1936
Wonder how many of you dads have retired from mowing lawns now that the heirs have grown!
After twelve years service with the U. S. Air Force, with the aeronautical rating of medical observer and the rank of lieutenant colonel, Joe Schaeffer has returned to the civilian practice of medicine. Small wonder, too, that Joe has just been appointed assistant medical director of the Peoria (Ill.) Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. The greater part of Joe's career has been devoted to caring for the victims of two wars and the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation. Doc graduated from Ohio State in '40, interned at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton and was commissioned in the Air Force in 1942. He spent the next three years in the Air Training Command at Columbus, Miss., before going overseas for two years in the India-China division of the Air Transport Command. In 1946 he returned to Washington for a year in the office of the ATC surgeon. Thereafter he went to the Mayo Clinic and thence to Percy Jones General Hospital where he headed the Physical Medical Service. In 1950 it was a transfer to the Beaumont, Texas, army hospital and later the Sheppard Air Force base hospital where Joe served as deputy hospital commander. He wound up his service career as hospital commander at Perrin Air Force base hospital at Sherman, Texas. Joe has twice been awarded top honors for assistive devices he has developed, the most recent being an aid in the care of iron-lung patients ... a busy young fellow to date, n'est-ce pas?
Happy to report that Al Gibiiey's advertising firm in Springfield, Mass., continues to grow and prosper. Al has recently absorbed another organization in his city, moved to more commodious quarters and will continue to make life miserable for competition. Gib indicated he had heard from Bob Button, whose exact status seems to us now to be in some doubt. Bob had taken a year's leave of absence from N.B.C. to be a consultant to the Honorable Roger Kyes. Based on recent events we could have sworn that Mr. K resigned his post shortly after consulting with Robert!
Received a clever announcement of the expansion of Dorrance and Company, presided over by Dick Dorrance, able New York sales promoter. Dick has bought the building at 126 East 37th Street and states for all that in these new quarters he can serve present clients - and future additions - more effectively, efficiently and economically than ever ... Badgered Norb Hofman into joining us for a salad one recent rainy noon in New York. Norb's work schedule would indicate that Mr. Cowles owes him a lot of gratitude, or coin of the realm, or both... says he gets an occasional glimpse of Dink Gidney, whom we gather has lost none of his touch as a smooth operator. For example, it's amazing how Dink's potash business goes to pot in the South in the winter months and how on-the-spot vice-presidential sales attention in just the right places seems to get things all fixed up come late spring!
It's a rare occasion when this column contains news ahead of its actual occurrence. About a year and a half ago we lost our sense of restraint and issued a government secret which has only just come to pass. The Quartermaster Corps is centralizing its Research and Development Center at Natick, Mass., on an su-million campus. This means that a number of Washingtonians are coming North. Al Harrington has led the way and is pleasantly established in a new house in Needham, while Bill Pounder, having to move by the middle of May, is rushing madly around trying to sell one in Virginia, buy one near Natick and get his Dairy Queen business in shape to be run by remote control.
The stork is long ex-dividend on the following, but call him Christopher Millis Brown, the January 7 arrival at the Gordy Brown home, and call him Frederick Clifford Freeman Knowlton, the Sept. 1 newcomer to the John H. B. Knowlton household.... It's getting to be a habit, so open the April issue of Living to pages 112 and 113 and glimpse how Faith and Charlie Brooks mix television, children, Conant Ball Furniture (Charlie's company) and Lee's Carpets (which Charlie doesn't own). On page three of the same issue is a thumbnail sketch of the family Brooks with a fine miniature family portrait, the foreground of which contains an interesting study of the back of Charlie's head and right ear. Had a nice talk with Charlie on the phone and he sure is getting no older fast. He and Faith have taken up skiing again with a vigor. It's nothing for them to take Becky 12, Candy 10, and Judy 7, drive all night into snow country, skii all day and drive back that night to be ready for work and school the next morning ... He recommends it for all 36ers. We're game, but would hate to have anything happen to our rocking chair 'n case we clobbered
a tree. In the event any sheriffs from the small claims courts are looking for you, John MacNeary, we're tipping 'em off that you re frequently found on Wall Street at the Irving Trust Company, that to the best of our knowledge you live in W. Caldwell, N. J., and that, when working, you are trust administrator at that noble banking establishment... and like treatment to so-o-o-o many of the rest of you who won't write!
One item before we set down the quill... Pete Fitzherbert, Brint Schorer, Dick Knight and the writer attended a kick-off meeting in Boston of this year's Alumni Fund. The night before Pete had gone to New York for a similar meeting. This is the year '36 can do itself proud. Not only can we produce another best year for the Class but we can beat 35! When you write your check, don't hesitate to hoist the amount... the majority will.
Secretary, 21 Leewood Road Wellesley 81, Mass.
Class Agent, 21 Beacon Ave., Auburn, Maine
