1930

Everyone in the Class, I'm sure, got real satisfaction and pleasure from the announcement in September that Fred Scribner has been appointed General Counsel of the U. S. Treasury Department. In this position he becomes chief legal officer of the department, reporting directly to Secretary Humphrey. While it is a real honor it has meant severing, at least temporarily, Fred's connections with his Maine law firm as well as the many companies he was associated with. Appropriately enough, if you notice the picture, Fred at the swearing-in ceremony wore his 1930 Reunion tie. Nelson Rockefeller was among those present.

The financial pages carried recently the announcement of the election of Nels Flanders as treasurer of the Barre Wool Combing Company, Ltd., an organization apparently set up in the course of a shift in the Bachmann-Ux-bridge Worsted Corporation; and at about the same time probably most of you saw the smiling face of Fred Bowes in the New York advertising pages in connection with his election to the new post of Vice President for Public Relations of Pitney-Bowes, Inc. in Stamford.

Boston University got a good man when it acquired recently Dr. Win Hatch who becomes Dean of the College of General Education. As most of you will remember, Win has been serving for some time as associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the State College of Washington.

The minister of our Church in Springfield, Vt., sent us a card recently from England, passing on the fact that he had met StewWarner and his father, I believe at a Church convention in England. The report seems to indicate that all is well with Stew. On the other side of the country, the Western-Pacific has just announced the appointment of ChuckFaye as freight traffic manager with headquarters at 526 Mission Street, San Francisco. Chuck has risen steadily in this organization since back in 1931, his last position having been assistant freight traffic manager.

As this is written in late September it may be a poor time to make the suggestion, but if despite the market break you have interest in investment funds, I would just like to call your attention to the very splendid study which Hugh Johnson if Company in Buffalo put out yearly. It's a splendid piece of work and I mention it to get around to the even more important fact that Hughie's Company has just been elected to membership in the New York stock exchange. They have in the past been members of the Midwest Stock Exchange and maintain offices in New York, Boston, Cooperstown, Gowanda and Westfield, N. Y.

New York University has just announced an appointment which is summarized in a release which well covers the subject and brings us all up to date on the activities of Win Stone.

"Dr. George W. Stone Jr., an authority on eighteenth century English literature, has been appointed a professor at New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Science. He will also serve as associate executive secretary of the Modern Language Association of America, which has its executive offices at NYU.

"Dr. Stone comes to New York from George Washington University in Washington, D. C., where he has taught since 1931. He will assume his duties this month.

"The new NYU professor, who received his A.B. and Ph.D. degrees from Dartmouth and Harvard Universities, respectively, is the author of numerous articles on eighteenth century drama and the editor of David Garrick's Journal of HisTrip to France. He is currently working on another book, a day-by-day account of the history of the London stage in the Eighteenth Century.

"During World War II Dr. Stone served for three years as a lieutenant commander with the Bureau of Naval Personnel. He and his wife and three children live at 71 Clinton Ave. in Millburn, N. J."

Heinie Garratt, as you may remember is manager of the Portsmouth, N. H., office of the New England Telephone Company. A big event in the area has been the establishment of an Air Force base in Portsmouth leaving Heinie with the problem of establishing a private switchboard in the base which will service 2,000 telephones. Think of the chances for wrong numbers!

You know the honor of being Class Secretary is very real but I'm not sure you all appreciate the amount of traveling that it entails sometimes to get the latest scoops. For instance, Gwen and I had to go to the Homestead in Hot Springs, Va., to catch up with Carl and Carol Haffenreffer. Carl, if I may say so, looked pretty natty in riding clothes and admitted he had "cased" all the mountains thereabout.

Again, during a short stay in Minneapolis we talked on the phone with Earl Selden, who was in the middle of taking a year-end inventory and reported that the collapse of the seed market had done him dirt. Earl reported his family was still talking about the fun of reunion, particularly his 7-year-old, who remembers so distinctly that this was the one time in his life he had all the "pop" he wanted. My next call that night was with George Porter who again wanted to talk about reunion and it develops that George stretched the reunion trip into an excursion up and down the Eastern coast, which more or less carried on as long as his money lasted. PhilTroy and I couldn't get together because he was in the middle of his annual anniversary sale at The Golden Rule, St. Paul's largest department store. Phil was enthusiastic about the way that his boy Terry had reacted to his first couple of weeks in Hanover where he is rooming in Topliff. Fred Scribner's son is rooming in South Fayer with Fred Watson's boy and in the same dormitory also are the sons of both Harold Booma and Bud French.

Just to keep the records straight, here is the latest list of address changes which Hanover has supplied.

Gordon S. Butler, 25 Park Ave., Worcester, Mass.; Horace N. Drew, 35 Court Rd„ Winthrop, Mass.; Howard R. Eldredge, Girard College, Philadelphia 21, Pa.; H. Kirk Jackson, 12 Davenport Drive, Stamford, Conn.; Fred F. Jaspersen, Manager, Graybar Electric Co., 60 Florida Ave., N.E., Washington, D. C. or 4733 32nd St., N., Arlington, Va.; David N. Lewis, Public Accounting, Suite 204, 530 Broadway, San Diego 1, Calif., or 961 E Ave., Coronado, Calif.; Charles H. Perry, 2143 Windsor Way, Minneapolis, Minn.; G. Winchester Stone Jr., Modern Language Association, 6 Washington Square, North, New York, N. Y., or 71 Clinton Ave., Millburn, N. J.; C. Gordon Zey, 129 Chicago, McAllen, Texas; Gravers D. Carman Jr., 194A Beacon St., Boston 16, Mass.; Don A. Howard, 860 Board of Trade, Chicago 4, Ill., or 7712 N. Eastlake Terrace, Chicago 26, Ill.; Franklin A. Keniston, 1029 Hill St., York, Pa.

Finally, I am sorry that we have to close on a sober note in reporting the recent death of Fred Uhlemann, the details of which appear in the In Memoriam section.

Secretary, Reading, Vt.

Treasurer, Boxwood Dr., Stamford, Conn.