1936
This here program is coming to you from a garret room at the Hanover Inn. Hazel, our trusty typewriter, is here and together we're trying to meet the deadline set up by our friendly editor. Zero weather outside—College still on vacation—a foot of that good 01' sugar snow crunching under foot. This could be an inspired bit of prose ... if only we could write.
Let's shove off with the pleasant word that Lt. Col. Tom Lane of the Medical Corps is safely back from Korea and is now Surgeon, XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, N. C. ... In June it was back to active duty for BobBrenner; landed with the Air Force Auditor General at Bendix Products Division of Bendix Aviation Corporation in South Bend, Ind., and under the circumstances was able to take Ruth and son Jimmy along with him Still more military info has it that Ed Nilsson has pulled out of Washington for Camp Stoneman in California, which sounds like the good Captain is in for an ocean voyage and we wish him the best.
An interesting dispatch from Stu MacMackin reads thusly:
"It all happened because my wife had to have her Massachusetts accent retreaded or else they couldn't stand me in Syracuse; General Electric has moved me again. Now I live, surrounded by piles of barrels, empty and otherwise, at 21 Weliesley Street, Pittsfield, Mass. Someday the barrels will be unpacked and then I shall lean back and enjoy a new-to-me old house equipped with ail the anomalies, a heater that is cold and a sun porcn that is shaded. Maybe I shall enjoy the new titleCounsel—Transformer and Allied Products Divtsion. It would help if I could remember what that physics professor said a transformer did and howFamily is the same size except it grows beautituier. Cynthia is. seven and fretting about Massachusetts school administration. Janet is five and doesn't care. Rufus, the cocker who his mind w become a springer, doesn't care either.
All you slaves of the cathode tube will feel more at home with the ABC programs you catch on TV henceforth when we tell you that since July 1 last year Slocum Chapin has been Vice President of American Broadcasting System's Owned Television Stations DivisionSloe says the title gives him license to make an occasional visit to Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco where he has stations in addition to those in N.Y.C the saga of a guy once happy selling radio time.... "Took Spong with me to Princeton to simplify finding the lug between halves," writes BuddSchulberg, who adds, "Still here at the same old cigar stand, out in Bucks County. Working on a book and magazine pieces, one of them on Dartmouth for February issue of Holiday (50 cents on your newsstand—ed.). Still raising children, sheep, pigs and occasional hell on our farm here. Heading for Cuba this winter" ... to which we add that Budd was one of five judges who chose the National Book Award in fiction for '51.
For once there's good news from Washington, authored by National Production Authority's Freddie Mechlin who up and got married on December 8 to the former Mrs. Georgiana Kimball Dieuaide. Fred's dad was best man and his brother Wilmer was one of the ushers. ... Homesick for the Atlantic Ocean and baked beans on Saturday night, Len Mead cut short a recent California business trip, relates travelling companion and good wife Jean who was having fun till then; Jean further states that the professor is now Chairman of the Psych Department at Tufts and working and travelling like crazy as chairman of a "training" panel for the Research and Development 80ard.... He'd be most happy to show you around the Brookhaven National Laboratory, to quote Jack Klauer from Upton, Long Island ... if all you have in mind, though, is a peek at the room where they keep the atoms—no dice.
Last July at about the same time he got his 15-year pin from Calco Chemical Division of American Cyanamid, Spike Daniels was digging out the bassinette for Dorothy Elizabeth who arrived on the Bth. That makes it one of each for the Daniels of Bound Brook, N. J. ... Since Dug Porter left Davenport, WaltMalby finds it pretty difficult to put his finger on a '36er in his neck of lowa, particularly since being the father of a 14-year-old daughter and Assistant Superintendent of the Aluminum Cos. of America plant leave little free time for searching ... figures he'll come East this summer to renew acquaintances, and we'll be looking for you, Walt. ... Denver doctor Bill Curtis reports an occasional visit with Larry Jump and Reau Thompson while he makes his rounds and pronounces all in fine fettle, including the other four members of the Curtis clan.
Biddy Chase has left the United States to take on a very interesting and challenging assignment in the Philippines. You may recall that Biddy has been involved in the production of moulded plastics for the past good many years up in Leominister, Mass., and, most recently, in Rhode Island. Seems a large firm in Manila, Carlque Sales, decided to set up a moulded plastics factory to produce a wide variety of items for local consumption, primarily combs, which had heretofore been imported. Mr. Chase, with his considerable experience and "know-how," has taken the job of production manager of the new plastics firm. He will supervise production and train local personnel to operate the various machines required for injecting, grinding, etc. The Manila Chronicle, dated September 1, 1951, devoted considerable space to the opening of the new plant, including an article, "Better Things for Better Living," with a byline by Howard L. Chase, and several pictures of the lad himself in action. It all sounds like a wonderful opportunity.
Wish we had a dictionary with us because Bud Soule has thrown us a curve... says he's running the Department of Gastroenterology at the San Diego Naval Hospital... let's not get alarmed, it's only temporary and probably by now it's just a memory since Bud, who is CDR, MC, USN to his intimates, expects to have a ship under him when we go to press. ... Having stirred up one Soule, let's hear from the other, Semi the Placid Soule, Lake Placid, that is. Semi says that being public relations director of a prep school and ski coach borders on more work than play, particularly when you get a winter that starts out like this one... specifically, says he, "I'm either isolated or up to my ears on the road."
... From Bar Harbor, Me., dominie Jim Lancaster reports completion and dedication of his new Congregational Church and parish which have been his major project for the past two years. Jim says he rarely spots a classmate in the Maine wilds so it took a trip to Providence, R. 1., and a convention to bring him face to face with Mac Rowell, the Gabriel of yesteryear with the Barbary Coast.
A note from the Motor City and Al Momenee we quote: "Left bank for Volk Stamp and Stencil Company where I hold out as accountant. Elected Secretary of Faith Lutheran Church Council and Secretary of the Civic Action League for Better Government. Ran for council and lost by eight votes but have just been appointed the first treasurer of the new City of Harper Woods, a suburb of Detroit." ... Congratulations, Al, but we worry a bit about your holding out at the company. ... The two Sues, mother and daughter, live at Peter Cooper Village in the Big City with Wall Street barrister Fred Warne who indicates no offers of mink coats for months.... A resident of Charleston for the past two years, Hank Mayo is assistant professor of surgery at the Medical College of the State of South Carolina.. .. Taking in a recent gathering of the North Jersey Alumni Association, KirkLiggett reports being joined by Gene Anspach and Bill Hoffman; Kirk says he finds it difficult to set up a lunch date in Manhattan with newspaperman Frank Kappler who apparently works the weird shift.
Gotta run for a breakfast date with EddieChamberlain. Keep the news flowing, save up for the Alumni Fund and we'll see you in a month.
WRONG SEASON but right picture. Harry Coronis '36, class cameraman, and daughter Sally snapped at a class outing last summer at Bob MacPherson's, in Framingham Center, Mass.
Secretary,21 Leewood Rd., Wellesley 81, Mass. Treasurer, 80 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass. Memorial Fund Chairman, Knight & Gilbert, Industrial Trust Bldg., Providence 3, R. I.
