1922
Happy New Year to all the clan everywhere. In this bright new year the class will reach its fortieth birthday. Maybe that is a long time but to us freshmen of 1918 it seems only yesterday.
Our class Chairman, Wilbur W. Bullen, is spear-heading the United Fund in the Newton area. He is administrative chairman of this essential civic activity. Bill has retired from his former business position as vice president and treasurer of the Advance Bag and Paper Co., Inc., Boston. Bill received his college degree in 1922, of course, and got his master's from Tuck School the following year. For the next six years he worked as an accountant with Archie M. Peisch & Co. of Hanover. He became a certified public accountant in 1926 and he joined the Advance Bag and Paper Co. as an auditor in 1929. Bill's leadership of the United Fund is an addition to many other community activities. For several years he has been a member of the board of directors of the Newton Community Chest, the Newton Y.M.C.A., the Douglas A. Thom Clinic for Children, and the Newton Chapter of the American Red Cross. He is also an incorporator of the Newton Savings Bank. He is a member of the Brae Burn Country Club, the Longwood Cricket Club, and a former president of the Waban Neighborhood Club.
In regard to Dartmouth, Bill's loyalty and affection are unsurpassed. In the time and energy he has given to the interests of the College and our class, Bill .well, words fail. Bill and Odie Lee were married 28 years ago this coming March 15. They have four children: Bill Jr., Dartmouth senior and captain of the Varsity Tennis Team; Jed, Dartmouth sophomore; Ann (Mrs. Warren C. Bosworth of Tuckahoe, N. Y.), mother of the Bullen grandchildren - a girl and a recently arrived boy; and Emily, a student at the Chandler School for Women in Boston. The best wishes of all Twoters accompany Bill and Odie Lee and their family. May they have complete happiness through all the days ahead.
Twenty-Two Up! The clan has been honored by the election of our J. L. Robinson - Larry to us — as president of Jabez Burns & Sons, Inc., of New York. That best friend of a class secretary - the New York Times carried the good news and Larry's picture in its issue of November 16, 1957. Larry joined the company, a prominent manufacturer of food-processing equipment, in 1930. He has been a director since 1938 and vice president since 1944. Larry and Jeannette, who will celebrate their thirtieth wedding anniversary this year, are the parents of two sons and two daughters. They live at 600 West 43rd St, New York. They were particularly disappointed at not being able to get back to Hanover for our 1956 reunion. It has been observed, however, that sometimes the president can get away when the vice president can't. Q.E.D.— the Robinsons will be back at our next reunion. Meanwhile, congratulations from the class to both Larry and Jeannette.
Under the heading "Symbol of Fifth Avenue", the New York Times recently featured our own John Wood with picture and two columns of Times space. One does not paraphrase the Times temerariously. Besides, it's easier to quote:
The task of keeping that grande dame, Fifth Avenue, smart and in good taste, comes naturally to John Clark Wood, the softly spoken and quietly dressed president of the Fifth Avenue Association. Mr. Wood, president of Brooks Brothers, helped the association last night (October 19, 1957) to mark its golden anniversary with glad but subdued festiveness. (That "glad but subdued festiveness" is apparently par for Twoters everywhere now.) Concerning Fifth Avenue, Mr. Wood says: "It is a showplace of the world and we intend to keep it that way. Our job today includes broad planning and working with city officials on traffic regulations, on-and-off loading, parking and problems associated with the proposed Thirtieth Street. Crosstown Expressway."
Almost since the first Brooks shop was founded in 1818 (just 100 years before you became a freshman at Hanover, John), the management has been dedicated to turning out men's and boys wardrobes that were never dandified or gauche but simply comfortably correct for business, sport or dress The Ivy League (look) is regarded as Johnny-Come-Lately by the Brooks personnel. 'It is the Brooks Look," declared Mr. Wood patiently but firmly, "and it has been in existence for ever so many years." Brooks ... admits it has ... feminine fans who got into the habit of making off with dad's or brother's polo coat, button-down collar shirts (a Brooks pioneering classic), or buying the items in the boys' department for themselves. Today Mr. Wood devotes the two back pages of Brooks seasonal catalogue to redesigned items for the women. Mr Wood's philosophy is that if the girls are going to wear Brooks clothing it would be getter to have them tailored so they would fit right.
