1943

Fall in all its beauty has settled over our New England countryside. The colors abound and their majesty makes it all the harder for your humble servant to sit down and pound out this dam column. But knowing that you await its arrival hungrily I shall dismiss my personal wants and get to pounding.

So far the football season has not been a happy one for the victory-starved alumni of the Big Green, but if we can knock over a few of our next opponents, much will be salvaged. Going to another sport for a moment and in an effort to remind you that your secretary is not only an M.D., he is at the moment in a death struggle to win the Four-Ball championship of the Blue Hills Country Club, with his partner Bill Glovsky. We have progressed from week to week in an orderly fashion and are now in the semi-finals, but Bill is bedded at the moment with pneumonia. I know you all wish him well, and me especially, because without him I'm a dead duck. But the way I've been playing I'd love to get my hands on Stan Calder.

From the Mail Bag: From the Dave Hoffmans comes this card:

"As long as you are the new secretary I will be happy to write the news of our new move to you. We are going to Rochester, Minn., to join the staff of the Mayo Clinic. David got his boards in Internal Medicine and I'm happy that's over! We plan to leave here on the 25th of June and stop over with friends in Olean. We are driving with our four sons. Had a guest over-night by the name of Carl Batter '43 who was home from Paris for a vacation. Very nice visit, wish he could have stayed longer. Our very best to you all."

Bob Craig was in Boston and called me on the phone. I didn't get to talk to him but this letter has been in the files for a month:

"I have had a few items sitting around for a number of months which you might be able to use if the column is running short of material. CliffBaldwin is the chief of anesthesiology at the Evanston Hospital and is doing an extremely good job. I work there as well and I know that the attending men are pleased with the way he has organized his service.

"I ran across Bruce Jones in New York recently. He is still in Rochester with an advertising agency. He has some beautiful dreams for the future and I am sure we will hear more of him as time goes on. Shorty Shaw was in the Chicago newspapers recently after he had taken over one of the suburban branches of Marshall Field and Company. GedCarrington is the young advertising genius at Morton Salt. As nothing is likely to replace salt in the near future, Ged is scheming for a diversified empire. He listens to all the brilliant ideas from classmates attentively.

"I was standing on a pier in the Bahamas (Harbour Island) this past winter and who should come sailing up the dock but Bus Mosbacher on a winter cruise with his wife and several friends. We had a fine time as long as I lasted. Later on in New, York I saw by the sport pages that Bus had fairly good control of the international class yacht racing in the New York area.

"Jim Dewey has been splitting his time between his brokerage business at the Thundering Herd and the inroads of weather and crab-grass on his home in Glenview.

"Dick Noble dropped me a note on his class dues slip saying that he was with the U.S. Rubber in Porto Rico working to support three kids and keep the rum bottle full.

"I ran across Bud Wiggin in Atlantic City shortly after he had formed a new company called Advanced Instruments which sells labor saving laboratory devices, such as milliosomometers to the medical profession. From all I could see his business was off to a good start. Also at the Atlantic City Medical Meetings in the spring was DaveHoffman, who was picking up the latest research dope before proceeding from Albany to his new position on the staff of the Mayo Clinic. I am looking forward to seeing you in Hanover this fall if you are able to get away. With very best regards."

Thank goodness that our wives take a proprietary interest in the column or we might never get news, as this card from Mrs. DonKersting will testify:

"I am writing for my husband who never seems to get to this job. I read your plea for news, and being a college alumna myself and knowing from experience the alumni magazine's hunger for news, I am writing to tell of our location and expanded family. Don and I are living temporarily in Mt. Prospect, Ill., while Don is on a job in Chicago for his Dad's company, Kersting-Brown & Co. We expect as of now to return to Ridgewood, N. J., next summer. We have two sons: one is Mark, who is just 3 and the younger is Matt, age 14 months. Don is in the institutional finance business. Hope this helps to fill in your column."

You'll never know what a help it is for me to receive letters like this. They make writing a monthly piece much easier. So keep them coming, and I shall be glad to insert them for all to read.

Inn and Out: Mr. and Mrs. Bob Fieldsteel from Hempstead, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. AlmonStevens from Dryden, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs.Frank Williams from Rockville, Md.

Hearts and Flowers or another Indian bites the dust. ... Glenn Behringer, whose surgery is evidently not enough to keep him occupied, has decided to while away his nightly hours with the lovely Joan McBratney. Joan is a physiotherapist at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Glenn has obviously been taking treatments.

Roger Thomas, whose father is the civilian boss of the U.S. Navy, is looking forward to the time when his sea duty will be over, and has married Gwenna Coyne of Hay ward, Calif. They will live in San Francisco. JoeCrowley of Scituate has been appointed to the Rockland, Mass., School Committee to teach mathematics at Rockland High and also to be the assistant grid coach. Joe was formerly head football coach at South Boston High. This is a step up in the world, and our congratulations to you, Joe.

Millard Goodfellow has just been made assistant secretary of the Equitable Security Trust Company in Wilmington, Delaware. Now I know where I can get my mortgage increased. And this is no idle jest, having just bought a hungry house in Newton.

From Cincinnati, Ohio, comes word fromBob McQueen that he has been appointedgroup actuary for the Union Central Life. Evidently his Phi Bete was not without reason. Ican remember that he was the only one in theclass who could accurately estimate the number of girls it would take to satisfy the needsof Crosby Hall at any given moment.

Well, I've meandered enough. Don't forgetmy address, and send to it all you know, and Ishall keep no secrets. See you next month.

Secretary, 314 Commonwealth Ave., Boston 15, Mass.

Treasurer, 3238 Park PI., Evanston, Ill.