1929
It's good to have reason and impulse to start another year giving thanks and voicing praise for the gifts of service and substance that marked our twenty-seventh year as the Class of 1929 topped by our Alumni Fund contribution of $15,162.42, the largest in our history —an accomplishment participated in by 441 members of the Class and made even more noteworthy by the fact that there was not a single gift in excess of $5OO. In our group (1929-1937) we led in amount contributed and yielded only to 1935 in participation (by one point). Squeek Redding is happy about it, and tentatively satisfied (until next year) in spite of missing the quota by a mere $457.58. And he says the results are thanks and praise enough for any man!
It would be hard to find Charlie Dudley in better company than he is in in the accompanying picture of 1929 daughters at Interlaken Camp, Croyden, N. H., this season just passed. They are: back row Molly Lockwood, daughter of Warren "Soup" Lockwood; Milly Nighswander, daughter of Art Nighswander; second row Karen Cooley, daughter of AI Cooley; Marjorie Orr, daughter of DudOrr; Joan "Rover" Knight, daughter of Dr.Jack Knight; Helen Jo Lockwood; Nancy Cooley; front row Carolyn Orr and Joan Cooley.
Charlie reports further:
"Molly Lockwood is first year counselor-in-training, Milly Nighswandersecond year counselorin-training. Other girls are campers. Milly Nighswander won the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee essay contest. A 1 and Mildred Cooley spent a few days near here. Dr. Jack Knight spent a day doing all the things kids do and doctors tell you not to water skiing, swimming, canoeing, shooting (used up all his daughter's bullets)—what a man! Soup and Ann Lockwood had steak with us last night and seemed to enjoy it. Soup showed us Chan Bete's letter to Eisenhower which is well worth reading, and we had a fine time hearing about harrowing experiences in Malaya. He's off for California. Dud and Jean Orr brought Mrs. Bill Coles and son over to camp. "Expect Bill up to pick up the boy at Camp Wallula, near here. Molly Lockwood is swimming breast stroke and on the medley relay team. She won a beautiful medal at the Sunapee regatta, in addition to lots of camp awards."
Herb Ball has been appointed secretary andgeneral attorney of Johns-Manville Corp.Prior to joining J-M in 1951 he spent fiveyears with American Home Products Corporation as Assistant General Attorney:
"... My new affiliation gives me great pleasure, a plethora of work which is extremely interesting. The change from being a 'legal-eagle' for drug and food companies to the same position for an asbestos, building and industrial products company was really something! These activities did not prevent me from adding to my family, which now consists of Charles Cameron, 19 months, and Herbert Jr., 3V2 months. This was accomplished (with my aid and assistance) by my good wife, who hails from Bradford, Pa., but seems to have spent most of her life at the Baldwin School, Skidmore College and the Barmore School. Needless to say, the prospects of sending two sons to Dartmouth is most appealing. But I am afraid that they will reach Hanover somewhat behind the sons of my classmates. We make our home in Bronxville, N. Y. „
"My activities seem to be confined to the Board of Governors of the Dartmouth Club, my job and bringing up a family. Unlike those of my classmates who have almost completed their responsibility to the young folks, I don't seem to have much time for golf, sailing or any other hobbies which seem to occupy so many other people. After calling me up for duty in June 1951, the Navy determined that a sacroiliac condition should terminate my value to the Navy and so I received an honorable discharge. I do miss the summer cruises that I took every year on one of Uncle Sam's ships."
Morrie Hartman has been elected a VicePresident of the Central National Bank ofCleveland and the new Vice President writes,
"It is the third largest in Cleveland and approximately the forty-second or forty-third largest in the country. We specialize primarily in commercial accounts of corporations, and my specific duties consist principally of making and administering commercial loans. Some of our classmates, including George Case, Walt Bergstrom, Bill Irwin and Bob Jones, are officers of companies doing business with our bank. Bill Strangward, who has a large and presumably lucrative law practice locally, is sometimes a source of new business. Elmer Fricek is connected with the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and our paths cross occasionally. Red Flynn is a partner in an outstanding local investment banking firm, and I see him frequently.
