1930
Here's hoping that the summer has been a good one for each and every member of the 1930 family. Maybe it's a sign of old age, but it certainly is a fact that the summers seem to be passing by more quickly with each passing year. Notwithstanding the speed of time, things seem to be happening here and there to Thirtymen throughout the country. The news file this summer has accumulated a substantial number of items, and we will briefly record all of them so that none will be lost.
Some time ago we reported that Al Marsters had resigned as vice president and director of sales of American Optical Cos., and we hoped to get further word of his plans. On June 1 Al supplied that further "news" when he came into your secretary's office for a visit and announced that since his resignation from American Optical he was taking a "Sabbatical leave" and merely enjoying himself living in a home he had purchased in Cotuit, Mass. Al indicated that his "leave" was of an indefinite duration and that he was so enjoying it that he did not intend to cut it too short. However, during the first few days of July an announcement was made that Al had been appointed assistant to the president of Colt's Manufacturing Cos.
On July 21 Charlie Ranch was elected a Trustee of Connecticut Savings Bank, in New Haven, with which he became associated in July 1952 as vice president and a corporator. During the summer Charlie spent a weekend at Deering Pond with Harrison Condon and reported that during June he ran into AdnaCole in the New Haven station. Adna indicated that he had oil interests in the Maritime Provinces which was the occasion of this particular trip through New Haven at that time. Apparently Adna has deserted the beef for the Oil.... Also in early July Alan Bolte, who is Eastern sales representative for ThisWeek, was named to the new post of assistant advertising director.
In late June Fran Horn was elected president of Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn, New York. In taking this new position, Fran relinquished his post as executive secretary of the Association for Higher Education of the National Education Association. Fran reported that in late June he had a pleasant surprise in Provincetown when he was hailed at the waterfront by Larry Richmond, whom Fran did not think he had seen since graduation 23 years ago. Larry is the owner of a beautiful home in Provincetown and is Commodore of the local Yacht Club.
Dr. "Heinie" Stewart Jr. (who specializes in obstetrics and gynecology) moved last year from the Henry Ford Hospital staff, where he had been for quite a number of years, to Santa Barbara, Calif., where he set up his own practice. Heinie was lured to Santa Barbara by the joys and pleasures of California which he experienced during the war, and his wife and four children now agree that Santa Barbara is mighty attractive Announcement was made on May 1 by the firm of Olcott & Roth that Bill Reinhart had become a member of the firm whose name had been changed to Olcott, Roth & Reinhart. Bill's law offices are located at 70 Pine Street in New York City.... Dick Hood was appointed during August to the position of assistant to the president of the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad, whose executive offices are located in Pittsburgh. This news will be greeted by all Thirtymen, but it was especially pleasing to Milt Mclnnes who has always claimed that there are too few Dartmouth men in the rail-road business.
Horace Chrissinger is now a major in the Infantry and is stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., at the Infantry School, being on the Atomic Board at that school. Horace was called into the Service about two years ago from Leesburg, Fla., and moved his wife, daughter Jean and sen John to Fort Benning where all of them are living on the post.... Col. LesGodwin recently completed an active duty tour of 23 months with the Military Air Transport Service and resumed his position as treasurer and general manager of General Oil Cos. in Medford, Mass. Les was recalled to active duty in July 1351 for assignment to the Military Personnel Division at MATS Headquarters in Washington, D. G. He was promoted to colonel in June 1952 and was then assigned to Westover Air Force Base in September 1952. His recent tour of duty took him to Air Force Bases throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle and Far East.... Glenn "Walla" Poorman is now general manager of Fsso's supply department and is serving as chairman of the Tank and Inventory Committee and as a member of Esso's Committee for Staff Departments Management Development Program. Walla is also a director of Plantation Pipe Line Co.... Your Secretary apologizes for his many errors, the most recent of which was his failure to mention, with reference to Chick Pooler's family, that Priscilla Lee was certainly a member in good standing of that family, having been born on Thanksgiving Day in 1951.... A visit this past summer with Frank Ryder brought out the news that his daughter Joan had been in Paris since a year ago this September where she had been studying at the Sorbonne on a Windsor Scholarship. Joan is headed for Radcliffe this fall.... Rodman C. Rockefeller '54, one of Nelson's sons, was married on June 17 to Barbara Ann Olsen at The Reformed Church in Bronxville, New York.
One of the nicest things that has happened to your secretary in a long time was the receipt of a letter from a daughter of a Thirtyman giving me some late news concerning her father which she felt he was surely too modest otherwise to produce himself. Irrespective of the type of news, your secretary would welcome more news letters from the "second generation" of the 1930 family. One Thirtyman recently wrote, "I was fortunate to be a member of the Class of '30 and I made many wonderful friends and the older I get the more I want to keep in touch with them." These are undoubtedly universal sentiments.
On August 19 Pete Hamm was appointed managing director of the Interstate Commerce Commission. As such, Pete will assume all the administrative functions of the Commission. This appointment makes recognition of Pete's prominence in publication and educational activities in the transportation field for a number of years. Here is further occasion for joy to Milt Mclnnes and to all of us....
The Hanover Inn records indicate that on June 29 Judge Frank McLaughlin and his wife were visitors in Hanover. Undoubtedly, Frank is merely making advance plans for our Twenty-Fifth Reunion in 1955.... Horace"Hoss" Drew wrote in August requesting that his address be changed to record an APO number which he alleges brought him to the "Miami of Southern Greenland," where he expects to be with the American Red Cross for about two years. Hoss said in his letter he was on a military base which is located in a beautiful spot on the side of a fjord with mountains all around and with snow on the tops of most of them, quite a change from the weather in the District of Columbia.... A brief news announcement in late August was to the effect that Wilson Manufacturing Cos., Inc., had made Frank Rath vice president and general sales manager. Frank was formerly vice president of Wm. C. Rath & Sons, Inc.... Bill Steers has been named a director of the National Better Business Bureau.... During the early summer Dr. Bill Putnam of Lyme spoke to the New Hampshire State Nurses' Association at its annual meeting.... Pete Lillard, whose picture graced a recent issue of the Sat. Eve. Post, was elected chairman of the Sharon, Mass., Schcol Committee. This is Pete's second year as a member of the Committee.
Dr. Art Olsen continues a busy and active life with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., but is planning on a trip abroad next summer to attend -some professional meetings and clinics. However, he is making sure that nothing interferes with his summer plans in 1955 to be in attendance at our Twenty-Fifth Reunion.
The thanks of each and every member of the Class of 1930 certainly goes to Ed Schuster and his assistant class agents for the grand job which they did, and in which almost every member of the Class participated, in the recent Alumni Fund campaign.
Secretary, 1 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass, Treasurer, 56 Jennys Lane, Barrington, R. I. Memorial Fund Chairman, 11 East Hubbard St., Chicago 11, Ill.
