1940
There are several noteworthy honors and promotions to report this month. Alton Thorpe was made a staff member of the general industrial relations department of the Hooker Electrochemical Company in Niagara Falls, N.Y., where he lives with his wife and two children. Bob Draper of Toledo, Ohio, has been appointed to the committee on membership of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Bob is a partner of the accounting firm of Konopak and Dalton and he is a past vice president of the Ohio Society of CPA's. Bob Wetzler has been named assistant vice president of the Craftsman Insurance Company of Boston, a promotion from his former post of comptroller. Jim Raymond has been assigned the post of acting administrative assistant in the Laconia, N.H., State School. Ray Hotaling, former manager of the Elmira, N.Y., District for Socony-Mobil has been named general sales manager of the Magnolia Petroleum Company in Dallas, Tex. Magnolia is a subsidiary of Socony.
Dr. Lew Lambert, whose avocation is Hanover Fire Commissioner, recently addressed the annual meeting of the New Hampshire Fire Chiefs' Association in Concord. His audience consisted of some 140 fire officials.
Don McCaffrey is living in Haverhill, Mass., with his wife and three children. Since 1953, he has been guidance counsellor for some 550 boys of secondary school level at the Haverhill Trade School.
Bob Foss is no longer in Danville, Va., having been transferred by his company, Dan River Mills, to Montgomery, Ala., where he is a time study engineer in charge of incentive rate applications in a group of mills acquired by Dan River. Having left the good company of Mac Cross in Danville, he is lucky enough to have found a replacement in Bob Weil. Mac, incidentally, has visited New York on several trips and has managed to spend some time with Dave Leake, Harry Howard and Bob Dingwall. Aside from that he reports that he just stays home and works.
Whit Miller has found time from his job in Kansas City where he is assistant to the vice president in charge of sales of Vendo Corporation, a company manufacturing vending machines of all types, to get in some skiing in Colorado twice. He took Marty and the four children to Aspen for a spring vacation where he was met by Marge and Bob Gibson ('39) and their children. Another skier in Aspen this past winter was Bill Sinclair.
Will Pitz is still residing in Manitowoc, Wis., with his wife and four children. He is engaged in the marine construction business, building bridges, docks, river crossings, etc., with an occasional bit of marine salvage, and in his off-time he is active in enrollment work for Dartmouth in the area. One of the more interesting jobs recently performed by the McMullen and Pitz Construction Company was the very routine task of pulling an errant freight locomotive and several freight cars out of the bay in Manitowoc. Bruce Espy and his wife recently spent a weekend with the Pitz's and Will has seen George Sommers who is superintendent of schools in Crivitz, Wis.
Fred Badhelder, despairing of commuting, moved his plant to Mineola, Long Island, a five-minute ride from home. He and his wife recently celebrated the arrival of a new son, John Henry.
Dr. Lew Chipman is in the process of building himself a new office building in Wilmington, Del., which will house his office and two apartments above. He and Janet took time off from the busy medical life to spend eight days in Florida and Nassau this winter.
Bill Holman and Emily have just celebrated their first wedding anniversary. He reports that he in Seattle and Jim Tredup in Portland are trying to hold up the honor of 1940 in the Great Northwest. Bill is practicing law as a partner in a firm of about 25 lawyers.
Ben Bacon, whom we see once a year at the Yale game, is still in the printing business in Derby, Conn., where he lives with Gene and their two children, Jon and Ann. Aside from a few long ski-weekends, Ben has been keeping his nose to the grindstone.
The Dr. Bill Sinclairs have adopted their second child, Robert. The other child is Barbara, age 2. Bill is president of the Ohio Society of Pathologists.
Dr. Ken Steele has been practicing general and thoracic surgery at the Slocum-Dickson Clinic in Utica, N. Y., for the last two years. He, Nicky and their 5 children are very happy in their surroundings. Ken has been appointed Chief of Surgery at Oneida County Hospital and has an added honor of chairman for the annual Cancer Teaching Day in May.
There are still some fortunate members of the class who manage to take extensive trips about the world. Bill Huffman and his wife are planning a trip to Sweden this summer and Bill and Ginny Rearden are going to London for the fifth time since the war. The trip to London is on insurance business, but they also plan a trip around the continent in a new Jaguar that Bill has ordered for delivery on his arrival.
Bill Watson is living in Doylestown, Penna., and selling plumbing ware in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He and Rusty have two boys aged 11 and 10 and are in hopes of buying a small farm near Valley Forge.
Bob Raclin is a partner in Bache & Co. in Chicago, where he is in charge of the grain futures operation. He is in fairly constant touch with Dick Babcock, Sid Craig, and BillRothermel and sees Jim McElroy on his annual trip to the States from Switzerland. Under the guise of business, Rac travels extensively over the country and in Canada to all the more desirable vacation spots where Bache's offices are located.
Jack Chisholm is living in the small town of Burlington just outside of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is manager of raw materials for the Steel Company of Canada, the country's largest steel corporation.
A most welcome card was received from Mac Gardiner, the first in many a moon. He and Helen are living in Bellevue, Wash., where he is a guided missile data systems engineer at Boeing.
Butch Heneage is regional manager of the group department for the Continental Assurance Company in San Francisco. He has been in California for the past three years, but if our spy, Creight Holden, is correct, he is soon to move back to headquarters in Chicago. Classmates whom Butch has seen include Phil McCoy, who runs his own lumber business in Oakland; Don Tenney, manager of the Life Insurance Company of North America's office in San Francisco; Joe Armanini and Phil Dostal. Butch and Judy have two sons, aged 10 and 8.
A clipping from the Lewiston, Me., newspaper states that Bob Niss has won the area speech contest of Toastmasters International. He and other area winners will compete in the district contest in Pullman and the winner from there will go to Boise, Ida., for the zone contest, and finally to the international finals of the contest in Dallas, Tex., in August. Here is wishing Bob luck! The same paper also carries a picture of him awarding a medal to a young Boy Scout. Bob is chairman of the Clearwater District Boy Scout Exposition.
D. J. McMahon is understandably stuck in Colorado Springs with a patient wife and seven children. As an escape from the domestic scene, he serves as director of industrial relations for Colorado Interstate Gas Company. The only other '40 in town isGeorge Mills who serves with D. J. on a screening committee headed by Mort McGinley '41. Bob Welborn and Lee Brekke live in Denver and D. J. gets an occasional glimpse of them.
Having escaped physical damage in the revolution, Bill Bumstead reports from Venezuela that his son, David, was born on January 26 right in the middle of the fracas. The Bumsteads are planning a two-months' visit to the States this summer and promise to look up all of their old friends.
That eminent author and journalist, Thomas Braden, had a most interesting article in the April 5 issue of the Saturday Review of Literature, which had the frightening title of "Why My Newspaper Lied." In it he deplores the security regulations of Washington which give the American public a distorted and false idea of what is really going on.
And so another year of writing this column comes to a close. Your correspondent is deeply grateful for all the news which you have sent him and he hopes and trusts that you will continue to let him know what you are up to in the future. Without your help there would be no column. See you next fall. Many, many thanks.
Secretary, Hemphill, Noyes and Co. 15 Broad St., New York 5, N.Y.
Class Agent, 524 E. 89th St., New York 28, N.Y.
