1938
Lead of the month goes to Danny Marshall, adopted Texan, who, along with a nice note of 1938 doings in the Lone Star State, sends a picture of our Gross Williams receiving the symbol of office as president of the Shreveport Sales Executives Club. Gross is president of the Shreveport Refrigeration Company. In addition to his business duties, he also has been teaching a night school course in sales work.
Danny goes on:
"Lunched with Fran Worcester the other day. Fran is a sales representative for the Northwest Paper Co. and has his offices in the Shell Building in St. Louis. Once every three or four months, he takes a swing down this way. Reports that Ed Grace is still single.
"On a recent business trip to Dallas talked with Stu Whitman, who handles all the investments for the Trinity Universal Insurance Co of that city. Is an ardent goiter. Bob Egelhoff called me in June. He heads "Lift-Slab Inc. of New England, a new and cheap way of construction whose headquarters are here in San Antonio. Saw Lew Moorman the other day. Lew is active in the oil business and has recently been appointed by Eisenhower to head fund-raising for him in this area.
"I am back in the retail business running the silver department and selling a few watches and diamonds for the P. J. McNeel Jewelry Co here in San Antonio. Family-wise, nothing new to report since the twin boys who are now about a year old - fat and sassy with fine vocal chords.
One of the important and encouraging results of the recent primary elections in the Granite State was the selection on the Republican ticket (naturally) of Dave Bradley as candidate for the General Court from Hanover. Bradley was top man in a five-man race for the four representative seats, polling 759 more than any of the incumbents.
From Sharon, Mass., comes news Of the appointment as director of guidance in the Sharon Public Schools of John O. Barrows. Barrows had held the same position in the Foxboro schools and had over six years' experience in guidance and personnel work. He has, in addition, had teaching experience at both elementary and secondary school levels. John did graduate work at B.U. following his graduation from Dartmouth, and taught in Georgia, Maine, and Massachusetts. He has also been hitting the lecture circuit on the subject of "What Guidance Work Is And How It Came into Being."
Another speaker of note is WellingtonWales, editor of the Auborn (N. Y.) CitizenAdvertiser, a former member of the staff of The New York Times, who addressed the Optimists Club of Syracuse on "Role of the Editorial." Wales is a veteran of the Marines in the Burma and European Theatres.
Gus Hennessey, formerly head of the home service department of the Greater Lynn (Mass.) Chapter, American Red Cross, and now executive secretary of the Troy, N. Y., Community Chest, has been named chairman of the Community Chest executives of upstate New York. Gus is a graduate of the Boston College School of Social Work. During World War II he served as a captain in the China-Burma-India Theatre.
From Hanover comes word of the appointment of Karl Hill as Associate Dean of the Tuck School. Karl joined the faculty of the Tuck School as assistant professor of management and industrial relations and was made a full professor in 1952.
Charley Curtis is assistant manager of the Industrial Engineering Department of the Ensign-Bickford Co. in Waterbury, Conn. He assumed his present position in 1951 with the Ensign-Bickford Co., after having served four years in the U. S. Naval Air Corps, and has been active as a discussion leader in American Management Seminars and the University of Connecticut summer sessions.
Social notes from the society columns: A daughter to the George D. Nichols's (Syracuse, N. Y.). Dr. Job E. Fuchs married to Betsy Ann Walker of Brockton, Mass. The bride was graduated from Massachusetts Memorial Hospital School of Nursing and attended Massachusetts General Hospital School of Medical Art. Aside from his practice, Dr. Fuchs is an instructor in medicine at Boston University Medical School.
In Lynn, Mass., Representative Belden G. Bly and his wife observed their seventh wedding anniversary. Bly is a graduate of Harvard, Northeastern and Boston University, as well as Dartmouth. He is instructor in American History at Saugus High School and a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, where he is vice chairman of the Committee on Education. He is now studying law at night to supplement his other education.
Bill Ganter reports that Major Frank Brett has put in his summer training time at Camp Drum, N. Y., with some outfit with the usual Army array of hieroglyphics which mean little or nothing to this corner.
Commander Bob Carroll is now Staff, ComSuPac," c/o F.P.O., San Francisco, Calif., — if Navy hieroglyphics mean more to you than Army do to me.
Back to his stamping grounds of Worcester, Mass., comes Harry Connor as sales manager of the Arcade Malleable Iron Co. Lew Harriman lists himself in the occupation of Com- mercial Banking with the Manufacturers and Traders Trust Co. in Buffalo. Deep in the Southwest, Ken Herschel, who used to be a king-pin in the Dartmouth Flying Club in its formative days, is a test pilot for American Airlines in Tulsa.
A useful guy to know is George Mitchell, department head, Beef Dept., Swift & Co. down where they grow the stuff, - Dallas, Texas. From still another corner of the U. S., is Ralph Sethness, general insurance agent in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Getting back again to Texas, and this issue appears more and more to be a strictly Texas issue, Jim Todd is exploration manager for Standard Oil of Texas out of Houston.
A rather unusual occupation is that of Sowyer Rank, philatelic dealer in St. Paul, Minn, joe Carrol! is director of traffic study with the Detroit Metropolitan Area Traffic Study in the same city.
Ed Meservey reports that he has just finished his Ph.D. in physics at Columbia and has accepted a job doing research at Princeton. He is married, has two children. His wife is teaching history at New Jersey College for Women.
Getting back from the academic, Paul Feakins is an importer with George Degen & Co. in the Big City, and Walt Halfman is a sales executive in administration with the Thos. J. Lipton Co. of Hoboken.
About this time of year, now that it is Indian Summer in New England, we having had no real summer at all, the yen to send in juicy bits of information to the secretary seems to slack off into lethargy. Whatever the cause, the shoe-box is now empty. Next month we start making up news items to fill the space.
Secretary, Trinity-Pawling School Pawling, N. Y.
Treasurer, 406 Peck Rd., Geneva, Ill.
