1917
On May 21, which fortunately turned out to be a beautiful day, another thoroughly enjoyable '17 family outing was held at the Connecticut country home of Gene and LucileTowler. It was particularly nice to see Harryand Helen Fowler, just returned from their fabulous round-the-world tour, and Spiqueand Ruby MacIntyre, all the way from Lexington and, at the time, house guests of the Towlers. Jim and Ruth Montgomery were welcomed from distant Putnam, ton". Others present were Gil and Marie Swett, Don andMarian O'Leary, Tom and Ellen Cotton, Boband Anita Scott, Gordon and Muriel Tracy and the Brookses. The buffet supper was delicious and, for the record, it should be noted that Don O'Leary, who was denied his favorite pork and beans last year by other overzealous eaters, this time was provided with his own personal pot of the Boston favorite. All who were present were grateful to the Towlers for having made possible such a delightful party.
Speaking of Gene, not long after the spring party, the Curtis Publishing Co. sold BetterFarming (formerly Country Gentleman) to Farm Journal, Inc. Curtis asked Gene to move over to the New York advertising staff of Holiday, where he says he is having more fun than ever. And why not,—wouldn't you rather travel than milk cows?
Before we leave publications, drop in at your local library some day and ask for. the July, 1955, issue of Town and Country. It contains an article and four pages of pictures showing Karl and Elsie Koeniger's new home in Llewellyn Park, N. J. Personally, we do not think it does justice to the house or the gardens but it will give you an idea of their lovely new home.
Don Aldrich, Dean of the Chapel of Princeton University for the past eight years, submitted his resignation effective July 1. In so doings Don stated he wished to return to a "more traditionally pastoral ministry." When he accepted the position of Dean of the University Chapel, Don resigned as a trustee of Princeton University, having served on the board since 1928. He was also a trustee of Barnard College and of Wooster School. He received honorary degrees from Dartmouth, Rutgers and Kenyon. Don and his wife Frances will make their home at Dennis, Mass.
Word has been received of the sudden death of Roland McGown on June 3 of an acute coronary occlusion. An obituary will appear subsequently in the In Memoriam pages.
Don and Marion O'Leary had themselves a good vacation in Bermuda the middle of June. Along in July, Marion sent us two excellent snaps of the men and the wives at the Towler's party. I had to listen to a bit of feminine crowing from my Boss as O'Leary had been taking pictures all afternoon with a very expensive new camera and lots of gadgets - net result, Nothin'. Marion stepped up with her old Brownie box camera, snapped two pictures and came up with two beauties.
During an August vacation at Jefferson, N. H., Bob Scott won considerable distinction by shooting a hole-in-one on the Mountain View course. Mudgett please note. Incidentally, Bob and Anita have again invited all '17ers and their guests attending the Yale game on October 29 to their home on Hunting Hill Road, Woodbridge, after the game. This party at the Scotts' is a perfect excuse for attending the game at New Haven and they are looking forward to a good turnout. See you there!
Mott and Fran Brown have announced the marriage of their daughter, Dr. Eleanor Upton Brown, to Dr. Edward Elmer Shev on August 5, in San Francisco. Eleanor was graduated from Ashley Hall, Wellesley College and Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. For the past two years she has been engaged in private practice in San Francisco where the bridegroom abo has his practice. Dr. Shev is a diplomate of the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry and served with the Navy Medical Corps for two years during World War II.
Early in July we took off on a motor trip through New England starting with a weekend in Newton, visiting Pete and Lucy Olds. We got the red carpet treatment and saw Spique and Rtiby MacInlyre, Gyp and LilyanGreen and the Sam Cutlers '16 among others at a buffet supper. There was some good close harmony and, although Gyp claimed he hadn't touched a mandolin in ten years, his accompaniment certainly brought back memories of the first Barbary Coast orchestra. We stopped at Hampton Corners to see Ralphand Ethel Sanborn, who never looked better. After a tour of Ralph's basement that contains all his photographic equipment and the room called "Hobby Lobby" by Ethel, we decided that there was a couple who would never be bored in their old age. On to Waterford, Maine, and a wonderful visit with Howie andDot Stockwell at their camp on Lake Keoka. We enjoyed meeting Joan, who was spending a month with her family while preparing for her wedding in September to John Appleton Tarbell Jr. Swung down through the White Mountains and called on Mary Gile in Hanover. I wish we could have seen all our friends but a week just isn't long enough for that.
Sumner Emerson received a shock when, after a six-hour, very round-about drive after Hurricane Diane, he finally got to his camp at Pocono Lake Preserve, Pa., to find that, with 22 inches of rain in a week, the dam forming the lake had given way. No camps or people were injured but the lake and the bridge were gone. In July he spent two weekends as a guest at the Bohemian Grove, an encampment run by the Bohemian Club of San Francisco in the redwood forest on Russian River.
"Palmer & Baker: They Like the Impossible." That's the title of an article in the June 16 issue of Engineering-News Record and the Palmer referred to is none other than our own Wayne, of whom there is a good picture. Wayne is quoted as saying:
"We involve ourselves principally in problems of transportation. We do not go after routine work and therefore we get into very little competition in engineering. We actually look for the difficult in engineering."
Today the firm has under contract $250 million in projects, approximately $70 million of which are tunnels. The Bankhead tunnel under the Mobile River and the Lake Ponchartrain Causeway near New Orleans are examples of the firm's operation. They are also designing and engineering a proposed toll road from the Mississippi River to Lafayette, La., through the swamplands of that forbidding area.
Tom Cotton, outstanding community relations consultant and long-time friend and board member of the Citizen's Council, has been elected president of the Adult Education Council of New York City. Maurice T. Healey was named to the fifteen-member State Bar Examining Board in Hartford, Conn., by judges of Connecticut's Superior Court. HerbJenks sends us an announcement of his connection with the Sears Realty Company, Santa Barbara, Calif.
Al Shiels, reporting from California last spring, told about Howard Shaffer and his acre at La Messa, Calif., on which he raises a few products - avocadoes (commercially, no less), oranges, lemons, limes, chickens and ducks. At the time, Hal was gathering in the deluxe avocadoes for the better retail trade of our country.
Jim Montgomery, writing from Putnam, Conn., one of the hardest hit of all the Connecticut towns by the recent floods, said:
"Our situation was good; our house was quite a way above the new river that formed below us, so we escaped that kind of trouble, and our only hard- ship was no water, gas, telephone or electricity. However, these are going now (August 30), so we can't complain. The magnesium explosions were something to see, and terrifying too, particularly Saturday night, lasting till 2 or 3 in the A.M."
See you all at the Scotts' after the Yale game! And, as usual, there will be a '17 luncheon at the Princeton Inn before the Princeton game.
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