1929

As the middle point is being reached, some people are beginning to talk about the next reunion - the 30th - but our experienced and reserved, though genial, Chairman Dick Barrett is beginning to act (and for those of you who didn't know, this is one of the ways he produces such wonderful affairs). In the not too distant future,, therefore, you should not be too surprised to receive a mailing piece from Dick inquiring into your views as to the desirability of more informal meeting times in Hanover in addition to the usual reunion activities. In addition, there are several people who would be interested in an informal reunion in Hanover during the early summer of next year. We hope you will be thinking about all this and, perhaps, will mull it over a bit so that you will have some ready answers and suggestions when you hear from Dick.

Along with his ideas on the above subject, Dick passed on a very, very important report on a meeting he attended, which is quoted as follows: "Last March the regular Annual Meeting of Alligators Anonymous was held at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington in the room of retiring President Barrett and his wife. There were in attendance Gators Barto,Woodbridge and Georgopulo and their wives, and also Leonard Spalding, Princeton 1930, and his wife, who were elected members at the meeting. In the balloting for president during the coming year, there was a tie vote of one-half a vote each for Gator Barto and Gator Woodbridge. Gator Barto, with the valuable assistance of his Telephone Company toll card, called Gator Ingram in Beaver Falls, Pa., who later in the evening cast a full vote for confusion candidate Barrett, thereby breaking the tie and putting me in office for another year. All Gators repaired later for the annual banquet at the Napoleon Restaurant, owned and operated by Gator Georgopulo. It was a very pleasant affair, and we are all going forward for another year in our work of preserving the important place of the alligator on the American scene, and also combating the subversive influence of crocodiles."

John and Elinor Calver have announced the engagement of their daughter Anne Lindsay to Thomas A. Caranicelli, also of Framingham. She is attending Simmons College and her fiance, a graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover, is now at Princeton.

The excellent report of an interview with Art Clow, personnel director of Westinghouse Electric Co., may be seen in that company's magazine of April 1956. Aside from the many quotations of Art's ideas on his personnel division, there are some wonderful candid photos of Art in his office.

We have recently heard that Dr. John William Kemble has been named professor of Neurology at the Medical College of Georgia. After graduation, he received his M. D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1933. His internship was spent at Hamot Hospital, Erie, Pa., and he served his residency at the Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minn., and at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, D. C. Since 1936, he has been serving with the U. S. Army Medical Corps and during some of this time has been professional lecturer in Neuroanatomy at George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, D. C. From 1951 to 1953 he was clinical instructor in Neurology at the same institution. In addition, he was certified by the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry in Neurology in 1950 and is an assistant examiner on the American Board of Neurology. He is also a member of the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Neurology.

A very interesting article about Ed Carpenter and his part in the slate industry of Vermont has recently come to our attention. We would like to quote a portion of it: "Some time before Columbus discovered America, the men of Wales were quarrying slate and putting it to practical uses, and descendants of these pre-Columbian Welshmen are probably among the considerable colony of Welsh employed in the Vermont slate belt today. The Welsh colony is not growing but diminishing, and those of Italian and Polish descent are probably the more numerous. But Mr. Edward S. Carpenter, head of the Vermont Structural Slate Co. has as his top office assistant Miss Owens, decidedly a Welsh girl although born in this country, who has been in her present position 35 years and has made occasional trips back to Wales. She was proud to exhibit to us a small circular fan made of Welsh slate shaved as thin as cardboard, jig-sawed to fancy edging out of two-tone (green and purple) Welsh slate. ... Mr. Carpenter's company operates four quarries in addition to the manufacturing plant and produces from 700 to 1,000 tons of structural slate each month, employing about 110 local workers. While slate roofing is included in the structural slate category, and incidentally all that area southwest of Rutland is notable for its universal use of slate for roofing, present-day emphasis is being made on slate for various architectural uses. While we were interviewing Mr. Carpenter, a telephone call came from some buildingsupply firm for some of his ready-fit floor design. The Vermont slate belt is practically the only area in the country where non-fading slate of various colors can be found, and across the line in New York state, red slate is added to the Vermont scheme so that Mr. Carpenter can furnish what he calls 'ready-fit design' of various colors and patterns for slate floorings. Each slate is numbered so it would seem that any do-it-yourself fan could put it together. . . . In the factory they take huge slabs of irregular shape from the quarry, spread them out on a moveable carriage beneath a circular diamond saw that, during the few minutes we stood watching, sliced smoothly through a rock some three-feet wide and six-inches thick. After this slice is cut up into rectangular blocks, it seems to take only a split second for expert workers to split it into required widths. This is planed down and then polished on large circular whirling steel discs with moistened abrasives. All of which makes it smooth for use in specialties such as electrical panel set-ups, X-ray shields, laboratory tables, stair treads and exterior finish on buildings in spandrel form."

We have received word that Dick Stone, who owns and operates Richard M. Stone and Associates, an import-export firm in Savannah, Ga., was recently appointed by the U. S. Department of Commerce to participate in the trade missions to Belgium and the International Trade Fairs at Ghent and Berlin this past summer and fall. Having had very little information about Dick for the 25-year book, we are very pleased to learn that he also attended Lehigh University, that he is married to the former Mary Habersham Marshall, and that they have two children.

The good news has been received that Larry Lougee has been appointed Judge Advocate of the First Army, with headquarters at Governors Island.

We have been extremely saddened to hear of the deaths o£ Sterling Cannon and Bill Alexander. Obituaries will be found in the In Memoriam columns.

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