1931
Things are beginning to move - sometimes painfully, oftentimes tardily, but always inexorably toward mecca, alias the grail, alias the BIG 25th. Piece by piece the program, arrangements, assignments etc., etc., etc., are falling into shape. And, also, piece by piece I've been tearing apart a real nice guy who deserves better than he's been getting: Dick Holbrook, the efficient, effective effendi of our Executive Committee who is just about ready to blow his well-sculpted stack. The reason? ... me! Our mutual job is to produce the Reunion Book. We've had two or three meetings, agreed on format, etc., - and I was to get out various mailings about arrangements for photographs, collecting personal data for the "biographies" - and so on, and on, and on. Well, sir, it hasn't been done (for altogether too many reasons) and tempus is fugitting so fast! Just to give you some idea of the strain, Dick has sweated this thing out so long that he's now only a half-brook.
But, as you and I both know, there's nothing that gets taken care of quite as well as an emergency. And this one is a king-sized lallapalooza of an emergency. Why do I tell you all this? Well, if you have any regard at all for your rapidly-aging amanuensis; if you can generate the slightest flicker of sympathy for your circumvoluted, yea, even cingulated, Committee Chairman - then you'll do what you re asked to do without delay, without a moment's hesitation, without a thought for family or friends, without fear of consequence or feeling of personal inconvenience. What are you supposed to do? If you haven't already had your picture taken, do it now - today! If you haven't sent in your application for Reunion reservations, do it now - todayl If you haven't completed and mailed your biographical and other data for the book, do it now - today! All kidding on the square, we're late. It's my fault, and now I'm trying to pull out of the hole I ve dug. Be a good guy and hop to it... please! When you get a letter re the Reunion (and you will get one - and many more - so help me!) do something about it right then. Ataboy - 'cause if you don't that old school tie is gonna tighten round my neck, and you'd be a member of the only class in Dartmouth history whose secretary has a blue face and a protruding tongue.
News ... as time will permit, and space will allow: Art Fenton has been promoted to marketing account coordinator of Esso. Art will move from, Oreland, Pa., to New York with wife Lillian and sons Deane and Jeff. HankMcCarthy, prexy of Bomac Labs., Inc., Beverly, Mass., has become a Trustee of Hunt Memorial Hospital. (As a Reunion Special, Hank's offering a 1¢ Sale on appendectomies to Memorial Fund contributors.) Again this year, the bluewater binnacle-and-binocular kid, Joe Choate, was at the helm of the National Motor Boat Show. A clipping from the Nashua (N.H.) Independent says that Eben B. Hutton was guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Philatelic Society. It seems that our esteemed Granite State classmate "has been a life-long philatelist." (I guess it's OK to use that word, but this is a family column, y'know, and we've gotta watch that stuff!) Forsha Russell was in town for a food convention, and then on to see a daughter at Smith and a son at Deerfield. A long and very interesting letter from Comdr.George Matthew "Smokey Joe" Adams, Box 4, Staff, Com Nav Marianas, F.P.O. San Francisco, Calif. - but now that I've written the address, there's no room for epistolary quotes, so you'll get that next month. George Conklin, architect (plug), says, "About this time of year I'd like nothing better than to be back on Hanover Green." Among those who have done that very thing recently are Bill Steck and the DougWoodrings. Bill will be joining Charlie McAllister up there (about the time this is going to print) for a combined Father's Weekend and Memorial Fund confab. By the way, howz-about getting busy with that pen and checkbook so Charlie can begin to smile again. You know you're going to do something about it ultimately, so what better time than right now.
Dick Cukor has been made head of the big new Macy's out on Long Island. The aforementioned Dick Holbrook has been elected president of the Copy Research Council. Heaven help me when he adds copy-research of this pillar to the many other reasons he has for castigating (note to ed: careful with that one, boy!) ye sec. Bill Schuldenfrei and I have selected' your Reunion raiment - and you will look just lovely. For now - and 'til then - keep on being '31.
Newly elected president of the Bronx KiwanisClub for 1956, Frank J. Kindermann '30heads the Kindermann Fireproof Warehouse.
Secretary, Lambert & Feasley, Inc. 430 Park Ave., New York 22, N.Y.
Treasurer, 1512 Spruce St., Philadelphia 2, Pa.
Combined Fund Chairmen,
ALLISTER, 224 Beverly Rd., Scarsdale, N.Y.; WILLIAM F. STECK, 1250 Terminal Tower Bldg., Cleveland 13, O.
