1933
In this shortest of all months, we have a general garnish of faces and facts furnished from every corner of these United States for your enlightenment and edification. For instance, Dr. Gene Kaplan's new address in Baltimore 9 is 6304 Shelrick Drive. Speaking of Baltim'r, good 01' Worthington, who knows at firsthand the vicissitudes of class editing, keeps a weather eye on the nation's capital and this month sends along two very interesting newspaper clips concerning activities among the feds.
Chronologically, the first from the Washington Star states that James L. Pimper has been named secretary to the Federal Maritime Board and Maritime Administration. He has been assistant general counsel since 1941. Congratulations, Jim! Please fill us in on the details and scope of your new job and also, for the record, some facts and figures about your marital status - when, where, who did you marry? names and birthdates of children, etc. All we show is that you married in 1938 and have two daughters. Please give with the information and oblige.
Second, that fellow who appears in the news and this column every month, Mannie Sprague, has been selected by President Eisenhower to succeed Carter L. Burgess as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Personnel and Reserve. Mr. Burgess left this sensitive, difficult and tremendously important post on February 1 with a thankful sigh to become president of Trans World Airlines. We know his successor will do a solid and brilliant job. If there are any miracles to be performed, we look for Mr. Sprague to bring them off. We approve Mr. Eisenhower's selection wholeheartedly. Mannie, we are tremendously proud of you and we know that whatever your country demands of you, you will give in brimming measure!
Speaking of Washington reminds us that Bud Madden now works at 316 Washington Ave., Elyria, Ohio, as sales manager of Thew Shovel Co. Bud was recently with a truck shovel firm in Denver. Since we are working our way back east, we shall report that Alfred J. Swan now resides at 13 Mitchell Drive, Great Neck, N. Y. (are you still associated with the law firm of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman & Hays, Al?), and that Don Phinney's employer (Morrison Knudsen Co., Inc.) has an office for the transaction of business (engineering, that is) at 150 E. 42nd St., N. Y. 17. Arriving thus in Manhattan, it is brought to our attention that the New Yorker recently (December 29) sent its "Notes and Comment" man to report on Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. and his outstanding art collection, valued at over five and a half million dollars, and now partially housed in a New York warehouse, from whence parts of the collection are dispatched on loan and tour to leading museums in the country. If you will hark back to the MAGAZINE of June 1956, you will remember a picture (courtesy of Look Magazine) of Walter shown in this very warehouse viewing a part of the collection with Thomas Colt '26.-Looks like we (courtesy of Look Magazine) scooped the N.Y.'er again!
Now we speak of Washington again, but this time the state, and we go to Spokane 1 to report that Alexander A. ("Michael") Selivanoff's present address there is 518 Peyton Bldg. We think he is still proprietor of A. A. Selivanoff Agency but what it does we know not.
Back we come to Branford, Conn., where a picture from the local paper snapped last spring shows Bill Hitchcock, vice-president of the Atlantic Wire Co., with a group surveying a possible site for tennis courts to be donated to the town by Bill's company. Did the deal go through, Bill, so the youth of Branford can look forward this spring to tennis and outdoor basketball? Sounds like high grade community service!
Out Cleveland way, we find Cliff Rosser with a new address at 1947 Taylor Rd. in postal zone 12, and swinging up through DEEtroit, Fred Janvrin has come up from Tennessee to be with the National Produce Division of A. & P., living at 7245 Middle-pointe in Dearborn.
Speaking of Tennessee and the South in general, we have before us a handsome picture, clipped from the Greensboro, N. C., News, of Dr. William Kimball Flaccus, recently made head of Greensboro College's English Department. Kimball, who is also faculty adviser to all student publications, originated the college's first writing workshop because of his belief that his students can derive more benefit through actual writing than by merely reading the works of others. He has published two volumes of poetry, "The Avalanche of April" in 1934 and "The White Stranger" in 1940, both published by Scribner's. This year he plans to publish, after fifteen years of labor on the project, the first critical biography of Edgar Lee Masters, the renowned American poet best remembered for his "Spoon River Anthology." This should be a notable contribution to American letters. The Class is proud of its representative in Greensboro, Kimball!
Staying south for a moment, Bert Thorstenberg has moved out of Washington, D. C., to 3526 S. Wakefield St., Arlington 6, Va., while Charlie Grob hangs his hat at 9501 E. Bexhill Drive, Kensington, Md. Last we knew, Bert was with the V.A. and Charlie was sales manager of Pelzman-Grob Co., Wholesale Warehouses, in Washington.
Popping north, we were in Laconia, N. H., several times last summer but didn't get a chance to look up Jimmy Chesnulevich, who lives at 15 Arch St. What's cooking in Laconia, James? Sliding down to Massachusetts, we picK up a number of brethren who have, for one reason or another, changed their address within the last six or eight months, perhaps the sheriff, perhaps the grass is greener, perhaps to get near to or away from the wife's folks, perhaps. There's Robert G. Freeman, for instance, now at 187 Court Rd. in Winthrop (52), and Gobin Stair now at Wapping Road, Kingston, and Karl M. Scheibe now at 202 State Road, East, Wayland, and Henry W. Hardy at 214 High St., Reading, and Merrill Worthen, P.O. Box 14, Marion. Still in New England, Burt Hack lives in Norwich, Vt., and Howie Porter at 366 Compo Rd., S., Westport, Conn. With a giant step now to California, we have Louis Poitras getting his mail at Rt. 2, Box 2653 A, in Loomis, and Roger Bresnahan, last heard from in Manchester, N. H., now getting his at 1866 Guizot St., San Diego 7.
From Blighty comes news on a beautiful Christmas card from Betty and Norm Crabtree. Norm, until a few months ago manager of Carborundum's Liverpool plant, has changed jobs and is now with W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co. (England) Ltd., Barnet, Hertfordshire and will live in London. He is Chairman and Chief Executive. The former he says is simple, but the latter involves moving furniture, hanging pictures, placating irate customers and several other less interesting duties. He is, however, allowed all the free ink he can use. Nice going, Norm. Even with your inky future, it's nice to hear from you and we look forward to your good words.
Tust received the final bulletin for 1956 on your Memorial Fund. You will be pleased. It shows that through 2 January, 1957, 147 of your classmates have given $62,353.80 to the Fund, not counting pledges of additional funds. Cashwise, we are one year and $5,800 ahead of 1932 and $18,700 ahead of 1934. We have, and have maintained for a considerable period, the best record that any class has ever had for its Memorial Fund at comparable stages of time. It's a tremendous thrill to feel the Class put its shoulder to the wheel and move out into its rightful place among the classes. If your area or region is not yet organized for this wonderful effort, write Don D'Arcy with suggestions or volunteer your services. You, and all of us, will get a kick out of it!
See you next month, you most happy fellas.
Snow now covers the spot but memories arc still green of this informal Call reunion of 1933 men and wives held at the home of Jack and Dorothy Manchester in Hanover.
Secretary, 217 Goundry Street North Tonawanda, N. Y.
Treasurer, Quechee, Vt.
