1949
A beautiful spring day, so while I sit listening to the doubleheader on the; crystal set, I'll peck these notes out.
I have several reminders for this column two, of course, are in regard to the spring '49 Dinners in New York on Friday, June 3, and in Boston on Friday, June 10. These are to be held at the Dartmouth Club in N.Y.C. and at the Red Coach Grill in Wayland, Mass., respectively. I have sent out some 300 postcard "invitations" to these which you'll have had, and I hope returned, long before you read this. I'm sure looking forward to good turnouts at these affairs. Remember the Missus is invited too, so let's get at it.
Another reminder concerns the fall football game here in Providence next October 8. That's versus Brown and substitutes this year for the usual Harvard "away" game. So all of you who will attend this are cordially invited to the Zeiser house (which is within ten minutes' walking or two minutes' driving from Aldrich Field) after the ball game. I trust there'll be a mob here from all over New England to see this game - and it should be a good one - so Pat and I are prepared to entertain a mob. Hope you'll be there.
Got a letter from Johnny Adler down in Washington where he's in the Army Audit Agency while serving his "time." John had had five years' experience in the controller's office at Gimbel's in New York, so his Army career is serving a reasonably useful purpose. John was married recently to Miss Iris Richman of New York, and has honeymooned for a six-week tour in Europe. Johnny says JayHaft and Joel Berson were at his wedding. Jay is teaching anatomy at Boston University and Joel gets out of the Coast Guard in August then to resume law practice. Johnny's also run into Pete Bloodsworth in Rockefeller Center - he thinks Pete is selling for some steel company.
Two other weddings to report this month. ... Bill Buettner of Glen Ridge, N. J., was married in late March to Miss Barbara Inness Fenton, also of Glen Ridge. Bill served in the Army of Occupation in Germany, is now president of the Buettner Pest Control Co. of Brooklyn and secretary of the Julius Roehrs Co. of Rutherford, N. J Andrew Kelsey of Scarsdale, N. Y., was married to Miss Ann Dyer Rickenbaugh of Denver, Colo., on March 26. Andy is going to the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, to continue research. The couple will honeymoon in Southern Europe before his studies must be resumed. He was formerly with the State Department in Washington.
Recent visitors (April 18) to the Hanover Inn were Mr. and Mrs. Doug Thomson of Naugatuck, Conn. Doug has recently been promoted to supervisor of training and employment for the Naugatuck Footwear Plant of U. S. Rubber. Doug is married to the former Betty Culver of Naugatuck and they have a young daughter, Brooke.
Tuck School has recently announced the appointment of Bob Rooke of Mountainside, N. J., to the Dartmouth Economics Research Council. Bob is a securities analyst with Merrill, Lynch, etc., in New York. The newlyformed Council will study ways to broaden the basis of share ownership as the first in a projected series of research projects. SpikeSmith is using his Tuck training as a sales analyst with Wachsmuth & Company in New York.
Reed Parker has been elected a member of the board of directors of the Experimenters' Association, the alumni organization of the Experiment in International Living. The Experiment is a non-profit travel organization, specializing in student exchange, and Reed participated in its program to France in 1949, and has been active in alumni activities.
Some occupations I got off my latest address-change list.... Austin "Doc" Eaton is a U. S. Steel salesman with National Tube in New York.... Wade Elliott is a General Electric salesman in Bridgeport.... Quent Kopp is with the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor.... Joe Riley is an insurance broker in 805t0n.... Sew Weber is in the Planning Division of the R. I. Development Council here in Providence.
A letter from Tom Huggins up in Keene, N. H., announces that he and Ginny have adopted a second child - a little girl born last September 27 - to be a companion for Peter. Their daughter's name is Elizabeth Adams Huggins, and they call her Libbet. They are building a happy little family.
I have another letter from Charles Russell with some follow-up clippings regarding his run-in with the Massachusetts Commission Investigating Communism. The gist of it seems to be that Charles has at least temporarily been "exonerated" by the Board of Corporators of Boston University (where he's a professor in sociology) as they are unanimously allowing him to retain his job "status quo."
A letter from Lou Clarke out in Pittsburgh announced he has been at a three months' School of Advanced Design for Westinghouse in that town, but will move May 13 to Kansas City where he'll resume his regular job as a design engineer with the Aircraft Gas Turbine division of Westinghouse. He wrote for a potential list of classmates he might have an opportunity to visit while driving between Pittsburgh and Kansas City. Lou says he and Pat attended Carnival as chaperones for Phi Sig.
Guess that's it until next fall. Sure hope you're supporting class functions as best you can. The Alumni Fund drive needs all the help you can give it and I'm hoping for full attendance at these dinners we've planned in June. The price will be reasonable - the wives are invited - I'll be there - what the hell else could you want??
AS PURCHASING AGENT, Robert J. Doug-las '49 has been recently assigned to the PortArthur, Texas, Refinery of the Gulf Oil Corporation. He was formerly" with Gulf Oil'sHouston Division.
ALAN R. KERIVAN '50, salesman with theOwens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. in Boston, isone of 18 to be named to the firm's nationwide Sales Builders' Club for 1955, in recognition of an outstanding sales record.
A DARTMOUTH FOURSOME enjoyed an April get-together at the home of Parton C. Keese'50, in Harvard, Mass. L to r: Keese, who teaches in a Littleton, Mass., high school; Shant Chebookjian '48, of Boston; Richard H. Davidson '50, of Philadelphia; and James F. Fitzgerald'48, of Boston.
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