1939

Welcome! Only yesterday it was June and the poor man's Boswell had a long vacation coming up. Today it's two days past the deadline and here we are tan, rested, healthy and vacant.

We used Moreau Brown for most of the June column and might as well use him again for as much of this one as possible. Brown,M., now ensconced in Schenectady, N. Y., as supervisor of educational awards for General Electric Co., reports that at the University Club in Bridgeport, Conn., last June he found Ralph Sperry, manager of the East Side branch of the Bridgeport-City Trust Company, all aglow over the arrival of a new daughter; that at a public relations meeting in New York City during June, he ran into Don Lawder, director of public relations for the Menninger Clinic in Kansas City; and that he is currently tracking down Ken Langmuir who shucks his shoes nightly somewhere in the Schenectady area. My prize correspondent concludes with a clipping from The NewYork Times to the effect that: "Rarely does a summer theatre remain open as late as November 27. However, Michael Ellis, Broadway producer, who is rounding out his first year at the Bucks County Playhouse, New Hope, Pa., announced yesterday that the present term, which began May 29, would be ex- panded by eight weeks. The current season has proved the most successful in the sixteen-year operation of the Playhouse...." [Writing columns is easy once you get the knack. Sec.]

All this talk of public relations reminds me that we received the following direct from the P.R. Manager of The Northern Trust Co., Chicago:

"Colby A. Cogswell of Winnetka has been promoted to second vice president at The Northern Trust Company. Mr. Cogswell, formerly an assistant secretary, handles important institutional accounts in the Bank's Trust Department. Mr. Cogswell joined the Chicago bank's staff in 1949 after ten years with the First Boston Corporation. A native of Hartford, Conn., he is married and has two children. The Northern Trust Company is one of the nation's large banks, with assets of about $700 million, and a full range of personal and commercial banking, savings, trust, bond, and safe deposit services."

News of the marriage of Carolyn Louise Sykes and Duncan Robert Campbell Scott in the Thorndike Hilton Memorial Chapel in Chicago last April 24 was received, unfortunately, too late for inclusion in the June issue. The former Miss Sykes is a graduate of St. Margaret School of Nursing and is now affiliated with the University of Chicago. D.R.C. left us before graduation to take his A.B. at the University of Chicago and his M.A. at Northwestern. He is now back at Chicago taking further graduate work in audiology and speech pathology.

Other society news: On June 26 Renee and Bud Finck moved over for young Edward Nelson, who came all the way from Nogales on the Mexican border up to Brookline, Mass., just to be born in his daddy's home town. At West Springfield, Mass., on June 7, Jeffrey Cornwall (Jeff) Hastings came to live with his brother, Ripley Ellison (Rip?) and his mother and father, Mary and Henry Hastings. Alma and Mert Tarlow took leave of the miasmal Brockton (Mass.) swamps to live it up at the Hanover Inn for a few days last July.

In the field of education: Newspapers in the Boston area have reported the promotion of John Little to accounting officer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In his new position, "Mr. Little will assemble material for the budgets of the Institute, will manage the accounting operations under his jurisdiction and will supervise regular and special financial reports." John joined the MIT staff in 1949 after a brief hitch with Lybrand, Ross Brothers and Montgomery, accountants, and service during World War II, stateside and overseas, with the Navy Supply Corps. He is a commander in the Supply Corps Reserve and, as a C.P.A., is a member of the American Institute of Accountants and the National Association of Cost Accountants.

The New Hampshire papers were all agog last May over the appointment of Atty. FredUpton as chairman of the Concord School Board. And from Clinton, Conn., Lew Joel, superintendent of The Morgan School, writes that the graduate work which he is doing at Harvard would keep him quite happy if it were not for the fact that he never sees anything in this column about Barbary Coast alumni who played during the golden age of jazz, 1937-39. Lew says specifically, "I wouldlike to hear something from them."

Ed Robinson writes from Camilla, Ga., that he has resigned his commission in the U.S. Public Health Service to become assistant professor of biology at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. While Ed looks forward to a respite from chasing micro-organisms all over the United States, he does not intend to get covered with ivy, since he will continue at Kenyon the research which he has been doing with the P.H.S.

Ed says that he hasn't seen Dave Schilling for over a year but that quite a scrapbook could be made from the reports of his accomplishments which appear almost daily in Jim Gray's ('37) Albany (Ga.) Herald.

Additional intellectual note: Roy Hassrick is out in the Rocky Mountain area as assistant manager of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board of the Department of the Interior and has been reported in the local press as a kind of super-salesman for developing the potential market for Indian art.

Those of you who read Time and Life probably have already seen John Mecklin's excellent story on the death of photographer Robert Capa in the June 7 issue of Life, and the very fine "profile" on John's adventures as a war correspondent in Indo-China in Time for June 28.

Let another one of our Brown boys do his part by filling up the rest of this column. As reported in dozens of dailies, Stan Brown, the Manchester attorney, is one of five candidates in a tussle for the Republican nomination for representative from the 2nd N. H. congressional district, to succeed Rep. Norris Cotton. Brown, S. has a record as long as your arm. Space doesn't permit repeating it here, but I assure you that it is all good. Details may be found in an attractive pamphlet which blazons forth that "Stan's the Man." (Do I detect some connection with Stan Whosis, the well-known basketball player with the Baltimore Colts?)

AFTER A SWIM, F. Russell Fetté '39 anddaughter Cammy bask in the Missouri sunshine in University City, where her dad is apartner with See, Fetté and Stith, generalagents for New England Mutual.

CHICAGO BANKER Colby Cogswell '39 hasbeen made second vice president of the Northern Trust Co., Chicago. He has been with thebank since 1949, after being with the FirstBoston Corp. ten years.

Secretary, American Bankers Association 12 East 36th St., New York 16, N. Y.

Treasurer, Irving Trust Co., 57th St. at Madison New York 22, N. Y.