1932
On July first, Captain Frederick L. Ashworth, U.S.N., became commandant of midshipmen at the. U.S. Naval Academy. As many of you will remember, Capt. Ashworth was with us for our freshman year before receiving his appointment to the Naval Academy, from where he was graduated in 1933. Prior to his present assignment he was skipper of the USS Franklin Delano Roosevelt, one of the Navy's most modern carriers. His career in the Navy has been varied and during World War 2 spent most of his time in the Pacific as commander of a Navy torpedo squadron and duty with various types of ships. In 1945 he made the most momentous decision of his career — to bomb Nagasaki, when the B-29 fliers found their prime target obscured by clouds - a decision which quickly brought the Japanese war to a conclusion. In 1948 he organized the first Navy atomic attack aircraft squadron and became commander of one of the two groups into which the squadron was divided. Capt. Ashworth wears the Silver Star for his mission to Nagasaki; two Navy Legion of Merit medals; the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Bronze Star as well as various theater of operations ribbons.
Announcement was made by the president of the Loyalty Croup companies of the America Fore Loyalty Group that, effective July 1, Bo Wentworth would become vice president of the Loyalty Group companies with headquarters in Newark, N. J. Bo has been vice president of the America Fore companies for some time. If this sounds complicated it is only because it is. Congratulations to Bo - we hope to see more of him in New Jersey now that his offices are here.
The American Louisiana Pipe Line Co. and the Michigan Wisconsin Pipe Line Co., affiliates of the American Natural Gas Co., have elevated Deke Mack to executive vice president. He will continue as a director and general attorney for both affiliates.
Bill Lieson, our class treasurer, has been named executive vice president of the Union Trust Co. in Springfield, Mass.
Bob Ryan's newest picture is called "God's Little Acre," from the book of the same name by Erskine Caldwell. The author invested his outline with a rich variety of detail which caused it to be banned in Boston and points west and, of course, made it a best seller. This is an entirely different type role for Bob, who has always played real he-man parts. In this picture, however, he plays Ty Ty Walden, a Georgia farmer who has two ideas in life - dig up his fields to strike treasure and set aside the produce from one acre of land to be given to God. This acre gets shifted around as the demands of treasure hunting increase.
Cazenovia Junior College announces the appointment of John M. Watts, former Dean of Students at Hofstra College, to the position of Dean of the College. (Cazenovia Jr. College is located at Cazenovia, N. Y.) Jack Pyles, President of the City Bank in Washington, D. C., has been elected chairman of the Better Business Bureau for the ensuing year. Chuck Adkins, vice president of Wheaton College, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of Briarcliff College.
Bill Kendall, vice president and general manager of the Louisville and Nashville R.R. Co., has been elected to that company's board of directors. Dr. George Hahn has been Director of the Obstetrical and Gynecological Service and Chief of the Department at Methodist Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia since the beginning of the year.
Chuck Owsley has been selected by the State Department for the Harvard Seminar, a new training program for senior foreign service officers added this year to the National War College courses. It will be presented in the Center for International Affairs at Harvard.
Joe Slattery has been made president of the Advanced Audit Analysis Co., a new division of the Market Research Corp. of America. Joe was formerly with Audits and Surveys, Inc.
Mike Cardozo, Professor of Law at Cornell, has received a Fulbright grant for research in Belgium while on sabbatical leave during 1958-59. The chief subject of his study will be the relations between various European international organizations and their member governments. To permit him to do the necessary travel in connection with his research, Mike has received a supplemental Guggenheim fellowship. The Cardozo family sailed on July 22 and will reside in Brussels. Their address: American Express (Client's Mail), Brussels, Belgium.
One of my best correspondents is Whip Walser, from whom I received two letters during the summer. He describes his semiannual trip to Central America and his visit and subsequent work with Bill Brister in Guatemala and San Salvador. He reports the Brister family in good health and reports also that Bill Jr. will be a sophomore at Brown this fall. Whip ran into Bain Davis while on a short vacation with his eldest son in the Canal Zone. Bain has been American Consul at Colon, Panama, for about a year but has been with the State Department since 1936. He has two children, boy and a girl, both of whom are in college in up-state New York. "He lives in a lovely location overlooking the exit from the Canal to the Atlantic Ocean." He would like very much to hear from Ev Hokanson - are you listening, Ev? His address is: c/o American Consulate, Colon, Panama, for you or any other classmate who might be in that area. Whip was able to give him up-to-date news on many of the other fellows about whom Bain inquired because they had all been at the 25th Reunion. Many thanks for the letters, Whip, they sure help. Incidentally Bain, Hokanson can be reached at 4353 No. Morris Blvd., Milwaukee, Wise.
If you fellows are not tired of reading my ramblings by now you should be - this is the start of my sixth year, and I have asked for relief. Art Allen is trying to get a replacement for me as well as a newsletter editor. This column is supposed to be "meaty" without too much detail as it has an all-class readership, while the newsletter is to go into more detail as it concerns only members of our class. Hence, as interesting as many of the letters are, I cannot reproduce them or go into too much detail. If you are so inclined or know anyone that is so inclined, please communicate with Art Allen or myself and volunteer your services for either class secretary or newsletter editor. Both are urgently in need of filling. My work load is getting larger and it is only a question of time when a column will have to be skipped and no one would like that. Think it over we need your help if the Class of 1932 is to continue to be read about in the pages of the ALUMNI MAG.
Secretary, 27 Hamilton Dr., N. North Caldwell, N. J.
Treasurer, 120 Bridle Path Rd., Springfield 9, Mass.
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