1934
Since donning the mantle that the ubiquitous Jackson to sed lightly over our shoulders a couple of years ago, with words so soothing that ye sec isn't even yet so sure that it wasn't a paper bag he got pulled down over his ears, Labor Day weekend has meant getting on paper and into the records all that has happened to this, shall we say with the customary humility, "glorious" class over the summer. In itself, this is no great penalty we have found, for otherwise a person might be risking life, limb and that new coat of Simonize out on the highway, with New York drivers to the right, Rhode Island drivers to the left and no co-pilot with sufficient seniority in heavenly circles to offer any great consolation.
So as is usual at this time, we pull our Little Dandy No. 6 portable in till it rests snugly against the belt buckle, a pull which gets shorter each year, and like that guy from Harvard in the nursery rhymes, we stick in our thumbs and pull out a plum and say the same thing that guys from Harvard are always saying!
But if only for the reason that there is so much of this stuff that it is hard to get used to moving from the fiction to the facts so early in the column, we will so move early and point to our accumulation of VITAL STATISTICS.... On April 3, in Lizella, Ga., Francis P. Ford was married to Mary Frances Bell... and in the culmination of the engagement noted here in the spring, Miss Jocelyne Allen of Washington, D. C., on April 18 became the bride of Mr. George Dudley Tibbits. The bridegroom is in the Middle East and African Division of the State Department.
From the address changes over the summer, you might be interested to know that GeorgeGreen has moved for Western Electric Cos., from Brooklyn to Syracuse, N. Y.... the EdBrown who may be remembered as "Ace" to distinguish him from the "prof," has left San Francisco to join the Olds, Wortman and King store in Portland, Oregon Not to neglect the educators, however, Rus Smart has moved from Cornell to the University of Rhode Island in the department of home economics.... Major Ted Germann has moved from West Point to The Infantry School at Fort Benning where he is with the Student Training Brigade Not to neglect the Navy, Comdr. Roily Wilson is with Staff, Amphibious Group III, FPO, San Francisco.... J. Vincent Murphy for some time located in Lowell and on whose activities the records are woefully weak except for the important fact that he stands up to be counted for the Alumni Fund is now in Dunstable, Mass.
How about that other Alurphy, you say, the famous David Loring? To tell the truth none of the natives around Boston has reported him in years; they must have built a tall fence around his Milton mansion.
Digging into the pile again, we find a wellsalted piece of paper which on close examination seems to be the remains of notes taken at the Krogslund's on June 13 when that old pilot, Cap'n Jackson, deftly shipped just enough water over the bow of a dinghy to fill the pants pocket in which the notes reposed. A very neat trick, indeed! Enough, however, to remind us that on a very unpromising day a veritable throng showed up for the festivities offered under the deft hand of Nels and Ann.
The Marks', Yallalee, and Jackson came up the bay in Al's beautiful yacht, equipped with built-in TV, scotch and plumbing features which would scare the life out of a poor country boy. Harry Brague and most of DaveCalloway came in a Jaguar and the rest of us who stayed on the ground all of the way were Harry Wallace, Mike Joseph, Bob Smith,Mac Collins, Len Harrison, Dick Gruen, BillScherman, Nick Nanos, Les Reeve, GeorgeCopp, Bill Ely, Marty Dwyer, Fred Robbe,Charley Strauss, Nick Xanthaky, Em Day,Will Maynard, Bill Stowe, Gail Raphael, BobAllabough, outlanders Jack Gilbert and Foley, and far-outlanders Ruth and Art Moebius in from Ohio on a business trip. A clever (at the time) system of symbols designated which of the above came adorned with wives, but rather than risk domestic strife through symbols which turn out to be only beer and water stains, suffice it to say that the usual quota of lovely ladies were very much in attendance.
According to some reports it rained, but that didn't weaken the hosts' chowder; it didn't bother the Schermans and Les Reeve who went swimming; and it proved that with proper preparation even outdoor cooking can be enjoyed under handicaps. A very fine gathering, indeed!
For MEN OF DISTINCTION, we nominate Mike Mertchel, who in June was appointed divisional vice president and merchandise manager of home furnishings at John Wanamaker, New York.... Dick Barrett, who in May was elected director of The Southern Ohio Savings Bank and Trust Cos. Dick graduated from Michigan Law and is a partner in the firm of Dinsmore, Shohl and Dinsmore in Cincinnati John F. McCoy has been elected to the post of secretary of the Storer Broadcasting Cos. Former chief of the TV branch of FCC's Law Bureau, he has been with the Storer organization since December 1950. A graduate of Yale Law, John practised law in New York from 1938 to 1944 and spent two years in the Navy as radar officer aboard a destroyer with rank of lieutenant. He joined the FCC in 1946 and was one of the key figures in FCC's protracted hearings on color television.... Fritz Mosher received the degree of Doctor of Public Administration from Harvard in June.... Armand A. Benoit was in June appointed assistant works manager of Underwood Corp.'s Hartford, Conn., plant. Formerly coordinator of defense contracts, Armand after joining Underwood in 1936 has served as manager of the accounting machine production office, buyer in the purchasing department, chief inspector, general foreman of the press departments, assistant purchasing agent, and has handled liaison with Underwood's Canadian and English plants. To bring us up to date in this department, Armand has three children and resides in Wethersfield, Conn In late June Bob Allabourgh became vice president and secretary and a member of the board of directors of Dixon Chemicals, Inc., a recently formed corporation in Clifton, N. J. Bob is a member of the law firm of Evans, Hand and Evans, of Paterson and is president of the New Jersey Dartmouth Alumni Association.
Quickly gathered from HERE ANDTHERE IN THE NEWS you can also learn that Ike Powers has been named an assistant U.S. attorney.... Roily Morton has been elected vice president of the Municipal Bond Club of New York....Dr. Art Ward, in Worcester, is president of the Worcester County Health Association, one of the sponsors of chest X-ray surveys... and J. Clarence Davies has been appointed chairman of the Bronx County Health Fund of 1953.
Along about here either the plums run out or Widmayer blows the whistle, so before too late we want to offer our current congratulations to the Copper and his hard-working crew for another outstanding job in the Alumni Fund campaign. That skin of the teeth stuff is a little tough on the nervous system though, fellows, and what some of you guys are doing to Copp shouldn't happen to '35, in fact it doesn't. The more the boys struggle to get a new group into the fold, the surer it seems some of those corralled in previous years slide out. Like Dagmar trying to get into a misses' model. Very disconcerting! Pleasant dreams.
SPEEDING PRODUCTION: John D. O'Brien '34 (r), vice president in charge of sales for the Jefferson Electric Cos., shewn demonstrating a transformer unit recenily ordered by the Air Force. With him are Lt. Col. Edmund E. Bruslca, Air Material Command, and the company president, James M. Bennan.
Secretary. 12 Berwick St., Worcester 2, Mass. Treasurer, 13 Parkman Rd., Reading, Mass.
