1936
The handsome man whose picture accompanies these notes is your new editor of Tithe. He has not changed very much since 1936, so you will quickly remember him and can pick up some of the threads that may have dropped through the years. He is Earl Copp, of course. In addition to being editor of Tithe, he is managing editor of The Phillipsburger, the weekly newspaper in Phillipsburg, N. J.
By the time you read these class notes you should have received one, and possibly two, issues of Tithe from the pen of Earl. If you aren't receiving Tithe, please complain. Send your news to Earl Copp, 530 South Main St., Phillipsburg, N. J. On behalf of the Class I want to congratulate Earl on his new assignment for us. Perhaps we should also congratulate Kirk Liggett, our new class agent, who got him to take the job.
It was good of so many of you to drop me a note at Christmas and send along a little information of interest to all '36ers. For example, Bob Walker, who is a doctor in Brattleboro, writes that all is well with him and his family, consisting of Susie, 6 years old, Bobby, 13, and Evelyn, his charming wife. The Walkers live with a delightful view of the river (Connecticut, that is) and have a terraced garden extending half-way down the mountain. Their hospitality matches their surroundings. I know, because Nancy and I stopped there on our way down from Hanover after reunion. Bob writes, "Spent a week at a cottage near the Benezets before they took off for the West. Dan Doan came up for an evening so three roomies were together again."
A son was born a few months ago to Joeand Susan Bishop. He is the first child for this family but the third Joseph Warren Bishop, being named for his father and grandfather, the late J. W. Bishop '95. Our Joe Bishop is a lawyer with the New York firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hope and Hadley. An article published in April 1955 in the AmericanJournal of International Law by Joe titled "Contractual Agreements with the Federal Republic of Germany" will be of interest to some of you lawyers. Mat Marks, for example, is a legal specialist in this field.
And it is interesting to note that Mat, who is a General Counsel in the U. S. Treasury Department, has been given a year of absence to attend the National War College in Washington, D. C. This is a very significant appointment for him. He has been concentrating on the foreign end of the Treasury Department business for about ten years. He lives with his wife, the former Simone Van Der Meulebrocke of Brussels, Belgium, and son Ramon, at 5959 South Sixth St., Falls Church, Va.
There was a rumor going the rounds at reunion that a classmate with nine daughters was going to appear. I think the story may have started with Don Erion who put in a call to Tom Monagan telling him to pile the children in the back of the car and drive 200 miles north in the Connecticut Valley. The nine daughters didn't appear at reunion this time but they are a reality at 195 Pine St., Waterbury, Conn. Marguerite and Tom Monagan are the parents of this interesting family. There is a boy also in the group, the third child of ten. I could put out a special edition of class news about them. The baby, Sheila, was born four days before Connecticut's "Black Friday." That was when the floods hit, cutting off heat, power and water (no pun). The city was without food supplies for a week, but that's where Sheila had the advantage over the rest of the family. Tom is a doctor in Waterbury, as was his father (Charles A., Trinity '93) for many years. He is on the staff of both St. Mary's Hospital and the Waterbury Hospital. His brother John S.Monagan '33 is a former Mayor of Waterbury.
Robert G. Chaffee is curator of the Dartmouth College Museum. ... Tom Parker is district sales manager for Remington Firearms in Boston Bob Ireland has a provocative letter on Page 4 in the December issue of this MAGAZINE. ... Ed Drechsel and Eddie Chamber lain are pictured in the November issue on Page 42, as is Sam Morse on Page 63, which I assume you all saw, but good contemporary photographs are hard to get.
Boyce Price is building a new house in Pound Ridge, N. Y. I don't have the address for you yet but all basic architectural plans have been prepared by Boyce himself and construction has started. Boyce is an account executive at Wildrick & Miller, Inc. It is an advertising agency specializing in the architectural field, at 630 Fifth Avenue. Blake Hughes is sales promotion manager at The Architectural Record. ... Ed Redington has been busy working on the Ford Foundation stock distribution. ... Charles Harrison of Milwaukee stopped over in Hanover in November; so did Fred Babcock and his wife earlier in the year. Jack Matzinger from the West Coast was also in Hanover recently, as were Ed Whitmore and Don Andrus - all men from whom we haven't had much news in a long time. TomAllen has left Warner & Swasey in Cleveland and is now with American Airlines in New York. Roy Berengren is back from Nicaragua and is teaching at the University of Florida.
Vermont's newest ski area has just opened on Okemo Mountain, a 3,300-foot peak which towers over Ludlow Village near Rutland. Many of you fellows may know the place - it was good deer hunting and bear hunting, too, twenty years, ago. A group of business men, with architect Bud Titcomb of Perkinsville as vice president, are backing the enterprise and putting plenty of work into the planning and operation. So far about 260 people, most of them Vermonters, own shares of the corporation's stock. Publicity for Okemo Mountain, Inc. points out that there is a 1,700-foot lift and a 6,200-foot lift, plus trails for novices as well as experts, warming huts at top and bottom of the mountain and parking lots for 1000 cars. Plans call for a "Star Trail" nearly four miles long that will take a skier from the top of the mountain clear to his car at the parking lot. Let's go!
Active in winter sports also is Russ Hurd, vice president of the Hurd Shoe Co., a big shoe manufacturer and distributor in Utica, N. Y. Russ is a curling expert. It may be necessary to point out to some of you who have been long removed from the Hanover temperature zone that this type of curling is done on ice, not in bed. The Utica Curling Club of which Russ has been an officer enters championship teams in national and international competition. Russ has skilled curlers in his daughters, Lucinda, age 10, and Pamela, 7, as well as his beautiful wife, the former Skidmore coed, Virginia Sweet. Russ is brother of Gilbert Hurd '41 and Ken S. Hurd '33. He has been serving on a civic executive committee that has raised 2½ million dollars for a new hospital center in Utica. How about that! Here's a dark horse for class agent.
"Guests are where you find them" was the title of a hotel conference sponsored by the New England Council in Boston in November. At the same session two classmates from 1936 shared the platform. They were Gene Tamburi, president of the Massachusetts Hotel Association, and Dick Treadway, president of Treadway Inns. Gene outlined the development of his "Yankee Pedlar" which he bought in 1946 in Holyoke, Mass., and compared the experiences with those of commercial hotel work which he had served for the prior ten years. Calling his talk "There's Gold in the By-Ways, Too," Gene pointed out that there is plenty of opportunity for professional hotel men who, as buyers, could inject some of the showmanship into old-fashioned innkeeping, add good food, and come up with a sound business. In ten years at the Yankee Pedlar Gene has doubled his guest availability and increased dining capacity from 50 to 500. DickTreadway, utilizing placards and a model of the new Treadway Motor Inn at Rochester, N. Y., showed the gross increase, month by month, along with the labor costs for the same periods. Dick lives at his Sturbridge Inn at Sturbridge, Mass.
An interesting article by Budd Schulberg in the December Holiday magazine titled "The New Florida" ends with this bit of personal information, "In increasing numbers, people who come to Florida to play are coming back to stay, including the Schulbergs who have been wintering in Florida for years but took the plunge last fall and moved to Sarasota." Budd has a new picture in the works called The Arkansas Traveler. It is about a cracker barrel philosopher with a whale of a radio audience who tries to get us into a war with Red China.
Earl Copp '36 has recently assumed his responsibilities as newsletter editor of "Tithe."
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