1935
For April we report various. '35 social and business notes from all over
When George Colton was in Washington, D. C., recently, Frank Specht (now there with Schenley Distillers), rounded up a few '35ers for a short beer at the Statler Men's Bar. In evidence were Hugh Wolff, Ed Offutt, SteveDorsey and Lowell Haas. Dorsey, Haas reports, has a strategic job in the State Department's Economic Section, helping supervise our touchy relationships with North Africa, the Near East and Southeast Asia. He's slated to take off on a six-week tour of these troubled spots, and is probably en route as this appears.
Bobb Chaney made one of his sudden der scents upon New York recently, and your correspondent and wife Nell were glad he stopped working long enough to come around and have dinner with us. Hadn't realized, somehow, that the BBD & O Minneapolis office, which Bobb heads up, is the ad agency's biggest outside of New York.
Bob Lewis elated over son Dann's enrollment in Class of '59. Bob's gone in for curling, plays every week with Bill Adams at the Winchester Country Club in Mass.... GeorgeColton tells us that Bill Hands, who now lives in Lima, Peru, was stateside recently and hurried to Hanover, where he has a son in the Freshman class.
Harry Deckert gives us the word from St. Louis:
"Frank Cornwell, Boyd Rogers and DannyKerwin will join me tonight with Football Coach Will Volz, to look over some local material for the Class of '60. And that '60 will make it an even 25 years, bless my gray old locks."
A Haddonfield, N. J., postmark from BobKugler (with Campbell Soups), who has bought a summer hideout on Long Island, just a few dunes from John Glavis.... Congratulations to Charlie Lebeaux, who's just copped a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Michigan "after eighteen years of off-and-on effort." He's also wound up a lengthy monograph on Industrialization and SocialWelfare, sponsored by a grant from Russell Sage.... Sam Rees is with Haskins and Sells, CPA's in Kansas City, says he has "same wife, same two children, more gray hair, and a slightly larger waist."
Good to hear from our former class prexy,Don Hagerman:
"Still plugging along as Headmaster of Holderness School in Plymouth, N. H. We are sending between one and three boys to Dartmouth each year. Get over to Hanover to see Link Washburn,George Colton, Don Cameron frequently. Understand Biddy Chase is new manager of radio station WTSL, just south of Hanover. Hear Bill Adams and Rand Stowell doing well."
Ralph Westby tells us that, after 21 yearsat Filene's in Boston, he's shifting to Rosecrest Mfg., as controller.... Dick Sleep issales representative for the Milwaukee Downing ing Box Company, lives in Evanston, Ill. Sees a lot of his old roommate, Guy Briggs, who's just been made Comptroller o£ the Electromotive Division of General Motors at La Grange.... Henry Topkis has been made one of the three members of the Delaware Interstate Highway Commission, charged with supervision of the Delaware Memorial Bridge. ... Fred Kayser is still at Bucknell University, putting ROTC cadets through their paces. Expects to be there another year.... Ty Carlisle and his two brothers are teamed in a thriving retail business in Ashtabula, Ohio. Says he sees few classmates, but was pleased to bump into Bill Hawgood in Cleveland awhile back.
A long letter rolled in from Sandy Stein:
"You deserve some news at least once in twenty years. After four years in the Navy, continued at sea with the Merchant Marine, sailing some ten years with the Grace Line. Completely satisfactory life for a bachelor, but a girl named Ellen changed all that, also advent of son 'Putt-Putt.' End of last May, I came ashore and, like Leacock's angry young man, jumped on my horse and galloped off madly in all directions.
"Landed at The Ford Motor Co.'s new assembly plant in Mahwah, N.J., where I'm titled General Foreman, supervising material transportation within the plant (forty acres under one roof). Hoping to discover what it is really all about before they discover that I don't know what I'm doing. Gradually getting used to the perpendicularity of walls, though in coming ashore, believe I've lost my only claim to distinction, that of being sole voluntary seaman in the class.
"Only classmate I've seen is Akin French, and that was two years ago when we crashed into each other in the lobby of his office at 25 Broad St. in N.Y. Understand he's given up Maritime Law for general practice with "Wood, Werner, France and Tully, has a considerable family, lives in "Westchester. Certainly has an acute memory, to remember my name."
If you happen to be in Hawthorne, Mass., and develop a sudden craving for candy, look up Galo Emerson, who's running his own Putnam Pantry Candies. However, between batches of fudge, he also manages to be president of the local Chamber of Commerce, director of the Rotary Club, the North Shore Tourist Council, the New England Confectionary Assoc, etc. Has two boys, 9 snd 4.
Chuck Moon gives us news from Detroit. He's a faithful member of the local Dartmouth Club (of which his brother, '42, is president) and regularly sees Rem Ryder,Dave Williams and Bud Hulett... . Come May, Wiley Hubbell will be shoving off from Schenectady for Roanoke, Va. His Industry Control Department at General Electric is building a new plant down there and Wiley's building a new house.
Tom Kroner is now titled Associated Scientist at the Research Labs of the United Shoe Company in Beverly, Mass... . Yank Price is tackling new frontiers, having just formed a manufacturing outfit for men's shirts, both sport and dress. Offices at 237 Madison Ave. in N. Y., factory in New Haven Brief but cheerful note from Dr. Bud Childs: "No news except this baby business is here to stay." Prolific town, that Buffalo, and Childs' obstetrical successes make it all the more so.. .. Dean Couper, an auditor with the Army Dept., writes that he's bowling once a week on the Alumni team in the College League. Says he sees Lowell Haas at most of the D. C. Alumni meetings, does a lot of swimming with Ed Offutt in the summer.
Census notes: Don King is boasting about his new baby, Kathryn Mary, second girl and sixth child, and Harold Orenstein is publicizing the birth of his third son, Neal Lee.
Barney Tomlinson, busily contracting buildings all over Conn., fills us in on some missing men. He had a card and photo from Harry Marchmont-Robinson., who's doctoring very successfully in Chicago and is the pappy of three sons. Barney also heard from BobMorse, and reports his architectural-engineering firm is flourishing in Cleveland. BenWheeler sticks with the investment business in Springfield, as Investment Supt. for Mass. Mutual. Has twin daughters.
Will Ogg really gets around, covering thirteen states as district manager for the Chicago branch of Norton Grinding Machines. Son Robert is a freshman at Hanover. How's your golf game, Willie? ... Harry Griffith quit smoking, stacked on forty pounds, but claims his golf game is better than ever.
Gardner Spring and Bud Hulett recently bumped into each other at a bar in Boca Raton, Fla., where they were attending a glass jobbers convention. (Note pic this issue.) Gardy is director of sales for the Syracuse Glass Company (Syracuse, N. Y.), while Bud is now president of National Auto Glass Specifications, living in Detroit.
And with that, your class chronicler will say so long until next month, when he will provide more of the items which so many of you have been good enough to pass along.
Classmates in '35 meet at a convention in Boca Raton, Fla.: Gardy and Karoline Spring (l) and Bud Hulett.
Secretary, 270 Park Ave., New York 17, N. Y.
Class Agent, Libbey Glass Co., 1582 Merchandise Mart Chicago 54, Ill.
