1944
After seven years as executive secretary of the Hitchcock Clinic in Hanover, Al Howland left the Plain to accept a position as secretary and director of the homas Philips Co. in Akron, O., makers of paper and paper products. That leaves the remnants of the Mohicans to Art Kiendl and Jim Browning. Even Dick Morse has forsaken Tanzi beer for the more lush elixirs of Washington, D. C.
The Newton, Mass., Board of Aldermen recently elected Monte Basbas the new city clerk, the fifth in the city's history. A former P-38 pilot, Monte has recently occupied himself lawyering around Massachusetts and becoming elected president of the Newton City Hall Associates. He and Audrey have two sons, John and Monte Jr. The way he, StanZarod, Jim Donnelly et al. are going, we should swing some pretty impressive political influence in the Bay State in a few years.
Up New Hampshire way, the old ski meister, Ja Densmore, has taken on the task as Grafton County chairman in the March of Dimes campaign. Bill Saunders has given up repairing bicycle seats and is now making his home in Weston, Mass., whence he sallies forth to sell Lee carpets in the N.E. area. A bebopper, Bill has prepared his epitaph, "Don't dig me now - I'm really gone!"
While speaking about our up-town Yankee friends, you'll be interested to know RichardKeady is working for the B. & M. Railroad. Let's hope he's in charge of replacing square wheels with round ones. Len Rieser is settled up in Norwich, Vt., Spence Baird in Centerfield on Cape Cod, and Dr. Francis Murphy in Brookline.
Dottie Shell (West's ever lovin') has come through a siege of polio with better than flying colors and is just about her old self again. West is V.P. of the Meyers Cooper Co., fourth largest real estate outfit in Cincinnati, and holds a pocketful of directorships. Like the Sperk Welchs, they have a trio of daughters grooming to replace the Gabor girls.
How would you like to be a poor brokendown old Army private going on sick call with an aching back and run smack into a guy like Dr. Nick Daukas? It's happening. Nick's in the Army and over in Europe somewhere, a post which I'm sure is devoid of malingerers. Dick and Ann Paul got a Christmas gift from Uncle S. in the form of a promotion to It. colonel for Dick. ... Ann got hers earlier from heaven in the form of a daughter, Alida Ruth, born May 30.
Pete Weston is teaching at Oxford Academy in Pleasantville, N. Y. Walt Acher is also living in PV now. That's Fritz Hier's old home. Fritz criticizes me for writing about him so often, but this time I received a PR release from Washington announcing that he has been appointed chief correspondent of the Salzburg, Austria, News and Information Bureau of Radio Free Europe. So.
Bud Coith is chief resident surgeon at the General Hospital here in Cincinnati. His wife, Nancy, pretties up our local newspapers by modeling fashion frocks, etc. Ole Ben Franklin Jones has moved out to Cleveland Heights, O., but I don't know just what he's doing. When I saw Ben last he was one of the top insurance boys for Monarch and a long-standing member of the Million Dollar Round Table. Lt. John Craighead is a Naval Medical Officer at the U.S.N. Hospital in Oakland, Calif.
Perhaps I've mentioned this, but JackSnobble is now down with the rest of the hot dogs in Arlington, Va. ... Jack Lewis is down in Key Biscayne, Miami. Rough. Educationally, Dave Blair is teacher-coach at Lancaster Academy, Lancaster, N. H.; Dick Bradley is with the Physics Dept. at Cornell; and LeRoyBriggs is teaching at the City College of San Francisco.
Bob Lindsay takes his Dartmouth background seriously. Three years ago the good doctor took his attractive wife and two youngsters out to the Navaho Indian Reservation in Arizona for a brief stay. They re there yet ... and love it. Reports have it that young Johnny is the wildest Indian in the reservation. That boy is going to wind up with a free scholarship yet. When he plays cowboys and Indians with the little braves, he lets the Indians be the cowboys. Bob is doing a fine job out there, living a relatively primitive life to bring modern medical care and attention to a people who desperately need it. They have built up the hospital there, and I believe the Lindsays (who now number five ... including Mom and Pop) will be returning East sometime this year, leaving behind a job extraordinarily well done.
McLaury Farley was handed a merchandising plum when he was recently made a buyer at Macy's in N.Y.C. ... Jim Hardigg is now engineering down in Washington, D. C. ... Up in Buffalo, Dick Berlin is a special agent for the Automobile Ins. and will see that you lads in the area get some attractive rates on your irons for '54. The last I heard of Sam Barnes, he was a big lumber man; don't know if he's still in that field, but do know that he's now living in Florham Park, N. J.
The following got back to Hanover within the last six months: from Mt. Vernon, Wash., the Dave Eckels; from Old Greenwich, the "Tank" Bruces; from dead tired plain Greenwich, the Clint Gardners; from Waterville, Que., the F. M. "Flyer" Daleys; from N.Y.C., the Al Fahers; from Savannah, Ga., the JohnW. Murphys; from Plainfield, N. J., TomStreeter; and 'natch, the Arlington, Mass., gift to Hanover, Art Saul.
Keep loading up your piggy bank for that Tenth Reunion, June 17-19. It'll be a buster.
EIHTOR'S NOTE: Concerning Bob Miller, the 1944 secretary, we are in receipt of the following note from a classmate: "For several years Bob Miller has been doing a wonderful job of writing up the class news for 1944 in your magazine. I recently learned that Bob has been made a director in the J. H. Day Co., bakery equipment manufacturers in Cincinnati, Ohio. This seems to me to be quite an accomplishment for anyone of Bob's tender years ... and he naturally will not mention it in his class column."
NEW PROMOTION: Now Lt. Col. Richard Paul '44 USA, Dick celebrated his raise in rank and his daughter's six-months' birthday during the holidays. He is with his wife Anne and Alida Ruth.
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