1950
Those little men with the frigid look are ice gnomes, Mac, and the big guy with the "ten below zero" look isn't Jackie Gleason at all, he's the Great White Cold, and you'd better believe he's walking abroad these days. So who's complaining? Pull a hot toddy up to the fire and let's glance at.
CUPID'S CORNER Mark this issue as one of those rare publications wherein only one Injun bit the dust, in our tribe at least. Principals involved in this vinculum matrimonii were Jim Hutton and Virginia Hannah Palfrey. The affair was staged in New York, December 17. The bride attended the Jackson-landau School of Design, and Jim is a broker with W. E. Hutton & Co. They'll live in Cincinnati.
INFANT INFO If the weddings and engagements are scarce this time, reports concerning our growing family more than make up for that. More or less chronologically, we'll start with Pete Shaffer's daughter Susan, who celebrated her second birthday January 14. Pete is with the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills sales office in New York City.
Bill and Jean Schneider have a year-and-a- half old son, Bruce William, whose natal day was September 7, 1953. Papa went to toil for Walter Maguire Co. in the industrial flooring field last October.
Almost current is the next happy item received from Dick and Phyllis Wetherbee, that 8-pound, 12-ounce Peter Tufts has been hitting the bottle at their house since shortly after his debut, August 24.
Another summer arrival was Stephanie Ann, the new charmer for Shirley and SteveMiner, who also reveal that she weighed 5 pounds, 91/2 ounces, when Mr. Stork landed June 20. The Miners also have a new house in Wichita, so industrial engineering with Boeing is a bit of all right.
Three star extra!!!! Three girls for three '50s in the Buckeye State! In order of seniority, JoAnn and Gordie Hood have a daughter, Kathleen JoAnn, born August 2. Although the Roundman, spouse, and son Hub have taken Kathleen home to a new house in Covington, we can make him an Ohioan by citing his legal activities in Cincinnati. Don't ask about the illegal ones. In a touch-and-go contest, Tom and Jean Sours had a sister for son Steve (September 12) a bit before Martha Lee presented Bill Pulley with a daughter, Jennifer Ann (September 21). Jennianne has a brother, too, Chip, 2 1/2 years old. Bill continues in the day cleaning biz out of Oxford, while T. J. has been selling highway equipment hither and you.
Wonderful response to our request for data came from Mar land and Jean Benner, now residing in Omaha. Essential info on the clan is as follows: Tommy, born June 17, 1951' Barbie, born September 1, 1952, and Timmy, born July 31, 1954. Ben is a hospital supply representative for Will-Ross, Inc. Jean and Mar reported seeing Phil and Leota Garran before leaving Milwaukee last spring.
On September 8 another junior got a sister. Midge and Court Cross now have a daughter, Wendy Barnard, as well as son "Rip," who was born December 3, 1952.
And Bud and Dolly Mac Donald boast a new heir in their family circle, Kenneth DeWitt, who arrived October 6. Pop claims the guy "answers to anything." Must be easy to please.
Congratulations to all the proud parents, and also to those several other families heard about but not publicized this month, while we're waiting for a few more details.
MILITARY MISCELLANY PrivateJohn D. Vogel is serving with the 29th Engineer Base Topographic Battalion in Japan. A physical science assistant, John arrived overseas in October. He'd been a geologist for the Iron Ore Co. of Canada in Bert Creek, Labrador, after receiving a Master's from Minnesota in 1951.
Capt. Frank Lion returned from Germany in December and is now at the Infantry Center, Fort Benning, Ga. Congrats on the new bars, Frank!
GRAPEVINE REPORTS Vin Hill has been tinkling the ivories (that's piano playing for the squares) in New City, N. Y. .. . Overseas members include Bob Lindell in Brussels, Belgium, and Larry Starlight, who's with the Consulate General in Hong Kong. Within a few thousand miles is Jim. Jones at Barclay & Co., Naha, Okinawa.
