1938

Having passed the ball for organizing our Fifteenth Reunion to Chairman Mays, your secretary departed for that pleasant interlude known as Christmas Vacation to northern parts. Upon his return, he was pleasantly surprised to find a complete organization set up and running full blast. Before long the class at large should feel the hot breath of said committee on its neck.

Aside from the New York contingent, comprising Mays, Hitchcock, Flynn, King, Mattimore, Schaeffer, Colton, Duckworth, McGrath, Reeve, Calder, all tried and true Dartmouth workers in that area, district representatives have been appointed to beat the drum in the provinces. Cy Mackinnon in Winnetka, Jack Slattery in San Francisco, Henry Beck in Dallas, Ed Grace in St. Louis, Clark Barrett in Baltimore, Lou Fortuna in Atlanta, BobFaegre in the Twin Cities, and P. Brownell in Boston are all members of this august group. McMurtrie, of course, will take time off from tampering with the class books to give his financial wisdom and some funds to the project. Gil Tanis is acting in Hanover as liaison man with Tanzis, a full-time job, you can be sure.

To finish off class business before embarking on what promises to be a sparse column for news, it is at last possible to report that a questionnaire is now in the mimeographing works in Hanover to furnish information for a directory to be distributed before reunion. As explained in a covering letter, without much literary merit, certain of the questions pertaining specifically to said directory should be answered promptly, completely, and returned to this respondent so that progress can be made without undue follow-ups. Other •questions for statistical or amusement purposes can be answered or not as the recipient feels the spirit move him. We'd like all that stuff, but it's not essential.

Lew Williams sent a nice Christmas card to the secretary recording his change of scene to Denver, Colo., in the heart of the ski country. Jim Chandler has left his erstwhile necktie business for greener pastures, still in the Bay State.

Frank Cannell is another Colorado-ite, residing in Colorado Springs, where he serves the great Metropolitan Life Insurance Cos. Chuck Ervin is now in Birmingham, Ala., with the Detroit Diesel Division of G.M.C. as an engineer.

Tommy Holmes is a mine superintendent with U. S. Vanadium in Bishop, Calif.; my acquaintanceship with that state is slightly better than with Texas, but I still don't know where Bishop is and don't happen to have an atlas handy either.

Ed Kirch is a member of that mythical occupation known, succinctly, as "salesman" and lives in Short Hills, N, J. Don't ask me what he sells.

Ridgely Bacher is a Production Control Planner, evidently a variety of efficiency expert, in Langhorne, Pa. Ralph Sethness checks in in the General Insurance business from Ft. Lauderdale in the sunny state of Florida.

The Norfolk County Trust Cos. of Brookline, Mass., announced recently the appointment as a vice-president of John F. Graham. Following graduation from Hanover, John attended and even was graduated from the Bentley School of Accounting and Finance, not being one of the multitude who resided on the other bank of the Charles, known collo- quially as the "B" School. He was successively a staff accountant and a senior accountant with Gharles F. Rittenhouse & Cos. He was elected assistant treasurer of the bank (still the Norfolk County Trust) and an assistant vice-president, where he is head of the credit department. If you want to borrow money, go to John, otherwise try McMurtrie.

While in Hanover for a flying visit, I ran into Bill Lansberg in the Toy Department of the Hanover Hardware Store. He reports the 1938 contingent still faithfully preserving the ritual of a monthly luncheon, with DaveBradley replacing the secretary as a regular attendant. Otherwise the group remains as last year.

The Valley News, a new local newspaper of some merit, had a feature story the other day about the new Grafton County Commissioner, Robert A. Jones of Lebanon. It appears that a County Commissioner in the Granite State is one of three persons in charge of all county operations and property, certainly a position of some responsibility and honor. It was for this position that Jones was running in the late election. Tesreau, as predicted in this column, replaces Jones as County Solicitor.

As hinted in the opening paragraphs, the grist for the mill is falling off with the end of the Old Year; perhaps now that the fourth quarter income tax is out of the way and members of the Class have recovered from ushering in the new Republican year (I notice Mattimore is back at work again following his sojourn with the Citizens for Eisenhower), more communicativeness will be evident. Let's make it "pity the poor secretary" year as well! See youse in Hanover this June.

COMING UP: 1937'S "FEROCIOUS 15TH" IS SLATED TO OVERSHADOW THE STH, SHOWN ABOVE

Secretary, Trinity-Pawling School Pawling, N. Y. Treasurer, 4721 N. Capitol Ave., Indianapolis 8, Ind.