1940
Besides having my usual difficulties in getting down to the task of writing this column, my curious two-year-old son is doing his best to foul up the typewriter as I use it. If any of you ever feel the urge to write, I'd be mighty glad to have a guest editor now and then. I'm certain that any of you could do a better job than I. And, having just re-read Dick Bowman's newsletter of December 15, last (which arrived with post-Christmas bills), I feel as though one guy is already doing a better job of reporting. You'll be hearing more often from Dick now that a new spring is rolling around, and if you' want to see yourself in print, drop him a card now.
A few of the '40 New Yorkers, together with some hangers-on from suburbia, opened the new year with an informal cocktail party arranged by Charlie Power at the Dartmouth Club, January 9. Your reporter was doing such an intensive job of quizzing the party- goers for detailed news that I forgot to make a list of all those present. Hence, the following may omit mention of some of the group— for which I apologize. Unfortunately, very few were able to make the party, although, coming so close after the holidays, that was not surprising. Jack and Patsy Little dropped in for a short while before a theatre date. Joe and Joyce Adams made it, she from Greenwich and he from his job as attorney for Isbrandtsen Co., owners of Captain Carlsen's famed Flying Enterprise. A few days later, Joe was pictured in the New YorkJournal-American, at the side of Captain Carlsen during the Coast Guard board of inquiry.
Bud Hewitt appeared with Don House's wife Roba, who is impatient to take two-year- old daughter Valerie to Karlsruhe, Germany, where Don is a captain in the chemical warfare section of the Army, address: 0-103760, 411 th Chemical Smoke Generator Co., PO 403, N. Y„ N. Y. Jamie and Dee Antie Thomas arrived, looking expectant. Their third child is due in April, and I discovered that their second, a daughter named Denise Powers, born March 2, 1951, has never been reported to the class. Although last reported in Oklahoma, Capt. Morris Meyer came in from Camp Kilmer, N. J., with blonde Betty Davidson on his arm. "Tex" is in fighting trim and looks as though the Army agrees with him.
Johnny Allen and wife Buzz left the three kids at home in Westport, Conn., to come to the party. "That's nothing unusual for them, since, while Johnny spends his working hours at Bankers Trust Co., Buzz free-lances as a fashion artist in New York City—and quite successfully, too.
We had three ad men on deck that night: Johnny Newman, of J. Walter Thompson agency; Art Mountrey, now with Compton Agency; and my arch competitor for class news, Dick Bowman, of Foote, Cone & Belding. Bowman spent most of his time mourning over the fact that his recent issue of the Indian Drum was temporarily lost in the Xmas mails. John M. McDonald, erstwhile Rochester Dartmouth Club sparkplug, was in attendance, having recently joined the ranks of big city commuters in a new job as space salesman for three plumbing and heating trade papers.
Finally, aside from organizer Powers and your correspondent, we enterained Lt. Cdr.Don Shippam and Alice. They moved into the New York scene last September after Don left store managing for Gamble Stores in Escanaba, Mich., to assist the Navy in materiel planning and control. They are living in Hempstead, L.I., with their daughters, 8 and 5.
The party progressed in leisurely fashion from the Dartmouth Club to a beanery on 3rd Avenue, and thence to Hewitt's establish- ment, where a few diehards managed to put quite a dent in Bud's larder. I know that Merck & Co., Inc. didn't get their value out of me the next day, for it was only by the grace of Jack McDonald's unerring personal transportation to my front door that I managed to get any sleep at all that night.
Some of you may find the fine print hard to read when the MAGAZINE uses it to print a quoted letter, but the following, written by Clint Clad to Bud Hewitt, seems well worth inserting here:
"Jane and I decided about a year ago that the life of a small town lawyer was not for us, so we left La Jolla and returned to practice in Los Angeles. I joined a firm here with a jaw-breaking name (Newlin, Holley, Tackabury & Johnston). It's got eight people in it, which, after my experiences with a firm of 50 lawyers (in L.A. right after graduating from Yale Law) and, later, what amounted to independent practice running the La Jolla branch of a San Diego law firm, I find to be the right size for me.
"We have recently bought a big old house in Pasadena, which has worked out very well. Plenty of room for the kids, Jim (5 years), Regina (Jenny, 2), and Michele (Mike, 2 months). We've even become gardeners of sorts—we who never knew one end of a lawnmower from the other! (Ed. Note: Whit Miller, front and center!) Thus has domesticity trapped us."
Responding to Bowman's prod in his December newsletter, I've conducted a thorough search of the files for all those '40's who are presently in the Armed Forces. By my count, there are 28 in all. Some of them are hold- overs from the last big show, but the majority are those who have been recalled from reserve status. The following are listed for your interest; if any of you want addresses, just drop me a line and I'll send them: Theodore L. Bartelmez, Joseph M. Bird, Robert H. Brown, Colin E. Campbell, Herbert J. Condit, Albert Deßonde, Edward J. Doyle, Frederick B. Ewing Jr., Allan L. Feldmeier, John F. Goodman Jr., William D. Hall, Robin M. Hartmann, Donald S. Hause, Joseph F. Huber, John D. Ingersoll, Morris Meyer, Frederick H. Michel, Robert R. O'Brien, Sumner W. Peterson, Joseph H. Rinehart Jr., George C. Sheldon, Donald R. Shippam, George A. Tredick Jr., Duane C. Treeman, Derrill deS. Trenholm Jr., James S. Timothy, William E. Walk Jr., William R. Watson. In addition, if my information is correct, Col. Hal Sommer and Maj. Sid Craig have both been called back and subsequently released. Also, Bob Graham is on special civilian duty as a foreign service officer concerned with press and publications, in Vienna.
Fred W. Miller reports that he was elected comptroller of the Boston Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Company early this year. In the same category, the other day I received a copy of Gov. Dever's letter appointing John I. Fitzgerald Jr. as one of Massachusetts' regional coordinators of transportation service, a job which John I. will assume on top of his duties as executive secretary of the Port of Boston Authority. Word has it that Howie Wriggins departed his instructor duties at Yale last month to assume potentially more enjoyable ones on the faculty of Vassar College. My informant didn't know what he will teach for the remainder of this term, but he will give the girls the word on international politics and foreign government beginning next fall. Sounds like nice duty! Bud and Beb Czerny write that they find Tucson very hospitable. Bud likes his professional setup as a surgeon there, and they are busy settling themselves in a new home, at last. The address is 721 Crest Drive, in case any of you are looking for an oasis in the Arizona desert when next you drive that away.
On the nuptials and births circuit, we are mighty pleased to report that George E. Sommers married Beatrice Elizabeth Hall, in Marathon City, Wis., on December 27. "Rookie" has been superintending a school system in that vicinity during recent months and I guess the life of a sober schoolmaster made him easy prey. Pete and Edythe Shedden celebrated the arrival of Peter Scott Shedden on December 26, making it a girl and a boy for them now!
Amidst plans for a Hanover "lost weekend," chaperoning at Winter Carnival, Class Agent Fred Porter is lining up his team of assistant agents for the forthcoming Alumni Fund drive. I was mighty pleased to hear that Fred will carry the ball for '40 again this year. After the kind of leadership he displayed during last year's hot campaign, I'm certain you'll agree that we couldn't hope to do better than to have Fred show us the way to a new high and another Green Derby victory in '52. However, just remember that he has one rough, tough assignment and he'll need every bit of cooperation and generous giving for the College that you can put forth. How about a helping hand?
Secretary, 322 Canterbury Rd., Westfield, N. J. Treasurer, 88 N. Main St., Concord, N. H.
