1938
It seems hard to believe that another year of notes has now come to an end, but there at the top of the sheet is the notation "Issue: June". Writing one month ahead of actual calendar date is sometimes an awkward matter, anticipating the passing of time in order not to be completely anachronistic.
For example, by the time this reaches the press, the Fund campaign will be over, and it is beyond the powers of this correspondent to predict the final results. All that can be said until next fall's opening is that Scotty has really put on a "stretch drive" of momentous proportions, aided and abetted by his scores of faithful minions. Sometimes we could wish the other entrants in our Green Derby would do less, but it is a significant tribute to the College and its Alumni that all the classes participating go all-out to meet their objectives. There are few charitable ventures in these United States where so many actively take part and try to root the home team in. Certainly the esprit de corps is markedly different from the usual "drive" in the old home town. As always, thanks, which can never fully express our gratitude to Scotty for the job he does.
Thinking ahead even more than to June, actually to the fall and the coming year, there are many matters which are going to occupy our attention. 1957-1958 is going to be a year of more than usual significance. Primarily there are three matters of great importance to be done during the course of that year: Plans for the Twentieth Reunion, a new slate of officers for the next five years, and the publication of a new Directory.
With regard to the first, a committee must soon be appointed to plan the Twentieth. From the standpoint of availability and activity, the New York crowd would seem to be the logical group from which to draw most of the personnel, some of which must inevitably of course also come from Hanover. If any of the class have any bright nominations to make from that area, or from any area for that matter, drop the secretary a line during the next month or so; I shall hold off making any decisions until fall.
In the past few selections of class officers, perforce by reason of necessity and the time element, the slate has been done more or less on the old "smoke-filled room" principle. If there is any strong feeling as to successors of present incumbents, word should be sent so that it can be presented to the Executive Committee before the reunion. It would be ideal if such preferences could be made available to them well in advance of the actual meeting in Hanover in June of 1958.
Judging from the uses to which the last Directory has been put, it would be a good idea to issue a new one in time for Reunion. Suggestions would be welcome as to content, if desired to be different from the last one; and format, - would, for example, a pocket-sized edition be more useful than the present size? The secretary must confess and predict no more spare time in the coming months than past years and so will omit all things from the questionnaire except those necessary to a complete Directory. If anyone in the class wants to compile other statistics, I should be glad to make the questionnaire more comprehensive.
To turn now to emptying the shoe box for the summer, Wellington ("Duke") Wales advances in the publication field to director of the New York State division of state publicity in the Commerce Department. He was formerly with The New York Times, The Boston Herald, and United Press. He was managing editor of the Auburn, N. Y., "Citizen-Advertiser" for five years and from 1955-1957 managing editor of "Woman's Day," with which, no doubt, your wife is familiar if she shops the super-markets.
Courtesy of Mr. Ernest Earley '18, comes the following:
You probably caught this squib about your J. Clark Mattimore, made a V.P. of Kenyon and Eckhardt, in The N. Y. Times: Mr. Mattimore joined K & E as account executive May 1955, after service as Managing Director of the Independent Advisors Committee to the trucking industry."
I wonder if he advised Jenkins in any way? Dr. Alfred Wolff, a member of the Milford (Conn.,) Board of Education and director of student personnel at the University of Bridgeport, will speak at the sixth session of the Milford Police Training School. Dr. Wolff received his Doctor's degree, E.D. at Teachers College of Columbia University. During World War II he was chief psychiatric social worker at Tilton General Hospital, Fort Dix, N.J. „
"Dr. Wolff is president-elect of the Connecticut Personal and Guidance Association. He will speak on the subject: The Understanding of Mental Illness."
From the "Delaware Valley News," (cir. 1546) comes word of the new vice president and general manager of the Frenchtown (N. J.,) Porcelain Company, manufacturers of engineered ceramics. Tom Macey, formerly with the Stanford Research Institute, joins Frenchtown Porcelain after a 19-year career in business. He has held positions at Remington Arms, Gates Rubber Co., and the Lunkenheimer Company.
Along the lines of public service, Win Mayo has been elected chairman of the board of trustees of the Leominster Public Library. Mr. Mayo is president of the Mayo Agency, Inc. He currently is serving also as vice-chairman of the Leominster Visiting Nurses Association and as a director of the Recreation Center, Inc.
He is also past director of the Leominster Chamber of Commerce, Leominster Red Cross Chapter and Wachusett Council, Boy Scouts.
At the Class Officers meeting, Scotty had a very pleasant coffee soiree, - Earl Ward, Marty King (newest father, a boy, making five in the King menage), Bud Walls, Rev. Bob Harvey, the Ted Hunters, and the Gil Tanis's. You will all, incidentally, see more of Gil in the near future than Hanover will, as he moves out on the road all over the continent for the Development Council.
With all due modesty, the secretary admits to having accepted for next year the position of Principal of Peacham Academy, (near St. Johnsbury). Summer address is somewhat in transition due to waning problems, but come September, I'll be in one of the loveliest towns in Vermont. If your child wants a good, solid education in the heart of the Vermont farm country, send for catalogue (advt).
And that reaches the bottom of the barrel for this year. Shoot any news along during the summer months so that the barrel begins to fill up again. Shoot along also any ideas you may have that should be considered at the Class Meeting in June of next year.
Secretary, Trinity-Pawling School Pawling, N. Y.
Class Agent, 39 College St., Hanover, N. H.
