1941
I want to tell you a fish story. Only it's true not even the names have been changed to protect anyone. Early in September my wife Sue and I were enjoying dinner at Mitchell's Restaurant in Greenport, L. I., when four rowdy men of the sea burst into the place. They gathered at a table across the long room and before they had finished the first song I knew there had to be a Dartmouth man in the crowd. Straining my 20/400 vision until the figures came into focus, I recognized the back of Phil Hall's head. I ventured over to the table. It was Phil. I sat down. We had a drink. Phil was going fishing the next morning. I explained to Phil that my plans also were to go fishing next day on my 14-foot Old Town with 10-Horse Johnson outboard.
"Well, come on out with us instead," offered Phil. "We're going for blues."
"Whose boat is it?" I asked. One of Phil's companions answered.
"It's Hall's a 33-foot Richardson cruiser with twin engines."
Now I'm enough of a landlubber to know that any time I get a chance to go bluefishing on that kind of a boat I'm not going to pass up the chance and go out on a 14-footer. Well, we went out on the ocean next morning and were out there all day. We didn't get many bluefish (exactly two) but it was one of the most enjoyable days I've ever spent anywhere. Phil is a real sea dog belongs to the Power Squadron and all that sort of stuff. He's general manager of the Russell Hall Company, wholesale paper distributors in Meriden, Conn. Phil doesn't know it yet but I'm going to work on him to take out a Dartmouth '41 fishing party next summer. How about that Phil?
Just after the end of the first inning of the first game of the World Series, I left the television screen on the second floor of the TimeLife Building in New York and went downstairs to buy a White Owl. (The Yanks had scored four runs and I thought if I bought a White Owl I'd jinx them.) In the lobby I met Dick Krolik. Dick is on Time magazine's staff as the television editor. He lives in New York on 57th Street.
News is being made in Washington, D. C., these days and '41 is a part of it. Barbara Harvey, wife of my former roomy Bob Harvey, has given me the Washington report in a most welcome letter. Incidentally, Bob is one of the editors of Changing Times, the Kiplinger publication.
"Bob and I had dinner last night at the Durkees. Also there were Pete and Audrey Keir. Bill's family consists of a boy, 5, and a girl, 31/4, who attend the same school we belong to. Pete Keir is with Federal Reserve Board, rents a house next door to George Bricklemaier '42 and they share their own private (and very nice) swimming pool. The Keir youngsters are Ellen, 3, and Bruce, 1. Cliff Stratton, an attorney down here, is in California for six months or so for his law firm and was not around for the birth in August of Cliff III. His wife Lydia is also a lawyer, and she and Cliff have a daughter, Cynthia, 2. Forgot to say that Fred Lynch popped in on the Durkees unexpectedly yesterday and was there to entertain us all at dinner.
"Carolyn and George Flather had their third child in June, the day they moved into their new home. It's a girl and at last reports was not named yet as George and Carolyn couldn't agree. They have Anne, 8, and Jeff, 5, in addition to the newcomer. Well, that's the vital statistics list from Washington."
Bill McKelvey has been appointed general merchandise manager of the G. M. McKelvey Co., downtown department store in Youngstown, Ohio. This bit of news came out of the Youngstown, Ohio, Vindicator. Bill's job prior to this was merchandise manager of home furnishings. And he's well qualified for the job, having already furnished the McKelvey household with six children. I believe this is about tops in the class or am I mistaken? Any of you have more than six offspring to boast of this fair September morn? Let me know and I'll crown you the new champ.
My spy at the Hanover Inn reports that visitors to Hanover during the summer months included Dr. and Mrs. Elmer Crehan from Los Angeles, Calif.; Pete Scott from Madison, N. J.; and Mr. and Mrs. FredCluthe, from Short Hills, N. J.
Dr. Monte Winship has been named head of the Department of Psychiatry to be opened at the Grove Hill Clinic of New Britain, Conn. Monte served two years in the Naval Air Force and was graduated from Boston School of Medicine. He interned at Touro Infirmary, yew Orleans, and received his psychiatric training at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. He has been a staff member of the Austen Riggs Foundation at Stockbridge, Mass., and is a member of the American Psychiatry Association. That old left tackle has really been around, hasn't he!
Malcolm Scott, at one time with the Warner-Swasey Co. in Cleveland, and more recently director of admissions at Hackley School, Tarrytown, N. Y., is now an admissions counselor at Rollins College at Winter Park, Fla.
Bill Steel has opened his insurance emporium on the principal thoroughfare through Levittown here on Long Island. Bill handles all kinds of casualty and fire insurance. Another resident of Levittown in the news is Bob Hess, who is now the executive secretary of the committee on development at Williams College. Bob, his wife and two children, will naturally leave our fair town and take up residence in Williamstown.
WHEN-LAST-HEARD-FROM DEPT.:John Hands was construction superintendent for W. Kidde Constructors, Inc.... SteelBrown was production supervisor at General Chemical in New York City.... Bill Hotaling was selling steel for Bethlehem Steel Co. and had just bought a new house in Hamden, Conn.... Dr. Dick Olmstead was a pediatrician in Stratford, Conn Charles Hadley was a physicist with Radio Corporation of America Jack Lockwood was teaching physics at the University of New Hampshire. ...Bo Warner was a special agent for Northwest Fire and Marine Insurance Co. in Minneapolis Chet Williams was teaching at North Texas State College.... Fenwick A twill was assistant-cashier of the First National Bank of Minneapolis in the Industrial Loan Division.... Jack Larigan was sales manager of the Minnesota District for St. Regis Paper Co.... Dr. Jack Curran was a surgeon in Worcester, Mass.... and Mouse Hall was finishing up his November class notes so he could head out for Greenport and some more fishing.
Secretary, 47 Hook Lane, Levittownr, N. Y. Treasurer, 1140 Wightman St., Pittsburgh 17, Pa.
