1929
The school year is coming to a close, the next issue of the MAGAZINE is the last until next fall. But this is the last issue to contain regular class notes as the July issue will, as usual, be devoted to Commencement and reunions. In retrospect, this has been a good year - on the whole. We have had many pleasant occasions, much good news, but also some sad news. We have certainly matured as individuals - and as a group. This is evidenced in many ways - by the jobs we hold and the varied things we are doing well, and happily - and by the highly proportionate support that we give to the College, both last year and so far this year. Our children have grown up, are still growing up, and we are still getting married and having babies as the news of last few months have shown. If all of this keeps up much longer, we're sure that we're going to get word one of these days that we now have an uncle who is younger than his nephew!
We sincerely hope, at this end of the mails, that along with this maturity and this extended era in which we are reaching various pinnacles and making our greatest contributions to our jobs, our families and our society, that more and more of you will throw away your past shyness and let the rest of us share in the genuine pride of accomplishment, the great joys of hobbies or fun that is at last realized, and the serious thoughts, reactions and comments on many things that not only interest you, personally, but many of the rest of us. We hope that the following unsolicited letter will point the way to many more and to many other items of interest that deserve to be recorded in our Class Notes. Hal Hirsch has sent us the accompanying photo and this letter:
"While I haven't written much in past years to our 1929 Class Notes, I read them regularly. I have, however, long been conscious of the paucity of personal photographs in our column compared to photographs printed with the Notes of other classes. So I'm now sending you one.
"The important part of this photograph is the Horse, not I. More important is the horse's illustrious name and the horse's recent record (athletic not scholastic). His name is Lord Dartmouth and the Hirsch family raised him from a colt and are right proud of h,im. He's a thoroughbred, redchestnut color, and we've trained him as a hunter and jumper.
"This past year, in horse shows and field events, he stacked up more points than any other hunter in our state of Oregon, and was awarded our coveted annual Championship Hunter trophy of the Oregon Horsemen's Association. He was also named the year's Reserve Champion of the State by the Associated Hunt Clubs of Oregon. While Oregon hasn't so many people (and really only a few racketeers), it has lots of horses. So those championships mean a lot to Lord Dartmouth.
"The crouched figure on top of the horse is Yours Truly, whose back each year seems a little less limber, and for whom the size of the jumps each year also seems a little higher."
We haven't heard yet how Art Nighs-wander has resolved this unusual predicament — he was recently elected a director of the People's National Bank in Laconia but cannot accept this position, according to New Hampshire state law, unless he relinquishes his directorship at the rival Laconia National Bank.
We have heard, however, that daughter Mildred has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Mt. Holyoke college. She is majoring in French literature, received a Sarah Williston scholar honor for academic achievement during her first four semesters and spent her junior year studying in Paris. In addition, her extracurricular activities include membership on the college lecture and curriculum committees. Art must be justly proud in now having a second Phi Beta Kappa key in the family.
Bob Carr has become general secretary of the American Association of University Professors and will take one year's leave of absence from the College in order to carry out the duties of this office. He goes to Washington in June for one month and will start his formal duties September 1. Bob is presently vice president of AAUP and was a member of the association's council from 1952 to 1954. Bob is regarded as an authority on civil liberties, has published a study of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, and was executive secretary of President Truman's committee on civil rights during the latter part of the last Democratic administration. He has published several books, including "The Supreme Court and Judicial Review" and "Federal Protection of Civil Rights - Quest for a Sword" and numerous articles and reviews. Bob has been quoted in stating that the main work of the AAUP is "in trying to straighten out cases of professors' dismissals where there is involved a question of academic freedom," but hopes the Association will not have to spend as much time in the future considering individual dismissals as it now does and can concentrate more on planning for the future of colleges and universities.
We hear that Henry Sharpe's son, Sumner '58, has been elected treasurer of Pi Lambda Phi for next year. Dud Orr has been named a director of the New England Electric System. Jim Loeb has been appointed to the Whiteface Mountain Authority by New York's Governor Harriman - the Authority serves without pay and operates a toll highway to the top of Whiteface Mountain and a ski area. George Piret, who has been general manager of the letterpress department of the Intaglio Service Corp. and advertising production manager for the past six years for Fletcher D. Richards, Inc., a New York advertising agency, has recently joined the Fellows Advertising Agency of Syracuse, N. Y. Carter Strickland has been elected nearby Oneida's third "Man of the Year." Mai Mather of West Hartford, Conn., has become president of the Allen Manufacturing Company with which he has been connected since 1942. He has previously held the positions of secretary, director and executive vice-president. Lowell Pratt's firm, A. S. Barnes, has recently published the 583-page "Official Encyclopedia of Baseball" which answers all of your questions on baseball, according to the reports received. Gus Wiedenmayer has headed a group of Newark, N. J., investors who, acting in association with the 196-year-old A. W. Faber-Castell firm of Stein bei (near) Nurenberg, Germany, have bought a majority interest in the Newark firm of A. W. Faber-Castell Pencil Co., Inc. from the Newark Welfare Federation in a court-approved action. Gus was chosen chairman of the board. Merv Pallister has been elected secretary of the J. J. Newberry Company - he has been the company's counsel for many years. We don't yet know where he has gone, but Sandy Hume has sold his 95-acre farm on the Iron Works Pike outside of Lexington, Ky„ to Leslie Combs 2d whose Spendthrift Farm is adjacent to Sandy's.
We have heard, with extreme regret, ofBob Fryberger's death in a collision in asnowstorm and our deepest sympathy is extended to his wife, La Verne, and children,Bob Jr., Jeremy, Dates and Cynthia.
Secretary, Center Rd., Woodridge, Conn.
Class Agent, Carpenter Steel Co., Box 662 Reading, Pa.
