1943
Hello once again from the land of the bean and the home of the cod, and it finally looks as if we golfers will be accorded the respect that is due us as far as weather is concerned.
This will be the last column until we meet again in the fall so I would like to fill it up with news. The first little squib comes from 3 Avenue Bertie Albrecht, Paris, France, from Carl Batter:
"I'll try to put a little news in your copy.
"Guy Mallet, although I haven't seen him recently, is still in Paris with the government. He still lives in a very nice apartment right on the Seine across from the Louvre. From friends, I understand that he is moving right up in the foreign service world. Dick Pierce is still taking care of American travelers (including some Dartmouth men and families) at American Express. His mother is living in Hanover, as you probably know.
"Gene Roitman is now living in Milano, but he does stop off in Paris for an occasional visit. He is still working on his oboe, and composing music. In Venice last summer one of his pieces of music was played and this winter he has played in several concerts, at all times receiving excellent notices in the local papers.
"As for myself, I married Gilberte Halbardier last November, and am otherwise continuing to work in Paris as a lawyer."
Binney Tower was kind enough to drop me a line and gave me the privilege of using his collection letter. I am sure you all received one so I would just like to publicly state my thanks to Binney. It is a letter to which we should all give our undivided attention and open our hearts and our check books. Binney sounds just like my wife - she always asks for money; what she does with it I never know because I never give her any.
INN AND OUT: Visitors, Budd Wiggin, Needham, Mass.; Stan Priddy, Brookline, Mass.; Doug Kip, Wolfeboro, N. H.
It must take a great deal of courage to be known as a Democrat in Maine, but MurrayThurston is announcing his candidacy from that party for the State Senate. A few reports that should have gone to Stan Priddy have been detoured through my office and if he wants any information about these people, he can read this column just like anybody else.
John Jenkins is now living in New Canaan, Conn. He was married in 1944 and with his wife Mary and three children is now sales manager for the La France Industries, Inc. in New York City. We were very sorry to hear of the death of John's father-in-law, the very-popular Professor Mecklin.
Joe Hurley married Irene in 1945 and has seven children-, including twins born last January. Joe is working for the Martin P. Andrews Co., in Pittsford, N. Y. What he does in his spare time is obvious.
Walt Chisholm married Natalie in 1946 and has produced two offspring, both girls. He is a practicing dental surgeon in Brockton, Mass. He lives quite near Charlie (M.D.) Kane. Walt has been a member of the Registration Board for interviewing and scaring the hell out of the prospective applicants for Dartmouth. He says it's fun to be on the other side of the table during these sessions and still remembers his own harrowing experience back in 1939. (Don't we all.)
Dick Livingston and wife Shirley together since 1943 have managed to make two images. Dick is with the Du Pont company in the manufacture of nylons. What I want to know is where they get those things to fill those nylons? If Du Pont is in need of a plant physician for that department, X would like to apply for the job. Don Clark is living in Hingham with Dorothy and two children. As we have stated before in this column he is art director of one of Boston's outstanding advertising agencies. He rides in and out of Hingham with Paul Rand and also has occasion to see Tom MacElwee and his charming wife Monica.
Jack Holliday and Lianne make their home in Indianapolis and he is working for himself promoting and developing Industrial Oil. Jack tells me that he has just returned from a flight around the world with four other men; visiting virtually every land and every island there is; I'll bet the time it took him to go around the world was no more than it takes us to go from Commonwealth Avenue to the State House, traffic being what it is. Really I don't know why everyone worries so about the Russians invading Boston. Where will they find a parking space?
On opening day of the Red Sox baseball season, I was dutifully" munching on a pregame snack when in came Bob Mara who lives in Watertown and tells me that he is in the investment trust business and from all appearances he must be trusted with a lot of investments. At home he is surrounded by nothing but the weaker sex, three girls and a wife, a female dog, a female cat and a mother-in-law. My sympathy to Bob.
One final note from Jamestown, N. Y., comes from Bud Lasser, who has become a member of the firm of Seidman and Seidman
From your weary secretary comes a wish to have a hale and hearty summer, and when the fall rolls around I hope it will find us still friends and I know it will find your secretary in need of information, so don't be stingy.
Drop me a line with news now and then!
Secretary, 314 Commonwealth Ave. Boston 15, Mass.
Class Agent, Lend Ter., R.F.D. 1, Glastonbury, Conn.
