1938
Now the duck-board season is about to spring like a monster on Hanover Plain, most of the items which have drifted in on the Harlem Division of the New York Central concern the more plebeian activities of the business world.
The MAGAZINE jumped the gun on us on two recent promotions, - Bob Faegre and WhiteyMays. Just to complete the details, however, and to do justice to our colleagues, it may be well to amplify somewhat the rather terse captions in last month's issue. Bob Faegre is president and chief executive officer of Minnesota and Ontario Paper Co. He has had seventeen years of executive experience with the company and for the last three years has been executive vice president, responsible for all operations, manufacturing, sales, research, industrial relations, advertising, and purchasing. Seems rather well qualified for the presidency!
Bob started off in 1938 as special representative to the Insulite Co. of Finland, a foreign subsidiary. Later, management experience in the U.S. organization led successively to assistant sales manager, sales manager of the paper division, vice president in charge of sales and research activities, and executive vice president.
Whitey, who heads Morgan-Jones Inc., was an account executive with J. Walter Thompson Co., advertising agency. Formerly he also held various merchandising, sales, and production posts with Bates Manufacturing Co. Morgan-Jones represents a group of mills in North Carolina manufacturing bedspreads, kitchen cotton towels, and piece goods. Whitey says, "Needless to say, I am very pleased about my new assignment which will get me back in the rag business where I started."
Robb B. Kelley, of the Philadelphia Kelleys, has been appointed a director of Employers Mutual Casualty Co. of Des Moines. Robb has been with the company for fifteen years and is manager of the Philadelphia office.
Fred Sibley returns to his native haunts of Greater Beantown as vice president and director of sales of the Columbian National Life Insurance Co. Fred comes back from California, where he was vice president in charge of the agency department of the Pacific Mutual Life. He started out just after College with the Travelers in Hartford.
Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co. of Buffalo, N.Y., announces the promotion of LewisG. Harriman Jr. to assistant vice president. Lew was in the bank's investment department. Active in community affairs, he has served as chairman of the board of Community Relations. He is a past president and director of the Buffalo Junior Chamber of Commerce, has been active in Community Chest and also chairman of the leadership training committee of the Buffalo Area Council Boy Scouts of America. He is a past vice president and treasurer of the Nichols Alumni Association and past treasurer of the Dartmouth Club of Western New York.
Last month I very briefly recorded all the dope which had come in on Tom Macey's new appointment as manager of services for the Stanford Research Institute. Tom will be in charge of business administration for combined activities in Southern California, soon to be relocated in South Pasadena. At present physical sciences research is being carried on in laboratories maintained by the Institute in Pasadena for the past seven years. An engineering staff has operated a laboratory atop Mount Lee in the Hollywood hills since early in 1953. By late spring SRI's Southern California research activities will be centralized at the former Beckman Instruments Laboratory in South Pasadena.
Before joining SRI, Tom was with the Remington Arms division of E.I. duPont de Nemours, plant manager for an operation grinding metallic magnesium powder for Army Ordnance, and San Francisco sales representative of the Lunkenheimer Co., an eastern manufacturer of valves and engineering devices.
A nice note from William Bronk, sage of Hudson Falls, reminded the secretary of the Faegre appointment and rather plaintively requests the address of some member of the Class residing in Guatemala or Yucatan, since friend Bronk is away to those parts shortly and desires to scrutinize various Mayan relics. With its customary efficiency this department hereby notifies brother Bronk of the presence in the American Embassy in Guatemala City of Franz E. Krell.
Hitting the women's luncheon, creamed chicken on patty-shells, circuit, has been AllenE. Boerker of the Cheshire, Conn., High School. He has been giving illustrated talks before garden clubs, on conservation. Last summer he attended a workshop in conservation at the University of Connecticut on a scholarship awarded by the Cheshire Garden Club. His interest in'the problems of conservation led him to give a course in that subject to Cheshire Boy Scouts.
Due to various unfortunate circumstances relating to coaching junior varsity hockey, I was unable to make the last New York dinner. Scotty very nobly has sent along an account of the meeting. Present were: Mallory, Duckworth, Woodman, Casler, Herbert, Bliss, Wynkoop, Richmond, Blaney, Frick, Tanis, Kindergan, Reeve, and Graham White. Graham is obviously having his last fling before nuptials close in on him. About the only thing of any consequence to come from the meeting was a proposal to have a joint gathering with '37 and '39 in the spring with a guest speaker from Hanover; a committee is working on the deal now.
Lou Frick and John Kindergan have discovered that two proposed routes for a new New Jersey super highway will either plunge through Lou's living room or bisect one of John's industrial developments. Scotty very modestly lets slip the dope that he designed the jacket for Herman Wouk's little gold mine Marjorie Morningstar.
Adrian Weiss, real estate entrepreneur of Roslyn Heights, Long Island, brings me up to date on his family, - Bonnie, 6, and Pat, almost 5. He reports he's been fortunate enough to have built quite a few homes on Long Island during the past few years. Incidentally, he is somewhat familiar with the local scenery of Pawling, having convalesced from jaundice here with the Air Corps.
By now Scotty's corps of agents, assistant agents, and other executives will be in full blast attempting to regain the former eminence occupied by 1938 in Alumni Fund matters. The easier you can make their job, the better; so get your check in early, make it bigger than last year, and get your friends on the ball, too.
Secretary, Trinity-Pawling School Pawling, N.Y.
Treasurer, 406 Peck Rd., Geneva, Ill.
Memorial Fund Chairman,
