1930
Good news this month on Ted Childs in New York. This Korea Hospital man who for some time now has been Superintendent of the Lenox Hill Hospital, has just recently been appointed President of the Board of Trustees of that Hospital. This is another well-deserved recognition of Ted's outstanding performance in the field. The hospital itself, starting its second century of service, has raised over four million dollars in a ten million dollar campaign and already has enough money to finance the first new building to rise on the corner of Park Avenue and 77th Street.
Another type of accomplishment equally pleasant, I am sure, is that enclosed in the first letter received in years from Joe Epstein who says,
"After all these years I finally have something that is of interest to report in our Class News. On February 23, 1957, I was married to Mrs. Anita M. Fisher, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Markman of Los Angeles, Calif. This is, of course, much more pleasing to me than it will be to the rest of the class. It may have some news value in that maybe I am the last in the class to take this step."
That last statement is almost true, Joe, but we still can remember one or two other fellows who are still trying to get up the necessary courage. Mrs. Epstein is an alumna of The College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., and Joe, a former president of the Family and Children's Society, is a partner in the law firm of Stamler & Epstein.
My right-hand woman, Gwennie, contributes two items this month. One is due to the fact she happened to notice a most attractive picture of a Boston debutante, named Sally Ryder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Clark Ryder of Cambridge. Sally graduated from Foxhollow School, is now attending Barnard College and is a provisional member of the Vincent Club.
My wife's other scoop comes in pointing out in a recent issue of Vermont Life, a picture of the very attractive new modern home of John and Ellie French, up above us in Woodstock, Vt. The article featured several modern houses and how they had fitted into the Vermont way of life.
From Hanover comes a long list of new class addresses:
Stanton M. Osgood, 432 South Curson Avenue, Apartment 11-F, Los Angeles 36, Calif.; George D. Crosier, Comptroller (CIV) Naval Ammunition Depot, Hastings, Nebr., 810 N. Lincoln Ave., Hastings, Nebr.; George E. Franson, 61 Bluff Ave., Rowayton, Conn.; Ellis W. Gilbert, 5103 Willow Glen, Houston 21, Tex.; Robert A. Jordan, 38 Devindle, Waban, Mass.; T. Paul Maguire, 1011 sth St., Miami Beach, Fla.; Milton L. Patterson, PAA Technical Assistance Program, 1101 New Road, Bangkok, Thailand; Robert H. Ryan, Box 373, Montpelier, Vt.; George E. Simpson, Hotel Sutton, 330 East 56th St., N.Y.C. 22; Alden W. Smith, P. O. Box 115, Plymouth Meeting, Pa.; Col. Hamilton D. South, Hq. U. S. Marine Corps, Div. of Information, Room 3202, Arlington Annex, Washington 25, D. C.; Dr. Harry L. Stewart, Jr., 799 Carosam Rd., Santa Barbara, Calif.; Donald K. Tasker, General Manager, Marquardt Aircraft, Ogden, Utah, 1323 30th St., Ogden, Utah; John H. Coppock, Banking - 1st National Bank, Attleboro, Mass., 64 Holden St., Attleboro, Mass.; Alexander H. Hughes, 1627 Amberwood, South Pasadena, Calif.; James H. Meikle, 721 E. Pace Ferry Rd., Atlanta, Ga.; Herbert F. Parry, 274 Castle Blvd., Akron 13, Ohio; Lyle H. Rossiter, 795 Crescent, Glen Ellyn, Ill.; George H. Wright, Lock Box 511, Decatur, Ill.
Still in connection with address changes, we are a little bit confused by Walt Rosenberry who sends his class dues in from Washington, D. C., although his present address is Spokane, Wash.
You people who follow the market closely must have been interested to see in the New York Times a few weeks ago a write-up of a talk given by Fred Page, Vice-President of Tri-Continental Corporation to the Oklahoma Utilities Association in Tulsa. He in effect said, as the newspaper reported, "Rights are all wrong." For further information on this subject, we refer you directly to Fred.
Two clippings have come in this month which continue to show 1930 men as being very photogenic. The first is of Judge John P. Keating down in Stamford where he is heading up the Easter Seal Drive; and the second featured a picture of Gil Lowery participating in a testimonial committee meeting in Nashua.
A friend in New York reports that Vic Borella addressed the Dartmouth Downtowners Association in February and gave the boys some of the background on the increasingly successful performance of the Hanover Inn.
One of the first summer vacations we have heard of is that of Fred Bowes family. They are planning quite a trip beginning next month. Fred will then take what is known in the Pitney-Bowes Company as the "anniversary vacation." This means that on reaching 25 years with the Company, everybody gets three months' vacation with pay and the same, every fifth year thereafter. This applies, Fred tells us, to all employees from the President clear on to the sweeper and the trucker. Although Fred had to delay his for two years, he, Priscilla, and the boys, will "see America first." They will motor out to the West coast by way of Grand Canyon and back through Montana for two weeks' stay at a ranch, taking about eight weeks altogether. At the same time we received word from another source of the fact that Fred had been a recipient of a "Boss of the Year Award" at the Awards Dinner of the Stamford Junior Chamber of Commerce. The Boss Awards are given on the basis of participation and leadership in community affairs, cooperation and good human relations toward fellow employees, and evidence of personal or business progress in contribution to the Junior Chamber program. Seems to us 1957 shapes up very well for the Bowes family.
With the news of Dobbin Granger's appointment as Treasurer of the Southern Berkshire Heart Fund comes equally gratifying news of his having been elevated to the position of Treasurer of the Great Barrington Savings Bank. He has been with the Savings Bank since 1952 and with his wife and three children lives in North Egremont, Mass.
While we all know you are well aware of the fine job Fred Watson and his Class Agents are doing on this year's Alumni Fund, we'd like just to point out once more how much those boys will appreciate it if you will get in your contribution right now. Nothing will help the performance of the class in the 1957 Alumni Fund Drive any more than this — except, of course, that you increase your con- tribution also.
Secretary, Reading, Vt.
Class Agent, 1501 River Rd., Wilmington 3, Del.
