1913
Kippy Tuck made the front page, first column, of the Wall Street Journal, April 27:"A Yank Named Tuck Helps a Famed CanalHandle Tripled Traffic. Death and Rebirth in1968."
"PARIS - On Tuesday morning, May 10, pinkfaced S. Pinckney Tuck, an American who lives in Switzerland, will enter here the richly decorated board room of an Egyptian corporation. After chatting with such friends as England's Sir Alexander Cadogan, he'll sit down at a great horseshoe table, under four mammoth crystal chandeliers, nodding to a Dutch shipowner, D. A. Delprat, at his right, and to a French nobleman and businessman, the Marquis de Vogue, at his left.
"Then 32 very international gentlemen, directors all of the Suez Canal Co., will proceed to consider the question of a dividend, and of the 1954 report to stockholders.
"The Suez Canal is usually considered a geographical feature, or in war a keystone of strategy. But it is also a private business, run for profit, and today this company finds itself in an extraordinary situation - it is managing an enterprise that is more vigorously alive than ever before and yet it is condemned to the most certain death as administrator of that waterway.
"True, it is likely to be reincarnated in a quite different line of business - but more on that later. Most Americans should, in some degree, share the interest of Mr. Tuck in these problems of life and death, for the United States has much at stake....
"But then, in 1968, will come the death penalty. The 99-year lease granted by King Mohammed Said to Ferdinand de Lesseps, the inspired little Frenchman whose statue dominates the harbor at the northern end of the canal, will expire. The Egyptian government will take over, and will be obliged to pay only for the mobile equipment and housing. .
"Already the company is deeply engaged in preparations for its own funeral, and its officials suggest that it is high time for the U. S. and other great-power diplomats to begin giving thought to what kind of administrative system will succeed it."
Harry H. Semmes is chairman of the Episcopal Mission Committee for the Potomac Areas (Maryland) and with a work party of sixty men, women and children began clearing a two-acre site on which they hope to build an Episcopal Chapel. The land is the gift from E. Moran McConihe, a member of the organizing committee. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Semmes and Mr. and Mrs. McConihe, nine or ten other couples, prime movers, were named, including Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Semmes Jr.
Word comes from Parede, Portugal, a suburb of Lisbon, of the sudden death of KeithAinsworth Wood. Full notice will appear as soon as possible, for the secretary has had frequent and voluminous correspondence with Keith during the past two years.
Carl and Grace Forsaith while entertaining one of the professors from Syracuse University invited Bart and Renza Shepard and others to see the movies of time lapse opening of birds and flowers; marvelous pictures by a former pupil of Carl's at Syracuse, who has sold some of them to Walt Disney AlanShepard left last February for .seven months in the Pacific. He is executive officer on the U.S.S. Oriskany, aircraft carrier, Squadron B.F. 193.
Nat Rice appeared at Pattens on Wednesday for our luncheon group, back from Vero Beach, Fla., where he and Dot spent weeks at the Treadway Royal Park Inn. He was full of praises for the hotel and the time.
Harold McAllister Jr. is State Agent of the Phoenix Insurance Co. of Hartford at Phoenix, Ariz. Donald is with Morgan Stanley on Wall Street in New York and Allan is in the Treasury and Investment Dept. of the Phoenix Insurance Co. at Hartford, Conn. Harold Sr. is traveling much of the time now. In May he was in Washington for the annual convention of the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. as Substitute National Counsellor of the National Board of Fire Underwriters.
Bill Terry was able to call on Sid Akerstrom in Littleton, N. H., last month and HowardBall in Claremont, N. H. Howard paid a visit to our Wednesday lunch at Pattens in April.
Summer is almost here, so contribute to the Alumni Fund. Bill Terry has been able to turn in a marvelous start. Keep up the participation percentage. There is no reason why we should not end up as the Green Derby winner in our new group. The college authorities have removed us from the group of classes including 1914 and 1915, those more than generous givers. We now can beat 1912, 1911, 1910, 1909, etc.
Don't forget that your copy of the MAGAZINE comes because you pay your class dues. Your secretary will be in Hanover for Commencement and the reunions.
Bill and Ruth Pierce were at the Inn in Hanover in March. Arthur is doing well as an undergrad.
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