1929

Secretary, Center Rd., Woodbridge, Conn.

Treasurer, 1728 Beechwood Blvd., Pittsburgh 17, Pa

Bequest Chairman,

By the time all of you read this, another College year will be under way. The writing of these words, however, is taking place on the Labor Day weekend inasmuch as Class Notes copy has to be in Hanover by the fifth of the month preceding the issue of the MAGAZINE. We bring this to your attention at this time in the hope that it will be of assistance to many of you who will be inclined to send your secretary news clippings about classmates, or even yourself or members of your family, to those of you who can send us a photograph which includes a classmate or yourself (it is the long-time policy of the MAGAZINE to run only that photograph in the Class Notes section which include a member of the class), and, finally, to many of you who will earn our undying gratitude when you take the time to answer one of our inquiry cards or letters.

We are proud to report that several '29ers have been elected to various positions by the Alumni Council at its annual business meeting this past summer. Hal Hirsch was elected a new member-at-large to serve for three terms; Squeek Redding to serve a two-year term; Bill Andres was elected to the Athletic Council for a first term of three years; and Harry Enders was elected representative on the Board of Overseers of the Hanover Inn for the year 1957-58. Committee memberships are as follows: Hal on the Enrollment and Admissions, and the Vocational committees; Squeek on the Alumni Club Activities com- mittee; Harry on the Alumni Fund and Vocational committees; and Ed Chinlund on the Class Gifts to the College committee.

We were pleased to receive a note from George Hersam confirming the fact that he is in his 28th year of flying and still going strong. During the past five years, George has been flying the various planes of the Cornell Dululier Electric Corporation out of Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. His present ad- dress is 597 G Windsor Gardens, Wood-Ridge, N. J. It was also very pleasant, some time ago, to receive a note from Dick Exton advising that he had moved from Atlanta to St. Petersburg, Fla. Dick appears to realize that he is now in the Land of Sunshine, but finds that they also have mosquitoes and that the climate is a little tougher for good hard work than it was in Atlanta. He hopes that any classmates going to St. Petersburg will look Lillian and him up and advises that his address is 4039 Belle Vista Drive, Gulf Beaches, St. Petersburg.

We have recently heard that Ralph Ardiff has been cited for his exceptional sales and service record last year which placed him among the top-ranking members of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's staff of almost 25,000 field representatives in the United States and Canada. We have also heard that Rog Turnbull's son, John, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated last June. He became engaged, this past summer, to Ellen Totas of Bristol, N. H., and is returning to Hanover this fall to attend Thayer School of Engineering where he will earn his Master of Science degree. Word has just been received that last spring Bill Andres was elected president of Elizabeth Carleton House in Boston, formerly the Home for Aged Couples, at the annual meeting of the Corporation.

We were fortunate to learn, during the summer, that Art Clow was named vice president in charge of Public Relations and Personnel of the Western Electric Company last May. Art has been with the Company since 1929 and was works manager of the Kearney, N. J., plant for the past year. Art will now have approximately 150,000 Western Electric employees under his supervision.

Chan Bete, president of Channing L. Bete Company, Inc., publishers of scriptographic booklets, is also Chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, Acting President of the Massachusetts Library Trustees Association, a member of the Massachusetts Library Development Committee and a Trustee of the Greenfield Public Library. We are grateful to Mike Ferrini for a copy of an editorial that Chan recently wrote as a Guest Editor and we believe that you will be interested in this small quotation from the edi torial:

"Pity the poor schoolboy showing up at kindergarten next fall. What a lot he's got to learn! If freedom is to survive—in the Bay State or in any state - citizens must learn more than ever before. They must know more than their parents and their school teachers. They must keep learning all their lives to make democracy survive. How?

"In every one of Massachusetts' 351 towns and cities free public library service is available. These libraries can be the source of information unlimited to the businessman, the voter, the tax payer, the housewife, the do-it-yourselfer, as well as the student. It's true, many of them are not good centers of unlimited information today - but many of them are and the rest can be made so. For example, what is more important to the businessman than quick access to facts? What does he want to know - a source of supply? Ideas for equipment or processing? Sales methods? New product data? Markets? In his library are directories, phone books, atlases, manuals, encyclopedias, business textbooks, stories of successful businesses. Anything man has ever done and recorded can be learned by anybody via his local library. All he has to do is state his problem and ask his question - trained librarians are at his service to produce the answers."

It is, with extreme regret, that we report the death of Fred Sisson. We extend our condolences and deepest sympathy to Mrs. Sisson, Penelope and young Fred. For further detail, please turn to the In Memoriam section.

Richard W. Schmelzer '28 has been namedGeneral Secretary of the Administration atRensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has beenon the faculty since 1929 and has headed thedevelopment program there since 1951.