1935
Here it is May—Green Key—warm late spring evenings with crickets singing—an open-top jalopy and a date from the waitresses' home or a nurse from Hitchcock—Isham Jones at Roseland—the College Hall tap room with the Green Serenaders and singing until eleven forty-five (sorry, State law, you know) well, gang, where do we go from here? Maybe we go about fifteen years or so. And maybe our dreams are the same but the time and the place are different. And we've got wives and children and homes and bills and taxes and we can't afford to cut classes anymore even though some of us may still be 4-point gentlemen. But maybe we cherish our dreams because of the years—our first rubbing of elbows with freedom and responsibility—with independence and loyalty to an ideal—our first opportunity to think and act for ourselves and exchange ideas on the open market. And maybe that's where most of us began to be men. And we think that Dartmouth stands for something that we want to pass on—to keep alive. And we know that, in good measure, the responsibility rests on our shoulders. The Alumni Fund, gentlemen, is a demonstration of our acceptance of that responsibility.
And now for further evidence of our confidence in the future: Richard Weeks Naramore was born February 4 in the Bridgeport Hospital. Parents, of course, are Corinne and Bob and the newcomer is number four in the Naramore stable. Charlie Brown and his good wife Betsy send an announcement from Bad Godesberg. Germany, that Jeffrey Charles was born on February 27.
From Malverne, N. Y., comes announcement of the engagement of Colonel James C. Averill to Miss Florence Breaton. The bride-to-be is employed at Stewart Air Force Base, New- burgh, N. Y. For two years she served with the Office of Military Government in Berlin during operation of the Berlin airlift. Jim is currently assigned to the Presque Isle Air Base in Maine as air base group commander, 23rd Fighter Interceptor Wing.
On February 22 the Affiliated Gas Equipment, Inc., of Cleveland announced the election of James A. Hughes as a Vice-President and his appointment as general manager of the Bryant Heater Division, which operates plants in Cleveland, Indianapolis and Tyler, Tex. From 1940 to 1944 Jim held the position of assistant to the president and industrial relations director of American Shipbuilding Co. In 1944 he became a member of the staff of Dresser Industries, Inc. In 1949 Jim joined Bryant as assistant general manager, which post he has held until now. All of which must go to prove some point about climbing the ladder and for which we extend Brother Hughes our editorial congratulations.
Bill Harwich, who has been employed in the business office of the Mayo Clinic since 1938, has recently been named to the board of directors of the Kahler Corporation. Being kind of stupid at this hour of the night we don't know what Kahler Corporates—maybe Bill will let us know.
Bob Smith, for many years a familiar sight around the Time and Life Building in Rockefeller Center, N. Y., has recently been promoted to manager of Time International's Chicago Sales staff and now operates out of the windy city.
We have a report that old beardless BobSellmer has given up his free lance writing out of Brewster, N. Y., and has returned to the Army life, working in Intelligence or Public Relations or a combination thereof. He's moved to Washington and has found a home in Falls Church, Va., but exactly what he is doing is still to be confirmed by the old beerdrinker himself.
Ted Steele is now known as the Squire of Chester, Vt. Columbia's favorite professor of speech is in the process of building himself a stone lodge in the Green Mountains of New England. The lodge, largely built via the slave labor of Ted's weekend guests, will be finished in about a year and is located on 400 acres of land in choice ski country. Like many similar projects, it began as a one room affair and expanded with enthusiasm to the point where today it has two tremendous living rooms with four fireplaces, sleeping balconies and a bunkroom (converted from an old barn) that sleeps ten.
Following the big New York Alumni first annual Glee Club Concert and dance at the 7th Regiment Armory on March 31, Babs and I stopped at Ted's new penthouse apartment for a night-cap. We were exposed to various photographs of the new Vermont mansion which were very impressive and to Ted's rather luxurious living quarters in Manhattan, complete with impressionistic paintings, an- cient nudes, and a terrace with an excellent view of the city.
The Alumni gathering, too, was quite successful and saw '35 represented by the Lanes,Art Fishers, Brombergs, Gersons, Bankarts,Tituses, and stags Colton, McCarty, Naramore and Steele with a friend.
Bob McLellan, for many years in the auditing department of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Cos., has recently been appointed to the newly-created post of Supervisor of Agency Finance in the agency department. Bob will study agency management processes within the company and throughout the industry and maintain a clearing house of information on management problems and solutions that will be available to all the company's 78 agencies. Bob says, "The job isn't nearly as impressive as the title might seem but it appears to have lots of possibilities. At least it's a job I've been hoping for some years would come my way." Mac works out of the Boston office and lives in suburban Needham.
Surprise visitor of the month—Floyd Pansing, in New York on a business trip from Troy, Ohio. Got a phone call late one March afternoon from a guy who said he was sitting around his room in the Lexington in his underwear awaiting the cocktail hour. So we set a date for five o'clock and Floyd managed to get dressed and meet me for an hour of conversation over martinis. Brother Pansing is Purchasing Agent, Production Manager and, more recently, Procurement Agent for the Hobart Manufacturing Co. Currently he is traveling quite a bit visiting his plants all over the country and rasseling with the Government to get metals and materials for his production lines. He makes frequent trips to Louisville where he and Bob Rounsevall get together for both social and business reasons. Seems Hobart makes use of Bob's extensive warehousing operation. Floyd went with Hobart back in 1940 after a fling with the F.B.I, and has been with them ever since.
Recent visitors to the Hanover Inn: The Bob Naramores of Bridgeport, the Irv Sagers of New York City and the Bill Russells of Red Bank, N. J.
And now we have to shove over for the class of '36 who impatiently wait their turn to follow us. See you in June and meanwhile—let's save Eddie Offutt a lot of headaches and get our fund contributions in now. Thanks a lot.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Barrister Lou Weitz of Cleveland seems to think he has a clear case of mental cruelty against the MAGAZINE for listing him as '34 in the caption under the photograph on Page 69 of the March issue. To forestall the threatened suit, we herewith apologize in public print.
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