1935
At the calculated risk of sounding like a cross between Burton Holmes and the international set, may I modestly announce that I am penning this opus on my way back from a weekend in Italy. Was escorting a plane-load of newsmen - to see the 1,000,000th Vespa motor scooter rolled off the line at Pisa. It was quite a three-day wingding. Besides the press outfit, Vespa imported 500 distributors from such wildly diverse locales as Texas, Egypt, South Africa, even Bangkok, so help me, and played host to them in Rome, Milan, and Pisa. All very colorful, especially one tense moment. It was discovered, a little too late, that the reps from Israel and Egypt were seated side-by-side in one of the chartered busses en route to the plant. Much bated breath, until a happily oiled non-partisan reeled up and said, "Peace. This is business." Israel and Egypt thought this over for a moment, bowed, smiled at each other, and seemed to enjoy thoroughly the rest of the journey.
Down to business. I'll sandwich in as much as possible, as this column will be hibernating 'till fall....
If you haven't heard it by now, it's time you did. George Colton has been appointed Assistant Director o£ Development at Dartmouth. Can't imagine anybody better equipped for the job Hope most of you saw Harry Ackerman's latest color TV spectacular. An hour and a half of Noel Coward's The Happy Breed.
At the April Dartmouth Awards Dinner in New York, spotted Ernie Draper, Art Bamford and Carl Funke Harris Reynolds, at the urging of his Newton, Mass., supporters, resigned his assistant attorney general post to seek nomination for Governor's Counselor.... Oliver Knode selected to head the 1956-1957 Chicopee Community Chest drive in Mass.
Letter from Ed Mitchell, now titled Regional Manager of the Texas Company (Caribbean) Ltd.:
"Enjoying living in Jamaica, took a little adjustment after five happy years in Haiti. About fifteen or eighteen American couples here, no '35ers unearthed as yet. Oldest daughter Sandy has just been awarded substantial scholarship at Shipley in Bryn Mawr. Hard to believe we have a daughter entering high school, with Junior expected in July. Peggy and I recently celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary, along with my 20th year at Texaco."
A clipping from The West Indian Sportsman informs us that, prior to Jamaica, Ed lived in Accra on the Gold Coast, Casablanca, Port au Prince, speaks fluent French and Haitian "creole."
Charlie Benton, speechmaking for IBM at East Tennessee Section of the American In- stitute of Chemical Research.... Congratulations to Malvin Gelof on his marriage to Betsy Hirschmann of Baltimore.... Carlyle Crane in the New Jersey Primary, running for the State Senate.... Bob Ferry left the Maxon Advertising Agency and moved to Kudner as a V.P.... Dick Miller writes he spends November to May in Phoenix, Ariz., does business in White River Junction from May to November, and spends the month of June at a lake cottage in Fairlee, Vt.... Rey Moulton postcards he's the new president of Bradish-Young, one of Portland, Maine's oldest insurance agencies.
Mail - all interesting - excerpts herewith.
From Dick Halvorsen in Alaska:
"Argosy, NBC and Popular Science brought me here, then on to the Pole. For keeping in shape, I recommend the Arctic Survival Course, which I survived, though the shape is debatable. Between 30 and 40 below most of the time."
(En route to Alaska, Halvey put up for a night with Fred Haley in Tacoma, Wash. Haley's now president of the Tacoma School Board.)
From Win Garth in Georgia:
"The home airport sure looked good to me after a speedy two weeks in England, Scotland, Switzerland and Spain. Stopover in the Azores. Family well. Not out to compete on size any more. Any classmate with over five boys and a girl, hats off - and my sympathy."
From Martin Waters' .good wife, Onalene, in Germany:
"He's just so busy, so I'll take over. We've been here since December 1954, expect to be reassigned to Heidelberg in June for a year and a half. Living here is so hard to take! With maids at a hundred marks a month ($25) I'll be spoiled rotten. Sure he'd write if he got a '35er letter addressed to Lt. Col. M. J. Waters, HQ 47th Inf. Regt., APO 35, N. Y., N. Y."
From Ted Harbaugh in Illinois:
Dick Muzzy is national president of Tri-Kap Alumni, also an official in National Confectioners' Assoc. Met Mel Rothschild and heard about his car leasing enterprise, specializing in fleet contracts. Jack Kingery is a Winnetka neighbor. Saw DickSleep in Evanston. He's doing fine in that paper box business."
All the Class of '35 extends the deepest sympathy to the wife and widow of MurrayBeiley. It is difficult to grasp the fact that anyone so active and in seemingly good health should die with such tragic suddenness. An obituary on Murray is in the back of this issue.
News Briefs.... Sanford Parsons, v.p. of Granite Trust in Mass., announced his. company will be active in "Operation Home Improvement," a national program sparked by President Eisenhower.... Russ Erwin is sticking with that high school job in Fall Village, Conn. Has five children.... Tom Swift, already flourishing in the California poultry business, designed a new type cage. Can house a couple of thousand more egg-laying hens in same space Al Tacy's salesmanship isn't hurting the distribution of Cadillacs and Olds out in Oakland, Calif Cramp Carrick says he still headquarters in Keene, N. H., but his work takes up a lot of flying time. Squanders free time on skiing and hunting.... StanleyBritten knocked himself out working as campaign chairman for the Red Cross Drive of Westfield-Mountainside, N. J., Chapter.... Law Professor Harold Roitman did some scholarly speechifying at a Boston Board meeting of the American Jewish Congress. Subject: "Are We Losing Our Academic Freedom?"
Occasionally, comes a time when you feel you can toot your own horn. I'm tooting it in this case. The Milburn McCartys have just adopted a year-old baby boy, named him Scott. Weighs 22 pounds, blue eyes, broad smile, stubborn as hell, and a complete delight to have around.... Bob Williams is running a distributorship of Capitol records and DuMont TV sets, blanketing the Montana territory.... Bill Fitzhugh and son hit Hanover recently, on a tour of prep schools, and had dinner with George Colton. Bill had just come back from Mexico City and says BeachRiley is doing fine with his textiles down thataway. ... Hear Howie Chase is making everybody pleased as manager of WTSL radio station in Hanover, what with revamping commercials and finding some happy medium between the wild west and somewhat more cultural offerings.... If you don't feel well, need an operation, see Morrie Heller for the anaesthesia. Anyway, that's what Colton says. And he ought to know, because Morrie did same for him prior to surgery last winter.... Ed Hinman just made v.p. and director of the Canadian International Paper Co., headquarters in Montreal.
That about winds it up until the October issue. If any of you '35ers sent in some stuff that hasn't appeared in the column, it either came in too late for the space allotted, or the penmanship was wholly undecipherable. (That's no joke, son.) Decipherable or not, I couldn't have put out any column at all without your help. Will need more of same next Fall. Have good sunburns!
Secretary, 270 Park Ave., New York 17, N. Y.
Class Agent, Libbey Glass Co., 1582 Merchandise Mart Chicago 54, Ill.
