1938
By the time this appears in public, most of the social part of the football season (Harvard and Yale) will have been completed; so this column will be devoted to cleaning up such sundry items of miscellaneous information as remain from over the summer.
A long letter from Stearns MacNutt recounted plans for the annual pre-Harvard- Game get-together at the Somerset with 1937, with whom we reune this June, together with the information that Art Soule leaves Boston sometime in October for a new and better position in New York. George Porter and spouse are expecting to add to their family probably in November.
Stearns hither urges that all Boston members of the constituency or those who happen into town on the first Wednesday of each month make a very real effort to show up at Rosoff's for the monthly class get-together. As is usual with most classes, the same regulars show up each time, but the casual attendance is disappointing. Obviously everyone can't make it every month, but attendance would be much better if the occasional visitor would get there.
Speaking of arrivals, Stan Brown of the Washington Browns is now the proud father of a son, Stanton Peirce Brown; Tanny reports all went smoothly and without the usual mad dash at the last minute. He has now secured a position with the State Department and may be departing soon for foreign parts (southern).
Charles E. Compton is now living in Glencoe, Ill., and is in the advertising business in the Windy Metropolis. Bob Lang, who has received many plaudits in the public press for his work with Radio Free Europe, has come through with an address that classmates can use. During the summer, Charley Widmayer had a rather rugged time finding out how to contact friend Lang, but now it's a simple matter: Radio Free Europe, no West 57th St., NYC 19.
Shorty Pabst continues in the ranching business; Snowmass Ranch, Snowmass, Colo. Bill Bartlett is in the sales department of Procter 8c Gamble in San Francisco and lives in Palo Alto, home of some sort of educational institution that I vaguely remember having seen on my one visit to that area. Bob Blees is another of the West Coast contingent, being a writer and living on Sunset Blvd. in L. A., could it be movies? The College ought sometime to total up its score of movie people, writers, actors, and directors; from the number of references to this field of occupation, I wouldn't be surprised if the total were rather interesting.
Frederick V. Davis is with C. P. Reynolds Industries in Cleveland and lives in the plush Countryside of Gates Mills, with which I had some slight connection for a month during the late unpleasantness. Gaston Johnson, who is officially carried on the roster of alumni as "chem." is also the "No-Roach" Corp. of Long Island City; any classmates desiring this type of service can certainly get completely confidential advice and aid through the auspices of the class. Art van Kirk is Home Office Representative of the Hooper Holmes Bureau in Omaha.
Raymond Harris is listed as a librarian in the New York Public Library. Dick Higbee is an engineer with Electronic Associates, in Long Branch, N. J. Morris Kantzler is a CPA in Miami Beach, not a bad place to be these days when the leaves are beginning to turn even here in lower New York State.
The mystery of D. A. Marshall's new occupation, mentioned casually and without malice in the last column, is now cleared up to the extent that we know he is a salesman for San Antonio Wholesale Florists. He is still being quite coy on the subject of matrimony, but at least we have the finger on him for his new job. Blair Morrissey is in Windsor, Ontario, with U. S. Steel Export Company.
Fred Pickering rides the crest of the real estate boom with Webb and Knapping in New York City, but if you want to get out of town and need connections with the airlines, write to Bud Wright, with TWA (Passenger Sales Manager) in San Francisco.
Joining the above-mentioned Brown in the foreign service o£ the U. S. is Franz Krell, in the American Embassy in Guatemala City. Winding up the odds and ends department is the scrap of information that AndrewRobertson is with the Tinsley Lab. (optical) in Berkeley, Calif.
Social notes for the month are relatively sparse perhaps due to the fact that the damage was done over the summer. Miss Patricia Virginia Castle of Scarsdale was married on September 6 to Robert L. Stix. Visitors to the Hanover Inn during recent months have included: Russ Dow from Palmer, Alaska; Mr.and Mrs. Paul TJrion from Rochester, N. H.; Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Block of Fresh Meadows, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. Terry Hollern of Winnetka, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. John Tower of Ridgefield, Conn.; Julie Westheimer and wife from Baltimore; Tom Roberts from Worcester; Bill Bronk from Hudson Falls; and ValCravens and wife from Buffalo. Since none of the above felt like making the toll call to Hanover Center, that's all the dope I have on their activities in the old stamping ground.
As noted last month, Reunion plans are being formulated by the New York group, and it is the intention o£ this column to leave such news and propaganda to separate mailings, rather than use up space in this column except for details of general interest to the Class as a whole. The propaganda mill will operate by mimeograph, rather than on the perfumed paper of the MAG.
Questionnaires for a Class Directory to be ready in time for reunion are getting the final touches and will be in the mail in the near future. Your cooperation in returning them promptly will be appreciated so that we can have a booklet that will bring you up to the minute when you return to Hanover this June. Until that time, of course, any odd bits of information, scandal, or subversion will be welcomed.
Secretary, Trinity-Pawling School Pawling, N. Y. Treasurer, 4721 N. Capitol Ave., Indianapolis 8, Ind.
