1944
I feel very contrite when I think of the things I said, and enjoyed hearing, about poor old pitiful Harvard. The only letter I received this month pertaining to the Class of '44 came from a Harvard man, Wally Flynn, whom you might recall as captain of their football team. He writes:
I picked up your January issue of the "Big Green" Alumni mag in the Harvard Club of Boston of all places, and was quite interested in your column. .
In July 1943, I went on active duty in the Navy Pre-Flight with one of Whitey Fuller's Indian Squadrons. Whitey Myers, George Pullium, WemoEpply, Swampy Marsh, Ray Wolfe, Tom Douglas, just to name a few of the 56 wonderful guys. I stood alone as a fine innocent young man from that school on the Charles in Cambridge. I survived and actually became very close to many of those men. In the past years I have seen many of them in various places.
My reason for writing is that I lost contact ten years ago with the guy I was closest to .. . WilliamC. "Sperk" Welch. Is that the Bill of Bill and Helen Welch from Louisville that you mention in your report? Bill was originally from Ohio; a short, blocky dark-haired guy who could drink with the best of them and lick most of the same. I'd give anything to have his address.
Bud Isner and Art Saul were friends of mine in high school and I see Art occasionally; haven't seen Bud since he returned to the hills.
I've never met Wally, but my wife knew him quite well when he worked in N.Y. and reports he's a real fine gent. In gratitude for his letter I shall henceforth speak only kindly of the institution on the Charles.
Warren Sullivan has been stepping the rungs of the success ladder in a nice, orderly fashion. Starting as a salesman for John Wiley & Sons, publishers of scientific and business books in 1947, he was successively appointed assistant sales manager in 1949, sales manager in 1951, assistant vice president in 1955, and has just been elected a member of the board of directors in 1956. Sounds like par for the course.
In these miserable duckboard days here in Ohio, it's pleasant to report that Don andLela Hinckley were able to sneak off for a week in Nassau, and that Bud and NancyCoith shuffled off for a little Florida sun.
Steve Tate and pretty Josephine Hanlon of Westport, Conn., were married on New Year's eve and took off for a Bermuda wedding trip.
Up in Concord, N.H., Dr. Horace Blood has been appointed chairman of the Initial Gifts division of the '56 Red Cross drive. Horace has been active in many civic functions in Concord and is a board member of the YMCA there.
Getting back to the "girdled world" business and what some of our wandering col-leagues are leagues are doing.... Dick Allenby is a seismologist down in Medellin, Columbia; JorgePradilla is also in Columbia, a vice president of the Mercnatil Praco in Bogota; GeorgeCusack is v.p. and general manager of Liquid Carbonic in Mexico City; Dud Wilson is somewhere in Europe, a coptrollerr in the Air Force, with the unlikely alphabetical address USAF HQ TAC CON WG PROV APO 65. Foreign Service Officer Bill Turpin is at Oriel College, Oxford, England; Shih-YuehWang has his own legal consulting office in Hong Kong; Fred Daley up in Quebec, president of the B.F. Goodrich Sponge Products Co.; Don Lindell is manager of an insurance brokerage in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and CharlieFox is definitely home from Arabia, and is director of purchasing for Winchester Electronics, Inc. in New Milford, Conn.
Bill Ard has moved into a new home in Clearwater, Fla., and I hope is finding some time to write some more of those Timothy Dane shockers. Next time you're in New Orleans and want to buy a Pontiac, go on over and see Mad Man Buck. In Buffalo, N.Y., Fred Cohn is secretary and treasurer of the Hugh Johnson & Co. Inc., nothing to do with Blue Eagles. Joe Buckley is instructing at the U. of Minn. Medical School; and down the pike a bit, Bill Davies is a radio and TV announcer for the Milwaukee Journal Co. WTMJ-TV.
Steve Horner is a building contractor in West Orange, N.J., and doing a bit of development speculating. Up in Perkinsville, Vt., Ronald King is with the Famous Artists Schools as an enrollment counselor. Dick Ostberg has been appointed manager of personnel for the Radio and TV Division of Sylvania Electric in Buffalo. Allen Pickard is an instructor at the Army Information School at Fort Slocum, N.Y. Dave Patterson is the general sales manager of the Binghamton Steel Fabricating Co, in Binghamton, N.Y. And just to be different, John Conner is manager of a sheep ranch in Phoenix, Ariz. Bud Troxell is in the oil business down in Oklahoma City, manager of the An-Son Drilling Co.
John Mock is. in Philly, a psychiatrist at the Philadelphia General Hospital. Don Holmes is representing the Wm. S. Merrell pharmaceutical house in Westfield, Mass.
Art Saul got up to Hanover again Hope I'll get a letter from some of you Dartmouth guys this month.
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