1940
The mail this month brings details on Bud Hewitt's wedding. He is to be married November 29 to Louise Pallette of Emerson, N. J.; and after a honeymoon trip south, they will live in New York.
In the same mail as this marriage news, comes the announcement of two new offspring. Eddie and Pat Miller advise of the birth of David Johnson on September 25, which gives the Millers two boys and two girls. Joe O'Hare also reports the birth of a son, Joe Jr. Joe is now living in Camp Hill, Penna., where he continues to pursue his career in commercial aviation.
Walt Bernstein is still on the coast living in Beverly Hills. At the present time he is writing a movie for Yul Brynner, which is to be a Western adapted from the plot of a Japanese movie .called "The Magnificent Seven," which sounds like the neatest trick of the week. He has recently completed a picture for Sophia Loren which should be released early next year. His other endeavors have been writing mostly for television with an occasional piece for the New Yorker. Walt reports that he has two children, a boy, 12 and a girl, 15.
A real shocker arrived from Chuck Berry which states that his oldest daughter, now 20, is a sophomore at Cornell! Their other daughter is. in Junior High School. Chuck has his own real estate and insurance business in Union, N. J., and extracurricularly he is president of the Union Lions, the largest Lions Club in the state.
A welcome note from Bill Bumstead tells us that he is now starting his third year in Caracas, Venezuela. As president of Johnson and Higgins of Venezuela, he has offices not only in Caracas but also in Maracaibo and Puerto La Cruz. His clients include a great many oil companies and drillers as well as a substantial list of manufacturing enterprises. Last summer he managed a two-months' vacation trip to Europe and he travels on business from time to time to Cuba and Texas. Nancy and Bill's young son, David, is now nine months old.
In Baton Rouge, La., John Reitzell has been elected vice president of the Citizens Savings and Loan Association. He is also a partner in the insurance firm of Roberts and Eastland. John is particularly active in civic work. He received the Beaver award for his participation in Boy Scout work. This is the highest award that an area council can bestow upon a volunteer worker. He is also past president of the Baton Rouge Insurance Exchange, on the Board of the Y.M.C.A., and a member of the Chamber of Commerce. John is married to the former Anne Spencer Roberts and they have four children.
Bob Clark has recently become associated with Hayden, Stone & Co., an investment house in New York. He grew tired of roaming the United States and the world selling petroleum and decided to settle into a job that would give him reasonable assurance of staying in one place. He has purchased a house in Weston, Conn., where he, Vicky and the five children are slowly settling in.
The Boston Traveler has carried an interesting article of John Lillis's activities for the past 12 years. It seems that soon after the war, John had an opportunity to undertake the management of a boat yard on Lake Winnipesaukee. Within a very few years he has become the sole owner of this enterprise. He has enlarged it from one shop building and a three-story storage building to a yard with a 600-foot shore front with 15 buildings on it. John is a dealer in a broad line of boats, motors and marine equipment of all kinds and he also has an extensive business in storing boats. Despite this interesting and obviously profitable work, he seems to have found time to perfect his golf game as demonstrated by the fact that in the past two years he has either been golf champion or runner-up at his club in Wolfeboro. John is married to Jill, who was a Navy nurse and whom he met during the war. They have one daughter, Debbie, age 4.
The Yale game brought out hordes of 1940's too numerous to mention. However, we were particularly sorry to miss Smodc Thompson who came on from Kansas City on business and who attended the game with his sister. He is with the Thompson-Hayward Chemical Company, a company which specializes in industrial and agricultural chemicals and which has sales outlets throughout central United States from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. He reported over the phone that he had seen Tom Braden in California and that Tom as usual was wrapped up in a host of undertakings including some part in the Rockefeller campaign, exactly what is not entirely clear but it had something to do with speech writing.
It has been reported by a classmate attending the Brown game that Bob and Lili Graham are expecting an offspring shortly. Creight Holden was there from Wisconsin for the dual purpose of visiting his son who is in Fay School and attending the game.
Al Gutman was in the Middle East in April, and while riding up a mountain on a donkey in Greece, he recognized Professor George Frost walking towards him. Due to the jouncing of his steed, the conversation turned out to be quite limited.
Dick Kenney has been living in Sacramento these past two and a half years. He is presently working for Remington Rand selling the company's electronic brain, the Univac.
Ed Curtis has been made vice president of the board of trustees of North Yarmouth Academy in Maine. He lives in Portland and has taught his young son to shoot so well that that young man won the State of Maine junior riflery championship and he is now too good for his old man. Every year the reports grow more numerous of our children's athletic prowess surpassing that of their aging fathers.... Oh, well!
Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year to you all.
Secretary, Hemphill, Noyes and Co. 15 Broad St., New York 5, N. Y.
Treasurer, 88 North Main St., Concord, N. H
