1936
Despite wind, rain, fallen trees and all that goes with a New England hurricane, we're going to press! With the help of carefully placed tapers we'll try to decipher our notes which are none too readable under Mr. Edison's best. Aforesaid heap big wind, called Carol, felled much of our home foliage in Wellesley . . . while a medium-sized hemlock creamed the car containing Ma and the boys as they whistled through the woods towards camp in New Hampshire. All came through unscathed. A newly corrugated car roof is minor compared to the destruction the storm dealt to multitudes. Certainly hope no '36ers suffered any irreplaceable losses.
Tom Parker is one classmate who could have had boat trouble as a result of the blow. Jean has practically become a water widow since Tom took to racing his Firefly. The memory of one race will linger with the skipper for some time . . . the one in which the boat came in second while Tom and the crew finished a very sloppy twentieth.
Before we continue, a lusty Wah-Hoo to Pete Fitzherbert, Joe Cunningham and the phalanx of fifty fighting Fundsters. From more of us than ever» before they caused to be delivered in Hanover for unrestricted spending by the College an amount exceeding the target figure for the Class. We can all be proud of our Fund performance this year and mighty grateful to these guys who pulled the strings and manned the pitchforks. Once Pete had lined up all details for the final drive, including various assignments for Barbara, he phoned us from his hideout in Maine and said he was shipping as cook on his brother's sloop, the Fearless, entered in the Bermuda races. Regret we haven't all the details on this historical nautical hayride, but can report that the Fearless hit Bermuda, the crew was well fed, and ol' Hardtack made the beach in Marblehead still able to look a can of beans squarely in the label!
The Class Treasurer has up and got himself transferred out of Beantown. Arthur Young and partners curled the green index finger at Frank Weston and beckoned him firmly to the land of skyscrapers and express subways. Despite a furious summer, a month of which he commuted between St. Louis and Washington, Frank found time to pass papers on an establishment in Ridgewood, N. J. Give an assist to Ed Nilsson, who, among many other things, is a house dowser of the first water. The Westons will be home to Jerseyites after September 15 . . . while Frank spends another year monitoring affairs of the Boston office of Arthur Young, cleaning up the big inventory job he authored for far-flung government installations and breaking in on his new duties as partner in charge of S.E.C. filings for the firm.
Time, Inc., has a new mag on the stands titled Sports Illustrated. The lad who covers the fisticuffs for said creation likes boxing because, as he puts it, "it's controlled violence." Violent or not, boxing in one form or another has been a common denominator of many of Budd Schulberg's writing successes . . . and this new vehicle is certain to add to his roster of readers. In case you like your Schulberg cinemascoped, Marlon Brando has the lead in Budd's new movie, On the Waterfront, soon to flicker on a big screen in your town.
Thanks to Ray Builter for sending us the June issue of Management News containing a pictorial review of the American Management Association Workshop Seminars held in Los Angeles in May. There's a photo therein offering proof that Dave Putnam, Markem Machine Company veep, let things go back in Keene, N. H., for three days whilst he swapped a few ideas and experiences with the nearly 300 exec attendees on the far coast. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Dick Ruby and family (5) are new residents of Oberlin, Ohio. For the past three years Dick has been in New Bedford, Mass., as inside sales representative for Acushnet Process Company, makers of golf balls and such. Inevitable promotion for a job well done finds Dick the new sales representative in the Cleveland area for the rubber division of the company.
From the Guys About Whom We Know aLittle department: Mail from writer GeorgeBrister bears a Bington, Pa., postmark. . . . Bud Wolfe is sales manager of the Bridgeport Brass Co., Bridgeport, Conn. . . . HerbHiggins is in Bombay, reachable via Foreign Service Mail Room, Dept. of State, Washington 25, D. C. . . . Bob Bullock's San Francisco address covers only his business of consulting management engineer; Bob commutes from Mill Valley, Calif. . . . Hank Brewer is a stock trader with the New York office of Harris Upham Company . . . and, Dave Sanderson must have one of the longest addresses in the Class - z.b., Cork Export, s.a.r.l., 123 Blvd de Lorraine, Casablanca, Maroc 6, rue Gastous, Casablanca, Maroc!
There's a new TV station going up atop Mt. Washington and the contractor is Plywood Bob Keller. Heretofore, Bob has confined his activities on contract fabrication to items which assemble in his shop in Manchester, N. H. The recent development by Bob of radically new structural assembly items and techniques, which he used in building his own new office building, practically forced him into the contracting role. A cold summer in New Hampshire, plus generous amounts of rain, have made the going slow on the wind-swept pinnacle, but TV is coming to the mountain, via Keller.
Earl Copp, for the past two years managing editor of the East Hampton News, has been named editor of the East Hartford Gazette. Prior to a career in journalism. Earl was an instructor in English at Asheville College and at Clemson College, Clemson, S. c., and assistant professor of English at Georgia Teachers College, Statesboro, Ga. While in East Hampton, Earl took an active part in reorganization of the Little Theatre Guild, was elected its first president and, in fact, played the lead role in the Guild's first production, Ways and Means, by Noel Coward.
A news bureau release issued by the University of Southern California indicates that on June 12, at the S. C. annual commencement, Dick Hefler was awarded the degree of Master of Business Administration . . . which sets the stage for the happy pronouncement that next June 17-18-19 is your 20th Reunion. Plans are already in the mill, which guarantee it'll be the biggest thing since Custer last stood. Two suggestions come to mind at this point: (1) ease into your diet now for that trim look, and (2) be getting a line on a mortgage for the home place - you've got to be on hand, by hook or crook!
INNKEEPER AND SENATOR Richard F.Treadway '36 showing Massachusetts Governor Herter the new Treadway Inn, Coonamessett, at North Falmouth on Cape Cod.Gov. Herter was guest of honor at the openingdinner. Treadway represents the Worcester-Hampden area in the State Senate.
Secretary, 15 Linwood Road Wellesley 81, Mass.
Treasurer, 753 Upper Blvd., Ridgewood, N. J.
