1937
Probably this department is the only spectator of our very excellent MAGAZINE that occasionally raises an irked brow. One brow elevated slightly last month after noting the absence of Bar Moseley's photo of our fifth reunion group taken on the steps of Tuck School. WE HEAR it is to appear in this issue and we hope that is more than a rumor.
During the recent months we seem to have accumulated many odds and ends of news which we would like to clear in this article. Marine Col. Don Otis now located in Charleston, S. C., as CO of Marine Barracks at the US Naval Base. Finds it a much better assignment than the Pentagon, more interesting, and a pretty active social life, which includes their announcement of the birth of their first son (third child) Arthur Trainor Otis on last July 14. Don and Mona hope to coincide their "leave time" next June with reunion.
Dr. Rex Branch has a similar situation having added his first son Dexter Jr. following two daughters, and has provided a snapshot to prove the whole situation (we'll get that picture in eventually even if we have to reburn Dartmouth Hall). Dex moved this past summer to a new home in Lexington which sports a sign saying "The Branch Ranch" and for the past six years since leaving the Army has been Chief Anesthesiologist at the Cambridge City Hospital. Naturally he consorts every so often with local medical personalities Tucker and Hinman.
Another guy who says "SEE YOU IN JUNE" is Carl Erdman now back from his 21-month tour of duty with the Navy and in time to take in a couple of this season's football games. Bill and Nan Storck want to sign high on the list and now for next June's festivities. They timed everything just right so they can attend reunion but regretfully had to forego their annual pilgrimage to the Princeton game due to the anticipated advent of ... get ready for this one ... it's a natural... THE STORK! (No official wird from the burd yet.) Bill says he has finally started catching up with us family men.
A nice newsy letter from the much traveled Bob Ewings has been forwarded to Dave Hall but this tidbit we can't refrain from tossing into this salad they will be attending the June show for the first time and plan to make the trip in their Piper Tri-pacer areoplane. (The only plane your scribe ever entered was an old heap belonging to some barnstormers who set up shop in a field just south of Hanover. Chief sporting thrill provided us unwary buck-payers was when the pilot attained some measly height he tossed out a roll of toilet paper which promptly unrolled in the breeze then he proceeded to dive after it. The last pass he made, thank God unsuccessfully, was while we watched one end of the roll curling up on the ground. In those days life and toilet paper were both cheap.
Bill Cash from Minneapolis says his travels keep him in fair touch with classmates Mutt,Dave and Mort in New York, Art Cohen in San Francisco, John Merrill in LA, Pete Ffolliott, Wally Fisher and Bill Parrish in the hometown, the latter having moved there this year from Chicago to work in General Mills Market Research Dept.
The well known magazine Newsweek has a new circulation manager in Ed Davis as announced by the publisher. Ed joined the magazine in 1946 as an advertising salesman for the foreign editions and was successfully manager of international editions and assist- ant to the publisher in charge of circulation activities.
Dr. Qiiincy Fortier has recently sold his hospital and clinic at Pioche, Nevada, and is back at the Univ. of Minnesota working toward his PH.D. in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Bill Brietinger adds a bit more news 011 Bud Erdman in that he is now associated with WHUM-TV, the'first UHF channel in the country, which, it was hoped would be operating by last month from Reading, Pa. ParkJohnston, whom we last recall as a cog in Fred Castle's vast Marsh & McLennan Ins. organization, has flew the coop to form a new concern, Johnston & Cos., 135 LaSalle St., Chicago, to handle Financial arid Estate Planning, also Employee Benefit Planning, all as of January 1953. He merely reports on GailCompton as going great guns on TV which is all we have ever heard about YE BUTCH since TV was tv.
There's a small parody being trampled around these parts of late to the effect that "Old Bankers never die, they just lose their interest." Not so Banker Phil Johnson of Alaska. His plan for last month was a trip to Hawaii for the purpose of checking up on the beautiful dusky-toned natives there-abiding. Then come late spring there are plans for a big bear hunt in the Aleutians which might keep him from the Hanover plain. We sup- pose we'd be considered out-of-turn should we suggest a cancellation of those two trips in favor of a combined effort next June where he could join all of us and chase or hunt dusky-toned bear maidens from Hanover to Mooselauke with free beer.
Dud Meredith now instructing Communications tor the Navy in Coronado, Calif., hopes to be released to inactive duty next month and should be back in Sheffield, Ala., with Reynolds Metals Cos. early in April. DaveRainey says not much new with him but Harry Neale just had his third boychild, saw Rog Holler at an Alumni Meeting in Florida recently and plans to lassoo Neale, Bohlke,Hull, Compton, Patterson, Hahn and others of TDX for the spring round-up.
From the deep south Fred lngersoll tiles that he has formed his own company as a manufacturer's agent in the toy and appliance field with one salesman working for him, covering the whole Southeast. Thinks it's a long trip but hopes to attend with the Mrs. come June.
Jake Newton keeps very busy with four kiddos ranging from 12 years to 1 year and also as President Worcester (Mass.) chapter National Association of Cost Accountants. Dick Thirlby and Collin MacCarty have nothing to say concerning themselves on the late questionnaires except they hope to make the trek north to our Ferocious Fifteenth. Dr. AlWhitehill from Montvale, N. J., says he's moved around the corner acquiring a bigger house and barn complete with hayloft and with three daughters immediately also acquired a first class shotgun to go with it all. He's still active on the Vestry and Board of Health plus his work with Lederle Laboratories. We recently saw a bit of Hal Evans 011 a trip East from California where he is a partner in the A-1 Telephone Service Cos. of Los Angeles. No visible changes after six years of normal wear and tear since we last saw him. Maybe we should change our good Treasurer's slogan to "Send Your Broken Leg to Rug" as he has just reopened his ski shop in Deerfield for its fourth season and also was elected Secretary of U.S. Eastern Amateur Ski Association.
That's all for this month and this is the last call for cards to be returned for the directory if yours ain't in you better put a three cent stamp on it.
A GOOD START: Shown with his godfather, Shant Chebookjian '4B (left). Dexter Branch Jr. is the first son, third child, of father Dex Branch '37.
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