1944
Before getting on to the gossip of the fall season, a round of congratulations to all of you who helped make this year's Alumni Fund drive our most successful. No front runners, we were still up to our armpits in the basement as of June 22... but, not unlike Lew Worsham on the 18th at Tam O'Shanter, we came up fast that last week, picking up a quick thousand and seventh place in the combined ratings. We scored 76% of our dollar quota, and 70% participation. "Boog" McLoud did a yeoman's job and won top honors in wooing the most new contributors!
Without benefit of Life photographers and associated fanfare, Ginger Colwell presented Bob with a second son, Robert Martin, on May 27. In the hospital room across from Ginger was Bud Wingate's wife, Betty, and their brand new daughter. Bud and Betty are neighbors of the Willie Ard in New Rochelle's Cooper Hill Apts. Incidentally, reports have it that Willie is stroking a hot putter this season and becoming a man of distinction at the Wykagyl Country Club. Over at Winged Foot, Westchester's other championship course, money player Pinky Corroon copped the annual tournament which awards legal tender in lieu of the historical bonbon dish.
Getting back to Bob Colwell, his firm H. E. Colwell & Sons recently merged with Blackman and Couenhoven, making H.E.C. the largest real estate and insurance outfit in New Rochelle. Dave MacGregor is back in New Hampshire, production manager of Arms Textile in Manchester. The clan was increased last April when the third heir, Dave Jr., put in his appearance.
Charlie Martus, the genial proprietor of the San Francisco Maiket on Madison Ave. in NYC, will be defending his tennis crown at Orienta Beach Club in Mamaroneck any day now. Will have to see if I can't get some scores for you for the next issue. Gene Kinney, Zenith Radio executive, takes his summer recreation a bit more sensibly, sloshing about the Canadian Lakes in a twin screw cruiser. Speaking about sloshing, B.B.D.&O. Acct. Exec. John Eaton recently picked up a sardine account in Maine. Probably have to turn in the Squeeze flannels and sincere shoes for hip boots and a hawser.
On the international scene, the big news is Fritz and Joan Hier's new heir, Robert Lovejoy. Hope to have a photograph of the family for the next issue. The next time you feel vent to postulate on the state of our foreign affairs, remember we have brethren in the State Department... Murray Mondshien at the U. S. Embassy in Vienna, Bill Turpin in London, Victor Morgan at Belgrade, and ArtScharf, who can be anywhere. Our records show that Art, with the FBIS, was at the U. S.
Embassy in London in April, then in Kyrenia, Cyprus, in June. Jeremy Hodson is with the U.N. Relief and Works Agency in Damascus, Syria.
Lem Arnold is a sales coordinator with Lockheed Aircraft in Burbank, and has settled down with his rose-colored spectacles in N. Hollywood. Jim Johnson, also getting rather sporty, is settling down at Long Beach. Down New Orleans way, Sperk and HelenWelch are grooming a 1970 edition of the Gabor girls. Their third daughter, Cynthia Louise, was born in April. For their early indoctrination, the girls will be exposed to the pools, cocktail patios, and yachts of Miami when the family goes vacationing late in September. Jack Buck is also in New Orleans, hustling autos and doing quite a business from all reports.
Dave Little is lawyering out in Sheridan, Wyoming.... Dr. Charlie Secor is now with the Madigan Army Hospital at Ft. Lewis, Wash.... Trust banker Claude Schuchter sweating out the queasy market on Wall St. ...Malcolm Smith, not much better off, as a security analyst with General American Investors down on the Street. Mac is living at the Rye Colony Apts., where Bull Hinman and Dale Sisson have been mixing cocktails for the past several years.... Bill Trease has been named purchasing agent for the University of lowa out in lowa City Alan Howard, an electrical engineer with the L. I. Lighting Cos., is making his home in fashionable W. Hempstead Hary Miller is selling with the Miller-Northern Cos. in NYC Alan Rose is a patent attorney with the enormous Bell Tel. Lab at Murray Hill, N. J. ...Larry Widdecombe is a chemist with the Naugatuck Chemical Cos. in Naugatuck.
Dr. Jim Averill, returning to the earlier sporting grounds, has opened an office for the practice of internal medicine in old Northampton. Jim was a Fellow in Medicine at the famous Lahey Clinic and worked at the Mass. General Hospital in Boston before moving to Hamp.... Bill Harrison, famous hockey coach at CI ark son, has been promoted from instructor to ass't professor of civil engineering The stork visited the Howie Penningtons last June and left a bouncing boy, Scott Lewis.... Meryll Frost has been appointed assistant director of the Bay State Society for the Crippled and Handicapped, Inc. He has been director of extension services and will be in charge of fund raising and allied activities for the Easter Seal agency Rev. John Brown and Dorothy Emily Waymouth of Loudon, N. H., have announced their engagement. Dorothy is a mathematics teacher in Concord, which should lend further assurance that the match has received the blessing of John's father, Prof. B. Brown.
Bill Hale and Pat Long of Oswego strolled down the aisle of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Syracuse on June 6. After a Caribbean cruise the newlyweds settled down in Rochester where Bill is assistant sales manager of Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Cos.
In your declining years you have the encouraging prospect of making a prilgrimage to the fountain of youth next June when the class of 1944 holds its tenth reunion. More about this will be sent to you shortly but at least start making plans to spend some of next year's vacation on the frothy plains of Hanover. The following got a head start this year: the Art Sauls, the Al Fahers, the "Tank" Bruces, the Clint Gardners, the John Murphys, and the Dave Eckels.
Secretary, Center St., Box 16-A, Milford, O. Treasurer, 2400 Churchill Rd., Silver Spring, Md.
