1935

Here we are in April and the mail bag is pretty flat and primarily my own fault. It's an old salesman's axiom that if you want to make sales you gotta make calls and I've just been too busy to make the calls. Anyway, let's get going with what we have.

Another bachelor bites the dust. Back in February appeared an announcement of the engagement of Ruth Chipman Burke to Donald W. Fraser. Ruth is from Plainfield, N. J., a graduate of the Master's School in Dobbs Ferry and a member of the Junior League. Don is still working with the Treasury Department out of his home town of Geneseo, N. Y. They plan to be married sometime in May.

Mac McCarty's good wife Nell has decided he has had too much publicity in these columns and herewith takes over an item in her own right. In February she was elected President of the Outdoor Cleanliness Association of New York. We're not quite sure what the Association covers in its work but since the announcement we've been taking daily showers and checking for spots on the necktie before stepping out in the street.

Seems that Dick Morton, Secretary of the class of '36, thinks enough of our late class directory that he has decided to use it as a model for one of his own. In writing us recently for technical information he also mentioned that he is a near neighbor of BobQuimby in Wellesley, Mass. Bob, you may recall, recently left Hartford to head up a special medical department for Liberty Mutual Insurance Cos. in Boston. He had received considerable praise from Hartford authorities for a plan he set up for the medical care of the city in the event of an atom bomb attack.

Had a phone call the other day from GardySpring. He was returning to Syracuse from Atlanta where he had been attending his father's funeral. For the records Gardy informed us that he and Karoline have added a daughter to their two boys. She is Deborah Ellen and was born October 3. He also reported seeing Bill George recently, who is now head of the Department of Romance Languages at Syracuse University. Also JohnnyWilliams who is still with General Electric in the same city.

Rode out from New York on the local commuter with Fritz Beebe a few days ago. His law business has been taking him all over the place and he was just returning from Akron at the time. The following should be entitled

"Fritz's Misinformation Column," in case of error or omission. He reports: Ed Skillin has left Chicago and the insurance business to go with a printing and lithography house in Milwaukee. He is currently commuting back to Chicago on weekends, however, to visit his mother. He ran into Tom Wilson in New York recently. Tom was attending some kind of association meeting and was making his second trip to the big city since graduation. He also had occasion to visit the Lou Niles' in Hingham and was particularly impressed by Mary's system of bringing up the children. Apparently as well-disciplined and well-managed a stable as you ever saw.

Have a letter from the Dave Smiths in San Francisco. (Actually, it's from Eleanor, just in case she starts to bridle.) They report a visit from Jack Petrequin. Jack is now happily involved as Advertising Manager of Harris-Seybold and travels rather extensively among the outlying offices. Says he has a son three years old and a daughter on the way. As for the Smiths, Eleanor was recuperating from an operation at the time and enjoying a very lazy life in bed while Dave was shepherding one of the boys through a tonsillectomy and the other two through tonsillitis plus several other minor crises.

Incidentally, a few paragraphs above we mentioned Bill George. Well here's an article about him that appeared in the Syracuse paper last January which sheds a little more light on his activities. The date is January 7.

"Although it won't be in the realm of higher education, Prof. Albert J. George will be getting up in the world when he opens his 39th anniversary (sic) birthday presents- tonight. His wife Margaret is giving him a ladder so that 'he can put up the storm windows.' Professor George, head of the department of romance languages, lives at 224 Sherbourne Rd. with his wife and three children, Jonathan, 11, Martha, 9, and Jeremy, 5. He is also moderator of the Open Shelf Room television show at 2 P.M. Sunday on WSYR-TV.

"He has been teaching at the University of Syracuse for nine years, with time out two years ago to head the European Office of the Institute of International Education in Paris. This office supervises the exchange of Fulbright scholarship students. While in Europe he also served on the Franco-American Educational Committee, which picks the French students who come to the United States to study. At present he is chairman of the Syracuse district committee which selects Fulbright scholars who go to France. After graduating from Dartmouth, Monsieur George studied at Brown University and received his doctor's degree from Columbia. The Herald Journal extends congratulations."

And, incidentally, so does the class of 1935 of Hanover.

Back in 1944 a CPA by the name of ElwoodCurtis who had been with Haskins & Sells moved to Deere & Co. in Moline, Ill., as Assistant Comptroller. By 1946 he had become comptroller of the company and last April, 1951, he was made a director. Deere is a 250 million dollar business. Congratulations are again in order.

As of March Ernie Draper left the advertising agency business, where he had been for many years in New York City, and joined the other side of the fence. Henceforth he will be part of the sales organization of Fortune Magazine. He'll be covering accounts in the city area with headquarters in the Time & Life Bldg. in Rockefeller Center.

Had a surprise meeting a few weeks ago. With client in tow, walked into the bar of the New Weston Hotel in New York City looking for a quiet corner. No seats were available, but while I was trying to figure my next move who should knock me over but Bobb Chaney, the very guy I had spent an hour looking for in the same bar a year ago with no success. He swore he hadn't been hiding there all this time but was in town from Minneapolis for his annual agency get-together. And this time he brought Shelley with him. So the three of us had a quick how-do-you-do all around before I led my flock to more roomy headquarters. Believe me that tall, slim figure with the gray hair looks distinguished. And I don't mean his wife.

Well, gang, that rounds up the dope for another month. Any news about you?

MADE A DIRECTOR: William H. Mathes '35, a member of the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Hadley, New York, was recently elected a Director of The Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co.

Secretary, Compton Advertising, Inc. 630 5th Ave., New York 20, N. Y. Treasurer, 67 May St., Needham 92, Mass. Class Agent, 4515 Roxbury Dr., Bethesda 14, Md.