1929
Month before last, your secretary reported on a class dinner in New York and mentioned the possibility of another dinner in the Spring. That possibility will now become a reality on Friday evening, May 20, and is proclaimed here and now, so that desk memos, engagement books, or whatever, may be marked by those of you in New York or distant places who could conceivably attend this affair with or without your wife. Larryand Mary Lougee are going to have another '29 party at the Officers Club on Governors Island, New York, and Larry guarantees an evening of delicious food, good entertainment and plenty of atmosphere. Sixty-five persons attended the '29 party that Larry arranged last year and he hopes that at least double that number will come this year. Notices are being sent out to '29ers in the New York area, so those of you, not in the area, who might be in New York the evening of May 20 drop a line to Larry at Headquarters First Army, Governors Island, New York 4, N. Y., for a copy of the notice.
Dwight Allen has again received a signal honor from the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., which he represents in Springfield, Mass. Ten years of outstanding service, among his company's entire field organization, resulted in his election as a Life Member in its honor group and he has recently been cited again for high qualifications.
John Cornehlsen was a member, late last fall, of a Career Conference Panel at the Harvard Graduate Business School in a voluntary evening meeting which drew well over 450 students. John has resigned his directorship and teaching positions at Tufts College Psychology Department, due to increasing responsibilities in and outside of New York with Richardson, Bellows, Henry & Company, Inc. He is living in Lake Success on Long Island again.
Word has been received that Mort Jaquith has resigned his position as one of the two Special Justices of the Second District Court of Eastern Worcester in order to devote all of his time to his private practice of law as a member of the firm of Casey, Jaquith and Stuka in Clinton. Mort was appointed to the position in 1939 by Gov. Leverett Saltonstall and has since presided at sessions of his local court and at the First District Court of Eastern Worcester, Westboro, the Central District Court, Worcester, and the Ayer and Marlboro District Courts, at various times when the judiciary of these units was unable to attend sessions. And going now into an entirely different vein, we imagine Mort is very proud of son Peter who became the leading distance runner on Ellie Noyes' freshman track team when he finished a close second in the two-mile event against Harvard and won the same event in the Brown meet a week later.
The mid-January meeting of the Alumni Council saw Bill Andres, Percy Russell and Ed Chinlund in Hanover and it was also reported that Dud Orr was in town for a concurrent meeting of the College Trustees. Shortly after this, word was received from Keene, N. H., that Dud had been elected President of Peerless Casualty Company at the company's annual meeting at the home office there. Dud was also elected, at the subsequent director's meeting, to an executive committee for the internal management of the business and a finance committee.
Jerry Swope, in an entirely new field of sport, was party to a story in the November 7 Sunday New York Times and an article in the November 15 issue of Sports Illustrated. Although Jerry's keen sight played an important part in these items, the main theme revolved about the unusual appearance at Jerry's bird-feeding station of a woodpecker that usually wintered in northwestern Mexico, not in Ossining, N. Y. This bird was, in fact, a Lewis's Woodpecker, named for Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition, who first reported it on his return from the West in 1806. To any or all bird watchers, find these articles if you can - they make very fascinating reading.
Walt Sherwood confirms a recent report that his address is now Roxbury, Conn., and adds the following:
"Perhaps you have recorded the change in FredPoster's address if it is listed on the Alumni Records. If not, Fred's home is located at 69 Osborne Lane, Southport, Conn. Fred, his wife Marion, and their three children were in apparent excellent health and good spirit when the Poeters graciously entertained us early in January. Also for the record, Tom White, Rumney Village, N. H., advises that his son, Alfred W. (Al) is a freshman in the Yale Class of 1958."
Cal Soriero, formerly state manager in Ohio for National Surety Corp., has become a partner in Langham, Langston and Burnett, insurance agents in Houston, Texas, where Cal lived during the Thirties. After graduation, Cal joined the Fidelity & Deposit Co., had training at their school in Baltimore, Md., and was with that company for seven years in its Newark, N. J., and Dallas and Houston offices. While in Texas at that time, he studied law and received his law license in 1937. Since 1939, Cal had been with National Surety as special agent in the Pacific Northwest Department in San Francisco; assistant agency director in New York; and manager in Washington, D. C., prior to becoming state manager in Ohio in 1952. Cal's new home address is 3412 Piping Rock Lane, Houston, and his new business address is 3700 Montrose Blvd., Houston 6.
We hear that Dr. Bill Wieler is still teaching at Hunter College, but that his new home address is 19 Park Ave., White Plains, N. Y.
We were very pleased to hear that PercyRussell was recently elected president of the Federal Communications Bar Association at its annual meeting in Washington, D. C. We know that he brings a wealth of experience and background to this new post, as evidenced by the many similar and other positions noted in the Class Book, and we wish him well in this new honor.
Laflin Jones gave us the cut and dried facts of his career, these past 25 years, with Northwestern Mutual Life but he didn't give some of the side-lights that we've recently heard about. His job as director of insurance services and planning is apparently a staff job involving policy research and communications and thereby hangs a tale. Way back, Laflin started and was first editor of his company's home office magazine, has since become editor of the company agent's magazine, turns out a Kiplinger sort of letter and, since 1932, has been a playwright, within the company, writing short and long sketches, plays and a musical which, we understand, he has described as "strictly a fun job using parodies of Gilbert and Sullivan music." From the sound of it, Charlie Gaynor and Laflin should have collaborated on a show while we were all in college.
We have heard that author Edward (Chuck)Darling recently gave an exceedingly interesting talk entitled, "The Public School is The Battleground," before the Women's Alliance of the First Parish Church in Portland, Maine.
ELECTED PRESIDENT: Percy H. RussellJr. '29 has been named President of the Federal Communications Bar Association. Formerly Secretary to Justice Benjamin Cardozo,he is a partner in the law firm of Kirkland,Fleming, Green, Martin and Ellis, and a member of the Alumni Council from Washington.
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