1942
With the same faltering pace that spring followed winter, so came news from a few sundry sources producing information such as -
A 75th anniversary being celebrated by Grit, the weekly newspaper for rural America with a circulation from coast to coast of nearly a million. Since its inception, the "small town paper" has been under the direction of a Lamade, the current president being the father of Deet Lamade, assistant business manager of Grit Publishing Co. This tabloid-size weekly, published in Williamsport. Pa., has a fascinating circulation story in that, while it does not undertake to compete with daily newspapers, there are only six Sunday and three daily nwespapers in the United States that top it in circulation and all of them are in metropolitan areas. The paper is not sold on newsstands and only a fraction are circulated in cities. How does one get a copy? The bulk of Grit's circulation is sold by its 32,000 newsboy salesmen, the balance being direct mail to subscribers. The Lamade belief, in the fundamentals of the small town, accounts for Grit's existence. It is a publication edited exclusively for people residing in small towns and numbers its readers primarily in the prosperous middle class.
How many other "family" businesses are there in our Class? Let's hear about them for I'm sure the Lamade story can be repeated more than once if you'll give me the opportunity.
The Anne Arundel General Hospital in Annapolis, Md., received on Monday, February 17, Whit Whittaker as its new administrator. The date is particularly significant to those in the area since it recalls some rather adverse weather conditions which Whit met head-on as he traveled miles of blizzard-swept roads by bus, train, taxi and "shanks mare" to assume his duties on the date expected. For the past seven years Whit has been assistant director at the Delaware Hospital in Wilmington. Prior to this position, he had served as assistant to the director at Johns Hopkins following receipt of his Master's degree in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1948. Gertrude and the four children were to have joined Whit by March first in their new home in Epping Forest. Md.
In December, we reported Dick Cardozo was anticipating a return to Hanover later this year, and can now confirm the move as Dick writes of accepting a position at the Medical School and V.A. Hospital at White River with the additional possibility of some association with the Mary Hitchcock Hospital. As soon as his work is finished in the University Hospital in Minneapolis later this year, Dr. Cardozo will be moving his tribe to Hanover.
A brief note from Moe Clarke that filtered through from Rusty Hartranft poses a question that more than Moe would like to have answered, I'm sure. He says, "saw Glenn and Winnie Green in Detroit and watched the Bears clobber the Lions (how the h - did that happen?) last November."
Congratulations to Dave Sargent, the new treasurer of United Business Service. He was also appointed Director of Client Services at the annual meeting of the company in Boston last January, and at the same time elected a member of the Corporation's Board of Directors. As most of you know, this Boston company edits and publishes weekly reports on business and investment developments, and provides personal assistance on financial affairs to clients throughout the world.
February 8 will be well remembered by at least two '42s as a rather special day. Wedding bells rang in Rochester, N.Y., for Ruth E. Bahn and Bob Strasenburgh, as well as in Orange, N.J., for Mrs. Ruth C. Tobelman and Al Priddy. The next thing you know there won't be an eligible bachelor left with a '42 to his name.
Of final note, this is the month that Rusty (can you top last year) Hartranft and his 63 assistant agents will be dropping into your mailbox. This year means a great deal to the future of the College due to the commencement of the Capital Gifts Drive, so I suggest that you stop, look and listen to the program and then participate to the best of your ability.
Before you all get that annual Spring Fever too strongly, remember, this column appears monthly through the good graces of once-a-year contact from you to me, so let's hear more from you so you can hear more from me!
Secretary, 209 Beech St., Cranford, N.J.
Class Agent, 6 Crossgates Rd., Madison, N.J.