Mr. Wood, who was born in Newark, June 18,' 1901, and who was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1922, looks every inch the typical Brooks-clad individual. (Classmates are earnestly requested to refrain from inquiries concerning disposition of discarded apparel). He says, though, that he was not especially interested in clothes while in college nor in the clothing industry for many years afterwards. (It can be stated incontrovertibly that Brooks Brothers did not design the Student Army Training Corps uniform we all wore as freshmen and for several ensuing years.) Mr. Wood, a six-footer, who is trying to reduce from 195 pounds (That a boy, John ... take it off ... all Twoters are becoming scale shy), joined the A. W. Erickson Company in 1923 and was engaged in reorganization work. In 1932 Mr. Wood joined B. Altman & Company as assistant general manager,, and later became a vice president and a director. He left in April 1946, after having served in the Army from 1941 to 1945 (as a Major) to become president of Brooks. He is now serving his second two-year term as president of the Fifth Avenue Association and feels that public service is a duty. He requires it of his executives "because we owe the com" munity a debt that can be discharged only through civic responsibility."
Mr. Wood, who lives in Manhasset, L. I., relaxes at golf, going around the course in an eighty-five on his more successful days. (There 11 be more of them, John, when you trim that 195 down.) He fishes for trout, mostly in Montana. (Try New Hampshire and Vermont sometime - they have some mighty purty cricks.)
Mr. Wood is married to the former Mrs. Frances Kelley Keresey, a civic leader whose late father, Cornelius Francis Kelley, was chairman of the board of Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Mr. and Mrs. Wood each have two children by former marriages.
Despite the years, we're still nomadic or maybe we're settlin' down. Get out your 1922 address book and make some changes:
Charles E. Canfield, The-Cartfield Paper Company, 62 Duane St., New York 7, N. Y. or Hudson House, Ardsley on Hudson, N. Y.; Harold J. Colton, 1121 N. Waverly Place, Milwaukee 25, Wis.; William J. Delaney, 12 Usher St., Woodmont, Conn.; Richard C. Litchfield, P.O. Box 25, Wellesley Hills 81, Mass.; Shaw Livermore, University of Arizona, Tuscon, Ariz.; Major General Walter I. Miller, D.C.S./C. Hq. U.S.A.F.E., APO 633, New York, N. Y.; Joseph S. Perkins, Elm Farm, R.F.D. 1, Boxford, Mass.; George E. Shattuck, Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, Conn.; Donald J. Tobin, 9410 Alva Court, Dallas, Texas; Stephen H. Tredennick, 146 Atlantic Ave., Marblehead, Mass.; Lawrence A. Waite, 6226 Carlson Drive, New Orleans, La.
By the way, does any Twoter know the whereabouts of classmate Phil Grant? Philip Robert Grant has lived in nearly every state west of the Mississippi at some time or another but we have not been able to locate him for some years. He's too good a guy for us to lose track of.
Hate to admit it but this past football season was even better than the best we knew in 1919. Twoters certainly enjoyed the games and supported the team. Our attendance - from obviously incomplete and possibly unreliable reports:
At Yale - Ray and Doris Atwood, RoyBall, Bob and Lois Booth, Bob and GraceClark, Norm and Marian Crane, Tony Hanlon, Frank and Betty Horan, Gene Hotchkiss, Carter and Alie Hoyt, Fran and LucyLeland, Andy and Charlotte Marshall, Rexand Helen Malmquist, Ed McNamara andson Tom, Sterry and Frances Waterman withson Bob"
Recovery from the game and a wait tillnext year" discussion took place at theClarks' hospitable fireplace in Hawleyville.Grace and Bob had as visiting coaches theHorans, Hoyts, Lelands, McCarthys, Marshalls, and Malmquists. It was a thoroughlyenjoyable evening marked by our new classmotto, "Glad but subdued festiveness -thanks again, New York Times. Danged ifthose words don't fit us Twoters perfectly now.
At Columbia - Berny and Grace Bern heim, Bud and Rose Budnitz, Bill and OdieLee Bullen, Johnny Johnson, Killie Kilmarxand Art Morton.
At Hanover with Cornell - Bill and OdieLee with sons Bill Jr. with wife Jean, andTed- Frank and Dorothy Hutchins, John andPat McKoan, Len and Margaret Morrisseywith son Len Jr. and grandsons Jim andTom; Russ Putney, Les and Nancy Wagner,and Dick Willis.
At Princeton - where as Bill Morrell aptlyput it: "The snow came down and the rooffell in" - Harry and Peg Bruckner, Bob andGrace Clark, Pop and Edna Clewell, Jack andFran Dodd, Dick and Mary Litchfield, Andyand Charlotte Marshall, Ed Pullen, andCharlie and Miriam Throop.
You were there and you weren't reported?You had your wife with you and she wasn'treported5 Well, if you'd sit still some classmate might see you. As for your wife, shelooked so young and charming seated nextto you, one wondered. Yea, verily, it was agrand team to watch.
Secretary, 46 Myrtle St. West Newton 65, Mass.
Treasurer, 111 Laurel Rd., Chestnut Hill 67, Mass.
Bequest Chairman,
