1934
Ever since taking over this job, ye sec has had a hankering to do one of those "As I sit here on the balcony at my battered old typewriter looking out over the green waters of the Nile" things.
It is fitting, therefore, that in this last tremulous effort to keep the great Class of '34 informed, we should sit with typewriter unbattered, but with a beautiful view of the new Ledyard Bridge and that pond where once only the river existed - a pond donated, modesty almost made me forget to mention, through the beneficence of New England's largest and greatest utility system.
The class officers are in session here in Hanover and an afternoon of leisure is provided on Saturday to see some baseball, play golf, or just sit in the sun. The much younger gentleman who writes the stuff next below us on the totem pole is with a group doing the latter, not too far from our point of vantage, and, in addition to his usually ultracorrect sartorial splendor, he is wearing that smug expression common to all class secretaries who have filed their notes on time.
Due to our own native indolence, however, we'll have to try to beat out a little here and a little there and see if we can come up with enough to hold the franchise for the next guy.
It's easy to begin by reporting that BillScherman, Marty and Joy Dwyer and Jackand Jane Gilbert are here in Hanover, and that we have had a chance to say hello to Hanover-dwellers Bill Wilson and Walt Crandell, but not too long now, and, if you're one of the wise and lucky ones, you'll be seeing them too. In fact, it's still not too late to say tohellwiditall and hit the trail for REUNION!
There have been a few other HANOVER VISITORS, too, for instance, Mr. and Mrs.William Daniells and daughter of Sandy Hook, Conn ... and Mr. and Mrs. John Bathrick of Darien, Conn.... and Mr. and Mrs.Albert E. Kahn of Croton-on-Hudson.
This cannot be a completely happy report this month. We have word of the death, on April 30, of Nels Krogslund's wife, Ann, whom many of us remember from class picnics and reunions. Also Bob Peters, whom we knew in Hanover as Bobby Lapidus, and John B. Adams, who was with the class in freshman year only, have passed on. More complete reports will appear in the In Memoriam section.
We do have some NAMES IN THE NEWS this month Henry J. Peirce, C.L.U., representative of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Indianapolis is among those who have recently qualified for the 1955 Million Dollar Round Table.... Trusts and Estates reports the advancement of Charles C.Goodfellow Jr. to Trust Officer of the merged First National and City Bank Farmers Trust Co., with whom Charlie has been since graduation. .. . The former GefEen, Dunn & Co. announces a change in firm name to Geffen, Morton & Griffiths, with our man Roily holding important executive posts in several of the affiliated companies and divisions of this partnership, which is engaged in a number of publishing and printing activities C. Merrill Dubay, a former member of the advertising staff of the Charlotte (N. C.) News, has been named advertising manager of the Lancaster (S. C.) News. Merrill has been in Charlotte since 1951, previously being connected with several eastern newspapers and with the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
The board of directors of Haledon National Bank announced recently that RobertF. Allabough, a member of the Paterson law firm of Evans, Hand and Evans was elected to the office of vice president and chairman of the executive committee of the board. Bob has been a member of the board of directors since 1941 and has been prominent in the law field involving bank and corporate activities for many years. He was in charge of the legal work of forming the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Paterson, the first corporation of that type in the country. He is a veteran of World War II and the Korean War. John D. O'Brien, formerly vice president and general sales manager of Jefferson Electric Co. of Bellwood, Ill., has been appointed vice president of Daystrom Furniture, a division of Daystrom, Inc. Jack will be in charge of product development, marketing, advertising and sales promotion.
As casually mentioned in too many poorly chosen words last month, there's not going to be enough space to do justice to your efforts on the questionnaires, but we'd like to pay some special tribute to those gentlemen whose names begin with the seemingly magic letter of "V." Every one of them came through with a return, which, sadly, cannot be said of any other letter, not even the "Z," and Zabriskie, we'll never know how close you came to sharing this fame.
Carl Vail we've mentioned previously.... Ed Valier is located in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he is in the business of construction and operation of water and sewerage plants in connection with real estate subdivision promotions. He came out of the service in 1945 as commander USNR.... Board Veazie, out in Clarendon Hills, Ill., is a commodity analyst for Swift & Co. in Chicago. In WW II he was a It. USNR with service with the Amphibious Forces in the Pacific.. .. and RayVickland is division manager and vice president of McKesson & Robbins, Inc., in Cleveland. ... Thank you, gentlemen all.
We spoke, a couple of months ago, of some of our eldering classmates taking up private flying and quoted Henry Smith on the subject. ... Comes now Dr. Ed Marceau from Burlington, Vt., on the subject, "Still pursuing old hobby of skiing and indulging in new hobby of flying - the old world looks better from upstairs." Ed is a practising orthodontist in Burlington.... And still more on the subject from Noel Maxam out in Lansing, Mich., "Took up flying recently. Own plane for business and pleasure. Old stuff for our service classmates, but new experience like getting married, or first baby for guy on 20th reunion year." ... Out in Lansing, Mich., too, is DaveLuck, professor of marketing at Michigan State College, who speaks highly of his bustling state university and its beautiful campus, and invites us all to come out and look it over.
It would be a little easier for some of us to take advantage of the invitation of Ed Marshall, in Groton, Mass. Ed owns and operates the Marshall Ice Cream Co., manufacturers and retailers of ice cream on Route 119 in Groton. He's going to be there all summer and guarantees his product.... Then there's Dr. Charlie Mills, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology as a partner in the Salem Clinic,' Salem, Ore., who reports a visit from Moe Frankel when he was in the Northwest last summer ... and Will Maynard who tells of attempting to borrow a match from a dignified gentleman on a train platform only to find the DG was Frankel, who doesn't smoke. Frankel and Kilroy get around.
Lex Paradis, assistant secretary for American Airlines in N.Y.C., has published a couple of books, 75 Ways for Boys to Earn Money (1950), and Never Too Young to Earn (1954) and has one coming out this year, For Immediate Release, a book on public relations careers for information of college students.... And there are many others to whom we can only say "Thanks" - like Dr. Irv Silverman,Dick Wells, Al Marks, Don Moir, MauryO'Connor from far-off Pomona, Chuck Rolfe,Dan Taggart, Bill Wyne, and all the rest who had something of interest to help out the man with the two flying thumbs.
In fact, thanks to all you fellows who had the courage over the last five years to wade through this low-Irish vernacular, trying to find out if we ever wrote about anyone you used to know in college. It's been a lot of fun. See you at REUNION!
VICE PRESIDENT of Daystrom Furniturein Olean, N. Y., John D. O'Brien '34 will bein charge of product development, marketing,advertising and sales promotion. He was formerly vice president of Jefferson Electric Co.in Bellwood, Ill.
Secretary, 12 Berwick St., Worcester 2, Mass.
Class Agent, 370 Central Ave., Orange, N. J.
