1951
Well, it's March again -` lion, lamb and all that sort of thing. And down here in Charlotte we're still talking about our February good fortune when the winds blew in football coach Bob Blackman to tell us about how he did it last football season. This is pioneer country for Hanoverians, but Bob found the Indians don't shoot unless you're wearing the bedsheets of the KKK.
Another welcome visitor was Jack Lotz, who hit town for two weeks of research with the Prudential Insurance Co., sent up from his home base in Jacksonville, Fla. Jack managed to break loose long enough for dinner with us, and also renewed old memories by watching our red hot Charlotte hockey team (yep — hockey in the South, and it's popular).
The '51 birthrate remains a dynamic advance, with two for January already received - we imagine there were 20 more we haven't heard of yet.
Out in Painesville, Ohio, Boardman number three came along early in the morning of January 2, born in the hospital where papa John is an administrator. She was Andrea, and joins Jay, 4½, and 2½-year-old Mia as the apples of John and Nella's eyes.
And in Minneapolis, the arrival of little Peter made it four for Dave and MaryLeslie, and a second potential Dartmouth man. (Other youngsters - Chip, 6, Cynthia, 3½ and Marci, 2.)
Next comes engagements, and the word on that this month concerns Dave O'Neill and Harriet Albert of Lebanon, Pa. Harriet's a graduate of Carnegie Tech, and Dave's now working as sales representative for Standard Oil of New Jersey. They'll tie the knot in June.
Comes a newsy letter from Sam Roberts, who's still settled in the urban wilds of Philadelphia, selling securities to all and sundry. Sam reports that Buck Scott has slowed down a bit these days, due to breaking a leg in two places while skiing just before Christmas. But Buck's been mighty busy, and is apparently one of the first in the class to climb aboard the political bandwagon. He tried for the school board in Greensburg, Pa. - running on the Democratic ticket, which I'm told is the equivalent to suicide in Greensburg. Well, Buck still isn't on the school board, but he came home well ahead of his party.
Sam also has seen Jim Cornman (finishing a doctorate in philosophy at Brown), Barry Spiegel (law in Philadelphia) and Fred Ranney (trying to form his own chemical com- pany).
In the business world, we learn that Bill Fraser has been moved up to the management staff of the Connecticut General Life branch office in Hartford. Bill comes over after heading the company's Albany office for three years. He and Nancy will live in New Haven.
Also hear that Bill Lang has moved up another notch with the National Newark & Essex Banking Co. - he's now assistant cashier in the business development department.
And we see by a long article in a business magazine that Bob Cohen's going great guns out in Denver with the Cohen family enterprise, Navajo Freight Lines. Bob and Christine have four little Cohens, all boys.
By the time you read this, Bob Kreidler and the Marine Corps should have bid each other fond farewell, but as of now Bob isn't sure of his future plans. Haviland Smith has switched Washington jobs and is now with the Bureau of Foreign Commerce in the Department of Commerce. Jim Danaher has switched to Stanford from the University of Oregon Law School. And the nation is girding for the arrival of one Jeff O'Connell from Air Force duty in Japan.
Herb Knight writes in from Chicago in mention of a Christmas blast - Mase Weare, Jim Bovaird, Bob Hopkins, Don Eddy, Dave King and Pete Henderson (down from Milwaukee) poured 'em down at Dave Hilton's. Herb also says that Al Karcher makes the Windy City more often since he's been moved up to St. Louis from Texas, but "We haven't figured out whether this is good or bad."
Working for Standard Railway Equipment Co., Knight must have his own railway car, from the trips he lists. He's seen Dick McFarland and Dave Leslie in Minneapolis, Bob Larigan, Dick Mason, Al Brout and Bob Hirschman in the New York area (Hirschman just back from a rigorous jaunt auditing the books of Army PX's in choice European locations). And then there was Shorty Allison and Fred Brown in Boston. This fellow Knight does get around.
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