1943
Spring has sprung again; the frost is coming out of the ground; there's white water canoe- ing on the White River; and the professional baseball teams are breaking spring training camps.
Having paid our respects to a new season: we now turn to the '43 newsfront:
Two more classmates, Harry Gustafson and Tom Gerber, have dropped their reserve status and are once again back on Uncle Sam's armed services payroll. Lt. Gustafson is on a leave of absence from wife Marjorie, Harry Ill, the twins Bill and Bob, and Procter & Gamble to take a Navy cruise.
As an erstwhile night manager for the United Press, Lt. Gerber has put behind him all the clatter of telephones, teletypes, and typewriters at Boston's 262 Washington St. and is now an airman. Our informant says he has been stationed at Westover Field, Mass.
Shortly before his recall, Tom also changed his status from a fiance to a married man. In
November we reported his engagement to Gail Graham of Woonsocket, R. I. They were wed January 20 in the First UniversaTist Church, Woonsocket. Before reporting to Westover, Gail and Tom went on a Bermuda weddine trip.
One week later, January 27, Farmer Mead and Bill Woythaler deserted the bachelor ranks. Janice Brett and Farmer were married in the First Church, Belmont, Mass. They are residing in Belmont following a trip to the British West Indies.
Bill was married to Walterlyn C. Vanderveer at the Church-in-the-Gardens, Forest Hills, N. Y. Bill's bride is a Skidmore alumna. Since 1948 Bill has been a sales promotion coordinator for W. T. Grant Cos. in New York, following retail training at Grant Stores in Boston and Fitchburg, Mass.
Mr. and Mrs. Hal Lindley were Hanover Inn guests from December 27 to January 1. This is our only information that Hal now has two income tax exemptions.
A boy, Stephen Clark, was born January 31 at the Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Mass., to Betty and Stan Bolster. Young Stephen weighed in at 8 pounds and 7 ounces. Stan, we assume, is still a Harvard graduate student.
From weddings and births, we proceed to news of the class' legal fraternity, of which we have reports on Attys. Boone Atkinson (Harvard LL.B.), Jim Oppenheimer (Yale LL.B.), Duke Pearson (Western Reserve LL.B.) and Bill Remsen (Columbia LL.B.).
In December announcement was made that the Springfield, Mass., law firm of Mallary, Gilbert and Richardson would henceforth be conducted in collaboration by the partnerships of Mallary and Gilbert and of Richardson, Dibble and Atkinson, all of 83 State Street. Boone is also a member of the Longmeadow (Mass.) Board of Public Welfare and was a candidate for the Longmeadow Board of Assessors. He and Lucy have two children, Lucy, age five, and Sarah, age one and one-half.
Jim Oppenheimer is associated with the St. Paul, Minn., firm of Oppenheimer, Hodgson, Brown, Baer & Wolff. He and Mary are parents of a daughter, Susan, age four.
In April, 1949, Duke Pearson was appointed an assistant in the law department of the city of Cleveland, He has been handling trial work involving personal injury cases.
Bill Remsen is an attorney for the American Brake Shoe Cos. (railroad equipment manufacturers) in New York. He and Sara recently changed their Garden City residence from 58 Second St. to 57 Magnolia Ave.
News this month of the medical fraternity concerns Cy Brown. Hugh Lena, Doug Perry and Ed Porter. Having been awarded a Harvard M.D. degree, Cy is now north of the border practicing medicine at the Montreal General Hospital.
We are indebted to Hugh's younger brother Paul (Dartmouth '50, Dartmouth Medical School '51) for this news: "He (Hugh) is now in his fourth year of residence in surgery at the University Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., and has one more year to go from June on completion of his training. He plans to return to New London, Conn., and re-open his dad's private surgical hospital, closed since 1948. Hugh became a proud papa in August for the second time when a daughter, Patricia Ann, was born to Jeanne and him. He was in Hanover just before Christmas for a few days of deer hunting with Wheezer Wilson, but had no success."
Along with Bud Clarke, Doug Perry is a resident physician at St. Luke's Hospital, New York. Earlier he had been practicing at the Bristol (Conn.) Hospital. Two sons, David, five years old, and Mark, two years old, make things merry for Doug and Jane.
And that former radiology fellow at Mary Hitchcock, Ed Porter, is now studying X-ray plates in Stoughton, Mass. He and Claire have three children, Ed. Jr., age four, Lynne, age two, and Barry, age one.
Next on the news list are six salesmen, RayColby, Larry Noble, John O'Day, Chan Stevens and Bob Tenney. Since we reported in February that Ray Colby had moved from Boston to Montpelier, Vt., further information has arrived on his position with the Maunsell Cos. Ray is sales manager in charge of Audiograph Dictating equipment, a job similar to the one he had with Atwell Cos., Boston.
Since 1948 Larry Noble has been a Gotham salesman for the U. S. Rubber Export Cos. He and Elizabeth are parents of a son, Russell Curtis 11, born October 15, 1949, and named for his paternal grandfather.
John O'Day is still with the U. S. Dyestuff Corp., Boston, and living in his hometown of Brookline.
Continuing with Gulf Oil Corp., Chan Stevens recently moved from Norwalk to Redding, Conn. He and Jean have a daughter, Julia Ann, five years old.
Formerly a cosmetic salesman for Lentheric, Inc., Bob Tenney has moved from Highland Park to Evanston, 111., where he is a sales representative for DeVilbiss Cos., Toledo.
Also in the news this month are four members of the educational fraternity, Bill Maeck,Dan O'Connor, Henry Perley and Paul Young. Pres. Jess H. Davis of Clarkson College has appointed Bill director of personnel and placement in addition to his duties as director of alUmni relations. In becoming Clarkson's Don Cameron, Bill will give students the lowdown on job opportunities and arrange interviews on the campus between students and employers' representatives.
Since September, 1947, Dan O'Connor has been teaching radio, speech and English at West Texas State College in Canyon. The former "Lap-for-Palaeop" campaigner received his Master's degree from that institution in 1949 He and Dorothy have two boys, Michael, five, and Patrick, who will be four April 20.
Henry Perley has returned to his native Maine, where he is a teacher at Lawrence High School, Fairfield.
From California comes word that Paul Young is a graduate student and an assistant in the registrar's office at the state university's Berkeley branch. Before leaving for the West in 1948, Paul taught at New England College, Henniker, N. H. Two children, Sarah, age seven, and Lawrence, age two, keep Paul and Ruth busy.
Reports from two of the class' oilmen find Alex Nagle assistant to the president of the Alliance Oil Corp., New York City, and living in Scarsdale, and Carey O'Connor a partner and general manager of Cel. Heitor Pedrosa, consulting petroleum engineers and manufacturers' agents, Rio de Janeiro. Carey has been in Brazil off and on since 1942. He and Ruth have a daughter, Karen Elizabeth, born May 9. 1949
Our February item on Telephoneman FredLofgren was not quite up-to-date. In November he was transferred from Springfield, Mass., where he had been a customer representative, to Littleton, Mass., where he is office manager for N.E.T. & T.
Oh, oh. We feel the editor's big black editing pencil is upon us and we hear murmurings about secretaries who ignore word quotas. 0.K., 0.K., we'll make way for '44. But we'll be back in May.
Secretary,: 62 West St., Worcester, Mass. Treasurer, 48 Salisbury Rd., Brookline, Mass. Class Agent, Apt. 12 L, Riverview Gardens, No. Arlington, N. J.
