1939
Here I'd been thinking we'd cleaned up all the news of the Midwest for that feller whatsis-name out in Cincinnati. Then the other night, for lack of something better to do, I went for a crawl under the living room rug and there, to my intense delight, came upon a small parcel of replies to our 1955 Valentine message. So now let it be known that:
Ray Newton beds himself down in Birmingham, Mich., when not making sparks fly around the Detroit Diesel Engine Division of General Motors Corp. A sales executive, Ray sports an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, a wife, Mary, a daughter Mary (11), and a son Terry (7).
Another wheel in the Motor City is Eliot W.Reynolds. What Newton sells for G.M., Reynolds buys for Ford. An S.B. from M.I.T. as well as an A.B. from Dartmouth, he is senior buyer for the Lincoln-Mercury Division, generously sharing all those cases of free cigarette lighters that come in every Christmas with his boss Billie and their three youngsters, Nancy, Deborah and Robin (12, 7, and almost 5).
Over across the waters in Chicago, AllenHazen is a civil engineer with the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific R.R. Among his other accomplishments are a wife Lenore, a family (Rebecca, 16, Allen, 14, and David, is) and membership in Committee 16, "Economics of Railway Location & Operation" of the American Railway Engineering Association. Also in Chicago, Harry Edmondson provides support for Kay, and for Jan (9) and Eric (15 mos.), as sales manager for American Molded Products, a top-drawer plastics outfit. And Hank White, long-time first citizen of Hingham, Mass., now manages the Chicago branch of Inland Steel Products Co. and, with Elaine's help, tries to manage young Hank, Gail Melissa and Randy (8, 6, 3, and 2). .
In K.C., Mo., there are the Athletics, JackSchrage and Paul O'Brien. Jack is sales manager of Sherwood & Co., husband to Joan and father to twin 12-year-olds, Patricia and Virginia. Paul is staff optician at U. of Kansas Medical Center, owner of Paul's Optical Dispensers, husband to Mimi and father to Paul, 11, and Diane, 9.
Over East a bit we have Hoosier hotshots Harriet and Joe Urban (auditor of Indiana Bell Telephone Co.), Marguerite and LouHighmark (legal eagle first class and president of the Dartmouth Club of Indianapolis) and, Mondays through Fridays, Roy White (business management - from Cleveland, conducting his inquiries into the inner workings of Indiana's state government). They're all in Indianapolis. Farther down, in Evansville, Austin Igleheart is major domo of International Steel Co. According to my W.C. Fields filing system, Austin and Jeanne have four little Iglehearts, Austin III, Harford, John and Walker (13, 10, 7, and 5); the Urbans have Roger, 12, and Douglas, 7; and the Highmarks have young Lou, 12, and Duncan, 7.
Back in Chagrin Falls, 0., Millie White has Bobbie, Jackie and Pattie (8, 5 and 2, and all female) and, on Saturday and Sundays, Roy. Also in the Cleveland area, the former Bettie Bailey keeps the home fires burning for another Skunk Hollow trained man. Jack Whipp, and their son David, 13. The Ripper, having turned in his suit after two wars with the Marines, is now growing his first paunch as Central District Office Manager of Harris-Seybold Co.
And finally, back in Cincinnati, if Bro. Warrener will just look behind him he will find H.P. Fischbach Jr. M.D., standing there with saw and hatchet and welcoming smile. Apparently, Howie has been there all along with wife, Scotty, and offspring Phil, 11, Linda, 7, and Connie, 6, just cuttin' and stitchin' and raisin' merry hob in some outfit called the Symposiarchs.
And now, back where the West begins, we learn from the Independent (Circ. 10, 441), that Richard M. Wyman Jr. has been elected a director of the Framingham National Bank. A pa.st president of the New England Nurserymen's Association and the Eastern Association of Nurserymen, Mr. Wyman is an officer of Wyman's Garden Center - "Where U Bot the Geranium," well-known Worcester Turnpike shrubberie, just opposite Eddie Mitton's carbuncle. In addition to shrubs and cain, Mr. Wyman raises, with Betsey's help, Ann, Sally and Jane, 9, 7 and 3. In his new eminence, Our Director will always be happy, I am sure, to co-sign notes for any '39ers passing through town. Just stop in at the Friendly Framingham National and ask for Moose.
