1939
Rheumatism, gout, bow-legs, alchoholism, poverty, disease, mental anguish, nervous tics and all that sort of thing are on the way out of Greater Boston. Helping the Beantown's United Fund shake every good burgher for pennies, from Moon Island to the Saugus line, are two members of the greatest class to graduate from Dartmouth in 1939.
Down in Quincy, Walter E. Martinson, certified public accountant and business consultant, will serve as chairman of the professional division of the specialties group, whatever that may be. The worthy Mr. Martinson, in addition to casting sevens with the best of them, serves as treasurer of the South Shore Council of Churches, associate director of Boston Chapter of the National Association of Accountants, director of Gamma Delta Chi fraternary lodge club of Dartmouth, and worthy patron of Quincy Chapter 88, Order of the Eastern Star.
Up in the Hub itself, Robert B. Whitcomb of Cohasset, personnel manager for the United Shoe Machinery Company of Beverly, is reported by the Scituate Herald to be chairman of the large firms employees division. The Herald reports that when Mr. Whitcomb is not soliciting stenographers for USMC, he puts in time as a director of the Cohasset Community Center and as den father for the Cohasset Cub Scouts.
In the world of education, three of our members have taken steps, two up and one sideways.
Dr. Robert English of Lebanon, N. H., has left Holderness School to take up a position in the music department at Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vt. Prof. Charles E. Os-good has moved from associate director to director of the University of Illinois Institute of Communications Research. A bit of a moonlighter, Charlie also will serve as a research professor at the Institute and as professor of psychology at the University. Dr. Charles T. Davis, assistant professor of English at Princeton, will spend the coming year sidling over to New Brunswick as visiting lecturer in English at Rutgers.
Another of our educators has given the Word on where to get the geld to get an education. Right out of the front page of the GE Schenectady News, smiling friendly-like from under a snap-brim straw hat with the horse's ear holes sewed up, and hiding his ham sandwich in a genuine saddle leather brief bag, strides GE's Administrator of Corporate Support Programs, J. Moreau Brown. Surrounding Brownie in the News' columns are his As to scores of Qs about corporate support to education. If you'd like to know what General Electric does or your company could do to help employees and their families to obtain higher education and colleges and universities to provide it, Brownie's remarks have been reprinted by GE in pamphlet form. Write to Kenneth G. Patrick, Manager of Educational Relations, Schenectady, N. Y.
Evidence, if . evidence be needed, that times are too good: Bob Kalaidjian, Walt Darby, Bob Jessup, Jack Treadway, Beech Chapin and the aforementioned Brown all were in Hanover recently when they should have been home workin'. All were rocking, but not on the Inn porch, says my informant.
The Rotarians of Reading, Pa., had themselves a unique dessert at a recent meeting. After inhaling the Berkshire Hotel's best filet de sole avec sauce tartare, fresh garden peas and fr. fr. pots., the members rumpled their napkins onto the table, tipped back in their chairs, and eyed that little sign just outside the door while, according to the Reading Times, Dr. Robert H. Clymer, Jr., Reading Hospital staff physician, "described urology."
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. When that feller Brennan on the Supreme Court in Washington tried to shake up E. I. Du Pont de Nemours down in Wilmington, old E. I. he didn't bat an eye. He jes' shifted his quid into the other cheek and shook up his advertising department. The new manager of the new department of advertising for elastomer chemicals, organic chemicals and photo products is Mr. Robb M. De Graff. Robb had been doing adverting for Du Pont since joining the company in 1946. He started as a sales correspondent for Remington Arms Company, a Du Pont subsidiary at Bridgeport, Conn., in 1941. In the Navy from 1942 to 1946, he went to Wilmington as an advertising assistant in the latter year. From 1948 to 1952 he was advertising supervisor for cellophane in what is now the Film Department. He returned to the Advertising Department in 1952 as an advertising manager and in 1954 was appointed manager for the company's television program and general company space.
Ralph Hill, our distinguished member of the Alumni Council, is also associate father of a handsome book about Vermont and Vermonters, calculated to delight anyone who loves the Green Mountain state. "A Treasury of Vermont Life" is, take it not from me but from Norman Cousins, "a masterpiece and a delight to behold." Magnificently illustrated with 40 pages of glowing color reproductions, plus many black and white photographs and drawings ('Nuf ced, fellers?). Five simoleons at all bookstores or mailed to your office address in a plain wrapper by The Countryman Press, Woodstock, Vt.
A clipping from The Times of New York suggests that in the mind of one Victor Spark, at least, Denver, Colo., though growing, still is not civilized. Seems that Spark contended that his 89-year-old painting, "General Sherman's Party," got a hole punched into it while on display at the Denver Art Museum. Seems also that the curator of the museum, Royal B. Hassrick felt that if General Sherman's Party can take it, so can he. He commented to the enquiring reporters, "No comment."
Kiddies, we have reached the bottom of the barrel. Unless a sufficient number of you get promoted, sued or arrested we shall be forced to begin reprinting excerpts from the Yellow Pages or revert to news of The Fat Man. I might add that if you're planning to get promoted, sued or arrested, please bear in mind that there's a considerable lag between the time you name gets into the paper and the time the clippings reach me from Hanover. Time is of the essence. Do it now!
Secretary, Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. 1 Madison Ave. New York 10, N. Y.
Treasurer, 15 Meridan PI., Huntington Station, N. Y.
