1939

It's cozy here in the attic. A candle to warm my outside. Stacks of letters to warm my inside. Another candle to warm my back. The time has come again to don my eye shade and cuff protectors and glide this column to its customary intellectual level.

Paulette and Pete Younger, together with Alix, 4, and Keith, 6, have departed the charms of France, Germany and Paulette's native Belgium to luxuriate amid the splendors of Fort Hood in Killeen, Tex., where Major Younger, USA, well-known intercontinental warrior and former C.O. of 4th Armoured Battalion, is now stationed. Because you once bought me a milk shake in Allen's when I was in dire need, Gub m'boy, I will now reciprocate by giving you a run-down on your new Texas neighbors.

Hazel and Frank Perry and daughter Patricia, 15, after a long, happy and prosperous life in the great State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, last year moved all their orange crates down to Fort Worth where Frank is merchandise manager of "The Fair."

On the other side of the mountain, in Dallas, Warren Pinney is an officer and director of Tiger Minerals, Inc., an oil company organized in 194.9 by a passel of former aeroplane drivers for the brilliant World War II outfit of the same name. Warren and "MJ," the former Mary Jane Leonard, have themselves two young tigers in George, 8, and Tim, 5.

Marg and Rog Stanwood, together with Robert, 9, and Allison, 5, are bunked down in Bellaire, the Roslyn of Houston. Father Stanwood is assistant to the vice president of the Gas Supply Department, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. In the interim since this information was forwarded, Rog has completed an executive development course at Texas A & M, so it may well be that he is at this moment president of T.G.P.L.C.

We have another oily character in Houston, Kim Ayers, who is marine planning and development engineer for Stanolind Oil and Gas Co. Kim spends most of his waking hours drilling holes in the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, but he does find time to fiddle around a bit as secretary of the Panel of Advisers on Offshore Operations to the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, president of the Houston Dartmouth Club, and C.O. of U.S. Naval Reserve Div. 8-15. He and Jean have three children, Bonnie, 7, Deborah, 5, and Alan, 2. Bonnie incidentally, has a distinction unique among '39ers - she was born in Hanover, N. H.

Kim reports seeing George Jacob, a practicing lawyer out of the University of Texas, and George Adams, who, for all we ever hear from him, must be a Trappist monk.

Two other classmates are sojourning in Texas suburbs. Freddie Kurr is down in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with his Alicia and their Ricky, 9, and Suzie, 7. He reports "all activities and occupation same as old reports." Checking through the old reports, I find that in 1952 Freddie was carrying on "the same old occupation and activities." That boy will be president one day.

Gudrun and Ralph Holben are living it up at the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade where Ralph is trade and finance officer of the U.S. Operations Mission to Yugoslavia. Ralph took his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1951 and has been engaged in government work in Europe since that time. On the side, Ralph dabbles in chess, recently placing third in a hoedown among the diplomats stationed at Belgrade.

Lost and Found: The plaintive voice of George R. Sims cries out for news of his old roomie, Bob Barvoels. Watch this column for Bob's answer!

Incidentally, George took an MBA from Western Reserve in 1947 and made such good use of his new-found knowledge that he is now secretary-treasurer of Chandler & Rudd Co., "Cleveland's Oldest Food Store Founded in 1864." He and Evelyn are the parents of Virginia Lee, 13, George Jr., 11, and Rodger W., 5.

From Cincinnati, Hass Warrener asks for a touch of the Midwest in this column. Watch this column for a touch of the Midwest!

Since leaving the Hanover Plain, Hass has become assistant superintendent of agencies for the Union Central Life Insurance Co., the husband of Flossie, and the father of Susan, 10, and Harrison, Jr., 12. He is a fellow of the Life Office Management Association, a member of the committee on management of the local YMCA, and is active as a layman in Episcopal Church affairs.

Ed Hammel, a Princeton Ph.D., and research chemist on low temperature phenomena at Los Alamos, New Mexico, fritters away his time trying to work the temperature down within .00001 degrees of absolute zero, while his good wife, Caroline, tries to keep the house warm for Caroline, 9, Elizabeth, 6, and Christine, 2.

Meteoric rises: Colby Cogswell has been elected vice president of the Chicago National Bank; Bill Carter, formerly a partner in the New York law firm of Chadbourne, Hunter, Jaeckel & Brown, is now a partner in the newly formed firm of Brown, Wood, Fuller, Caldwell & Ivey, which will do business at the same old stand, 70 Pine St., N.Y.C.; HankSchueler has been advanced to executive vice president of A. G. Jacobus' Sons, Inc.; BobWehmeyer has been advanced to assistant superintendent of agencies of the Lincoln National Life Insurance Co.; Al Lansberg has resigned as treasurer and comptroller of Plax Corporation of West Hartford, Conn., to become the same two things for Knox Glass, Inc., Knox, Pa.; the governor of Minnesota has appointed Dave Lilly chairman of that state's Business Advisory Committee, a volunteer group created to find specific areas for industrial expansion and the promotion of the economic and natural resources in Minnesota.

Hank Hastings is hot on the heels of LesSmith as a T.V. celebrity. Hankus recently warbled, chirped and peeped on the Steve Allen show, in a personal demonstration of the bird call which he manufactures and sells (by Hick, Moscow, Vt.).

Hottest shot in '39 is Haven Falconer. According to The Distributor, the entire movie industry is in a dither over the fact that our boy has been appointed manager of MGM's print department, in which position he will address himself to ordering prints for branch offices, research in eastern production for the studio, and censorship matters (sic), in addition to continuing his interest in 16mm distribution for Canada and Alaska, and "assisting in T.V. matters." Prior to joining MGM ten years ago, The Distributor informs us, Mr. Falconer was schooled in New York, New Jersey and Hanover, where he "had some experience as an exhibitor." After service as director of visual education at Dartmouth, and as a lieutenant in the Army, he served as an expert consultant to the Secretary of War, and that, no doubt, accounts for the present lamentable state of the nation.

Incidentally, Haven's interest in visual education has company in his family. His charming wife, Vera, is the author of Film Strips, a textbook for educators, published by McGrawHill, and is visual education editor for Scholastic Publications, a series of weekly publications distributed in secondary and high schools throughout the United States. In her spare time, she takes care of two very fine sons, and tries to keep Haven in line.

And last but not least, the rocking chair: Mr. and Mrs. Alan Tishman of Stamford, Conn.; Air. and Mrs. Winford C. Naylor and family of Wayland, Mass.; Mr. and Mrs. LloydNoland and family of Newport News, Va.; Mr. K. M. Weidaw of Portland, Me.; and Jukes and Jack Haver field of New York, N. Y.

Secretary, American Bankers Association 12 East 36th St., New York 16, N. Y.

Treasurer, 3 Allendale Dr., Rye, N. Y.

Memorial Fund Chairman, J. M. Mathes, Inc., 260 Madison Ave., New York 16, N. Y.