1932
Mizzen-Top is a chalet type of resort hotel just beyond Belmont Harbor overlooking the bay and village of Hamilton, Burmuda. This is where our prexy John Sheldon and his charming first lady of the class, Midge, spent a delightful two weeks during the latter part of March. Yes, John and Midge decided to leave their boots and saddles hang at the Texas dude ranch (destination of their usual spring trek) for 1953 and take to greater travel and Atlantic Ocean air. John reports that in Bermuda the bicycle has given way to the motor bike. I can recall very vividly the aching muscles produced by cycling over the island in earlier days. It is good to know that the native charm of this island playground to which "Howdy" Pierpont's travel bureau used to send so many is still retained, even though the military plays a more prominent role on the island than formerly.
This year John served as chairman of the Mercantile Group in the Chicago Red Cross drive. Incidentally, to bring you non-Chicagoans up to date as to his numerous public and business activities and responsibilities, John is a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Chicago Red Cross Chapter, member of the Executive Board of the Chicago Boy Scouts, director of the State Street Council and vice-president of Charles A. Stevens & Company. The numerous activities and responsibilities of John's put him in good receptive condition to the trip which he and Midge made to Bermuda. John and Midge traveled by rail to New York and to and from Bermuda by air. While in New York, John had occasion to see and visit with a number of our classmates. I believe he can best tell of his experiences there, through a note I recently received from him:
"In New York last month enroute to Bermuda I called Jim Corbett, to find out how plans for the Alumni Fund Drive were coming along. He asked me to come down for lunch, and when I arrived, found it was a 1932 reunion. Both Dr. Yudicky (Manchester) and Dr. Cal Fisher (Denver) were there they had been attending a medical meeting in New York and Al Rice (N. Y. lawyer) had come over to join the party. We had a very pleasant time of it, discussing the problems of the day. We discovered from Yudicky and Fisher that doctors lead a very strenuous and busy life, and receive approximately the same hourly rates as plumbers; the only difference being that they are allowed to work for straight time over 40 hours, and don't receive premium pay for Sundays.
"I also learned at the luncheon that sometime during the last year Jim Corbett had been made a partner of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane. He is presently working very hard on the Alumni Fund Drive and is receiving great help in the New York area from Art Allen. Butch Modarelli has agreed to write the News Letter this year and his first masterpiece should be forthcoming shortly. I only hope he can write better than he can talk as I remember that his last effort before our group even aroused a peaceful New Hampshire cow. Time will tell. While in New York I also had meetings with Jay White hair and Dick Hazen, but aside from having a good time with them, have nothing of significance to report."
"Continuance granted," is your scribe's reply to the "motion" recently made by Attorney Robert B. Buckley, of Buckley, Zopf & Sayce, Attorneys at Law, 55 Pleasant Street, Claremont, N. H. Bob reports in his letter of March 25, 1953:
"I am very sorry that I have not had an opportunity to give you any news as requested in your card of January 13. I have been thinking all along that I would communicate with you and tell you what little news I had, but I am going to ask you to give me a little more time, and I will see what I can do for your column."
The continuance granted by the court, Bob, is given only on the basis of your providing later a full and detailed account of your activities, and those of Marion and your family, as well as news of other Dartmouth '32 inhabitants of your community. Extensions of time to answer granted to others who have received cards have passed. Let's hear from you.
"Simplified Item Analysis" is the title of a paper recently published by Clarence Willey in the January 1953 issue of Public PersonnelReview. Clarence is a professor of psychology at Norwich University. He also does some work on a part-time basis as an examiner for the State of Vermont Personnel Department. His recent paper presents a method of tabulating the options selected in answering multiple-choice examination questions. This idea was apparently developed as a part of his work with the Vermont Personnel Department.
Having acquired a wealth of experience and know-how in matters of government, finance and diplomacy, Morrison G. "Tuck"Tucker is now vice-president of The Liberty National Bank and Trust Company of Oklahoma City, Okla. I received a rather startling, but welcome, letter from Tuck, apparently prompted by the news of my marriage. The content of Tuck's letter reminds me of the comment, "There is nothing wrong with Joe that a miracle wouldn't remedy." Judging by Tuck's letter, the miracle —my marriage has happened. I should now be all right.
Last week I had the pleasure of having lunch with Carl McGowan, Marv Chandler and Mel Hardies (University of Chicago '32). Marv was in Chicago preparing for his appearance before the Illinois Commerce Commission on behalf of the Peoples Gas, Light and Coke Company. Carl and Mel are members of the law firm which represents this company. The reputation of our former prexy as an expert witness is not alone confined to New England and New York. He has come to our Middle West to perform the same stellar role as an expert on public utility valuation and rates for this principal utility in Chicago, as well as some other utility operating company in the East St. Louis area.
Secretary, Suite 1100, 11 So. LaSalle St., Chicago 3, III. Class Agent, 40 Meritoria Dr., East Williston, N. Y.
