1930
Combined Fund Chairmen, HENRY S. EMBREE, 11 E. Hubbard St., Chicago 11, Ill.; EDWARD R. SCHUSTER, 905 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn 21, N. Y.
Congratulations are again in order to Nelson Rockefeller. On December 16 Nelson was appointed Special Assistant to President Eisenhower, charged with co-ordinating all federal programs to develop "increased understanding and co-operation among all peoples." The magnitude and importance of this new post is indicated by President Eisenhower's request that Nelson should attend the meetings of the Cabinet, the National Security Council, the Council on Foreign Economic Policy, and the Operations Co-ordinating Board. In order to take this new post, Nelson resigned his position as Under-Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Nelson's service to our country has extended over a long period of years and in many fields. He served in the Roosevelt administration as Co-ordinator of Inter-American Affairs, an independent office established in 1940 to improve United States relations throughout Latin America. Later, in the Truman administration, Nelson became Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs. Announcement was made in other quarters of a further contribution by Nelson to the public welfare. That involved the establishment and the granting of a charter by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York to the Museum of Indigenous Art, an institution formed to acquire an art collection of Nelson's which has been gathered by him over a period of many years. The new museum which will open sometime the latter part of 1956, will be located at 15 West 54th St., in New York City. It was said that the primary purpose of the new museum is to give the public an opportunity to assess objects of art on their artistic merits rather than from a scientific point of view, and to study art for art's sake.
On December 20 Arch Clark was advanced from assistant secretary to secretary of Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Hartford, Conn., by action taken at the December meeting of that company's Board of Directors. This is one more "step up the ladder" for Arch, to whom congratulations are certainly due. After graduating from Dartmouth, Arch took postgraduate work in Business Administration at M.I.T., and joined Phoenix Mutual's Loan Division in 1935. He was subsequently advanced to inspector, then assistant manager, and manager of city mortgages, and was named assistant secretary of the company in 1949.
Only recently has it come to our attention that Vic Borella was one of the members of the Guide Service Committee which served the United Nations. This committee served to make the UN headquarters in New York one of the world's great tourist attractions, and it is understood that the committee's work was so effective that the United Nations itself is to take over the Guide Service sometime this spring Dr. Don Hight was the speaker at a meeting in Boston sponsored by the New England State Medical Societies on a disaster plan devised by Memorial Hospital in Worcester as a result of lessons learned from the 1953 tornado which so devastated the Worcester area.
The Woburn Times recently featured a picture of Bart McDonough and a story of his many accomplishments in the Woburn School System. Bart is a member of the Woburn School Personnel and is sub-master of the Woburn Junior High School, as well as being a teacher of social science and baseball coach. Bart served as football coach at Woburn High from 1934 until 1937, and it was in 1936 that he was appointed baseball coach and he has continued to serve in that capacity up to the present time. His 1951 and 1954 teams won the Northeastern Conference League Championship. Not incidentally, Bart served as basketball coach at Woburn High from 1936 to 1950. Now that he has given up active football coaching, Bart officiates at many leading intercollegiate football games in the fall, and his many civic duties and activities include the chairmanship of the Woburn Housing Authority.
It has just come to our attention that HermSchneebeli was elected a member of the Williamsport, Pa., School Board this last summer. Herm is a past president and campaign director of the Lycoming County Community Chest... . Blair Wood now dons the robes as Judge of the Tenth Judicial District of Ohio, a post which his father before him held for many years.... Jim Tyler was in Hanover to pick up his freshman son, Jim Jr., for the Christmas holidays. Jim indicated that he was certainly planning on reunion this coming Tune.
In last month's column we referred to EddieJeremiah's engagement and forthcoming wedding plans. The plans did not materialize, however, just as Jerry had made them. On the appointed wedding day, Jerry was in Dick's House with virus pneumonia. We understand that the nurses at Dick's House provided "just married" signs for his bed, with other usual adornments for the occasion, and permitted Jerry to leave his bed only long enough to get married, with his wife under bond to redeliver Jerry to Dick's House immediately after the nuptials. ... 1930's bachelor ranks are almost non-existent with the announcement by Mr. and Mrs. William L. Rochester of Warrenton, Va., of the engagement of their daughter Mrs. Elizabeth Rochester Atherton to Major Clark Denney USAF. Mrs. Atherton was graduated from Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn., in 1939.
It is with deep regret that we report the death on December 22 of Brad Carnell.
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Secretary, 294 Washington St., Boston, Mass.
Treasurer, 56 Jennys Lane, Barrington, R. I.