From the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram (Rep.) we learn that State Senator C. Henry Glovsky has been appointed a member of the Massachusetts Crime Commission. C. Henry, who also is a chairman of the legislature's join! Labor and Industries Committee, is a lawyer by profession. However, he also has done time at the London School of Economics, which may account for the fact that he "has consistently supported the recommendation of the Crime Commission ... for $150,000 to carry on its work... The Senator makes his home in Beverly with the former Nat Tarlow and their three sons, John, Mark and Alan, 12, 8 and 4.
In the American Banker (New York, N.Y.) it says that Ralph Sperry, assistant vice president and branch manager for the Bridgeport-City Trust Co., has been honored for his volunteer work with the Small Business Administration during the disastrous floods of 1955, helping to get financial aid to Connecticut businessmen, even before the flood waters had receded. Of course, thrashing about in the water is old stuff to Ralph, for he is accustomed to while away the golden hours sailing a Lightning on Long Island sound, when not busy presiding over the Greater Bridgeport Junior Chamber of Commerce, serving as secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Bridgeport, or bringing free samples home from the bank to Charlotte, and young Ralph, David and Susan (7, 5 and 2).
The weekly poop sheet from Hanover tells us that Howie Chivers will direct the development of the College's new ski area at Holt's Ledge, in Lyme. It appears that the Trustees have recognized the inadequacy of Oak Hill and arranged, as a start, to purchase some 600 acres of forest primeval for development with trails, tows, snow and all that sort of thing. The whole shebang will cost $125,000, but Howie doesn't have that much cabbage to play around with just yet. There's only $30,000 in the kitty at this writing, leaving a $95,000 tax deduction available for the asking on a first come, first served basis. (Quit shoving!)
Another clipping, from the White Plains (N.Y.) Reporter-Dispatch, tells us in characters clear that Peter S. Cardozo has been named vice president of Fuller & Smith & Ross Advertising Co., down in the City, after teaching at Dartmouth and the University of California, writing for the moving pitchers in Hollywood, working as a television story editor for parties unstated, serving as associate editor for Life and Look, and putting in "year years" (sic) with F & S & R, as supervisor in the radio-TV department. The new VP has three heirs ap- parent, Peter, Pam and Christopher Robin (13, 10 and 2) and, of course, a wife, Barbara. Between the dark and the daylight he stages magic shows for children and runs his own toy business.
Dick Brooks continues to draw a favorable press. Most recently, the Tulsa (Okla.) World, in a two-column biographical sketch, observed that "critics have not considered his ambition unreasonable. He'd like to make the Jackson Twins the best loved comic strip in the world." Around our house, at least, he's achieved his ambition and, in the process, made me a person of no little consequence. Not being a reader of the funnies, I hadn't been aware that the Twins appeared daily in our local paper, until I overheard half a dozen of the bubble gum set loudly agreeing one day that they loved them best of all. Whereupon I let drop, in my best offhand, man-of-the-world manner, that the author-artist was an extremely close acquaintance who rarely did anything without my advance approval. Gloria in excelsis Dei! They've even offered me a seat on the Board of the Roslyn Rock and Roll Society.
Bill Mason has been appointed sales planning coordinator in the Office of the Vice President in Charge of Sales of I.B.M. Co. Bill joined I.B.M. in 1946, after service in the Navy as a flight officer, and prior to his most recent promotion had risen to manager of the company's Springfield, Mass., office. It pays to THINK!
And in conclusion let us observe that those of us who feel that it's not the work load but the constant interruption that keep us as pert as yesterday's pancakes, will no doubt receive a hearty Amen from the Rev. Bob Thomas.
Formerly West Coast district manager, Robert Cushman '39 has been named assistant tothe sales manager of Grinding Wheels, Norton Company, in Worcester, Mass.
Secretary, American Bankers Association 200 Madison Ave., New York 16, N.Y.
Treasurer, Empire Trust Co., 120 Broadway, New York 5, N.Y.
Memorial Fund Chairman,
