1944
We've just trigger torqued our way home after spending the Labor Day weekend with Bud and Helen Welch down in Louisville. Despite the fact that the Boston Boomer nipped me on the links with a 12-foot putt on the last hole, we had a fine time. Since moving to Louisville, Bud has been directing the Kentucky division of the L. M. Berry Co. yellow page outfit and Helen has become smitten with the nags and will handicap any trick horse you've ever heard of. There are hordes of 3 to 7-year-old elves in their neighborhood, and when the Welch girls have their little friends in you'd think the Polish Army was on the move.
Advertiser Mark Batchelder and his pretty wife Kitty have moved to Louisville recently and see a lot of the Welches. Mark and his company pulled the big coup in getting the National Transit advertising account in the majority of the leading cities. John Bird is also down in Louisville and has recently been elected Secretary of U. S. Steel Homes.
Talk about proud parents! None will compare with Hose and Liz Craig. They adopted young John Douglas Craig last June. I haven't seen the young man yet, but from all I hear he's practically got the '72 Decathalon wrapped up. The city of Dayton is known as "The City Beautiful" and perhaps its best testimonial is Marge Berry (John's wife) with her blonde hair and deep tan, rolling down Patterson Blvd. in that new Eldorado convertible. Go, man, go!
The crown prince of all class secretaries, Ernie Earley '18, has told me that the WarrenKimballs (Jr.) came through with a big, strapping son. In addition, they have three daughters, Joan, 10, Linda, 6, and Gayle, 2. Warren and his brother David '50 carry on a fastgrowing insurance advisory business for the largest department stores, coast to coast.
No more of this informal "Doc" when speaking to Jack Schultz. It's Dr. John A.Schultz and he and his black bag are over at St. Vincent's in N.Y.C. And speaking of our medical compatriots, Dr. Paul Carroll has moved to Cheltenham, Pa.; Dr. Bill Mussey is up in Madison, Wise.; Dr. Ward Weimer out in Babylon, L. I.; and Dr. Brad Long out in San Francisco has passed his boards in Internal Medicine and is opening his private practice. In addition, Brad is heading up a research program in rheumatic fever at the U. of Cal. Hospital. Bill Portman was out in S.F. a few weeks back and reports that the stork is again hovering over the Long manor. Also out in S.F. is Roy Briggs, a professor in engineering at the San Francisco State College.
Now that we've eased over into the educational field, you'll be interested to know that Art Kiendl is back in Hanover again where he'll direct student activities, housing, and counseling. Art spent the last year at the U. of Chicago where he did graduate work and was director of student activities. At his departure, the Chicago Maroon editorialized:
No UC administrators ever come to know all the students they oversee. But a few gain the good opinion of all those they know, and Arthur Kiendl, in one year as director of University Housing and half a year as director of student activities, has become one of the few.
Tomorrow he will leave the University for a new position at Dartmouth, where he was previously assistant dean and director of counseling. The University will be much the less for his departure.
In all his dealings he displayed a thoughtful efficiency which moved the president of one student organization to vow "I'm going to send all my children to Dartmouth," when Kiendl's departure was announced.
Boy! I hope that guy has a lot of football playing sons.! and some good looking daughters!
Do you remember last June when I mentioned that Don and Lela Hinkley were fulfilling a long ambition and touring Europe. Well, like one of these Jimmy Hatlo cartoons "It'll Happen Every Time." Guess where Procter and Gamble sent Don two months after he came back. Uv cuz, Paris. Just to let you know what kind of a job Don has done with Gleem toothpaste... Gleem, a new- comer to the field a year ago, now has 25% of the market. Fritz Hier continues to roam all over the continent; his address in July was Berlin; now just c/o U.S. Press Center APO 742. Major Gene Callaghan is also "somewhere in Europe" with the Air Force. So is Dud Wilson. And John Furfey is living in Maxglan-Salzburg, Austria. Bill Turpin of the Foreign Service institute (State Department) is now in Washington.
When I was speaking about the doctors a bit ago, I failed to mention that Dr. Bob Purnell has opened his office for the practice of internal medicine in Aurora, Colo.
In our Alumni Fund Drive this year we had 405 contributors (74%) and brought in $6,413.55 (89%). Boog McLoud did another marvelous job. In his final letter to the assistant class agents, he wrote:
"I feel like Casey Stengel after last season ... he won over 100 games but still didn't win the pennant. In the 1955 DAF Campaign we broke our dollar giving record and our % quota records for the fifth successive year, but our comtemporary classes were more than our match. So with mixed emotions, I announce that we did better than ever before . . . and ended up in 6th place in the Green Derby."
In the Battle for the Bottle (the Boog gives a bottle of Old Armpit to the Assistant Agent getting the highest quota) old Ezz Hale came through this year with Ted Brush, Mac Corner, Bob Colwell, and Brad Long close on his heels. Stan Barr, Hose Craig, and Irl Rose respectively brought in the most money. MartyShea got a warm beer for getting the most increases from his constituents. Needle Allen waved on the solicitors from the sidelines as editor of the 1944 Newsletter.
Recognizing that these pleas do little other than to fill the allotted space, I sure do wish that you guys... or your good spouses would send in a droll note or two so I could fill the space with honest effort. A shaggy dog story perhaps. Not that it will come as a shocker, but Art Saul got up to Hanover again during the summer months.
Secretary, 1105 Center St., Milford, O.
Treasurer, Ballwood Rd., Old Greenwich, Conn,