"Two of my associates in the bank spent two weeks last March in California attending a meeting of a group of bankers. They rode out with Mike Sherman, who was representing his bank, Guaranty Trust Company of New York. Fran and I are looking forward to Hanover in '54, but hope that maybe we won't have to wait until then to show our girls New England. They are. Diane and Hilary, ages 14 and 11 respectively. Both of them are avid travelers and have been suggesting for some time that they should see New England soon. Maybe we can make it next summer."
Wen Barney, C.P.A., of the firm of Leach, Calkins & Scott of Winchester, Va., lectured at the Fourth. Annual Conference on Federal Taxation at the University of Virginia Law School last June. His topic, "Treatment of Non-Business Expenses."
Jack Andrews added to his good works this past summer in filling the post of Chairman of the Day Camp Iroquois Committee of the Syracuse YMCA.
Jack Irving, who has been chief examiner for the New Orleans office of the NLRB, is now chief labor-management relations examiner for the Buffalo office of NLRB. Jack entered the Federal Service in 1940 with the Wage-Hour Division and has been with NLRB since 1944. He has two sons, John Jr. and David.
Art Nighswander is the newly-elected president of the Laconia Chamber of Commerce.
A major Washington attraction these days is Panos George and his Napoleon's Restaurant at 2649 Connecticut Avenue. That is what our local classmates have been saying for several years and here is a news columnist's confirmation:
"Panos had always had a knowledge of fine foods and their preparation. Consequently, when he tired of banking he decided to come to Washington and try the restaurant business. And, according to Mr. George, it's got the monetary game looking for work. The hours may be long, but there are dozens of compensations. In his two years as owner-operator of Napoleon's, Panos has made enough friends to last a lifetime. The suave restaurateur makes an excellent host, and adds a valuable personal touch to the establishment. The clientele that flock to Napoleon's four dining rooms represent a cosmopolitan mixture of diplomats, entertainment personalities and every-day citizens out in the quest for good French cuisine. Specialties of the house include frogs legs, coq auvin (chicken with wine), escargots (snails), filetmignon Napoleon and home-made French pastry. The prices are surprisingly moderate."
Johnnie Hubbard has been elected to the Board of Directors of Avon Sole Company. Johnnie lives in Marshfield and since 1946 has been covering Middle Western accounts for the Company.
Jerry Swope has been elected President of the Marine Biological Laboratory Corporation and of the Associates of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. This latter organization was formed this summer to provide an opportunity for persons interested in the sea to become better acquainted with the work of the Institution and thus, through a broader knowledge of its work, secure wider recognition of the science of oceanography.
The Connecticut General Life InsuranceCompany has announced that Dwight Allenhas been awarded membership in the President's Club for the ninth year.
Herm Liss reports that Art Rose is leavingon September n for two years in Turkeywhere he has a technical assignment to conduct time studies and other investigationdealing with management efficiencies.
In an August 12 story in the Times, reporting the annual Eastern International Gladiolus Show at Binghamton, N. Y., where theamateur growers eclipsed the pros, it is recorded: "According to another amateurgrower, H. M. Sherman (Mike to us), vicepresident of the Guarantee Trust Company,three main trends were evident at today'sopening. They were 'softer colors, no sizefor size's sake, and the drive for a good bluegladiolus.' "
IN GOOD COMPANY: Charlie Dudley '29 with a bevy of '29 daughters who were campers at Interlaken Camp, Croyden, N. H. Back row (I tor): Molly Lockwood, Milly Nighswander, Charlie. Second row: Karen Cooley, Marjorie Orr, Joan Knight, Helen Jo Lockwood, Nancy Cooley. Front row: Carolyn Orr and Joan Cooley.
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