1939
Writing this column is no pleasure at all when it must begin, as it begins this month, with word of the death of a classmate. I am terribly sorry to have to note the unfortunate passing of our Col. David C. Schilling, USAF. Our pride in Dave as the outstanding American which he became was matched only by our fondness for the warm and decent person that he always remained. Our heartfelt sym- pathy goes out to the loved ones he has left behind.
Not sad, but regrettable, is the resignation of Don Wheaton as Treasurer of Our Great Class, a post which he filled with great vigor and only minor irregularities during the last half-dozen years. His books having withstood inspection by the beady eyes of our chief auditor, Lou Merriam (the young man known as Junie, back in the days when he had a complete brush and no stomach). Don has been permitted to devote full time to his activities as Vice President of the Empire Trust Company in New York.
The Executive Committee now have asked me to announce that months of effort on their part have come to fruition. They have succeeded in obtaining bond for Jack Coulson. He is our new Treasurer. Gloria! Gloria! If you have not paid your class dues, get 'em up!
Another announcement: Bert MacMannis is back in harness as Major Domo of the 1939 Yale Game Picnic. Bert has arranged with Red Rolfe for a choice block of tickets for '39ers and their spouses, kiddies and confidential secretaries. All you have to do is: (1) Send your Yale game ticket application to Bert at Reader's Digest, 230 Park Ave., New York 17, N. Y., in time to reach him not later than October 15; (2) enclose your check with the application; (3) meet at the southwest corner of the Yale Field House, just outside the Bowl and "right near the goal on the soccer field" by 11:30 on the day of the game, November 3; (4)' bring your own sangwidges, fried chicken, pepsi cola and conversation; and (5) don't forget to bring your tickets, which will have been sent directly to you from Hanover.
The prime social event of the recent summer season was the First Annual Wienie Roast and Salt Water Dunk of the Greater Metropolitan Literary and Dunking Society, held at Gilgo Beach, Long Island, on Saturday, June 25. Seen wallowing together in the briny were: Billie and Jack Coulson, with Doug and Jeff: Grace and Doug Farrington with Susan; Vi and Jack Kuhlke with Ann, Sarah and Kate: Betti and Bob Jessup with Bob, Nancy and Betsy; Trudy and Hugh McLaren with Nancy Ann; Patty and Rog Harrison with Susan and David; Fred Doll with Bobby Doll; Pat andCharlie Neer; Jack Haverfield; Dot and WaltDarby with Skip and Doug; and Glenn and your secretary with Joan, Toni, Gigi, Mamie and John Bananas.
I am certain that the names of at least 63 youngsters present have been omitted. I apologize. It had been intended to accompany this report of the festivities with a handsome art photograph of the entire group. However, the Official Society Photographer, who also just happens to be Chairman of our Executive Committee, forgot to put film in his camera and Jack Haverfield, Assistant Official Society Photographer, got confused and pointed the lens at his stomach instead of the group. (Anyone desiring a color transparency of Haverfield's stomach may obtain the same by addressing him at the Intaglio Service Corp.', 305 East 46th Street, New York 17, N. Y„ enclosing 67 cents for postage and handling charges.)
JOB CHANGES, PROMOTIONS AND THE LIKE: Dr. Dick Storrs early this summer dusted off the covered wagon and with Mary Jean and the youngsters (Nancy, 6, David, 3, and Stephen, 9 months) and all the hammers and saws and the aspirins and geiger counters that a radiologist must acquire through the years, and left Syracuse, N. Y„ for a new life in Los Angeles. Dick is practising radiology at St. Vincent's Hospital with an old friend from past days at Columbia and the Mayo Clinic.
The above, I might add, is real straight stuff. It came from Bro. Storrs himself, the only man since the early forenoon of March 11, 1952 to write a letter to the secretary. The following is not first-hand, but has been supplied by "my contacts."
Bob Alpert has been named to the newly created post of sales manager of the men's, boys', women's and girls' division, for LubinWeeker Co. Old Hi-ya Fellas previously was sales manager of Mohican Mocs, Inc., of Dolgeville, N. Y. John Egbert has become a partner in the Cincinnati law firm of Frost & Jacobs.
Dune Fair, formerly marketing consultant for Booz, Allen & Hamilton, the New York City management firm, has moved to Buffalo, N. Y., to take over the newly created post of Director of Market Research for the National Gypsum Co., "manufacturers of paints, prefabricators and acousticals, gypsum roof, deck and heavy corrugated asbestos products."
Bob Schill, manager of the department of economic research of Brooklyn Union Gas Company for the past five years, has left the Gowanus shores for the North Countree, becoming special financial assistant to the president of Central Vermont Public Service Corporation in Rutland.
Prof. Charlie Osgood returns from a year's sabbatical in Tucson, Arizona, to find that he not only still has his job as Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois but also has been designated as Associate Director of the Institute of Communications Research at the University. A Ph.D. from Yale, Charlie has been dishing it out to the Illini since 1949.
Bob Hagge, executive vice president of the Employers Mutual insurance companies of Wausau, Wis., has been elected a member of the Board of Trustees of Ripon College, in the Wisconsin town of the same name. Louis F. Oldershaw, Esq., partner in the Holyoke, Mass., law firm of Davenport, Millane & Old- ershaw and former president of the Holyoke Rotary Club has been elected to a two-year term as president of the Holyoke YMCA. As reported by "my contact," the election immediately followed an after-dinner speech by one Nicholas T. Goucharoff on "The Ideological Struggle for the Minds of Men." Lou, who never writes letters to the secretary, has a wife, Virginia, three sons (Peter, 13, Robert, 9, and David, 6), and a brother-in-law, Ed Wakelin, who never writes letters to the secretary.
Endicott Smith, Esq., prominent Boston attorney specializing in estate planning legal work, recently enthralled the Boston Life Insurance & Trust Council with a rather lengthy talk on "Estate Planning for Family and Business." Danny Dyer, prominent Bronxville, N. Y., sugar economist and broker has been appointed Chairman of General Solicitation (!) for the Eastchester Community Fund. RobertJ. Jacobson, member of the brokerage firm of Benjamin Jacobson & Sons, New York, has been elected a member of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Heart Association. When not healing hearts or breaking them, Bob is a trustee of the Hollywood Golf Club and a member of the Executive Committee of the New Jersey State Golf Association. He makes his home in Rumson, N. J., with Mrs. J. and their three sons, Arthur, Bob Jr. and James.
Dr. Bob English made free with the organ at a concert sponsored by the New Hampshire Chapter of the American Guild of Organists in Derry, N. H., back when the leaves were a new, shiny green. Sub-Dean of the N. H. Chapter, AGO, and organist and music director of the Holderness School, Bob holds a Ph.D. from Boston University and is a former student of the organ under Homer Whitford, Mus. FAQO. and Hugo Morden, Mus.D. Toronto.
And with that, we leave you.
Three 1939 class officers enjoying themselves in Hanover last May are (l to r) Moreau Brown, class agent; Jack Vint ens. secretary; and Rodger Harrison, chairman.
Tack Rourke '40 (right), TV producer, this summer received the 1956 Commendation from theLos Angeles Social Service Commission for putting on telethons and other fund-raisingshows that have netted over a million dollars for charities. With him are Milton Berle andJack Webb, two of the stars on a recent Hollywood telethon produced by Rourke.
Secretary, American Bankers Association 200 Madison Ave., New York 16, N. Y.
Treasurer, 15 Meridan PI., Huntington Station, N. Y.
