1936
At last the Class is all set.... Roy Coppedge has been elected a vice president of National Distillers Products Corp.! For the past four years Roy had been showing his talents to National as a member of their law firm, Breed, Abbott and Morgan, and now they've grabbed him.
Belated congratulations to ex-Commander Stoney Jackson, Dartmouth's new assistant to the Director of Admissions! Back from a second go at the Navy, Stoney has shed his blues, rolled up his sleeves and tackled a most important assignment for the College, in whose prior service he performed ably as adviser to fraternities, business manager of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, associate on the Alumni Fund and assistant to the Dean. For the benefit of classmates whose sons are thinking about college, there is a house at 7 Church St., Norwich, listed under the name of Jackson. Let your son's scholastic achievements be the index for the size of your offering!
While on the subject of Hanoverites let's mention Dr. Bill McLaughlin who is rapidly gaining national recognition as a urologist. Bill is Assistant Professor of Urology at Dartmouth Medical School, a member of the staff of the Hitchcock Clinic and the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover and senior consultant in urology at the Veterans' Hospital at White River Junction.
Senator Dick Treadway of the Massachusetts Legislature is now a member of the nation's oldest military organization, the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. Founded in 1638 by a charter granted by then Governor Winthrop, the group has enjoyed 315 years of continuous existence. Its membership totals 730 distinguished Americans from all over the U. S. More on the same guy: Dick, as managing director of the chain, has just given the green light on the erection of a new Treadway Inn for Rochester, N. Y. It's to be a 140-room motor inn with buildings on the Williamsburg Colonial style. Special features will include two parking lots accommodating over 200 patrons, a cocktail lounge and restaurant serving Yankee food for which the Inns are famous, and a number of specialty shops. Dick hopes building will be completed and the enterprise showing a small profit by Labor Day next year.
When mentioning hotel men, don't underestimate Gene Tamburi, proprietor of the Yankee Pedlar Inn in Holyoke, Mass., vice president of the Massachusetts Hotel Association and president of the Early American Inns, Inc., the name he has given his growing chain. The latest addition to same is the Yankee Silversmith which he opened this summer at Wallingford, Conn. We stopped for dinner at the Pedlar a few weeks ago and got a sample of the famous Tamburi hospitality. Gene, as always, was quietly busy but stole time to fill us in on the new gift shoppe he's adding to the main house and the annex he's refurbishing down the street. Figuring Gene might find a spare minute some time, the Mayor of Holyoke has just appointed him to the city's Rent Control Board. When the American Broadcasting System abolished their owned-and-operated television network, Buzz Chapin, their vice president in charge of O-and-O, moved over to network sales still as a veep. Proving he can peddle network, where he previously worked, Buzz quickly sold Sealy Mattress on "Comeback," a show you can ogle on Friday nights.
General Electric has moved Stu MacMackin again. As reported a few months back, Stu has been counsel in the legal department of G. E.'s transformer division in Pittsfield, Mass. Now they've set him up as head of the newlyformed legal department for the atomic products division, with offices in Schenectady. The Macs have plenty of friends in Schenectady since Stu worked there several years before transfer to Syracuse before being moved to Pittsfield.... Word is in that Draper Corporation has boosted Hank Billings? their comptroller, to the board of directors. Hank has been with Draper since 1941 when he severed his Price-Waterhouse, C.P.A. connection in Illinois to come back to Massachusetts.
Come December Walt Mosenthal will be the groom at the wedding of Miss Marion Shot well Law, a Livingston, New Jersey, lass. The evidence points to the fact that Walt and Marion will get a chance to discuss plans meantime at the Montclair YMCA where Walt is assistant physical director and Marion is associate secretary of the women's and girls' division.
When last we gave a report on ChuckVenrick he had been made district sales manager in San Francisco for American Locomotive. Since then Chuck has returned to Schenectady, N. Y., to become assistant to the vice president and recently has been appointed manager of locomotive sales and field service for the American Locomotive-General Electric Companies.
Quickies to Close: The Chilean Nitrate Sales Corp. has just appointed Gil Balkam their secretary-treasurer.... Popular New Britain, Conn., lawyer Noxy Howard won his fight for clerkship of the city and police courts.... Chuck Thompson is Division Traffic Manager of C. & P. Tel. Cos. in Richmond, Va.... Art Funk is professor of history at the University of Florida.... Ollie Brown is Division Merchandise Manager of Carlisle Allen Co. in Painesville, Ohio.... Jim Pollock is geologist for Calumet and Hecla in Calumet, Mich. ... Better read Trapper Dan Doan's novel, The Crystal Years.
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