1942
The 1942 entry in this year's Green Derby was off and running as of April 1. Class Agent Dick Lippman has added several more illustrious names to his Assistant Class Agent roster: Warren Kriter, Dick Higgins, PeteKrist, Neil O'Donovan, Chet Ray, DutchSchaefer, Jim Skinner, Gus Newell, and Mikede Sherbinin. In case you have forgotten, last year 1942 finished in first place in our bracket, so we'll have to go some to top that performance this year. The Alumni Fund m 1953 raised $671,000 and provided 13% of the College's income for the year.
From the Colorado School of Mines in Golden comes word that John de la Montagne is finishing up his first year of teaching Geology. The Denver '42 contingent includes Bob White, Jim Barr, and Burt Headley. Bob and Burt are both geologists.
Despite rumors to the contrary, I detect no appreciable slackening of the stork's progress. Admittedly, some of these announcements are coming a few months late, but the total is still very respectable. Nancy and Harry Bond had their third daughter last summer. Harry is teaching English at Dartmouth and has only to complete his dissertation on Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire to finish his Ph.D.
Anita and Bill Witman report the birth of their first daughter and third child born last fall. Unless I am mistaken Bill is a lawyer with the National Labor Relations Board in Cincinnati. Another luminary in the Cincinnati scene is Procter and Gamble's Pete Link.
Dale Bartholomew, located now in Vienna, Ohio, has been with the Sharon Steel Corporation tor ten years. Dale is a blast furnace superintendent and the Bartholomews have two daughters and a son.
There's a junior in the Asimus family, now making the count one of each. Stew is the new supervisor of accounting for the Farrel-Birmingham Co., Inc., working with the assistant treasurer out of Ansonia, Conn.
Now I have lost track of the count on the family totals, but can safely report, in any event, that Ginny and Huntly Allison greeted a new daughter last fall. Is that the first one, Ginny, or are my records fouled up as usual?
Matt Beecher really hit the jackpot on November 1 last fall. His first child, a daughter, was born that day, but that was only the beginning. He also was appointed manufacturing division manager for the American Management Association, responsible for all manufacturing functions. To top it all off, his picture appeared in the New York Times.
Mary and Bill McMahon have just had their fifth child and third daughter this past winter. Bill is a salesman with Lee Tire and Rubber Co. and their home is in Narberth, Pa. The McMahons are maintaining a slim lead over the Roberts family, but Suzanne and CliffRoberts are doing real well just the same. Their third son and fourth child was also born a couple of months ago.
Cliff writes Webster Groves, Mo., also can boast the presence of Ace Hole camp, EdSpiegel and Joe Logan. A couple of ex-residents, Ford Coffman and Gutz Curtis, have turned up in remote places. Ford is a Congregational minister, Hawaii, and Jim an Episcopalian clergyman in upstate Michigan. Ford and Jim, along with Bill Perry, a minister holding forth in Goffstown, N. H., are a quick answer to Rog Robison's query last month from Montana, seeking other '42 clergymen. Cliff also reports seeing insurance tycoon, P. Tewsbury Torian in Evansville, Ind., as well as seeing in St. Louis, New York advertising executive, Al Dingwall, of radio fame. Florida also was on ClifE's itinerary, so he is covering lots of territory.
To get back to babies, it's four for Kay andBob Gorman, all boys. If my calculations are correct, Seth James Gorman and Marian McMahon both weighed in on last February 6, with the Gorman entry copping the weight prize by a neat one pound, one and one-fourth ounce over Miss McMahon.
Bob Keeler as a pediatrician fits right into this picture, although he writes that of their three children the youngest is about a year old. Tom Howell writes from Palm Beach that he is building a house down there on North Ocean Way and that he was married last June. Let's have some more particulars on both counts, Tom. Dick Foirman is in Schenectady with the American Locomotive Co., as assistant manager of the renewal parts department and has two children - a boy 2 and a girl 6.
Here's news of a '42er that we haven't heard about for a long time. Bill Richardson once known for some long-forgotten reason as "Mandrake" has been appointed manager of the southern sales office of the Industrial Rayon Corporation. Bill worked for the May department stores before serving for four years with the First Marine Division m the Pacific during World War II. He was associated with the Fox Film Corp. before joining Industrial Rayon in 1949.
Wally Sigler has been named assistant chief accounts supervisor in the accounting department of the Southern New England Telephone Co. He lives in Milford, Conn., and has been successively an accountant, a traveling auditor, and a general methods accountant since joining the company in 1945.
Now we find out what Bud Dutton is doing down in Charleston, S. C. He is to organize the staff and initiate planning studies for the county planning program. The board, newly activated by the County of Charleston, will study and prepare for proper development of the entire county. This is one result of the rapid growth in the area due to the war and continued development, which has caused changes in the form of government. That rings a bell with me. During the war only Norfolk was worse. Go to it, Bud!
Life magazine has announced the addition of Dave Niven to its Boston sales staff. Dave was with Life for six years, serving first as a retail representative and later as manager of their service to advertisers department, before becoming advertising and sales promotion manager of Lewis-Shephard Products, Inc.
Here's a note to skiers. A new 2,600-foot-long T-bar ski tow rising to the summit of Mount Sunapee, 800 feet above the top of the chair lift, started in operation this past winter. DixRichards, representative of the Lake Sunapee Board of Trade, was host and master of ceremonies at a celebration luncheon in Sunapee which preceded the opening ceremonies on the slope.
At the University of Michigan last month, Prof. Robert O. Blood played the role of peacemaker in a battle of the sexes. First the male students declared the co-eds were cold, ugly, and hard to get along with. The co-eds retaliated by charging that men were inconsistent, cold, and had nothing but oxygen between their ears. As a member of the sociology department, Bob produced a report which calmed the troubled waters. This report revealed many interesting things. Both sexes rated first in importance the qualities of pleasantness, cheerfulness, neatness, a good sense of humor, consideration, and looks. Least important were car, money, and clothes. However, there was considerable disagreement on necking. The men rated it highly important, while the women did not. Oh, that college life.
John Brewster and Mary Tarasovic were married a couple of months ago in Bridgeport, Conn. They plan to make their home in Westport.
Dan Hagge and Miss Joellen Abbott were married last winter in Marshfield, Wis. They plan to make their home in Wausau, Wis. One of the ushers at the wedding was our own Ronnie Westgate.
Ted Schoonbeck was pleasantly surprised at the furniture market in Grand Rapids last winter to see Lindy DiFabio roll in as a buyer from Kansas City.
As a management consultant with Booz, Allen, and Hamilton, Bob Highmark came through Detroit last month to see CharlieSturz. Bob returned to the firm after putting in a second hitch with the Navy last year. He mentioned seeing attorney Bob Peterson in New York City and Tom Wagner, the industrialist of Beaver Falls, Pa.
That grand old man of squash, Dick Remsen, has done it again. Seeded fourth he and Jack Russell became the first amateur team ever to win the Heights Casino open doubles squash racquets tournament in New York this past winter.
The Elizabeth (N. J.) Daily Journal celebrated its 175th birthday in February. BobCrane, the editor and publisher, is the third generation of Crarites identified with the paper's ownership.
Last year in the Alumni Fund drive we were late getting started and had to come from behind to win. This year let's get a jump on the rest and really roll right from the beginning. You'll all be hearing from an Assistant Class Agent, but you don't have to wait 'til then. If you want to send your check in now, all the better. And don't forget, Bob Schoonmaker wants news for the class newsletter — almost as bad as I want news for this deal, so let's hear from you.
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