1939
Friends, Romans and countrymen, let us have lettuce!
After searching these many years for news of the smiling sawbones, Bill Lee, I finally find it in the good old Tupper Lake Free Press & Herald:
"Commander William F. Lee, Jr. has been assigned as medical officer to the staff of the commanding officer of the U.S. Naval Reserve Training Center at Scotia, N. Y. (Not Nova Scotia, but Olda Scotia. Famous not for Yarmouth bloaters, but for our Class Agent, J. Moreau Brown. Get it up! Ed.)
"A native of Ithaca, Dr. Lee is a graduate or (you know what) and also of the University or Rochester School of Medicine. He served his internship at Duke University Hospital and received surgical training at the Lahey Clinic in Boston, after which he was resident surgeon, tumor division, at Meadowbrook Hospital on Long Island, and thoracic surgeon at Sunmount VA Hospital here.
"Commander Lee served three years in the Army Reserve during WW II ... and enlisting in the Naval Reserve during the Korean conflict, he served as chief of thoracic surgery at the U.S. Naval Hospital at St. Albans, N. Y.
"A diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and the Board of Thoracic Surgery, he is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons."
From this day henceforth and forever more let us speak only good of F. W. Pritchard, Detroit regional director of the Small Business Administration, and of the Grocer's Spotlight, published every day except Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation in Pritchard's home town. It is through the Spotlight that we learn that Pritchard has appointed Samuel M. Dix, owner of S. M. Dix & Associates, Grand Rapids, to the Region XV Board of Field Advisors of the S.B.A. Sam, who never makes the pants too long, has been owner of the Associates since retiring from the Navy in 1945, the Spotlight tells us. Just what the Associates do, the Spotlight does not tell, but it does give a hint: "Mr. Dix, a licensed industrial engineer, is director of the Grand Rapids Chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants, director of the Grand Rapids Chapter of Industrial Management Society, member of Rotary International and Forest Products Research Society."
A dispatch from The St. Louis Post-Dispatch tells us how a group of citizens of the Mound City, tired of the old order of things, gathered together one day under the Anheuser bush, where all good citizens of the Mound City gather when they grow tired of the old order of things. They decided that what St. Louis needed was a new school, independent, secondary, non-sectarian, interracial and co-educational. with "courses dealing with the spiritual heritage of mankind, and teaching, through the character of the daily life of the school, the importance of nurturing the love of God and understanding of all men." They named their new school, The New School. And then selected as their first headmaster, Sam Powers, for the past eight years a member of the faculty of Casady School in Oklahoma City, master in classical philology from Harvard, Fulbright scholar and, most recently, a student at University of Minnesota under a Ford Foundation grant.
An office manager who doesn't know what's what can still hear Howe, according to a headline in The Sunday Republican of Waterbury, Conn. Last we had heard, Bob Howe, the IBM flash, was safely tucked away with Hass Warrener in Cincinnati. Now it appears that he has been the big cheese in IBM's New England district since January, bedding himself down nights in South Lincoln, Mass., and venturing abroad in his limousine during? daylight hours to such places as Cheshire, Conn., to address such people as office managers on such subjects as "Growing up with Data Processing."
First word we've had of the old downcast downbeater, Robert G. White, since Mrs. Roosevelt was First Lady, comes from The Chicago Tribune. There it is reported that the erstwhile South Wabash hepcat, now an advertising agency tycoon, has been elected president of the Highland Park Community Chest, after service as block captain, vice-chairman, general campaign chairman and member of the board of directors.
And now some chit-chat. Bill McCarthy has been appointed superintendant of Bamberger's-Paramus, which is a store in New Jersey. Herb Furlow is a radio-tv writer for The Daily News in New York. Warren Pinney is president of Tiger Minerals, Inc., down in Dallas, which is in Texas. Mike Davis is an engineer in Schenectady, N. Y., with General Electric's HMEE department. Harry Edmondson is out in Chicago as merchandise manager of Autoyre Co., which makes things like soap dishes. Sam Thurm has switched from Y&R, which is like B.B.D.&0., to Lever Bros., which makes things like soap. Maj. Harvey Yorke is Public Information Officer to the Secretary of the Air Force, which is our first line of defense, along with the Army, Navy, Marines and old time religion.
