1936
Last month the mail bag was so heavy that some items did not make the notes at that writing. We'll clean up the summer notes at once. Summer vacation news put the following people in the following places: Bob Ingersoll & Vic Kiarsis in Canada on their annual fishing trip.... Bob Prentice and family in the Hudson Bay area.... Pete & Barb Fitzherbert were at Tadoussac on the Saguenay.... Bill & Pat Hoffman and family were at Seaside Heights, N. J the John Wiesmans were on the Connecticut shore with their two daughters, Mary and Constance.... Sub & Harriet Harris were in the New England area from Houston, Tex., where Sub is with the Sylvania Electric Co. ... Morrie Paine and son Hank were in Woodstock, Vt....Dick & Madine Morton at Lake Winnipesaukee ... the Brint Schorers from Hartford, Conn., at Winnipesaukee. ... Gene Anspach & family at Lake Placid ... at Eaton Center, N. H., Nancy and I spent a day with Vin and Gib Wentworth, Gardner and Nancy Schirmer and Ted and Pat Andrew. We all had daughters at camp there who were entertaining us for a family day party.... Ed & Catherine McGrath and four children of Waterbury, Conn., were at the shore in Connecticut. Ed is recreational director of the Naugatuck Chemical Division of the U.S. Rubber C o... Dr. Harry Loud leading pediatrician on the Boston North Shore was at Pemaquid Point, Me., as usual for his vacation.... Ray and Peg Reitman were in Maine and spent an evening with Class Chairman Fitzherbert.... Gage Aborn worked on the finishing of his new home in Hamilton, Mass. Gage says that Rog Morse and family were in Marblehead for vacation. Rog is with G.E. in Madeira, Ohio. ... Boyce Price moved into a new house on Robin Hood Road, Pound Ridge, N. Y.... Cliff and Phyl England moved into their new house at 275 Main Street, Winchester, Mass., and Larry Marx and family moved into the house they designed and built in Purchase, N. Y.
Dr. Bill Stimson (spell it with an M, Stimson) writes a happy note about his new position as Chief of the Medical Service at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in Seattle, Wash. It's a long way from Seattle to the beloved wood lots of New Hampshire and we'll miss seeing the Stimsons in Boston. Bill, look up Lee McGonagle at 13038 Edgwater Lane, Seattle, and tell him that Don MacNeary, Matt Marks, HenryMascarello, Barney Cutler, Norm Allen and I want "a little philosophy" from him along the lines he used to give it out about 22 years ago. The Stimsons' new address is 1131 14th Avenue S., Seattle 14, Wash.
The National Bank of Toledo, Ohio, has called upon Dune Newell to head their new enlarged Trust division. Dune resigned as vice president and trust officer of the Portland First National Bank in Portland, Me., to assume his new post on Sept. 1. From 1938 to 1950 he was with the Old Colony Trust Co., Boston, in the investment analysis department and later as assistant investment officer supervising trust account portfolios before he moved to Portland in 1950. Dune is a past president of the Boston Junior Chamber of Commerce, vice president of the Corporate Fiduciaries Association of Maine and president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Maine. His new home is at 345 East Front St., Perrysburg, Ohio.
In Detroit, Don Williams has been appointed district manager for the Graybar Electric Company. He's been with them since his graduation from college. Since 1950 he has been manager of construction sales.
At the class meeting in Hanover last spring, Al Gibney, as a gag, identified himself as "Chairman of the 50th Reunion." Of course, as you know, he has accepted the chairmanship of our 25th, and he and Eloise were surveying the activities of other reuning classes and making advance plans for our 25th. Pete Fitzherbert, Dink Gidney,Frank Weston, Kirk Liggett and I, who were in Hanover at the same time, accepted Al's self-identification, so our class is all set with a good chairman for our 50th when the time comes. Al has just written me a letter on Gibney and Barreca stationery which is his own advertising agency in Springfield, Mass. He denies nothing. I guess any man who can handle a 25th can repeat for the 50th. Al writes in part.... "I have talked with BobIngersoll and believe we'll have a story to run later on his new venture. Business is brisk here and hope that it is with you. Expect to see Jack Smith next week on his monthly call on Bishop Weldon in connection with the new Providence Hospital which Jack is handling as supervisor for his firm, Eggers and Higgins (architects in New York City)."
John V. B. Sullivan has been made vice president and sales manager of the W.N.E.W. Division of the DuMont Broadcasting Company in New York. This appointment puts our John Van B. in the top sales position of the country's leading radio station. In 1948 he was appointed an account executive with WNEW and prior to this he was with Hearst Publishing, the New York Mirror and radio station WJZ.
Dresser Industries, Inc. of Dallas, Tex., has announced the election of Reece Hatchitt to the presidency of Dresser A. G., European affiliates of Dresser Industries. This company is well known for its oil well equipment. It has expanded into chemical manufacturing in recent years. Reece has been closely associated with Dresser's foreign affairs. He is a member of the corporation's legal staff and for the past three years he has directed the corporation's overseas operations. After Reece graduated from college, he took his law degree at the University of Michigan and for a time lived in Chile where he specialized in foreign sales and other consulting assignments.
A new career has started for the former professor in art history at the University of lowa, John H. B. Knowlton. John resigned at lowa City in June, and has moved to New York to open a studio for portrait painting. He and his wife, the former Joan Aldrich, Vassar '46 and son, Fred, age 4 reside at 11 East 88 Street. John is taking courses at the Art Students League and will open a studio for business soon.
When Ed Higbee's father, Ed Higbee '10, died a few months ago, I wrote Ed pointing out the number of sons of Tenners in our class. The sons are Bob MacPherson, LewisJudd, Joe Kinney, George Cole, ArnoldHatch, Roger Williams, Morrie Paine and our late classmate Bob Lake. Ed wrote me in part,
"Haven't seen too much of the '36ers lately, except Tom Parker and Ted Olson, fellow Hingham residents. We joined a merry throng for cocktails at the Parker's the other night. Ted is active in local athletics and recreation as a member of the Playground Commission in which capacity he has been encouraging some of us oldsters to weekly volleyball thru the winter. He was one of the original sparkplugs in Little League baseball hereabouts."
There was a time when the class baby made news. Now's the time for the class grand-baby; and I believe it's arrived. The honored grandfather is Ted Andrew of Andover, Mass. Ted's daughter, Mrs. Thomas Neal Tillman of Columbus, Ga., gave birth to Helen Joy Tillman some time last winter, so Helen Joy it is, unless some of you fellows can prove otherwise. This isn't exactly fresh news, but Ted's intentions were good, to have written me about it practically a year ago. Great-grandfather is Thomas Edwin Andrew Jr., '08. There may be some debate as to whether a female offspring can be a "class baby." If you don't agree, there's still an opportunity for yours to qualify. Children and grandchildren are always good news so let us know when they happen. Whether they're first or last we love them all.
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