1909
The hot breath of Charlie Widmayer, main editor of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, is down the neck of us country correspondents, so we'd better get in line and get some stuff on the line for the first fall issue. So much copy has been piling up this summer, it looks like another special issue of the Diddings will have to be coming up. There's not enough room in the MAGAZINE.
There are a couple of sad reports to be made this issue the deaths of two classmates: Dick Lord, who died of a heart condition on August 12, and Bull Hadden, whose death came on Sunday, August 16. Two good guys gone over the hump.
Richard Jeremiah Lord was born in Melrose, Mass., on August 6, 1884. He came to Hanover from the Melrose High School, was always a popular member of our class with which he was associated for three years. He joined Theta Delta Chi fraternity. After leaving college, he was with the Gulf Oil Company, but for the last couple of decades he was associated with Whiting Milk Company of Boston.
It appears that few of the class knew of Dick's illness, nor of his death, until the notice appeared in the papers. Al Newton sent me some of the details. "Dick's vacation was due," he writes, "and not feeling so well, he decided to go to the hospital for a complete rest and a check-up. His vacation over, and on the morning he was to leave the hospital and while dressing to go home, he was struck with a heart attack and never recovered."
On May 8 last, Al received a note from Dick, telling him of his promotion to the sales promotion department of Whiting Milk. He afterwards learned from one of the officials that Dick was doing a bang-up job. Al adds: "Dick was a grand fellow, a good Dartmouth man, and a loyal member of our class. We shall miss him." Those words just about sum up the feelings of all of us.
Dick was one of the gang who attended our 40th reunion in 1949. His son, Jerry, and the latter's wife were with him. Dick's wife, Phyllis, who wasn't feeling well and who died a year or so after reunion, was not present. Since our 40th, six, including Dick, of those present have departed this earth. The others are: Bob Burns, Herm Walker, HarryFloyd, Earle Rogers, and Frank Cory.
Arthur Archibald Hadden
A telegram from McClure, Hadden & Ortman, the firm of which Bull was president, was the first notice I had of his death. I knew he wasn't too well, because when I was in Chicago last fall they told me he was suffering from diabetes and had lost considerable weight. Nut Root sent me some details about Bull's life as published in the ChicagoTribune.
Art was born in Minneapolis on February 2, 1888. He didn't enter with our class, but transferred from Olivet College, Michigan. In college he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi. In business, Bull was eminently successful, having chosen industrial engineering as his profession. In 1944, he was made president of McClure, Hadden & Ortman, Inc. In 1945, he was named one of ten outstanding industrial engineers in Chicago, and in 1952 was named to the national board of directors of the MTM Association for Standards and Research. He was a member of the American Society of Management Engineers, the National Association of Cost Accountants, and the Association of Consulting Management Engineers. He is survived by his widow Martha and three sisters.
The last time I saw Bull was in Cleveland about three years ago when we had lunch together. He looked healthy enough. When I say we had a good bull session, no pun is meant. No doubt about it, Bull was a swell gent, as those who knew him will attest.
O'Mara Backed for Trustee
You all remember Art O'Mara, the brash freshman whom the sophomores divested of clothes one night and left him to get home in his birthday suit the best he could? At that time he crawled into view of a group of faculty wives who were having a party. They screamed and ran to cover, but not before they got a good look at Art. He was the guy who out-stared Beta Ralph Crowley, and Ralph, thinking that Art planned physical violence, ran to get help from other sophomores.
This same guy, according to advice by way of the Passaic (N. J.) Eagle, was endorsed by the Council of State Employees, Passaic Chapter 2, backing him for trustee of the state retirement system. He was praised because of his approach to the problems of state employees and his sympathy for the underdog.
Art has been a state employee for over ten years, holding the title of principal actuarial assistant in the department of banking and insurance. He had, previously, 14 years in the insurance business and was a former math teacher. His son, who graduated in 1942, has got it on the old man for looks. I met him down in the Sphinx tomb when he was back for his 10th in 1952.
Joe Worthen had a nice little trip for himself this summer. He was among Rhodes Scholars from all over the world who attended the second reunion of these bright boys at Oxford University in England from June 29 to July 2. The Mrs. was with Joe on the trip. 1 hey stayed in England from June 22 to July 4, then on to France and the Austrian Tyrol, and back in God's Country on August 2.
After 43 years with the New York Central, Frank Austin, whose hangout is Midland Gardens, Bronxville, N. Y., punched the time clock for the last time on May 31. He was vice president in charge of purchases.
To refresh your memories, Frank was a native of Lynn, Mass., born November 6, 1886. After he graduated with our class he got his degree from Thayer School. He began his railroad career with the New York Central (affiliated Boston & Albany) as a chainman in 1909. By 1917, he had become general store-keeper at Springfield, Mass.; purchasing agent at Boston from 1927 to 1935 when he was assigned to New York as assistant purchasing agent for the New York Central. He became manager of purchases and stores in 1946, and then got the V. P. tag in 1948.
Well, Frank, some guys will envy you for being able to take it easy from here on in, but all of us, I'm sure, wish you many enjoyable retirement years ahead.
Class Notes Editor, Pioneer Trail, Aurora, Ohio Secretary and Treasurer, Sandwich, Mass. Bequest Chairman,
