1938

For several months now, rumors have flown here, there, and everywhere as to the whereabouts, activities, and future of one P. Brownell. He was reported to have deserted the confusing clatter of the Big City for greener fields, but no word as to final perching place. A letter received just after the last notes wended their sluggish way to Hanover finds Brownie back in Marblehead again, and working at the law in Bean-town with Richard S. Bowers, specializing in trust, probate, and estate-planning.

He reports, enigmatically, that Chuck Wiggin was flown from Ecuador to Bethesda for some eye ailment of a rather serious nature, involving one eye, but that he is improving and will regain a good part of the sight of it. Let's hope we "can get more complete and happy news from Wig.

Speaking o£ the South American contingent, a usually reliable source close to the matter recounts that Stan Brown is the proud owner of a new Packard so lush that it draws huge crowds of locals wherever it's parked. Our informant claims that recently Stan and Nena found such an audience surrounding the vehicle that they walked around the block twice before daring to enter.

Former Senior Prefect of the Pawling School, Patrick Henry Gorman, again graces the financial pages of the New York Herald-Trib with his distinguished executive portrait. This time Pat goes from assistant to the president of Vick Chemical Co., and chairman of its Alfred D. McKelvy Co. division to vice-president of Bryan Houston Inc. as director of marketing. As one informant put it, "He seems to move fairly often, but it's always a good one." We shall have to get one of our more prominent alumni back to the Old School to tell the boys about The World.

At a somewhat later date than the above, Dick Keresey also appeared in the same spot to signify his appointment as associate general counsel of Esso Standard Oil; he's been with Esso for one year, having come to them from the Grace Lines. Don't think from the above that an indigent schoolteacher holds eight or ten shares of Christiania and has to pore through the financial section every day; I just look for pictures just in case I can pick up some items on the class.

Still in the world of business and industry, comes the announcement by the Automatic Transportation Co. (a division of the Yale and Towne Manufacturing Co. of Chicago) of the appointment as general sales manager of Roland Jones. The Automatic Transportation Co. is the world's largest manufacturer of electric driven industrial lift trucks.

Being in Hanover to do the annual fall clean-up for the tenants, I was present on Primary Day. The only contests I was interested in involved Charley Tesreau, Dave Bradley and Bob Jones. My local political experts assured me that my one vote would not be essential. Suffice it to say that all three came through with comfortable margins, - Tesreau for county solicitor, Jones for county commissioner, and Bradley for representative, all, of course on the Republican ticket; what other future is there in New Hampshire?

Something that very few people seem to realize is that teachers are some of the most unstable people, occupationally that is, in our economy. Most states consider them as transients for tax purposes. Not so long ago Dick Heneage moved from Whitefield in the Granite State to Connecticut, and now he comes up as Principal of the Pearson School in Winsted. Dick was selected from a field of 31 candidates; he had been teaching seventh grade in the school.

John Coleman is the new pastor of Redeemer Episcopal Church in Fairway Hills, Md. He goes to his new post after serving as vicar and rector of St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Washington. A native of Colon, Panama, he attended Columbia after Dartmouth and received his ministerial training at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass. Before going to his church in Washington, he was assistant minister at Christ Episcopal Church in Hartford.

The campaign advisory committee of the United Community Funds and Councils of America has elected Gus Hennessey as a member of that committee. He has been executive secretary of the Troy Community Chest. The committee, in case you didn't know it, and I didn't, consists of 45 men, representative of the six domestic regions in the nation and Canada. Members are drawn about equally from Community Fund and United Fund cities.

To clean up odds and ends of a very brief nature: Dick Chase is now listed as a research chemist for Merck & Co. and resides in West-field, N. J.; Norm Holland is a district manager for Union Twist Drill Co., doing business out of the Windy City and resides in Winnetka; Charley Livermore, as reported last month, is with the N. Y. State Commission Against Discrimination and has now moved his activities to the Big City. BillGriffin is now with the Albany Herald in Albany, Ga., in what capacity does not appear in the brief notice I received. It may be old news, but from my records it would seem that E. Miles Prentice has changed from the Great American Insurance Co. in Manchester, N. H., to Peerless Casualty in Montpelier, Vt. Correct me if I'm wrong.

During the course of last spring, too late for the last notes of the year, Attorney Al Pettoruto broke into the pages of Boston's Daily Record in a lush case involving a beautiful girl, 30 men, and two other teen-age girls - issue of blackmail. Al was representing the owner of a restaurant which had lost its license as a result of the conspiracy. In the rush of business ending the school year, I was unable to follow the case and so cannot reveal its outcome. Any information on the subject would be welcomed, as I was intrigued.

It may be a considerable wrench to many of you, but in another year we are heading for our 20th Reunion; it makes one feel slightly less than young when you turn that 40 mark, as most of us have done in the past two or three years. And when we come up to the 25 th, we've got to think of our 25-year gift to the College. Advisedly, we have been going slow on it up until now, but the pace has got to be accelerated during the coming years if we are to go over the top. Bud Walls has been working, as you know, on the project and will welcome any suggestions as to ways and means; if you have any bright ideas, shoot them along to him.

The Climbing Koeppels, shown atop Mt. Katahdin in Maine, are Art Koeppel '38, daughter Connie, 7, and son Buzz, 9. Mrs. Koeppel was there too and took the picture. The family has been scaling mountains together for the past five years, starting with Mt. Moosilauke when Connie was only 2.

Secretary, Trinity-Pawling School Pawling, N. Y.

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