1940
One of the loyal wives of 1940 has come through with the letter of the month. Marian Hotaling, wife of Bill J. Hotaling writes from 127 Llewellyn Road, Montclair, N.J., whence Bill commutes to his newspaper-distribution business in New York City:
"I know how disappointing it is to have little or no news of your classmates, because there's never any in the William and Mary alumni magazine about my class, lust in case your double postcards fail to bring results, I'll try to help out by sending you what little I know of my husband's classmates.
"Last summer we visited the Ronald S. Woodberrys and their five lively children at their summer home in North Sandwich, N.H. We manage to get together with them at least once a year. (Ed. note: Woody and wife, Hazel, added their fifth in 1950, for a total of three boys and two girls. His truck transportation business in Lexington, Mass., keeps chow on the table.)
"Doc J. Dana Darnley lives in Detroit with his wife and daughter. (Doc is a neurologist on the staff of the Henry Ford Hospital.) They see the Web Whitneys who are fellow Detroiters and proud parents of their third son, born November 11.
"George Cutter and Anita stopped by the Hotaling's News Agency recently while in New York City. They are living in Montreal, where George is plant manager for the Gillette Razor Co.
"Bill; our two children, Morgan, 10, and Alice, 7; and I will be going South on a vacation soon. Bill is always glad to have any of his classmates stop by to say hello. He can be reached through the Hotaling Agency's out-of-town newsstand at the north end of the Times Building at Times Square, or in Montclair."
Another New Jerseyite heard from recently was Jamie Thomas, who lives with wife, Dee Anne, and three little Thomases in Upper Montclair. Jamie's Perutit Company (water softener manufacturers) needed a certain chemical to keep their production lines rolling a short while ago. My outfit, Merck & Co., Inc. normally supplied the material but had been closed down on strike for a number of weeks. Jamie was feeling the pinch as assistant purchasing agent for his company. Fortunately, we found some stock and Jamie's production was secure. On the personal side, the Thomas family are expecting their fourth child within the month, hoping to balance off with another boy to make it two and two.
Two other additions to the 1940 nursery have already arrived. Scott and Connie Dillingham have announced the arrival of Walter Scott 3rd, on January 13. He joins a sister, Sally, aged 6. Scott is a sales representative in the educational department of the MacMillan Company, living in LeRoy, N.Y., and traveling the western New York State territory.
Meantime, Joe and Esteri Harpham have added a boy, Charles Joseph, born last November 6. Checking the record, I see that C.J. has two older sisters and that the birthdates of all three children fall in the first-half of November ... unusual timing! Last we knew, Joe was flying for Colonial Airlines and making Loudonville, N.Y., his home base.
Wedding bells rang shortly after the New Year's bells ceased when John F. McDonaldJr. and Ellen Barbara Redden were married on January 2, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Both are graduates of the Boston U. School of Social Work. They are now living in Jamaica Plain, Boston, after a honeymoon in the South.
Still another happy husband-to-be is SteveJewett, the laconic barrister from Laconia, N. H. He is forsaking what seemed to be confirmed bachelorhood to wed- Miss Mary Fitz- gerald, formerly of Tilton, N.H., and more recently of Washington, D.C.
This month, we have a variety of postcards on hand from various sources. One from the faithful and long-suffering Alumni Records Office indicates that William B. Reardon Jr. has been elected a vice president of Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby, Inc., Philadelphia. That's a long firm name for a prominent reinsurance house in which Bill has been rising steadily since putting his Navy ship in mothballs after the war.
Another group of cards came byway of the ubiquitous Bud Hewitt, to give the vital 1940 statistics on attendance at a joint 1940-1941 cocktail party held at the Dartmouth Club of New York, on January 22. Among those present besides Bud and date were Bill Bumsted and his date, Bob Armstrong, Brad Rowland,Jack Little and wife, Patsy, Les Nichols and Dottie, and Bob Gensel with his wife, Deedy and a guest, John Willetts, in town from Milwaukee. The Brownes would have been there too, except that the best laid plans were fouled up at the last minute.
Just about every month, the College sends on to class secretaries cards taken from the guest register at the Hanover Inn. Most of the time their main use to me is as a reminder that two of 1940's indefatigable drummers, pedlers or pitchmen, or however you will define Fred Porter and Maurice Williamson, have been taking another swing through their territory. The most recent batch of cards carried some newcomers' names, however, so I thought it would be nice to post you on a few who did get back to Hanover this winter: Sid and Jane Phillips journeyed up from Montclair, N.J. Sid is, I believe, now with Bruce Payne & Associates, engaged in management consulting work. Another Inn couple, gob and Shirley Niss, came on from Milwaukee. Bob Marshall stopped overnight, away from New York City, where he is now in sales work with the Electrolux Corporation. From nearer by, Manny Mansfield, of Hudson, N.H„ and Stets Whitcher, the latter in Hanover for some Class Agents' meetings, completed the register.
Larry Boothby, who by our last record was teaching at the Putney School in Vermont, is now on the staff of the Emma Willard School, Troy, N.Y., teaching science and math. HamDawes is operating the Fleetwood Airlines, out of the same Teterboro (N.J.) Airport where Arthur Godfrey has been cutting up lately. Major Sum Peterson has been transferred from his Washington desk to an overseas assignment with the 6i6st AB Wing, APO 328, c/o P.M. San Francisco, Calif. And so it goes ... the good news and some bad news.
There's sad news this month too. DaveBoyle's death on January 6 is reported on in detail in the In Memoriam section of this issue. I'm indebted to Ned Jacoby who, out of his close friendship with Dave and his genuine interest at this time, has contributed all of the material included in the notes on Dave's passing. Those of us who knew Dave at all certainly can understand and support Ned's closing words in his letter to me:
"It doesn't seem fair or possible that Dave's gone. We're all going to miss him very much."
Secretary, 322 Canterbury Road, Westfield, N.J.
Treasurer, 88 North Main St., Concord, N.H.