Bill Carter, president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Northern New Jersey, and working partner of Messrs. Brown, Wood! Fuller, Caldwell & Ivey, solicitors, reports the raising of a tidy sum for the College's scholarship funds by means of an association-sponsored Dartmouth Glee Club concert at Montclair, N. J. He reports that association stalwarts in this endeavour included Skip Morse, Bob Kaiser and Loren Wood. Bill also reports having seen Dick Monahon adroitly maneuvering his croutons at a recent meeting of Peter Tare, Inc., an association of broken-down PT boat skippers, at the New York Yacht Club.
Clem Burnap, late of Philadelphia, Formosa, Louisville and Mexico City, is now with Reynolds International, Inc., in Richmond, Va. Dick Durrance, late of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, is now doing eight-a-day and forty-a-week at Aspen, Colo. Jim Feeley, late of HQ, Div. of Aviation USMC, in Washington, is now an Official Navy Attache at "U. S. Embassy, A.P.O. 85, N. Y„ N. Y." Col. Bill Morris, late of Vietnam, is now holed up in Alexandria, Va. Jack Bowie of the State Department has forsaken Jiddah for Chevy Chase. Ralph Holben, International Economist for the ICA, has left the Netherlands for the American Embassy at Madrid. Dave Long, teaching history at University of New Hampshire only the day before yesterday, it seems, may now be found at Mahakande Estate, Peradeniya, Ceylon.
Also fleeing the sheriff: Fred Tower, from Auburndale, Mass., to Stamford, Conn.; Gus Zitrides, from Berea, 0., to Huntingdon Valley, Pa.; Bill Ormsbee, from Beverley, Mass., to Chatham, N. J.; Murray Bornstein, from Montreal to New York City; George Lugrin, from Rockville Center, N. Y., to Miami, Fla.; Charlie Goodrich, from Manhattan Beach, Cal., to Dayton, O.; Dr. Jack Stewart, from Ft. Harrison, Mont., to Prineville, Ore.: Bill Borsdorff, from Cleveland, 0., to Pelham, N. Y.; Phil Keller, from Chicago to Brookline, Mass.
A note from our hard working Treasurer, Jack Coulson, points out that if we're going to have any sort of class treasury to work with for our upcoming reunion, we'd maybe better pay our class dues. Most of our annual tab of five dollars per man goes to pay the cost of our ALUMNI MAGAZINE subscriptions and, Jack notes, that cost has increased over 50% in the last four years. There isn't much left over for our general treasury out of each five skins paid in. And saddest of all to relate, as of this date only 325 men, about 55% of the class, have paid in their five skins.
A note from our hard working Class Agent, J. M. Brown, points out that June 30 is the deadline for mailing your contribution to the Alumni Fund.
A note from the hard working Chairman of our executive committee asks me to call attention to the fact that the second annual Family Wienie Roast and Salt Water Dunk of The Greater Metropolitan Wienie Roasting and Salt Water Dunking Society will be held on Sunday, June 23, at Gilgo Pavilion, seven miles East of the Water Tower at Jones Beach State Park, N. Y. Membership in the society is restricted to 39ers and their friends who like to take their families to the beach to cavort with other 39ers and their families and their friends and their friends' families. Bring your own lunch. Beer and soft drinks, beach chairs, umbrellas, lifeguards, lockers, showers, sun, shade, water, sand and so forth are provided by the society. Don't forget Sunday, June 23, from 10:30 on, rain or shine!
Secretary, Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. i Madison Ave., New York 10, N. Y.
Class A pent, 25 St. Stephen's Lane, Scotia, N. Y.
