1933

In many sections of our great land spring has reared its beautiful head and is blooming with blooming. In Hanover, the snow and the duckboards are gone and the young men 's fancy lightly turns to what the gals have been thinking about all year. In your scribe 's section of the country, we are breathlessly awaiting our one day of spring between winter and summer, an event which occurs annually in the early part of May. Our postman walks with a new spring in his stride, as well he might since he is not weighted down with any letters from that non-letter-writing Class of 1933. A-a-a-a-a-h, hum, spring fever's got us and the pickings are slim, but let 's see what we can scrape from the bottom of the barrel.

As evidence that cupid is still busy buzzing our thinning bachelor ranks, the Buff aloEvening News announces the marriage on January 31 at Hamburg, N. Y., of Miss Adelaide Katharine Weiss to Mr. John BoudmotHunley III. Welcome to the Class, Mrs. Hunley. Understand you and Jack will continue to live in Hamburg.

And now to the marts of finance - suddenly a rash of bankers and bank directors. LymeWakefield is assistant vice president of The First National Bank of Minneapolis. In addition, according to the Minneapolis Star, he is also figure skater (as we know), dairyman, horseman, navy veteran, civic leader and corporation director. He is director of Gould National Battery Co. of St. Paul and of Atlantic Securities Corp. of New York. He helped judge the first postwar world figure skating championship at Stockholm, and he runs Downtown Auto Park, a private enterprise deal of loop parking decks. All in all, a busy and energetic citizen.

Now comes American Banker to tell us briefly of a partial competitor of Lyme's - David B. Paulson, president of Jari Products, Inc., has been named to the advisory board of Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis.

Moving back East we find a slightly ambiguous statement under the picture of Daniel G. Rollins in the Brookline (Mass.) Chronicle, "ROLLINS GETS BANK BERTH at a recent meeting of the directors of the Brookline Co-operative Bank. He was also named a director for the unexpired term of the late Charles A. Leavitt." We understand that the only employee allowed to maintain a cot at the bank is the 24-hour watchman, so congratulations, Danny! It's nice they made you a director, too. Probably to save your pay while at board meetings.

And last but not least, page one of the Springfield (Mass.) Daily News of January 20 announces (with picture) that "William A.Fuller, president of the American Abrasive Co. of Westfield was elected a member of the board of directors at Union Trust Co. at the annual meeting of stockholders held today." The article goes on to say that Bill is also president of Cortland Grinding Wheels Corp. of Chester, president of Hamilton Emery & Corundum Cos. of Chester, holds directorships in the American Abrasive Co. of South Africa (pty.) Ltd. and the First National Bank of Westfield, is a recent chairman of the board of the Abrasive Grain Association (national trade association of abrasive manufacturers), and is a member of the Colony Club, Longmeadow Country Club, Get Together Club of Westfield and numerous fish and game clubs throughout New England. Sounds like Bill, too, has been, and is, busy.

Well, that's the news until May. There was more than we thought, after all. Strictly topdrawer stuff, too, and not in the least from the bottom of the barrel. Once, about the time we graduated, one could get away with saying "bottom of the barrel" in the same breath with "banker," but no more, and that's all to the good. Remember the joke, circa 1933, about the fellow cautioning his friend, "Gosh, don't tell my mother I work in a bank! She thinks I play the piano in a house of ill repute!"

Here's a late news flash from our chairman in Hanover, received after the presses were rolling and in Theriault's own inimitable words: As the 1953 Alumni Fund campaign gets under way this month, we pipe a new skipper aboard. Dick Jackson, good sailor that he is, is taking over as Class Agent.

Everybody knows that the job of Class Agent is no sinecure. It is a job that, for little recognition, demands hours of hard work, heavy correspondence, close attention to myriad details, skill and patience in dealing with people. At the height of the campaign, from April through June, the job makes huge inroads into the Class Agent's "free" time.

So it is particularly fitting at this time that we give a rousing Wah-Hoo-Wah to SamBlack, who has done a splendid job for us as Class Agent for nine - I'm sure he would agree nine long years. Count 'em! From 1944 through 1952. That's a mighty big cut of a man's time, taken from his leisure, from his family how about it, Jean? But Sam would be the first to insist that the job has its satisfactions. Among other things, Sam can take real pride in the record. The year before he took over, way back in 1943, we raised $3,120, from 329 contributors. In his last year, 1952, after a steady climb through the years, we raised the all-time record amount for us of $9,733, from 370 contributors. A more than threefold increase, not an inconsiderable achievement. One year Sam and his crew brought in 400 contributors - a mark we will want to shoot for again this year.

We are now in an age bracket where our giving potential is in inverse ratio to our thinning hair. Dick Jackson faces the awesome prospect of a class quota in the neighborhood of $13,900. . ,

We salute Sam and Dick. Sam for a job well done; Dick for undertaking a tough job in behalf of the Class and the College. Because a Class Agent's good works live on in the Fund, Sam will share with Dick in our achievement as a Class this year. We can make Dick's job easier by giving early in the campaign, and we can raise our level of achievement as a Class by giving as generously as we possibly can.

Secretary, 217 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, N. Y.

Class Agent, RICHARD JACKSON Legal Dept., B. & M. R.R., 150 Causeway St., Boston, Mass.