1936

These clear autumn days are nowhere moreenjoyable than in the country. Since we havewell over 150 classmates living in the NewYork Metropolitan area it is timely to have anice letter from a classmate who runs not onlyone, but two farms, within easy driving distance of the big city. Peter Wright has sent usthis information from "Hearthstone Farms,"R.D. #2, Westwood, N. J., and R.D. #1, Walden, N. Y. Pete says in part:

"As you probably do not know, for the past dozen years I have divided my time between public relations and farming, doing an indifferent job at both. This year I have taken a leave of absence from my city job as public relations director of Bigelow-Sanford Co. and am trying to put these two farms on a more solid and expanded footing, both productionwise and marketwise. If by the end of the year I succeed, I shall go back to the business of making money and trying to put aside enough to send two boys to college (in the quite near future) so that they will reach adulthood with good clear minds directed towards a chosen and rewarding, yet intellectual, pursuit... unlike their old man who consistently gets fouled up in more things than he knows what to do with."

Pete says he and Wally Diltmar, his Chicago dentist, are planning now to take in the 25th Reunion. Wally visited at Hearthstone Farms a while back. Thanks for your nice letter, Pete. I expect you will have many more visitors from '36 this fall.

Joe Cunningham in Tithe and Dick Morton in the July ALUMNI MAGAZINE have both reported on our Reunion last June. By now personal reports have also sifted back to many classmates unable to attend, with the result that plans are already being discussed for our 25th. I hear it frequently. The suggestion has even been made that we have an interim reunion a 21 st or 22nd. How about that?

Since Dick Morton resigned as class secretary two months ago, it has been rumored the College has put him on pension, Col. Bouker has granted him combat retirement pay and Ren Ostrom has made him assistant sales manager of the Yosemite Park territory. None of these rumors happens to be true although Dick has earned special respect from the class for his past five years as secretary. He did that job with such unassuming efficiency it is little known that while Dick was keeping records, writing letters and classnotes he has been rising to a very high position with the Curtis Publishing Co. He is now New York advertising representative for the Saturday EveningPost. For a number of years Dick Morton, while serving as our class secretary, represented Curtis in New England on The Country Gentleman. Before The Country Gentleman was sold by Curtis, Dick was transferred to New York, weathered the reorganization and is now in this key spot on Ben Franklin's weekly. Dick has two sons, Bob, age 10, and Don, age 8, who with his lovely wife, Madine, keep the home fires burning at Deepwood Road in Wilton, Conn., by winter and Lake Winnipesaukee by summer.

In the "Baby Department" this month are two additions to be reported, both from Hartford, Conn. Samuel Crowell Morse was born to our class poet, Samuel French Morse. The Professor will soon publish his second book of poetry which he has been working on at Trinity College and at Hancock Point, Maine, where he and his wife, Jane, spend their summers. When the post office closes for the winter at Hancock Point, Sam, Jane and now baby, too, go back to college.

Robert H. Murphy has a new daughter named Margaret. She joins six other brothers and sisters. She was born on the day Hurricane Diane hit Connecticut, but they're going to call the baby Molly. This nice family lives at 104 Ridgewood Road, West Hartford, Conn.

You antique lovers missed a wingding sale in Falmouth, Maine, this summer when Harvey Sevigny sold his 200-year-old house and family heirlooms to the highest bidder. Here's an interesting story. Harvey and Barbara and their two children, after a lifetime in Maine, decided Florida is the place for them. So they sold in Maine and built everything new on Chapel Hill Blvd., Boynton Beach, Fla. Harvey's set up his own business, dealing in both real estate and insurance and has built a swimming pool at home to entertain customers and '36ers who want to cool off. Like Ben Moyer, who left the ad business after fifteen years on Madison Avenue and bought a Shell Oil distributorship in Littleton, N. H., Harvey has decided on a complete change of scene and done something about it.

Ken Lieber has moved up in the U. S. Steel Co. from vice president of Consolidated Western Steel to assistant vice president in the National Tube Division at Pittsburgh. Ken is moving from Arcadia, Calif., to a new home at 300 Oak Forest Drive, Pittsburgh, Pa. ... DonHobbins has been appointed to direct sales of Singer Sewing Machines in Europe, the Middle East and North and Central Africa BobKable, the flying president of the Kable Printing Co. in Mount Morris, Ill., has an article in July Pic magazine entitled "You, Too, Can Have a Flying Saucer."... Al Flouton has been commended in an article in AdvertisingAgency for his personnel development work at Compton Advertising where he is account supervisor on Ivory Soap and agency director. ... Dick Dorrance continues to expand his advertising business at Dorrance & Co. on 37 th St., New York, N. Y. Dick favors and is favored by big name clients such as Socony Mobil Oil, Philip Morris and American Airlines.

Peaceful use of atomic energy has been made by Dr. Norman Simon. Norm took his wife, the former Columbia University co-ed, Ruth Lichtenberg, and children, Roger, Wendy, and Martha, on an extended European trip this summer. In Geneva, Switzerland, Norm demonstrated the use of the atom in cancer treatment at the International Conference of atomic scientists. This is why he missed our big reunion. Norm is on the staff at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and is a consultant to the Institute of Nuclear Physics at Oak Ridge.

You lucky guys and gals who get to the games this fall, please send on news of yourselves and classmates. As you know, the Athletic Council fills applications in blocks by classes, so there's a miniature '36 reunion at each game. See you next month.

William Niss '36 is the new Vice President and Treasurer of the Bath (Maine) Iron Works Corp. He joined the company in 1946 and has been comptroller and secretary.

Secretary,287 Rutledge Ave.East Orange, N. J.

Treasurer,753 Upper Blvd., Ridgewood, N. J.

Memorial Fund Chairman,United States Potash Co., 30 Rockefeller PlazaNew York 20, N. Y.