1945

Bowdoin College has sent along to me a thumbnail sketch of their newest assistant professor. He is one Giulio Pontecorvo, now ex-associate in the Department of Economics at California. Giulio is a candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy degree at Cal., and has recently completed his doctoral thesis on "The Stock Exchange: Its Role at Various Stages of Capitalist Development." At Bowdoin, our man will teach statistics, business cycles, and the principles of economics. Want to go back to college?

And while I'm up in the great state of Maine, here's another item of class interest dealing this time with Bowdoin's neighbor, Colby College. Another '45, Prof. Dick Gilman has recently been named executive director of the National Council on Religion in Higher Education, according to an announcement made at the Council headquarters in New Haven. A little more information on this organization seems to be in order. It is a non-denominational group including nearly 450 members in its Society of Fellows, representing Protestants, Roman Catholics, and Jews engaged in teaching, educational administration, or related professional work. Our congratulations, Dick.

While I've been chiding, urging and cajoling you to send in your class dues, I find that I have been guilty of gross procrastination. It gave me pause to think: if 100 of us put off paying long enough, we'd procrastinate ourselves out of the Green Derby and the College out of much-needed revenue. I'm sending my check today. Enough of this dilly-dallying!

And here are this month's newsworthy notes from here and far. Ed Martin has been named to the Board of Appeals on Zoning by the Ridgefield, Conn., Board of Selectmen. Ed is employed by the Doman Helicopter, Inc., of Danbury. Hope he has a good supply of crying towels handy. The Board of Appeals for Zoning is likely to be a damp place. BobShaw has an interesting avocation. He is vice president of the Paskack Valley Players of Hillsdale, N. J. Bob Porter is rector of All Souls' Church of Waterbury, Conn. Bob is a graduate of Union Theological Seminary. Our tireless traveler, Bob Allen, assistant secretary of the College, has again taken to the starched-shirt circuit in behalf of Dartmouth. When last located, he was addressing the Dartmouth Club of Central New York at its annual spring dinner. I note with interest that one of the meeting committee was RogerBrown, the man with the "windows" in his head. I've heard of "glass jaws" but...!

And here we go on the where am I's for the month of June. Holden Farrar is resident physician in obstetrics and gynecology at New York Hospital. That past-master of the divining rod, John Foster, is at present twirling willows for William F. Guyton & Assoc., Consulting Ground Water Hydrologists in Austin, Texas. Ludwig Schaefer, exact title not available, is associated with the Department of History at the University of Connecticut and lives in Stratford. That's where they have them Shakespeare things each summer if any of you are theatre minded in a classical way. Art Slaub, practicing medicine in the field of pediatrics, is associated with the Westfield Medical Group in Westfield, N. J. BobZildjian is a cymbal of success. He serves as vice president and director of the A. Zildjian Co., of North Quincy, Mass. I certainly hope he and wife Margaret don't clash at home for I'm sure he gets plenty of that at work. Pretty tinny puns, eh? John Ahearn is construction superintendent for the Hercules Concrete Pile Co., of West Palm Beach.

If these notes seem meager, morbid, marvellous, mediocre, or monotonous, let me know and I'll see what can be done. But above all have faith that better things will be forthcoming in the future. This issue, being my last effort until the fall, represents a flat file and an exhausted mind. I shall return ... in the fall rejuvenated, refreshed, recharged, and redundant, beware! And in the meantime keep things "a moverin'." I think we'd look good in a Green Derby. In the words of my old coach, Go Gettum, "A job well-done is a job that's done well," and "Keep your head up and you won't fall on your face." Sage advice heed it well.

Secretary, Middlesex School, Concord, Mass.

Class Agent, Bunny Bear, Inc., 210 Broadway Everett 49, Mass.