1927
June being here means that the Alumni Fund Campaign for this year is in its closing days. You can help Spence Cook and his hardworking assistants tremendously by sending in your contributions now if you have not already done so. Last reports showed our Class doing reasonably well, but with a long way to go if we are to obtain our objective and to win that Green Derby again. It is unthinkable that 1927 might fail to obtain its objective so let's up those contributions where we can.
The coming of June also means that it is only one year to that grand and glorious Twenty-fifth Reunion we have all been anticipating. This will be one pleasure of which we can assure you the realization will be greater than the anticipation. So start planning now. If you have any ideas or suggestions for the program write them to Ross Nichols, who will again head up the Reunion Committee.
June's arrival also means that this is the last column until the October issue. It would please your scribe no end if during the summer months he could receive lots of news for those fall columns. Since that will be the start of our last year as secretary, why not make it easy for the old man?
At the 59th Annual Meeting of The Racquette River Paper Co., on Feb. 27, DonaldMcCall was re-elected vice president of that company. Don and his wife Betty live in Scarsdale, N. Y., with their three children, Mary, age 19, Donald Jr., 16, and Patricia, 12.
The New York Times of Monday, April 23, carried the picture of the opening meeting of Columbia University National Manpower Council. Among the 12 distinguished members of the Council is Wilbur C. Munnecke. This group, financed by the Ford Foundation, will survey current manpower policies, the requirements of the armed services, the needs created by mobilization, the possibilities of developing potential resources and the needs and training facilities for scientific and professional personnel.
Last February the Philadelphia Purchaser carried an excellent picture of Sykes Hardy with the story of his election to the presidency of Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc. In reciting his past history with that company they inform us that while working here in Boston, Sykes studied metallurgy and heat treatment at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1942 he invented a continuously-woven cylindrical steam strainer basket used extensively in turbines for Navy fighting ships and fast freighters.
Not long ago Bill Ward announced his candidacy for the Board of Education in Nutley, N. J., where Bill lives with his wife Frances and their seven-year-old son William E. Ill In his announcement Bill made a statement that -might well be used on behalf of our Alumni Fund Campaign: "Under present circumstances, I believe civil defense has the only legitimate priority over the education of our children because on civil defense may depend the fate of our children now, while on education does depend the fate of our children in the future." Bill is personnel and industrial relations supervisor at the Western Electric Company in Kearny, N. J. His civic activities include membership in the Nutley Civic Defense Council and the vice presidency of the Washington School PTA. He recently served as Dartmouth College representative at a Nutlev High School guidance and career program for senior and junior students. Bill holds a masters degree in personnel and guidance from Columbia University, has taken graduate courses at Rutgers, and holds a limited secondary teaching certificate in New Jersey.
Our old roommate Phil Fowler informs us that we are not the only one who writes a column and proves it by sending us a copy of his latest effort as secretary of the Harvard Business School of 1929. He better not get too fresh or he might find himself having the pleasure of guest columning this opus.
We are greatly indebted to Kroggie Krogstacl for sending us a copy of Today, which is a publication of International Harvester Company. This particular issue carries a very interesting illustrated report entitled: "Coal Town Doctor." The coal town doctor is our Art Mullen who has been working for International Harvester at Benham, Ky., since 1937. He is head of a modern 25-bed hospital which he was largely responsible for developing, and is also family doctor to many of the 3,000 men, women and children who live in Harvester's coal mining community, a town that is 71 twisting miles northeast of Cumberland Gap, where Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky join together. Art hails from Groveland, Mass., and after leaving Dartmouth he went to Northwestern University Medical School where he graduated. After a year's internship at St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago, a two-year residency in surgery and 15 months of specialized study at Northwestern he joined the medical staff of International Harvester in 1936. Art and his wife Marcella have two daughters, Margaret, 12, and Marjorie, 11. The story gives many interesting details of the varied problems that must be faced by a doctor in a comparatively remote community and the fine work that Art is doing. It also says that when he has time for himself, Dr. Mullen likes to read from his large library or listen to his collection of jazz records, his favorite being the rich rasp of Louis Arstrong's trumpeting.
The Del Mar California Chamber of Commerce has elected Dr. Alfred C. Dick to the presidency of that organization. Al has been a resident of Del Mar for the past five years and during the war was a physician and surgeon at the San Diego Convair plant. He and his wife Jane have two daughters, Margaret, age 19, and Jane, 14.
Fritz Gort is now employed as an accountant by Curtiss-Wright Corp., in West Caldwell, N. J. He lives at 15 Bowers Rd., in Caldwell.
Nibs Dowe is still in the insurance business at 40 Broad St., in Boston. He has recently moved to 163 Brighton St., in Belmont. Nibs and his wife Florence have three children, Ray, age 19, Nancy, 18, and Virginia, 12.
Ken Russell and his family have moved to Shore Rd., at Cape Elizabeth, Me. Ken still represents E. T. Burrowes Co., screens and sveatherstripping, with headquarters in Portland.
Jimmy Van Loon is now stationed in Puerto Rico where he is Regional Insurance Officer for the Veterans Administration in San Juan. His address is Box 6707, Santurce, P. R. Jimmy and his wife Elizabeth have a daughter, Gretchen, age 19.
Paul Woelfel and his family have moved to 7616 S.W. 30th Drive, Portland, Ore. Paul works for Fred Meyer, Inc., retail merchants. He and his wife Ruth have two children, Paul Jr., age 19, and Lorna, 12.
We do not have the latest and correct address for Ernest Field formerly of 157 Belmont St., Brockton, Mass., and Gerald S. Freeman formerly of 219 Bassett St., New Britain, Conn. If you know the address of either of these classmates we would appreciate having it.
Don't forget to mail that check now for the Alumni Fund.
JUST A MEMORY, but probably to be relived at reunion in June, is this Delia Alpha in??iation of 1926 men as freshmen. The traditional fun occurred at the Norwich game in the fall of 1922.
Secretary, 501 Boylston St., Boston 17, Mass.
Treasurer, : Box 1927, Pittsburgh 30, Pa.
Class Agent, 128 St. Paul St., Rochester 4, N. Y.