Last summer Bob Gray opened his own furniture store in Framingham, Mass. Another New England entrepreneur is GaryEarle, owner and broom pusher of the Melody Shop in New Bedford, Mass., retailing phonograph records and greeting cards.
Recently we published the names of some of the class barristers, so Dick McKee hastened to inform us that he, too, is a legal beagle, having gone to the law school in Ann Arbor and set up practice in New Castle, Pa. Another such is Mai Hill in Manhattan with O'Connor and Farber. In the medical profession we have Dr. Dick Peach interning in Stanford, Conn., after McGill, specializing in physiotherapy and orthopedics, and Dr. StanBrodsky at Kings County Hospital, where he is in his residency. With a longer row to hoe is "Doc" Irons, at the University of Vermont med school.
Joe Dey is a salesman for U. S. Rubber Co. out of Utica, N. Y John Greeley is assistant sales manager for Continental Can Company in N.Y.C Bob Hebard is a sales engineer in Buffalo. ... Very successful in peddling from Boston is Al Kerivan for Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. Spif was named to the firm's Sales Builders' Club last year. How to go, lad!
A good letter from Emil Hudak in Rochester informs us that he's toiling for McCurdy s Department Store there, and he sees DickMcSorley at most of the Big Green functions in town.
Last summer Dick Gowen operated a camp for boys in Plymouth, N. H. During the fall he was line coach at Amherst... . GeorgeJohnson can be reached at the CBS Film Center in New York Over in Metuchen, N. J., Ralph Muehlig is in industrial relations for Westinghouse Dave Pittenger is living in Detroit and selling for the Nichols Wire & Aluminum Co Dick Cutler is representing the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company in New York City and on Long Island.
Had a fine letter from Ned Petrequin last autumn and discovered he bade adieu to the USAF in June 1952, going to work in the paper biz selling to printers and lithographers. He went on to say, "I see Joe Hendrich quite regularly. He is working with his father in the chemical and plating business. I ran into Jack Buckingham recently in a Coast Guard uniform. Jim Bristol, who was here for somewhat over a year in the insurance business, has now been sent back to Hartford."
Bootleggers and yacht salesmen take note! The Charlie Abbes are once more available for solicitations in Sherborn, Mass. Bird walks commence from the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. offices Rene Blanc is a thousand miles behind rebel lines in Jacksonville, Fla., engineering for AT&T there Bud Bray is a member of the auto frame sales department at A. O. Smith Corp. in Beerburg (Milwaukee).
Happy to welcome Mike Chase back to West Hartford and civilian status GerryBreyton is engaged in instrumentation engineering with Grumman Aircraft in Huntington, L. I. ...Among the salesmen of ferro alloys for E. J. Lavino & Co. in Phillie is JohnDunlap.... Bill Frenzel, de-blued last Sep- tember, is back in the Twin Cities at the St. Paul Terminal Warehouse.
Intelligentz concerning several Johnnies: John Foote is a standards engineer with du Pont near Wilmington, Del. ... John Marson is a buyer in the purchasing department of the Flint, Mich., plant of General Motors Ternstedt Division.. .. John Martin is a photogrammetry engineer with Air Survey Corp. in Arlington, Va. That means he helps make maps.... John Meehan is now in charge of garage door sales for the Northern Asbestos & Building Supplies, Ltd., firm in Alberta
Had an address for John Morton as an expeditor of production for A. E. C. contracts, and then heard he was learning the wholesale lobster business in Portland, Me. Which is it, Jack - fission or fishing? ... And JackBrodie got into G. E.'s marketing training program a few moons ago, spending time near the soy bean plant south of Cleveland.
Gonna wrap it up with that, gents. Any of you coming to the big town, be sure to give us fair warning. Like to hear from you even if you aren't visiting us! Happy schussing.
AND SON: Donald W. Ayres '50 has been appointed General Agent by the State MutualLife Assurance Co. in Worcester as a partnerwith his father, Benjamin W. Ayres '20.
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