1929
To hark back for the record - the '29 party that Larry and Mary Lougee put on at the Officers' Club on Governors Island last May 20 was a wonderful party and as the June 13th Newsletter only told you that Cook and Hirsch were unable to be there, it might be well to note that the following men and their wives attended the party: Bill Andres, Tal Babcock, Herb Ball, Jack Blair, Chris Born, Trunkie Brittain, Ev Bulkely, John Cornehlsen, Al Fisher, Jack Gunther, Moe Heath, Ray Hedger, Jim Hodge, Jack Hubbard, Paul Jameson, Van Jamieson, Lyt Johnston, Jimmie Loveland, Phil Mayher, Frank Middleton, Al Miller and Merv Pallister. The stags were Gene Davis, Bud Foulks and Matt Rock. The setting was superb, both in daylight and at night, what with the "Lady and her Torch" on nearby Bedloe's Island and Brooklyn hardly more than a stone's throw away. The food was out-of-this-world, especially a seafood concoction that was the chef's specialty, and Larry showed movies of the 5th and 10th Reunions and a very funny "feature" that he had made, in color, up in the vicinity of Moosehead Lake in Maine. There was plenty of time for conversation and, after the movies, dancing before catching the late ferry back to Manhattan.
Word has been received, only recently, that Jerome S. Harris was named last December chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Duke University Medical School and Duke Hospital. He has done extensive research on nephritis and metabolism and is creator and director of the children's heart clinic established at Duke in 1946. He is a member of several honorary societies, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Society for Pediatric Research, the North Carolina Pediatric Society, and the New York Academy of Sciences.
Last spring, mention was made of the fact that Art Rose had returned to Turkey on business and a very interesting letter was received from him just too late for the last issue of the MAGAZINE which contained Class Notes. The following is quoted from Art's letter:
"Weil, let's see, Peg's in Newburyport and "Ron is attracting atoms in Pittsburgh. He has been with Westinghouse for two years now and had been assigned to the atomic energy program last year — before reunion.
"In June 1954, I was invited to return to Turkey by Sümerbank, a government bank, which manages 25 industrial enterprises throughout Turkey. My three months' assignment was to be devoted solely to the Karabiik Iron and Steel Works, the sole enterprise of its kind in Turkey. In midOctober last, I flew to Istanbul (via KIM) but with a most delightful stop-over in Holland - to let the body absorb the time lost in flight.
"Karabük, the steel town, is located about 120 km. from the Black Sea city of Zonguldak, the Byzantine city of Heraclea. When our work at the steel mill was concluded, to the satisfaction of all - including the Syndicats (unions) —there appeared to be more work to be done. So am now embarked on a new assignment, this time with all 25 plants.
"This new assignment takes me to Istanbul, where we have 1) a cotton mill; 2) a woolen mill; 3) a tannery and shoe factory. To Herche (worsteds and rugs). To Izmit (Nicomedia) where we have a modern paper mill. To Gemlik where we have a rayon and cellophane plant, near Nicaea where the Code was promulgated. To Bursa, at the foot of Mt. Olympus, seat of the Osmanli sultans be- fore the conquest of Constantinople, where we have a great woolen mill (presently devoid of "tops" from Australia or Boston). On the way from Bursa (and the skiing on Mt. Olympus, and the hot springs at the Celik Palas Oteli), we pass Troy at a distance, to get to Bergama (Pergamum), another home of the 'Gods' and to get to Smvrna, present day Izmir, where another cotton mill is located. Nearby is Ephesus. And we go on to the Turkish city of Nazilli (no dots on the 'i's, please) for another mill. Close to Philadelphia — one of the 7, or is it 12, churches?
"En route again, we pass through Konya (Iconium) to Erezli where we have another cotton mill - and to Adana (near Tarsus) where it is only cotton ginning as far as I'm concerned. And then east across the Euphrates to Diyarbeker (woolen mill) and then north to Malatya (Melitano) where the Tigris and the Euphrates come very close to joining. Sites of Hittite capitals and (later) Seljuk Turkish sultanates. Routes of the Ist Crusades. (Even through Antraea (?) to disaster at Givas.) The city (Diyarbekir) in which the word 'Assassin' got its baleful origin.
"At Kayseri (Caesereum) we have another cotton mill and only 13.0 km. away is Ergup, site of 1500 or more cave dwellings of the Cappadocian monks._ Ceilings and walls adorned with primitive paintings of the Saints. "At Givas (city of the Danishmend, Turkish sultanate), and of the first congress called by Ataturk, we have a cement plant. Even further east, at Erzincan (6000 ft. altitude), we have a woolen mill (48 hours by rail east to Mt. Ararat and the Russ border).
"How I ramble on - geographically! But I am not only challenged by the job I have here, but by the immense sense of history - Sumerian, Hittite, Greek, Byzantine Turk - Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, The Crusades, Seljuk Turkish history and the Ottoman Empire. Not to mention Ataturk and the Modern Turkish Republic!
"Ronald (Thayer '53) will be married in Pittsburgh, or thereabouts, on August 6 to Joann Staples. I hope to enplane here at Ankara July 29, be in New York July 30, Boston, August 1 and Pittsburgh, August 3 or 4 for the wedding. I shall return to the Continent by August 15, at least, and Ankara by September 5 to resume work here — by way of Paris, Madrid, Rome, Athens and Istanbul."
A clipping was received this summer from Jack and Virginia Thompson, from the July 7th issue of the Christian Science Monitor, which was an article by Stafford Derby, entitled A Court on Governors Island. The entire article is extremely interesting but the following is pertinent to '29 and is quoted therefrom:
there was Col. Laurence W. Lougee, the law officer. A graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard Law School the colonel's role was similar to that of a federal district judge who rules on points of law. But he added to this function a tone of voice and clarity of expression when addressing Dunn and explaining his rights or verifying his signature that supplied an air of dignity and a respect for the individual which latter has not always been associated with the military."
Word was also received this summer that Norman M. Bankhart has been made a vice president of N. W. Ayer and Son. He is in the Chicago office, where he is service representative on the United Airlines account.
We have also heard that Harry S. Martin has become the welfare agent for the town of Concord (Mass.). He began his new duties on August 1.
It has come to our attention that among others, including Halsey G. Edgerton of Hanover, Dudley W. Orr of Concord (N. H.) was elected to the seventeen-man board of the New England Power Co.
Also received too late for last June's issue of the Class Notes was word that John C.Blair had headed the Industrial Division of the Stamford (Conn.) Salvation Army's 1955 Drive Appeal campaign, that A. A. Washton, who has been practicing law in New London (Conn.) since 1934, was endorsed for judge of the local police court there, and that David G.Cogan, whose receipt of the Proctor Medal was recently recorded, has been elevated to Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School.
Information from Hanover indicates that Bob Monahan has written an article entitled Second Greatest Show on Earth, meaning the Mt. Washington cog railway, which was the lead feature in the August New HampshireProfiles; that the account of how John Dickey entertained President Eisenhower at the College Grant last June is in the August 29 Sports-Illustrated under the title Mister SmithMeets the President by Edmund Ware Smith; and that Tom White, who is a bridge engineer in the New Hampshire Department of Public Works and Highways, really made that event possible by installing a Bailey bridge (240 feet of it!) which was acceptable to the Secret Service.
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