1925
Brad Smith, Executive V. P. of Ins. Co. of North America, was pictured in insurance journals early this summer awarding diplomas to honor graduates of North America's school for agents. Among the recipients was Robert C. Borwell Jr., son of our own Bob. Also publicized was the promotion of Walter "Tippy" Tower to the office of resident secretary of the Kemper insurance group.
Ed Hewitt, V. P. in charge of sales, has been elected to serve as a director of Thomas & Betts Co., with whom he has been associated since 1930. Ed manages to find time also to serve on the Union County draft board, as an associate vestryman of Trinity Episcopal Church and is a member of the Canadian Club of New York and the Dartmouth Club of New York. Ed enjoyed an unexpected reunion with Lane Goss while both were on business trips to San Francisco early in June when they met at a wedding of the son of a Vassar classmate of Julie Hewitt.
Dr. Charles A. Robinson of Milton has been named by Governor Foster Furcolo to the Massachusetts State Board of Registra- tion of Nurses. Another doctor, John Morris, associate medical director of Eastman Kodak Company, was elected treasurer of the Industrial Medical Association at a recent meeting of the National Industrial Health Conference.
Curt Abel and Marian are reported to have spent an enjoyable two weeks' Hawaiian vacation at Waikiki's Halehulani Hotel. Our travelling medicine man, Herb Talbot, and Emily sailed for England in late August, perhaps to gather more material for those delightful travelogues which he writes for our pleasure. Incidentally, did you all note Herb was elected president of the Newsletter Association last May? Bob Pike, Ph.D. of Monmouth Jr. College, West Long Branch, N. J., has achieved fame as a writer of several books and articles for popular magazines according to a publicity release in connection with a speech given by him.
Bill Jenkins has been appointed counsel for General Electric's Apparatus Sales Division. Bill, who has been in the legal end of G. E.'s operations since 1930, will make his headquarters at 150 E. 42nd St., New York. Bill McNulty has been elected Asst. Vice President of New Jersey Manufacturers Casualty and New Jersey Manufacturers Indemnity Insurance Co. Whitey, Bryant & Stratton school prexy, reports Bill Boies' daughter, Sue, attended B & S and is now working at MIT; also Parker Merrow's daughter, Ann, who subsequently got a job with the State Dept. and married an associate in Indonesia.
We were brought completely up to date recently on William J. Griffin Jr.'s situation. While the intriguing character of his report deserves more space, we're compelled to limit reprinting to a few highlights. Bill has spent most of a year "getting bitten by various bugs and trying to find out why they bite so hard." He thinks a "pocket-size leprechaun to control the 20 or so endocrine valves" would be just the thing to offset their imbalance which seems to be his trouble. Meanwhile his advertising agency suffered along with the car industry and a major stockholder withdrew with several million cash "leaving us with responsibility for 400 employees, about 250 too many for our new income." Things soon changed for the better, however, and Bill is now financially independent "but not ready to become a vegetable." He is looking forward to being with Kudner on a part-time basis and enjoying the fun part of advertising - "working with the bright men to do the outstanding jobs which are rare in a vast mediocrity of advertising."
His twins have grown a bit. Pete and Bill are now 6' 2", a solid 180 lbs.; 28, married, with 1 and 2 kids respectively, and for six months of "depression" have been the Ford dealers in New Rochelle. They took a nearbankrupt business, losing $10,000 a month, and turned it into one of the ten most profitable Ford dealerships in the area. Bill has a standing offer to be their night watchman. Paul, age 13, "is the first brain in the Griffin family in three generations." At age 11, he lectured at the Bronx Zoo on raising the Florida Indigo snake in a northern climate. He finally had 70 reptiles, properly caged, in the house. Then, fortunately, he discovered girls and the collection went to the Zoo. Now he's off on electronics, and plans to enter Dartmouth in four years. "After 29 years of marriage, 3 boys, 20 dogs, 200 cats (all female), Mrs. G. is slowing down a bit. I figure about one-half of 1%. She has been called the best unemployed decorator in New York. Many of her friends who have seen her home (I am allowed to live in it, too) have wanted her to 'do' their houses." The Griffins live in an old farmhouse they have restored in Cos Cob, Conn.
Address changes reported during the summer are as follows:
Carl Washburn, 87 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.; Phil Coykendall, USN (retired), Reservoir RcL, Hanover, N. H.; Charlie Flint, 1037 Arapaho St., Thermopolis, Wyo.; Barry Mahool, Box 9, APO 63, San Francisco, Calif.; Lenox Boyce, 6318 Central Ave., Alameda, Calif.; Don Cameron, 1043 Nehoa St., Honolulu 14, Hawaii.
The Annual Meeting of the Executive Committee will be held in Crosby Hall on Friday, Nov. 7, at 8:00 p.m., the evening before the Columbia game. Among the subjects to be discussed will be our advanced 35th reunion next year, for which plans naturally must be formulated at an early date. Any member of the class who happens to be in Hanover will be welcome at the meeting.
W. A. Campbell '26 has been elected a vicepresident of the Trans-Arabian Pipe LineCo. with headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon.
Secretary, 225 Wyman St., Waltham 54, Mass.
Treasurer, R.D., Old Mill Rd., Chester, N. J.
Bequest Chairman,
