1950
Hail and farewell and all that sort of stuff pertinent to a swan song for this ugly duckling. Corn aside, just want to say right off the pleasure's been all mine and many thanks to all of you who have been so good about scribbling notes to your scribe to keep this column from expiring in its comparative youth. Keep up the good work with the next correspondent and meanwhile let's take a gander at...
No matrimonies were consummated and recorded since the last session although we have two knots being tied, one a few days ago and one a few days hence. Frank Harrington, emancipated from the fly-boy outfit as a New Year's gift, promptly lost his head over Sally Heathman of Dayton, Ohio, and on April 3 their engagement was announced. The nuptial ceremony was on the list for May 29. A TWA worker, she's a grad of Pine Manor. Frank is presently employed in the group department of the Paul Revere Life Insurance Company in Worcester. Among other notables encountered by FH were Len Radio and ShermsClough in and around Beantown.
From the other end of the continent come equally important tidings of the impending demise of the bachelorhood of Gene Carver on June 6 when he weds Patty Sutherland of Bellingham, Wash., where Gene's taken up residence and is chopping trees or sandpapering or something for a wholesale lumber biz. Gene invites all the northwestern mounties to gallup over for the blast when he puts that golden band on the finger of the U. of Washington alumna. Mr. C further reveals that while serving Uncle he took the OCS treatment at Fort Riley along with the likes of Dick McSorley, Bud Bray, Pete Reilly, and Bill Sapers. Later he ran into Phil Gross while overseas with the Third Division of Infantry in Korea but missed Howie Weston who was also in the neighborhood with the Air Force.
Although we've heard from only two reporters in the past moon, we can make an impressive list of newly added heirs and heiresses for the month. With baseball in full swing now maybe we ought to wonder if there were any heir-ors, too, but then again maybe not. Anyhooo, Jim and Serene Farmer flashed a "babygram" our way recently stating that Mary Beth Farmer is latest play-pen inhabitant in the Cleveland abode. Earlier dwellers include Jimmy, three, and Serene, one year old. The old man completes Western Reserve University Medical School June 17 and a week later will start interning at St. Luke's in that metropolis. Also around, there is Rene Blanc in a training program with Ohio Bell Telephone and harking for planned summer wedding bells. Sue, Don and young Steve Daniels occasionally sally forth from their new home in Solon, Ohio, too.
Charlie Gardner states that contrary to our supposition that he was on his way to four-of-a-kind he is working for a "full house" as the last arrival in the Gardner Gang is Chas. Junior, now 10 months of age. Along the same lines, "My scouts tell me Bill Embree and Court Cross are both expecting their second children in September. Bob Thomson drew a girl as his first child, and Ken Clark a boy."
For all of you new parents and newlyweds, felicitations from the '50s.
We were shocked to learn that Wilfrid"Bill" Wheeler had been listed as missing in North Korea following a report that his plane was shot down by anti-aircraft fire. It is fervently hoped by all the classes that when the Navy makes its final report that a happy ending will result and our prayers are added to those of Bill's parents.
Had a letter from the old Duke, GeorgeDuffy, who really made out with the Army. He's in that tourist's paradise just off the coast of Lower Slobovia, Iceland, with the defense forces there. Things will become a bit more tolerable ere long, though, when spouse Val arrives for the last part of his tour. Halfway around the world, Bill Frenzel is getting to be a short-timer with LCU Division 32 out of San Francisco. No telling how far out, however.
Ralph Amsen is hooked up with the Hook Scraper Manufacturing Company in Queens Village, N. Y....Some of the in-and-around New Yorkers include Rog Gaylord buying media space for McCann-Erickson, Inc., and ad agency....Bruce Parker is training with the F. W. Dodge Corp. and living out in New Rochelle....Bill McCallum is an estimating engineer with the Walsh Construction Company in the big city and makes home in Dobbs Ferry.
A doff of the war bonnet to Matt Cooney, awarded a Rotary International Fellowship for a year's study. Matt has been on leave of absence from his English teaching duties at Gloucester High in Rockport, Mass., to do some book l'arnin' at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. And while we are tipping the topper, Congrats to John Henry who received a UNESCO appointment as Research Fellow to the University of Malaya in Singapore. John's project is the research and investigation leading to the preparation of materials for the teaching of English as a second language, a prodigious task for his eighteen-month contract!
Hear that John Schalles is with the Okadee Company in Chi.... And that Dick C. Johnson is a sales trainee with Curtis 1000 Inc. in Hartford. . .. Down in Quakertown Bill Kane is as assistant media director with the advertising agency of Lewis & Gilman, Inc.
Pete von Herrmann is currently doing his physics researching and studying at Yale (oooh, naughty word!)....Fred Rogers is in the video producing business out around Pittsburgh....And welcome to the fold, MalHill, a convert from one of the more aged classes. Mai expects to forsake the Cornell Law School come June and seek a wall on which to hang his sheepskin.
See that Rog Mathes has completed his USAF tour and is residing in Manchester, N. H....Also in New England, Scott Peters has taken up with Pratt & Whitney and lives in Glastonbury, Conn.. .. Among the insurers these days are Bruce Borden who has been accepted as a member of the Goddard and Borden firm in New Bedford, Mass., and JimBristoll recently appointed group manager of the Cleveland branch office of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company.
Clint Mauk is working with a wholesale lumber company in T01ed0.... Severin Stega mechanical engineers for ACC, CRL, Plants Division, in Edgewood, Md. You figure it out. ...Ex-blue and golder Dick Wallace has taken over as a plant supervisor for the Pacific Molasses Co. in NYC....And Dan Wing's job with the Appleton Electrical Company in Boston is sales.
Had a nice note from the 1946 recorder, Reg Pierce, who revealed his brother Rog had been in touch with Stu Young last year when they were both at the Coronado Navy Air Station. "Hercules" was in public relations there. Reg further claims that Bill Dey looks like Mr. Madison Avenue while toiling on the Canada Dry account and another cheese account for the J. M. Mathes advertisers.
Si Morancl, proudly claiming the class ex- chequer is flush enough to carry through to the first of the year, says Dolph Cramer is quite the ad man around the Loop and that JayBuck is showing up at the Chicago D Dinners fairly often.
After leaving the Plain, Dave Hitchcock managed to complete the work for his Master's in Public Law and Government at Columbia prior to entering the Army and OCS at Aberdeen. Saw those people mentioned by, and including, Gene Carver and now has taken up with CBS in Gotham. Also working there is George Johnson. Dave reports that DaveWhite has finished off his Ph.D. in geology (we're impressed!) and moved spouse and house to Tulsa to work for the Carter Oil Company.
"I'm still a copywriter trying to hypnotize people into buying paint, room air conditioners, and second-ant-eaters through the power of the written word. It's sort of like writing hour exams," says Woody Smith now with Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn in Buffalo. Bob Hebard has been selling grinding wheels from one industrial door to the next for Electro Refractories and Abrasives, and Ed Hale is one of the town's hottest reporters on the night beat of the local Evening News. Mark, my 2½-year-old son, runs around the house powered by a series of small hydrogen bombs and creating pint-sized Bikinis in every room. Other than that, we are waiting for June 18 and Hanover."
And so are we! How about you??? Should be the most. Please don't forget the stipend to Hanover and the Alumni Fund. See you there.
Au revoir.
Secretary,USS Waller (DDE-466) c/o FPO, New York, N. Y.
Class Agent, 3552 Brookside Rd., Toledo 6, Ohio
