1936
If we may open on a serious but happy note, we'd like to pay tribute to a guy a bit of whose inspiring story we hope he will forgive us for telling. Not quite seven years ago this classmate, then with the 29th Division, was seriously wounded in Normandy, requiring immediate brain surgery and hospitalization. Months later he was flown to this country and the Cushing General Hospital in Framingham, Mass. When we first saw him there he could not speak, his right side was completely paralyzed, but somehow a pair of snapping eyes managed a smile. After months, yes years, of painful struggle, therapy and the efforts of brother Bill, who came to Cushing to work with him and his similarly afflicted ward mates, this guy learned to speak again, walk again and generally baffle the medical profession with his impossible progress and determination to make it back On March 12, 1951, Tom Hart, 403 Oak Street, Syracuse, N. Y., having travelled a long way, was admitted to the New York State Bar by the Appellate Division at Rochester! We know we speak for the Class, Tom, when we say our hats are off and our hands are out to the fightingest damned lawyer this side of anywhere!
Although the good ship Flair ran on a reef, promotion manager Norb Hofman had too much to offer to be scuttled by the Cowles Magazine organization and Norb has emerged as Assistant Promotion Manager of the corporation with a department of sixty-odd . .. nice going, boy . .. we'll all keep an eye peeled for the Hofman thumbprint on propaganda touting the merchandising prowess of Look and Quick! Norb reports running into Binney and Smith's export manager, Ed Brooks, about to hoist anchor for another two-month tour of Europe ... so far Ed hasn't threatened to jack the job on accounta these little impositions. . . .
We could stand some first hand news from the good doctor, but the postman in San Mateo, Calif., tells us Stan Ogush has moved to Yuba City, same state Another guy who's still getting mail forwarded is Al D'Elia who has forsaken the Buckeye State and taken up residence in Boulder, Colo., where he is torturin' his noggin to pick up a Ph.D. at the University of Colorado.
Stopped in on Russ Hurd the other day in Utica and the genial Russ shed his Secretary- Treasurer toga long enough to shepherd us on a tour of the Hurd Shoe Company from women's and children's down through rubbers; it's a mighty interesting business and amounts to a whopping wholesaling operation under the Hurd label for shoe stores throughout New York, Pennsylvania and New England. .. .
From Chicago comes the good word that ErnieWiggins is the newly appointed Assistant District Manager of United Shoe Machinery Corporation's Chicago district office, having moved up from director of sales, a spot he had held in the same office since '46.
It's a 20th century honeymoon for Dick andNina Dorrance who will do Europe by plane and get back to the problem of earning a livelihood about May Day. Dick hied himself out to Illinois on March 20 to take as his bride Miss Nina Sittler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Christian Sittler of Glen Ellyn. The bride is an executive editor of Macfadden Publications, Inc., and holds a degree from the University of Wisconsin and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale. As noted in an earlier issue, Dick has his own advertising agency, Dorrance-Waddell, in New York Columnist Frank Farrell of the New York World indicated recently that Budd "Disenchanted" Schulberg may grind out some goofy material in the near future for Danny Kaye as a result of a Florida acquaintance struck up by Budd and the zany comic.... Besides conducting his own accounting offices in Boston and Winchester, Mass., Dick Knight holds membership on the Board of Directors of the Washingtonian Hospital in Boston and also serves on the Finance Committee of that institution; in addition, Dick is a member of the Board of Control for the Exchange Club of Beantown.
Although he's undoubtedly filed them away by now, we recall seeing a shot of Bern Woods, in the Roto section of the Syracuse paper, lashed to his barrel staves and doing at least ninety into the turn—with grace and form (a couple of old has-beens in our case); it's a business for Bern, though, being ski coach at Manlius School in addition to his professorial duties in languages. ... For a bit of fun, add your youngsters' ages and see if they exceed 39 years—if so, you beat Don Robbins, who according to our records, holds the high cards on this item for the Class.... Thinking in big figures is getting to be a habit with Paul Guibord who has pulled his Connecticut Mutual Life Agency out of the Woolworth Building and moved it to midtown New York. The new quarters at 6 East Forty-Fifth will better accommodate the growth and expansion Paul expects... local brothers beware, it's pretty hard to refuse another ten thousand when you meet the guy almost daily.
From out Col. McCormick's way comes a welcome note from Len Florsheim who reports he and Nancy can still hold their own against Kathie and Abbe, ages four and a quarter and one and three quarters respectively. Len enclosed a photo (see cut) where he poses with three of his retrievers about which he says: "The oldest has been running in field trials, and we hope this year will really see some points on his record; the second goes into serious training shortly for the same road, and the third we hope will give us some promising pups this year. I've hunted two of them for the past three seasons." Don't get the idea it's all play and no work for the guy because later on in the letter he says, "Still making bras and girdles for what" ... to which the Kabo Corset Company president adds ... "we hope will be lots of customers at Kabo."
By the toffit. .. Jacko rides again! Sure seems good to see those cartoons by BillKlingaman in the Fund solicitation material ... a right swell idea, Will, and livin' proof ya ain't lost none a yer touch. Speaking of the Fund, men, don't feel you're losing any of your touch if you add a little extra to this year's cheque, or on second thought, if you write an additional one—it's being done, we assure you.
HIS THREE LABRADORS are the pride and joy of Len Florsheim '36, who has run the oldest in field trials and is entering the second in training.
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