1935
Well, gentlemen here's the beginning of another season. Here's October and cool colorful afternoons and football games. And here's the usual heavy accumulation of notes and correspondence that piles up over the summer holidays. While some of the news may be a bit musty by now it's still virginal on these pages and as such deserves a debut of sorts.
We kick off with two weddings which I believe were first heralded in the Tear Bag. We now have the full dope and herewith chronicle the loss o£ two more bachelors, a dying race if there ever was one.
On May 24 in Plainfield, N. J., Miss Ruth Chipman Burke was married to Mr. DonaldW. Fraser o£ Geneseo, N. Y. Bill Mathers was Don's best man and A 1 Butler '36 was one of the ushers. Part o£ the honeymoon must have included a visit to Hanover since the couple spent the night at the Hanover Inn on June 5. Don is still with the Treasury Department covering the northern New York area for payroll purchases of government bonds.
On July 12 in Newark, N. J., Miss Edith Gallup became the bride of Mr. Frank J.Specht. They are now living in West Orange following a honeymoon in Bermuda. A card from the Elbow Beach Hotel covers the situation nicely with this original message "Having a wonderful time."
More on the same family: Lt. Col. RalphSpecht has been assigned to the United Nations Civil Assistance Command in Korea as an economics officer. Composed of representatives of 15 United Nations countries and operating as part of the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea, the command assists the Korean government in distributing relief supplies contributed by 27 UN member countries and 18 voluntary agencies and is seeking a solution to the economic problems of that country. I'm sure an end to the Korean situation would make his assignment somewhat simpler.
More on the same war: Lt. Col. Alfred E.Bonniwell has been named adjutant general of the 3rd Infantry Division in Korea. Al, as you know, has been in the regular Army for some years. Just before going overseas he was with the adjutant general section at sth headquarters in Chicago. He has attended the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga„ and the Adjutant General School in Fort Lee, Va.
And now to Naval activities: A very nice note from his mother informs us that Cornmander Grant Meade is back in Europe, the second time since last March. The first trip he covered six European capitals and Iceland. This time he is in France. Grant is on the staff of Admiral McCormick, Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic, for NATO. With 14 nations involved, he has a very busy schedule. Mrs. Meade also passes along word that Grant's book on Korea (I believe the subject was military government) is now in its second printing and he is finishing up a new book. He was also responsible for an excellent editorial in the Satevepost of March 22 (which 1 have not been able to locate to date).
Including the Naval Reserve: Fitz Donnell, the very active manager of radio station K.GMB in Hawaii, was in New York for a few days last May. He had been brought back from the Island Paradise by the Naval Reserve for a two weeks' training course involving time on a battleship and on a submarine.
Business notes on people we know: Last April Herb Shuttleworth, for 12 years executive vice president, was elected president of the Mohawk Carpet Mills of Amsterdam, N. Y. Herb is the seventh generation of a family known as experts in the carpet weaving industry. After graduating from Dartmouth he attended M.I.T. for two years majoring in business administration and engineering, and then went into the family business becoming production control manager in 1938. Upon the death of his father, then president, in 1940, Herb became a director and executive vice president. We herewith roll out a large plush carpet (Mohawk of course) in honor of Herb and a most impressive success story.
Ran into Joe Knap in Grand Central the other day. Joe has done some moving around since our last report some time ago. He left Badger, Browning & Hersey, Advertising, to go with Castor 8c Farrell, ditto, and left the latter when a large account was lost. He is now media director for Wesley Associates, ditto again, still in New York City. He looks healthy, tall and sparse on top.
Notes from our Hanover correspondent, Bob Hage:
"a) Loomis Bulletin for July reports Tom Lane elected to the Loomis Council in May. "b) Greg Karch stopped in last August while en route home from vacation in Maine.
"c) Bob Glidde.i dropped into the office recently with wife Ruth and two attractive youngsters to register the latter for Dartmouth. Mark is nine and David seven. They" vacationed on Cape Cod and were driving back home to Chicago via Hanover and Niagara Falls. Bob is Assistant Secretary of the International Harvester Cos. and I understand he teaches business cycle theory at Northwestern night school.
"d) We're now in our new house across from Chase Field (moved in June 20). Come over and see us."
These beautiful new parkways we motorists enjoy traveling on can be a problem and a headache to others. For several years now the state of Connecticut has been working on a new throughway to take heavy traffic off the old shore route. Attorney Jack Rubin of Hartford has been an assistant in the Connecticut attorney general's office for the past 11 years. For the past five he has dealt exclusively with condemnation proceedings of the State Highway Department. A few months ago Jack was the principal speaker at a meeting arranged by the Stamford Board of Realtors where he explained the legal aspects of condemnation of property with particular reference to the proposed thruway in Stamford. A subject of obvious importance to people in the real estate business as well as to hcme-owners who happened to have planned their lifetime homestead in the path of automotive progress.
Fred Atkinson, member of the Young Presidents Organization, was named this summer as member of a committee to encourage new enterprise and to study why new businesses fail. Fred, youthful president of the Atkinson Milling Company in Minneapolis, has been a member of the honorary organization for several years.
Political notes from here and there: SanParsons, active Republican in Hingham., Mass., was named this past spring as chairman of a committee to raise local funds for the Massachusetts Republican Finance Committee. San and his committee members visited every home in the Hingham area where a Republican or Independent voter resided. Don't have a final report but I'll bet they made their quota.
In the same line, Jack Gilchrist was active raising Republican dollars in the state of Ohio. He came on to New York when General Eisenhower first returned from Europe and, with a group of fellow campaigners, held audience with the General in his home at Columbia University.
Charlie Nayor, Boston lawyer, is campaigning this fall for a seat in the House of Representatives. A Republican, Charlie has been concerned with politics in the Brookline and Boston areas ever since graduation. He has been appointed to several town committees, served as a town election official, a town meeting member, delegate to a former pre-primary Republican Convention, and served two terms as president of the Young People's Republican Club of Brookline. In 1936 he founded the Brookline Voters' League "to inspire active interest in the community life of Brookline," and since that time has served continuously as president of the organization. In 1947, Governor Bradford appointed him chairman of the Massachusetts Outdoor Advertising Authority and he filled the position three years. In his first year he returned to the general fund a surplus amounting to almost 20% of the budget allotted him. A guy that can do that will look awful good to us taxpayers down in Washington.
On July 1 a son was born to the Frank S.Corletts of Reading, Pa. The boy will go by the name of "Junior."
Business and/or pleasure brought the following classmates to Hanover during the summer months where they stayed at the Inn: Charlie French, Hank Muller, the GeorgeGoodmans and the Dick Eberharts.
Couple of other items we'll save for next time. The MAGAZINE editors want us to be easier on space this year and we don't want to start off giving 'em heartburn. Incidentally, in closing, we're recovering very well from our accident last spring. Babs is fine and you'd never know her hands had been burned. We brought Kip home from the hospital on July 4 after three months and five days of steady operations for skin grafting. The new skin is now almost completely healed and he's out playing baseball. Modern medical science is a wonderful thing. Well, see you in November.
THE BEER WINS: 1935's three-fold gift to the College Administration at the party held in honor of retiring colleagues last June: (I tor), Bob Hage, George Colton and Don Cameron.
Secretary, Compton Advertising, Inc. 630 Fifth Ave., New York 20, N. Y. Treasurer, 67 May St., Needham 92, Mass.
