1936

As we caress the keyboard for this produc- tion, our boys are out shoveling a snow-laden driveway - yet, by the time this column slithers through your letter-slot you'll have only a 60-day lead on Reunion!! Time's a flittin' and reunion fever is setting in all over the lot. We've talked to a bundle of classmates and all are coming - in fact, bringing wives and progeny in most cases. In the other cases, the reverse is true, wives and kids are draggin' the ol' man.

While it was a lead pipe cinch to happen, we can now report that Gene Tamburi is the new president of the Massachusetts Hotel Association. Gene's Yankee Pedlar Inn in Holyoke, Mass., sets the pace for Western New England gourmets, and his new entry, the Yankee Silversmith, has moved high on the board with the people of Wallingford, Conn., and environs. Mr. T. has added to his long list of extra curricular performances by accepting a spot on the advisory board of the Boston University School for Hotel and Restaurant training.... Speaking of innkeepers, Dick Treadway has become a new member of the Board of Overseers of the Hanover Inn.

Word came in that Budd Sehulberg covered the recent Carnival for Sports Illustrated. Tell us, Budd, are the undergrads still heaving groceries in the Nugget?

According to Tide magazine, Columbia Records prexy, Jim Conkling, is forecasting a 30 per cent increase in CBS Columbia phonograph sales this year despite the fact that he already has a 25 per cent jump in hand, 1954 over 1953 Pompton Lakes, N. J., has a new member of the Board of Education in the person of Ed Merrill. On weekdays Ed sneaks over to New York to keep accounts and taxes straight for General Precision Equipment Corp. One of Ed's many spare-time interests has been the Boy Scouts; in recognition of the twelve rugged but rewarding years that Ed put in as scoutmaster of Troup 78, the National Council has recently presented him with a "distinguished service award."

Late in February, Chairman of the Nominating Committee Gil Balkam met with Messrs. Weston, Fitzherbert and Morton for a quiet evening of future planning. Gii, treasurer of the Chilean Nitrate Sales Corp., made the horrible error of mentioning a rather serious fire sustained in one of Chilean's warehouses. That was all the bait Pete needed as V. P. of Maine's third largest insurance brokerage. If poor Gil ever gets up without buying a dozen Aroostook Mutual policies complete with sprinklers, we've witnessed a 20th century miracle!

Staying as we do at the Dartmouth Club odd nights during our move to New York, we were mighty pleased to bump into Vic Sabary who was in town from Trenton on business. Vic boasts two hitches in the Navy, having ridden out World War II at sea and the Korean Affair in Washington, D. C. He's back now with Luzerne Rubber Company doing sales and engineering work.... Understand Ed Nilsson has switched to Lear, Inc., for whom he still flies to work, needling aero jobbers in the East into purchasing a variety of electro-mechanical control equipment, gyro instruments, aircraft pumps, automatic pilots, auto-flight controls, aircraft radios and radio navigation devices.

The more Lux and Lifebuoy Soap your household runs down the drain the happier you make George Beyer, who heads up the sale of both lines for Lever Brothers. Much of George's business life has been devoted to clean hands and faces when one recalls that before switching to soap, he was advertising manager for Cannon towelsl

Avco Mfg. Company recently saddled veepee Ken Wilson with a directorship and executive committeeship. Through Avco's parley of subsidiaries you can buy anything from a radio to a hay baler and Ken has done a capital piece of work for president Victor Emanuel since joining his forces in 1950.

Thanks to Ken Weeks '26 we can pass along a complete run-down on the doings of Bob Murphy, new executive vice president of the Wiremold Company in Hartford, Conn. Bob joined the firm right from college as a clerk in the factory, became a machine operator and next draftsman. He was elected assistant treasurer in 1941, to the board of directors in 1947, and V. P. in 1952. Bob is a member of the American Society of Tool Engineers, the National Fire Protection Association Electrical Code-Making Panel #8, a charter member of the Hartford Industrial Safety Council, on the board of directors of the Netherlands Insurance Company, a director of the Hartford Better Business Bureau, a member of the boys' work committee of the Y.M.C.A. and chairman of the finance com- mittee, industrial and commercial lighting equipment section of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association. He has been an instructor in the training within industry program, not only at Wiremold, but at the Stanley Works, Corbin Screw Division of the American Hardware Corporation, and the City of Hartford Engineers.... Bob and Jane have six children. Anybody care to re-state par for the course?

If ever there was a year that we ought to look good on the Alumni Fund, this is it. Let's try to clean it up early with a little something added for good measure. Remember, too, there'll be a class at 104 McNutt at 10:45 A.M. on June 18 — no cuts allowed!

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