1938
Due to the necessity of covering Reunion as adequately as the allotment of July space permitted, not much time could be given to some items of considerable importance. First of all, let all thanks be given to the Class Officers who bowed out at that time: Mallory for pulling the class up by its bootstraps even in the tougher competition of the new Green Derby Group in which we have been put: McMurtrie for misplacing very few class funds and for having achieved a unique record in the collection of class dues; Lyle for his outstanding series of Pace Setters; and all the old members of the Executive Committee for their tolerance of the secretary and for their very constructive thoughts on all Class affairs. The new Memorial Fund Chairman, BudWalls, is going, in the next years, to face a very serious problem in raising funds for our Twenty-Fifth Year Gift to the College. I have talked with Bud recently, and he has been canvassing the situation thoroughly. Some members of the class may be interested in aiding him actively or some may have valuable ideas on how to approach this question. If any do, please get in touch with Bud, as he is anxious for any help or suggestions. The latest Walls address is: 98 Garden St., Apt. 5 N, Hartford 15, Conn.
Over the course of the summer, a rather substantial amount of clippings have come in, so let's get to them, realizing that due to the hiatus of three months some of it may be slightly old stuff.
To put first things first, in the field of education we find several changes. Roland H.Moody has become Director of Northeastern University's library; prior to this appointment, he was circulation librarian of the Lamont Library at Harvard. As well as being Library Director, Roland will be associate professor of library science. Prior to the Harvard appointment, he held library posts at Dartmouth, Middlebury, Queens College (N. Y.).
Still in the field of libraries, Ray Harris has been named head of the new $473,000 Library for the Blind in New York. The Library for the Blind serves New York, Long Island, Connecticut, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Panama. Before becoming the first head of this institution, Harris was assistant librarian of the New York Public Library's Bloomingdale Branch.
The University of Rhode Island has announced the appointment of Dr. Ernest W.Hartung as head of the Department of Zoology. Dr. Hartung was previously associate professor of zoology, was a teaching fellow at Harvard and Radcliffe College, and taught at the University of Vermont. Still another academic appointment is that of Al Boerker as biology teacher in the Cheshire (Conn.) High School. Al has done graduate work at Harvard and was with the Air Force for three years. John Smillie received the advanced degree of master of science in opthalmology this June from the University of Minnesota. And, finally, C. Allen Raymond, USN, received the degree of master of arts in public administration from George Washington University. Al is a Commander now.
Among honors attained by members of the Class, Frank Davenport was elected a director of the National Restaurant Association at its annual convention in Chicago in May. Vice President of Davenport Lunch, Inc., he is active in business, civic and religious organizations. He served three years in the Navy, is married, and the father of three children. From the Glens Falls Area of the Empire State comes news that Governor Thomas E. Dewey has appointed Dr. Onslow A. Gordon III of Westport as Essex County coroner. Sheriff received his M.D. from Cornell and interned at Guthrie Clinic in Sayre, Pa. He served as a captain in the Army with an infantry division of the Third Army in Europe. He has been in general practice in Essex County for the past seven years. Dr. Gordon is married to the former Mildred Gustafson of Cleveland, Ohio, a graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. They have three children.
Commander Fining Sherman broke into the news recently as presiding at the award of heroism medals to members of his crew aboard the Destroyer Hale. To bring you up to date on the Commander, he entered the Navy in 1940 after having been first mate on the commercial fishing boat Paula out of Key West.
Following the War, Vinnie was a Navigation Instructor at the Naval Academy and also sailing officer of the 44-foot yawl Lively in the 1948 Newport to Bermuda race and of the sloop Norderney in the Newport-Annapolis race in the following year.
He has recently seen considerable service with the United Nations forces in Korean operations. He is a graduate of the Navy Line School at Monterey, Calif. Vinnie was married to the former Marion Rogers of Cleveland, Ohio, and they have two children, Diana Louise, 5 and Vining Jr. 3.
From the far-off stretches of Tokyo, after all these years, comes word from Yokichi Fujiyama, now managing director of the Nitto Chemical Industry Cos. Fuji is married and has two children, Mizue (1941) and Yokichi (1943).
According to the ubiquitous Marty King,Larry Hull is now back in the metropolitan area house hunting, since Shell Oil has transferred him from the swamps of St. Louis to his own hinterland. Marty reports Larry generously offering $18,000 on several $45,000 estates. Mattimore and Lou Frick, he says, are still "pounding the pavements in and out of Conde Nast."
Sad news comes via the same source of the sudden loss by drowning of Gus Hennessey's eight-year-old son while on vacation in Maine. As Marty says, "I'm sure the Class joins in sincere sympathy and with the deepest feelings for the family."
By the time this reaches you, it will be the middle of the annual fall football mania. See youse outside the Stadium or the Bowl.
A TRUE BEAR STORY: Philip A. Johnson '37 shown with the giant bear he shot in Alaska. This was the biggest bear killed in the 1953 Alaskan hunting season. Johnson is president of the Bank of Fairbanks.
Secretary, Trinity-Pawling School Pawling, N. Y. Treasurer, 406 Peck Rd., Geneva, Ill.
