1935

Here we are, gentlemen, back for another season. Just been sitting here a minute reflecting on the fact that 22 years ago we were all very pea-green freshmen trying desperately to adjust ourselves to campus life. We wore funny little green hats, moved furniture and everything else at the command of the lordly sophomores. Now most of us are married to wives who wear funny hats and we still move furniture and everything else at their lordly command. I guess a lot of us are still freshmen in this world, only our circumstances change. But we have lots of news to start the year so on with the presses.

Last June we reported the engagement of Lou Weitz to Ann Looser, both of Cleveland. It lasted but a very short while. Too late to get into the column we received word that they had been married June 4 and had gone off to the Greenbrier for a honeymoon. When Lou finally makes up his mind he doesn't fool around.

Here's more old June news: Lou Whytlaw dropped in to visit Bob Hage with son David, 6, up in Hanover. lon, shoe buyer for Haliburton's Department Store in Oklahoma City, was on a trip through the East with his wife, two sons and a daughter.

And more: Nick Kenny's column in the N. Y. Daily Mirror for June 9, led off with a story about Mac McCarty, reporting that Mac was author of a chapter on television in the Television Advertising and Production Handbook, about to be published. Mac ought to know something about it. He's been making plenty of use of it for his Flamingo frozen food products.

Last June we praised the physical youthful prowess of Sel Hannah who could still ski with the best of 'em. We now report on BudHulett who must also have retained his stamina through these past twenty trying years. Seems Bud was a partner in the team that won the doubles handball championship of the Detroit Athletic Club, beating a team that had controlled the game for many years.

Don Cameron recently relayed the following which he had received in a letter from Bill White: Bill is in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, where he is employed by Arabian American Oil Cos. He is the Principal of General Industrial Training for one of the district schools operating four distinct academic programs "a general orientation and indoctrination program for newly hired Saudis, a basic English and arithmetic program for those who need it in their work, a general elementary education program conducted in both Arabic and English for selected Saudis whom we hope eventually to be able to place in supervisory positions, and an Arabic program for illiterates." This seems like quite a change from the character who, twenty years ago, was usually the last to retire from the College Hall tap room, and whose sedentary approach to learning was the envy of many. However, the spirit is not yet dead. Bill ends his letter with the following: "X know you will sympathize with me when you understand that in Saudi Arabia, the cradle of Islam, it is unlawful to import or manufacture alcoholic beverages, and that I have not had a drink since I was in Beirut six months ago." He expects to get back to the States on furlough this fall, however, when the catching-up should be an occasion to behold.

At the annual meeting of the Council of the American Physical Society, recently, Prof. Sanborn C. Brown was honored by being elected to fellowship in the Society.

This is also old news, but maybe you haven't heard it. Last spring the Commercial Union group, an insurance outfit, promoted Donald E. Waggaman, executive special agent in the Pacific Coast department since 1951, to deputy assistant manager of that department. Don joined Commercial Union right after graduation as an office boy. Shortly thereafter he was assigned to the western department and covered Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Oklahoma. In 1940 he became special agent for Oklahoma and in 1948 went to Denver as state agent for Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico. His appointment to the Pacific department took him to San Francisco in 1951.

Fran Chase, who has been with the West Newton (Mass.) Co-operative Bank for the past seven years and assistant Treasurer since 1948, was promoted to Treasurer last June. Fran is also a director of the bank and was a member of the executive committee of the co-operative Bank League in 1951 and 1952.

Dr. and Mrs. Jules Bromberg of Maplewood, N. J., have announced the birth of a son, David Konoff, on June 13.

This past summer saw quite a few classmates visit the Hanover Inn. Among them: Howard L. Chase in June. Biddy must now be back from Manila, or perhaps this was just a vacation. Dr. and Mrs. Frank Van Kirk on from Burbank, Calif., where Frank practices dentistry. During July: the Aldo Nicolettis of Weehauken, the Bill Feingolds of Scarsdale, the Duke Maxwells of Downington. Pa., the George Prices and son Frederick of Chestnut Hill, Mass., and, in August, the BillDavidsons of Port Washington, N. Y. Seems like quite a pilgrimage from all over the United States.

There's some more but we're going to save it for November just in case too many of you remain silent between now and then. Meanwhile, we'll look for you at some of the football games. Hope you all had good vacations; you're probably, as I am, planning the next one already. See you next month.

Secretary, Compton Advertising, Inc. 630 Fifth Ave., New York 20, N. Y. Treasurer, 67 May St., Needham 92, Mass.