not due to any lack of research in the College records. The fact of the matter is that you have not notified the College in recent years of that connection and if your address is incorrect, this is just a hint to advise the College at once of the necessary correction. The thanks of the Class are also due in large measure to Lee Chilcote who contributed all of the paper necessary for the Directory.

The "1930 Man of the Month" for this issue is clearly Vic Borella, who was pictured and featured in an article entitled "Rockefeller Centre: Host to World" by John Herling, appearing in the March issue of Nation's Business. The article is not only a real tribute to Vic, but also a detailed description of some of the many problems with which Vic is confronted as Vice President in Charge of Rockefeller Centre. As the author states, "Borella's job is a constant exercise in the art of social as well as managerial navigation."

Class Agent Dick Bowlen was in Boston during the early part of February for an Alumni Fund meeting and gave your Secretary the pleasure of a short visit. Remember that nothing pleases Dick or any of his assistant class agents more than the early receipt of your Alumni Fund contribution. ... Dr. MerrillBush, who is now Director of the Department of Adult Education and Social Relations of the Unitarian Association, spoke to the Hartford Woman's Club during January on the subject of "How to Live With Yourself and Like It."

...Treasurer Charlie Raymond was out of circulation most of the month of February while undergoing an operation, but we are glad to report that he is now back on the job and feeling better than ever.

Al Trostel established, by a sizable cash contribution to the College, the Samuel A. Adams Memorial Fund, which will keep Sam's name alive in the annals of the Class as long as any members of the Class are living. Al well knew, as did all of us, the keen and active interest which Sam had in the Class and the College. The annual income from the Fund will provide an annual credit to the 1930 Alumni Fund in Sam Adams' name. Upon the death of the last surviving member of the Class, the principal of the Fund will be merged with the principal of the Class of 1930 Memorial Fund for such use as the Trustees of the College then determine. Other members of the Class may wish to add to this Fund, which Al Trostel so thoughtfully and generously originated.

A Washington's Birthday weekend trip of the McFarlands up toward the Hanover Plain, in order to provide the children with some skiing, found Charlie Widmayer ankle deep in proofs of the 1930 Directory and the forthcoming issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and also gave nothing more than a fleeting glimpse of Director of Admissions AI Dickerson as he was leaving with President Dickey and the .Deans of the College for a trip to Williamstown. The snow on the golf course in Hanover was not all that might be desired, but the eight-mile trip to Bob and Louise Keene's lodge in Etna produced the very best of skiing snow and most enjoyable skiing with Bob's new 1500 foot tow in operation. The two days with Bob and Louise at their delightful lodge was made all.the more enjoyable by finding that Alice and Herm Sander and Bob Rix were also spending the weekend. As might be imagined, it was a miniature 1930 reunion.

o ' .. . Vivian and Shaw Cole recently returned from a golfing holiday at Sea Island, Ga., and Shaw started the month of March by debarking on another trip to Colombia and points between. . . . Mary and Jack Wooster left about the middle of March for a trip to the West Coast in which they plan to cover Washington, Oregon and California.

A 1930 dinner was scheduled for the New York group on March 7 and on the same evening the Boston Alumni Association meeting was held, both of which events should provide some fodder for the notes of next month.

Another 1930 class dinner at the Dartmouth Club in New York has been set for May 24. The Greater New York men are advised to put a red circle around this date, and all Thirtyteers who might be in New York then are cordially invited to take in the party.

It is with deepest regret that we report the death of Spen Foster.

Secretary, Herrick, Smith, Donald, Farley & Ketchum 1 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass. Treasurer, 56 Jennys Lane, Barrington, R. I. Class Agent, Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Cos., Providence, R. I.