1935

Your secretary celebrated the holidays by making a safari back to Texas, with a somewhat bewildered wife in tow, this being her first exposure to the Lone Star State. As she a little exhaustedly describes it, "I've never met so many friendly people in my life. Most of them wanted to give a party for us, and what's more, most of them did." Some of the revisited spots I hadn't seen for twenty-odd years, and I found it a very heartwarming experience.

First stop was Dallas, where an old friend of mine tossed the first of the parties, and, among others, rounded up Ed Cary and his attractive spouse. Polished off the evening by going to Ed's house for a nightcap, said house being a most impressive piece of masonry. However, Ed is just finishing a new abode, complete with heated swimming pool, and I was sorry we didn't have time to go out and inspect it.

Next day Ed took me on a tour of the Republic National Bank, which is a staggering building accomplishment, even by those grandiose Texas standards. It was Ed's brainchild, built on land he partly owned. It took five years of headaches to reach completion. but, understandably enough, he thinks it was worth it. He's a director of the bank, which is the largest in Texas. The new Republic edifice is the tallest office building in 45 states, topped by a beacon light of almost half a billion candlepower, with two miles of neon tubing. After rounding up these salient facts, I was glad to sink into one of the couches of the Dallas Club, which Ed installed in another building he controls nearby. This club, by the way, is so luxuriously comfortable that it should shame the best of the New York clubs into yelling for redecoration.

In addition to being a director of the bank, Ed is president of the Cary-Schneider Investment Co. and the Harwood-Live Oak Corporation, a trustee of the Southwestern Medical Foundation, etc. There are two younger Carys ... a 16-year-old girl, who's in Hockaday School, and a 14-year-old boy, who goes to St. John's Military Academy.

Also in Dallas I had an enjoyable chatthe first in many years —with RichardMeyers. Dick is now a regional manager for Pepperell Manufacturing, supervising a large six-state area.

This is primarily a report on '35ers in Texas. But when I was spending Christmas with my sister in Mt. Pleasant, I phoned over the border to Vic Luneborg in Shreveport, La. For the past twenty years Vic's been down there with Cities Service, and is now in charge of personnel for a thirteen southern and southwestern state area. Has two boys, two girls. ... Working out of Ft. Worth, Malcolm Morehouse has a job similar to Vic's. He's personnel manager for Sinclair in the Southwest. Malcolm's been there ten years, and such is the oil business, he says, that in that time he's lived in 26 different houses. He has two sons, 7 and 5, and reports "they're real tough Texans."

In Houston I discovered Chuck Gillan. He hit Texas in '45 and is an accountant for Anderson-Clayton, largest cotton brokers in the world. They also dabble extensively in oil and foods, all of which keeps Chuck pretty busy. He and Carol live near the Shamrock Hotel, summer in the Texas hill country where they and their three kids do a lot of riding and swimming. He says he's "sold on Texas."

Our stopover in San Antonio was sparked by a barbecue at Cam and Vevie Duncan's lovely house. I lolled under the pecan trees while Cam grilled the steaks (with his initials on them, yet). Tanned and trim, Cam supervises his two ranches, which takes a fair amount of supervising. The one at Freer, in south Texas, comprises 150,000 acres, while the "0-2," out in the Big Bend country, takes in a sweep of 270,000 acres.

Cam manages to keep up with these rolling plains by flying his own Cessna 180, which he houses at the San Antonio airport. He also is a director of the Lykes Company, whose sprawling interests include everything from shipping to oranges. Much in evidence at the picnic was his handsome quartet of offspring - the oldest boy being 14? the youngest, a pretty 7-months' girl. Cam complains he rarely gets a glimpse of a '35 man, but that Jack Rockwell and Bud Childs have stopped off for short reunions in past years. For recreation Duncan gets in some good hunting and fishing —a picture of him with some of his recent trophies appears in this issue.

Also in Texas, I'd understood, was Jack("Gus") Davis, married and living in Littlefield. I was unable to reach Gus when I tried to telephone from San Angelo, but later learned from Duncan that he'd moved further West to Arizona or Nevada. Let us hear your new whereabouts, Gus?.

Now, for a few non-Texas items:

Glad to hear from Ralph Lazarus, who's been in the department store business ever since graduation, right now is executive vice president of Federated Department Stores, headquarters in Cincinnati. He somewhat underplays his accomplishments: - "As you probably know, came up the hard way, being the son of the president. Federated Stores operate from Coast to Coast and do slightly in excess of 500 million dollars a year." Keeping this modest little business rolling gives Ralph a lot of traveling, planing from store to store, and he says his four children complain that he's "always going away."

Maury Rapf has shifted from Norwich, Conn., to Manhattan, where he's writing and supervising some highly unusual promotional movies. Just this past year he's wrapped up film jobs for such sterling outfits as Continental Can, Armstrong Cork, Time, Life, Esso, etc. His latest is an animated cartoon for the American Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods, soon to be hitting the TV screens Earl Arthurs writes from Charlotte, where he holds down the post of general agent for Provident Life, and for a Yankee boy, he's really sold on that Southern living. "But the things we miss most here are winter sports and close contact with our Dartmouth friends of long ago." He and Jane find time to do more and more vacationing at such pleasant hideouts as Pinehurst and Sea Island. He wishes a bunch of classmates and wives would all aim their traveling towards one of these re.sorts at the same time and have a big Wah-Hoo-Wah with the Arthurs. Doesn't sound like a bad idea at all.. .. Chuck Hayes postcards from Darien, Conn., "Have been a nutmegger for almost sixteen months - love it here and whole family concurs."

Best to everyone 'til next month.

Cattleman Cameron Duncan '35 (1) bagged these bucks on the "0-2" Ranch in the pig Bendcountry, one of two Texas ranches he runs. With him are his sister Olive and Joe Lykes Jr.

Henry Necarsulmer '34 has become a partner in the investment banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., New York. He became associated with the firm in 1935.

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