1936
The tallest bachelor in the class is JackDuffy of Utica, N.Y. He's 6 feet 5 inches tall. Any challengers? This former tennis champion of Central New York was one of the first men on the courts this spring after the 115 inches of snow had melted. Jack says he has "outgrown" his opposition who keep getting younger and younger, and, although he doesn't age a bit (Editor's note), it's not so much fun to compete with babies. Jack's second love is baseball. Through his close friend Tommy Richardson, president of the Eastern Baseball League, he keeps in touch with Dr. Charlie Lehman of Williamsport, Pa., another fan. Jack Duffy is a very successful insurance man in Utica, representing Mutual of Omaha.
Massachusetts classmates have sent me many newspaper clippings about Heniy Mascarello who, for 18 years as executive director of the United Prison Assn. of Massachusetts, has been a very popular speaker from New Bedford to Pittsfield and north and south from Gardner to Sturbridge. Fresh news seemed indicated however when these speeches ceased this winter. On January 15, Henry made a remarkable shift in his field of work by accepting the position of assistant secretary - manager of the Graphic Arts Institute of New England in Boston. This organization is a trade association that represents the publishing and printing business in New England. The public relations aspects of the association require a man with strong talents and we can be sure the New England printers and publishers are now in expert hands. Henry is married to a former Bradford College and Claremont, N.H., girl, Connie Hopkins. They have a daughter, Bonnie, who is 13 years old and in the Lexington (Mass.) High. Their son, David, who would be 16 years old, died a year ago after a valiant fight against a rare blood disease. Henry Mascarello has been a member of the faculty of both Boston University and Tufts College where he taught Sociology and Criminology. Henry passes along the news that Gil Cutler, who introduced him to Connie and was best man at his wedding, has the Whitman Sampler franchise for the state of Connecticut. Gil lives at 167 Rocky Top Road, Hamden, Conn., in case you want your bonbons in carload lots.
Out New Mexico way, Dr. "Roe" Thompson has been working as State Enrollment Chairman for several years and doing an excellent job. Roe graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and then served in the Navy before joining the Van Atta Laboratories in Albuquerque as a radiologist in 1946. He has four children, including a daughter at Mt. Vernon Seminary in Washington, D. C., and a son who is heading for Dartmouth, he hopes, via Mercersburg Academy. Roe had a unique reunion with Joe Jayne, Ben Moyer and BudWolfe. He writes in part:
On the very day I received your note I also received a clipping from Joe Jayne. This is the first time since graduation that Joe and I have gotten together. He is associated with the Plas-Tex Corporation in Los Angeles, Calif., and apparently loves both California and his work. Joe and I figured out that the intervening time between graduation and last week's visit was greater than our respective ages when we graduated. Needless to say this astounding fact gave us cause for further reflection. During the course of the evening we put in long distance telephone calls to Ben Moyer (in Franconia, N. H.) and Bud Wolfe (in Redding Ridge, Conn.) and had an impromptu long distance reunion with the old group that spent two years together at 32 Lebanon Street.
As a hobby, I now have acquired four horses which means that I must work doubly hard in the office to feed them as well as my family. Next week I am going for a week's ride from Wickenburg, Ariz., with a group of men. This ride is an annual event, and I have been invited to go as a guest this year. Will take my own quarter horse mare and trailer. From all past reports the Desert Caballeros Ride is a wonderful event. Men come from all over the country to go on it, and I know that I am going to have a marvellous time.
Thanks for your nice letter, Roe. Life sounds good in Albuquerque and the Caballeros Ride better. However, to me whose most exciting ride is the daily commutation via tube train and subway, I thought your punctuation was in error in your next to last sentence. I would have made it, "will take my own quarter, horse, mare and trailer."
Bill Martens, who for 16 years had been a salesman for one chemical processing machinery company, set up his own firm, W. G. Martens & Company, last year as a manufacturer's representative in New Jersey. He has his former employer plus other chemical machinery companies as clients. Business has grown to the point where he is looking for a salesman skilled in this specialized field. Bill is the father of four children, and thereby has become a Boy Scout leader, church school treasurer, school board member, and summer sailor at Peconic Bay, Long Island. He says Bob Kable has a 42 foot yawl on which they've made plans for a Bahamas cruise; Joe Smith is a neighbor who is also a manufacturer's representative but in the aviation field; and Spike Daniels manages the American Cyanamid plant at Bound Brook, N. J., which is one of Bill's accounts. Bill lives at 27 Inwood Road, Chatham, N. J.
A word from Rial Peck reports that his daughter Judy is in Elmira College. His daughter Gail is in Buckley High School and planning to go to the University of Connecticut Nursing School in the fall. Rial is assistant secretary of the life department of the Travelers Insurance Co. in Hartford.
A news article from the New Bedford (Mass.) Standard Times says that the suburban town of Fairhaven elected as moderator "a former marine Lieutenant Colonel who can handle any battle that might develop at the town meeting." He is Dick Ruby. The newspaper goes on to say;
This Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School graduate helped insure there would be any democratic process at all during 5½ years as commanding officer of a Marine engineer battalion. He was awarded the Bronze Star and a. permanent citation for the Legion of Merit in the Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima campaigns of World War II.
While in the service, Mr. Ruby married the former Frances Ann Sutton of North Carolina, whom he refers to as "a reconstructed Southerner" because of her fondness for the North. They have five children, Ann, a high school sophomore; Richard Jr., an 8h grader; Edward "Teddy," a 5h grader at Tripp School; Katherine, a Ist grader at Tripp, and Mary "Jackie," who is 3½.
In Fairhaven, he has been active in a number of civic activities, was one of the organizers and is a former president of the Fairhaven P.T.A., and has also been a member of the Finance Committee.
As a director of The Outdoor Advertising Assoc. of America, Paul Hessler has kept his eye on legislation in Congress this spring in connection with the Federal Road building program. Paul contributed to the acceptance of the final "compromise" Highway Bill that guarantees moderate controls of poster panel advertising on all new roads financed by federal funds. Paul is president of his own company, Hessler, Inc., of Delaware, one of the largest 24 sheet poster advertising firms in the country. He has just been placed on the Government Expenditures Committee of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, bought a historic boatyard on the Delaware Bay which he runs as the Marine Construction Co., has three sons and two daughters, one son in the Navy, and a farm outside of Wilmington.
Let's close the class column for another year with the few short notes left in the mail bag. Bob Tyler is sales manager of the Athol Manufacturing Co., in Athol, Mass., where he has been since graduation - Bill Lee, the real estate tycoon from Hampton Beach, N. H., and temporary town manager, is opening a development in Florida - Hal Palmer is assistant comptroller of the Chevrolet Assembly Plant in Bloomfield, N. J. He, with his wife and sons, Bob, 18, and Dick, 15, has just moved from Tarry-town, N. Y., to 32 Heron Road, Livingston, N. J. - Art Funk is skiing in India - Dr. Bob Bennett and family from Worcester, Mass., have been vacationing in California - Al Flouton, senior vice president of Compton Advertising, Inc., was honored when this big New York ad agency had its fiftieth birthday. Al has been with the firm 21 years, many of them as an account executive on the Ivory Soap account - Classmates have asked me about Doug Porter. He is with the Burns Realty & Trust Co., in Denver, Colo., and lives at 1174 Salem St. in that city - Rodney, Bob Warren's dog, has his own telephone listed in the New York directory.
George A. Brown '36 renders a top service to his community as president of the City Board of Education in Hackensack, N.J., where he is partner in a law firm.
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