1923

I am about to embark on my third year as Class Secretary. The first two have proved to be extremely enjoyable. No secretary, however, ever entered a four-year term with more misgivings and with more spinal column chills.

My first privilege is to greet in these columns the three sons of 1923 who entered college this fall. Alphabetically, the first is John R. Adams, son of Jack Adams of Topeka, Kansas. We haven't had any news in this column about Jack since 1939, but this is the best possible news, that his son is in Hanover. Young John lives at 404 Streeter. The second is Fred C. Marsh, son of our late classmate George Marsh of Nashua, N. H. Fred prepared at Phillips Academy in Andover and lives at 7 Topliff. Peter Klaren, son of Karl, completes our representation in the Class of 1960. Peter hails from Summit, N. J.

We suspect Ivan Martin had something to do with the May 15th appointment of Bill Welch as attorney for the Naumkeag Trust Company in Salem, Mass. Fred Clark tells us this is Salem's largest commercial bank. Bill moved his law offices from Boston to Salem.

Jerry Riley, a very close friend of Joe Martin, Republican Minority Leader and former speaker of the United States House of Representatives and chairman of the Republican National Convention in San Francisco, was elected as one of the Republican Presidential Electors at the state convention of this party in Worcester, June 16. Jerry will cast his electoral vote in the electoral college for Ike if the President is successful in the November election.

Jerry, for some time, has been active in exploration for oil in Texas. He has recently returned from a trip to that state looking over possible oil-producing land. His most successful well is located in Graham, Texas.

Larry Eager writes that he and Beulah celebrated their 20th anniversary in June and that it was the best yet. After an eleven-year stretch teaching economics and business law in Dartmouth, the Eagers moved out to San Francisco where he has directed his energies along the lines of economic analysis for the Bank of America. He suggests that Paul McKown write in to your editor on the McKown holiday trip to Europe.

Our very energetic vice president in charge of Chicago affairs, Bill Kimball, opened up in June a two-million-dollar piano manufacturing plant and office building in the Melrose Park section of Chicago for his family's 99-year-old piano business. Bill says his new 200,000 square foot, air-conditioned factory is his family's dream of what an ideal piano plant should be like. And it is a dream for Bill, too, situated as it is only twenty minutes driving time from his Hinsdale home. The plant incorporates some new developments in piano building which will further push his company ahead of its competitors. Governor Stratton struck middle C on a Kimball demonstration piano in his Springfield office, the note being transmitted by phone to the plant as a signal to start production.

In late June Bill spent a week at the Community Memorial General Hospital correcting a couple of his early football injuries which have been causing him some trouble recently. No operation was necessary, just corrective measures, thank goodness. Incidentally, Bill was one of the founding fathers of this hospital and is now chairman of its Board of Governors.

It is high time a report appeared in these columns concerning our very energetic Bud Freeman. Bud tells us he is wearing three hats now at his office on Fifth Street in Racine, Wis.: namely, president of L. L. Freeman, Inc, Durand Corporation, and Midwest Construction Company. For accuracy we quote as follows:

"For the past two years my complete avocation and a good part of my vocation has been planning and building the Elmwood Plaza Shopping Center, which will be completed this fall season. As a result, my golf—never good—has suffered even more. The only opportunity I have to prove that I am a two-ball man is at the annual outing of the Wisconsin Mortgage Investors Association, where this year I am winding up my second term as president.

"With that job being out of the way and this being the last year of my four-year service as member of the Alumni Council from this district and the shopping center out of the way, I will have plenty of time for loafing and enjoying the companionship of any other classmates who wander into this neck of the woods."

Bill Rice writes that he has been established in Bloomfield for twelve years and that he has been with Thomas A. Edison, Inc., for a somewhat longer period. He is second in charge in the laboratory where the materials are checked that go into the nickeliron alkaline battery. Bill takes his vacation in August when the entire Edison plant closes down but hasn't given up hopes he would sometime make a midwinter or June reunion.

Paul Soley is still hard at work at kidney, bladder and prostate pathology, and is an attending physician in the Meadowbrook, Mercy, and Nassau Hospitals in Nassau County, New York. Paul keeps busy from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., Monday through Friday, and as a result does not get to Hanover or anywhere else except in the summer.

A second Wah-Hoo-Wah for Lou Wilcox within a year. At the Alumni Council meeting in May — at which meeting he roomed with Bud Freeman — Lou was elected chairman of the National Enrollment and Ad- missions Committee of the Council, thus succeeding Don McKinlay who did an outstanding job. This is a big job and he will need all the help he can get from our class. Lou has married off two sons within a year. He and Peg are delighted with their daughters-in-law. Now he will be very busy traveling around the country in the interests of his very important committee.

Dick Pearson, secretary-chairman of 1920, recently mailed in to us a clipping from Publishers Weekly of June 4 as follows:

"Wallis E. Howe Jr., general manager of Samuel Gabriel Sons and Company since 1954, has been elected a vice president of the American Colortype Company, of which Gabriel is a division."

Director of The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, Joseph G. Butler '24is shown with Paul Sample's oil painting, "The Prompters," part of a national exhibit ofAmerican art arranged by Butler each summer. Three hundred paintings were selected from2,000 entries.

Secretary, 170 Washington St. Haverhill, Mass.

Treasurer, Marble St., Whitman, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,