1936
As I was beginning to adjust to an early winter in Southern New England, Brew Towne, a member of our class executive committee, dispelled my contentment with the following invitation which perhaps some of you lucky classmates can accept. Brew writes,
I have never written a letter about myself for use in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE; but, after 22 years, perhaps it is time to do so. If it is of interest to anyone, the meanderings of the Townes now lead to Arizona. We have purchased a ranch outside of Tucson which we will open for the winter for guests under the name of White Stallion Ranch, Route 1, Box 567, Tucson, Ariz.
It is in a beautiful setting, about 17 miles from the city and we will have horses, swimming pool, and all the activities that go with a really fine vacation spot of this sort. For the first winter, we are forming an Early Settlers Club which will give those who come the first few weeks a sizable discount and preferential treatment for reservations in later years. We will have nice units for families as well as couples and hope that some of our Dartmouth friends and their families will come and see us.
For historical fill-in, we left National Blank Book Company about three years ago and have been with Treadway Inns Corporation since then - managing the Treadway Inn at Coonamessett part of a year, then working in Sturbridge, and, for the last year and a half, as Executive Vice President of Treadway Inns. This past summer, we have been operating Toy Town Tavern in Winchendon, Mass., and will be back there next summer. I will be glad to hear from any classmates who have sons who want summer employment next year.
I look forward to seeing you, John, at the next class executive committee meeting and, in the meantime, try to come to Arizona this winter.
We had not heard from Frank Higgins for a long time when he suddenly made news in Olean, N. Y., as a chairman of the Community Chest drive. Frank is a vice president of the Exchange National Bank of Olean, a director of the bank, director of the General Hospital, the Chamber of Commerce and Country Club as well as the Community Chest, and is active in other community affairs. During the war, Frank was in the Navy and was present as a lieutenant on the U. S. S. Missouri at the signing of the surrender of the Japanese forces. He is married to the former Dorothy Morris of Olean, and they have two children, Frank and Linda, and reside at 1229 Highland Terrace.
A letter has come in from Art Funk in India. Art is Cultural Affairs Officer in the United States Information Service and is currently travelling throughout South India lecturing and promoting various programs relating to the United States. In 1957 he was transferred from Damascus, Syria to Madras. Art writes in part, " ... In May I returned to the States on home leave and in Washington, incidentally, saw Bill Gibson. My wife and I returned to India via Tokyo, Hong Kong and Bangkok. We plan to be here in Madras for another two years."
Walker Lewis has been elected General Counsel of the Mead Corp., a paper company in Dayton, Ohio, where he has been secretary since 1952 and acting general counsel since 1955. He is also a member of the Dayton law firm of Smith, Schnacke and Compton. Active in civic affairs, Walker lives in Lebanon, Ohio, with his wife and two children.
The largest department store chain in the nation has been put together under the aegis (to use a '36 word) of Morton D. May when he merged the May Company and the Hecht chain last month. The May Company name will survive and Buster will remain the president at his headquarters in St. Louis.
Here are a few last-minute notes and address changes before we close the 1936 record book for the year. Ab and Virginia Conley were seen playing championship golf at the Princess Anne and Cavalier Country Clubs at Virginia Beach this fall. Ab is son of the late Walter Conley '05 of Chatham, N. J....
Ralph Van Bomel Martin has been made general manager of the Sealtest Sheffield Farms division in the Bronx. Ralph has just moved into a new house at 2 Ardsley Circle, Rockville Centre, L. I., N. Y.... Tom Lane is a lieutenant colonel in the Medical Section of the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, N. C.... Doug Miller has moved his office in Dallas, Tex., from the Petroleum Bldg. to the Meadows Bldg.... Dr. Bob Bright has returned to the mainland from Hawaii to open an office in Berkeley, Calif.... Roger Metcalf who is the Gastroenterologist on the staff at Togus Veterans Hospital in Maine recently received his Fellowship in the American College of Physicians Hank Dearborn is back in the States after diplomatic duty in Lima, Peru. His new address is 7005 Beechwood Drive, Chevy Chase 15, Md.... Slocum Chapin has been made vice president for Western Division sales of the A.B.C. Television Network.... Norman Ericksen is district manager of Ballantine Beer in Newark, N. J. Norm wants to know what has happened to his old roommate in College Hall, Seth Thomas Wilton, Conn, has drawn Earl McEvoy from Pasadena, Calif., and Hunt Sutherland from Cambridge, Mass. Earl is with the Chestnut Hill Properties, a real estate development, and Hunt is with the Escambia Chemical Corp. in Wilton....
David S. Wilson has moved from Frobishers Bay Northwest Territory to Hopewell, Nova Scotia.... Vic Sabary has moved to 1428 Riverside Drive, Trenton, N. J.; George March to 1033 Loyola Ave., Chicago 26, Ill.; Barney Hoffman to 3217 Taney Road, Baltimore 15, Md.; Forrest Riley to 6020 Seventeenth Ave. S., St. Petersburg, Fla.; John Bouker to 5600 Grove St., Chevy Chase 15, Md.
Merry Christmas again to you all.
Secretary, 287 Rutledge Ave. East Orange, N.J.
Treasurer, 753 Upper Blvd., Ridgewood, N.J.
