1933
Holá for the delayed-action income tax! Of course, you have paid it some time ago, so you have plenty of time to peruse the MAG and this cursory report. If you haven't paid it, it doesn't seem to hurt so much because you have had an extra thirty days to earn it. The official lengthening of the treadmill really gives us a breather, and now if they'd abolish the whole thing altogether, we'd really have a ball. Ah, dreams - the stuff of progress!
For the most part, the newspaper clips coming my way this month reported glowingly and with pictures, news of your able and busy classmates which had already been set forth here for your edification. Must be a sign that our net of underground contacts (the Mole and Gopher Club, or M. & G. as we sometimes laughingly refer to it) is becoming more alert in spotting news-worthy events as they happen and leaping to their short wave radios with immediate eye-witness reports. If you want to be an M. & G., send in a report — you may qualify for a badge. It's easy; it's fun; it's instructive!
However, the Worcester Telegram and the Gazette both carried the news of the appointment of Stanton H. Whitman as fourth assistant in the City Law Department. The latter paper quoted the City Manager to the effect that there will be less legal work for the department this year due to a cutback "all along the line because of a tight city budget picture." Congratulations on the appointment, Stan, and let's hope your citizens don't all take it into their heads at the same time to sue the city or challenge their real estate assessments and thus make a mockery of the City Manager's statement.
PREXY COLLINS IN THE NEWS
From another Gazette down Albany way comes news that Dr. Evan R. Collins, president of New York State College for Teachers at Albany, was to speak recently at a meeting of the Van Antwerp Home and School Association. Van's picture, accompanying the article, should have insured a goodly female attendance at the meeting. Better'n the movies! You may be interested in a capsule of Van's career so far - Dartmouth, Harvard Graduate School, teacher and administrator in Massachusetts, teacher at Harvard Grad School of Education, assistant dean there, Air Forces, Dean of the College of Education at Ohio U., Albany. Among a legion of extra-curricular jobs now, Van is president of the Albany YMCA. A solid citizen, say we, and still on his way up.
Speaking of Ohio U., reminds us that the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch recently published a picture of Dr. L. Chandler Roettig, apparently sporting a racetrack vest, shaking hands with some fellow officers and colleagues of the Columbus Surgical Society, of which Chan had just been elected secretary-treasurer. That treasurer's job is always the one to shoot for, Chan. Glad to see you made it.
An A.P. dispatch from Albany, quoting a spokesman for the New York City Anti-Crime Commission, stated that among the victims of a recently exposed alleged wire-tapping ring in New York City, in addition to one Ann Corio (who was quoted as stating she had nothing to hide), was a Charles C.Bunker Jr. of Manhattan. If this is our own Charley, we shall follow the case with even greater interest. Like everyone we know, we are often tempted to tear Alexander Bell's gadget out by its roots and hurl it into the street. Every new day brings fresh evidence why this should be sound procedure. Come in, Chuck, with your report! Were you there?
Just received an all-out communication from Harding Macdona (a practice we highly commend to all of you) writing from 13600 Ardoon Rd., Cleveland, accompanied by a fine photograph taken at Montauk, L. I., last August showing wife Eve, daughter Patricia, 6-year-old twins Nancy and Harding Jr. and Himself, all looking brown, fit and happy. Says he can't wait to get back and who could blame him. Harding works (he calls it fun) in the advertising end of Life magazine, concentrating on the rubber companies in Akron. His prior experience, with Hearst Magazines, has required*residence in Chicago, New York, Wellesley, Westport, and Stamford during the last ten years. Might as well work for the telephone company or DuPont, says we. Harding reports on your classmates whom he has seen recently, as follows:
"In Waterbury, Conn., the SAME John Monagan, the lawyer, and Hal Smith, the affluent banker. I suspect a stork derby is in process. Do you have the latest count? (Ed. note: No, but we're panting to hear.) In New York City: Howe Wheelock with Scripps Howard Newspaper advertising; BobMac Donald with J. W. Thompson Adv. Agency as account executive; Gene Schwartz, a lawyer; Johnny Schneider, also account executive with Brow Beirn Toigo Agency. (Ed. note: This is a transcription of Macdona's handwriting. If name incorrect, this column will retract upon receipt of a more credible name, Johnny.) Out here I see quite a bit of Henry McKee who lives in suburban Hudson and is the Director of Sales Research of the General Tire and Rubber Co. in Akron. Also Bob Fairbank who is Sales Manager of the Towmotor Co. in Cleveland. A short time ago I saw a picture of Howard Gussenhoven '34 and his family with their twins, age 8. I wonder what the twin situation is with 1933 ? (Ed. note: See first note supra. Fathers of twins will please register with this column for the records.)
"I've been in touch with a lot of men but have never been able to catch up with Pete Lamproplos, 'Lampy'. Do you have any idea where he may be?"
Thanks, Harding, for your good letter. The picture has been filed with the archives and may appear later with a class compendium. Pete Lamproplos, according to the records, lives at 330 Main St., Latrobe, Pa. We have no information as to what he does, what he has been doing, marital and/or parental status, etc. Think it's high time you came in with a complete report about yourself since 1933, Pete, including dates, names and places of wife and children, if any. We do know you were in the Coast Guard during the war and that you contribute to the Alumni Fund. We recommend the latter to the rest of you, and we'll let Pete speak for the former. Come in, Pete.
We hear that Robert B. Allen has forsaken architecture and is now with the TruSt Dept. of the Anglo California National Bank in San Francisco. Another San Franciscan, Robert H. Watson, has moved to 88 Prospect St., Sausalito, Calif., where we presume he still does business as Watson Sales Service, wholesale distributor and manufacturers' representative. Still another Californian, Art Boisseau, has moved out of the retail women's wear business in Hollywood (why would anyone do that?) and has become vice president of Du-Rite Screw Products Corp. in Gardena, Calif. Art still lives in Los Angeles 19 at 1064 Meadowbrook Ave. A former Californian, Robert E. Burns, now lives at 1101 Date, Las Vegas, Nev. We assume that Bob is still with Music Corp. and has moved over to The Strip in order to better keep an eye on his valuable properties, who all end up there sooner or later, mostly sooner.
We'll be back next month to thrill you vicariously again with peeks at the gents who make the news, who move hither and thither, and who DO THINGS. In the meantime, remember our motto: GIVE EARLY AND OFTEN TO THE ALUMNI FUND - PARTICULARLY, EARLY.
Secretary, 217 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, N. Y.
Class Agent, Legal Dept., B. & M. R.R., 150 Causeway St., Boston, Mass.
