1939
To follow as secretary the five-year tenure of Jocko Vincens is an experience both humbling and frustrating. He, who has been declared by the Associated Literary Clubs of Manhasset the third greatest living writer in America (after Hemingway and Edgar Rice Burroughs), has made hay of fodder. He has made breezy commentary out of names in the telephone book. He has taken the dearth of news extant from us, his classmates, and transformed this void into a milky way of witty information. He has been ginger peachy. We own him a big Huzzah. A Wah Hoo Wah!
And speaking of Wah Hoo Wahs, during the height of the Middle East crisis last summer the publisher of Time gave editorial recognition to John Mecklin, their chief correspondent in the area for the past two years. Nasser chose John for his first interview during the Suez fiasco. King Hussein of Jordan has taken him for hops in his plane. King Saud gave him a wristwatch, and the late Nuri Pasha of Iraq used to greet him with the shout: "Hey Look!" To you classmates who are Timaddicts and follow closely the Muddleast, you can see why ole "Hey Look" Mecklin missed the twentieth reunion and his date with the White River hoosegow.
We have some new addresses for your Xmas card list: Bob Alpert now resides at 50 Braeside Road, Highland Park. Ill. J. Moreau Brown, Corporate Support Programs, 570 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y. (General Electric Co.). Brownie always has been a kinetic exurbanite. Whit Cushing now lives at 247 Royal Palm Way, Palm Beach, Fla. Sam Powers at 31 Kilburn Road, Belmont 78, Mass., and Morris Seiigman is hanging his hat at 10 Davenport St., Augusta, Me.
Professor David F. Long A.B. Dartmouth, A.M. and Ph.D. Columbia, Fulbright lecturer, erstwhile professor at the University of New Hampshire, also has a new address: History Dept., University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, Ceylon. The U. S. State Dept. asked Dave to establish there a course in American History for which he is eminently qualified. It should be interesting hearing him explain the Mexican War in Ceylonese.
Back in the avenues of commerce and finance via that dependable old tattletale, the Associated Press, we learn that our own Bill Kent was made president of the NAWM at their 93rd annual meeting at the Waldorf last spring. The NAWM, in case you hadn't guessed, is the National Assn. of Wool Manufacturers. (Used to think they were sheep, but I guess they've gone synthetic.) At any rate, Bill succeeds J.'P. Stevens Jr. in office and is the youngest president the Association has had in its 93 years. He is also president of the Kent Manufacturing Co., lives in Penn Valley, Narberth, Pa., has a lovely wife Jane, three boys and a girl, a slant-walled swimming pool, a bald head, and rusty memories of the time he was voted the most conspicuous dilettante in the class of '39. (These thumbnail biographies are for sale to Who's Who and assorted tombstone carvers; proceeds to reunion fund.)
Bill Prudden has been appointed to the Advisory Board of Lockport (N. Y.) offices of the Marine Trust Co. In his spare time he is president of Prudden & Kandt Funeral Homes, on the boards of the Chamber of Commerce, YMCA, Community Chest, past president of Rotary, and even managed to bring his wife Esther to our Twentieth Reunion!
Other notes from all over list the graduation of Bill ormsbee from the first Operating Engineer's Training Program, a 22-month course at Bell Telephone Labs in New York. And now, complete with diplma and fissionated diodes transmitting from his fillings, he returns to his assignment as radiotelephone engineer with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co.
We also see where Dave Smith, assistant secretary of the Air Force, had a fourth son. It makes us wonder who has the class record for reproduction at this point. Everyone with seven or more kids write in to us and we'll arrange a contest for our 25th reunion. We feel certain the wives of the contestants will find this a bully idea.
In the political department we're hopping. The Mamaroneck, N. Y„ Republican Committee has named Curt Anderson as committeeman for the seventeenth district. Curt is president of Mechtronics Corp., 325 Center Ave., Mamaroneck. Francis R. Peisch, now a lawyer in Burlington, Vt., is campaign manager for Dr. H. E. Thurber, Republican candidate for nomination to the U. S. House of Representatives. Albert C. Blunt III, incumbent candidate for reelection to the Port Washington, N. Y., board of education, by the time this reaches print will have certainly known his political fate. Of interest, tho, his address: 114 Luquer Road. Has three sons in Port Washington schools, and is vice-president, real estate division, Melville Shoe Corp.
I used to laugh when my predecessors begged for news, for letters from you, ANYTHING! Now my piano is nailed. How about it?
Secretary, 1 1908 Coolidge Dr. Dayton 19, Ohio
Treasnrer, 15 Meridan PI., Huntington Station, N. Y.
