1929
With the sound of the turkey gobbler still echoing faintly in your ears, we presume upon your ability to partake, in your mind, of more good food and therefore quote a few lines from a column called "Tips on Tables" by Don Hearn from one of the Washington (D. C.) papers:
Why do certain restaurants - even the thoughts of them - give us a warm feeling, and the others leave us cold?
Light on this mystery was cast by a friend of mine the other night - a friend whose gourmet habits could easily be construed as a hobby. He remarked: "After all, a restaurateur who is his own host needs to have not only the manners of a gentleman, but the instincts, too." Meaning, of course, that in addition to possessing the wizardry of remembering names and faces, schemer of dishes for fickle palates and suggester of appropriate wines and cocktails, he must appear to operate a well-ordered establishment as though all it took were an occasional glance out of the corner of one eye.
Eminently, this sort of gentleman is PanosGeorge, the suave, meticulous and personable director of Napoleon's Restaurant at 2649 Connecticut Ave. - the block between the Shoreham and Sheraton-Park Hotels.
Some pertinent parts from a nice note from Paul Woodbridge are as follows: "Enjoyed a most hearty and welcome blast at the Bryant mansion in Spartanburg a few weeks back. Trapper and Loria are roundly unreconstructed exponents of drop-of-the-hat hospitality. My recovery was slow and memorable, Janet's equally difficult and unregrettable. I managed an equally pleasant, if less sensational, sequel with Ben Leavitt in Gainesville, Fla., recently. He moderates the academic rat-race with solitary and, I gather, productive hours behind the shotgun. Later, the lunar-tropic and übiquitous Fred andJane Ingram highlit one night of an anniversary escapade at the Greenbrier in September."
Your annual Executive Committee and Class Officers Meeting was held the night of November 21 at the Dartmouth College Club in New York. Jack Hubbard and Bob Ramage came in for a cocktail before dinner, but had to leave for previous commitments. The following were present for dinner and the meeting: Bill Andres, Fred Armstrong, Harry Baehr, Herb Ball, Dick Barrett, Al Benjamin, Jack Blair, Chris Born, Trunkie Brittan, Bing Carter, Jack Gunther, Ray Hedger, Bill Magenau, Phil Mayher, Squeek Redding, Dick Robin, Mike Sherman, Gus Wiedenmayer and Paul Woodbridge. Blair indicated many of the difficulties involved in getting copies of "29-Up" out, but it was unanimously voted that he continue as editor for his present term and a resolution was introduced by Wiedenmayer that the newsletter be continued on the same fine tone, and in the same spirit, as previously established by Jack. Your secretary advised that he would be unable to continue this job after the next reunion due to the day and night demands on his time as expected in school-teaching. Ed Chinlund's treasurer's report indicated that the Class was still solvent, had an ample balance, that 236 people received the ALUMNI MAGAZINE who did not pay dues for 1957-58 and that of these, 82 (61 graduates and 21 non-graduates) either made a contribution to the 1958 Alumni Fund or have made pledges to the Capital Funds Campaign. It was unanimously voted that the 100% Class Subscription Plan be continued, due to its many great benefits to the Class, that the class dues be continued at the amount of $7.00, and that the Class continue payment of $500.00 to the 25 Year Memorial Fund from the dues. John Moxon was reappointed Class Agent for another year and Dick Barrett was appointed Chairman for the i960 Reunion, with instructions to make whatever plans were proper for our meeting there with the Classes of 1930 and 1931. As an afterthought, it might be interesting to all members of the class to know that, in addition to the members of the Executive Committee and the Class Officers, all former Agents and their assistants and other committee chairmen and their committee members were invited to the dinner and meeting - a total of 152 persons.
From Dick Robin, at the above-mentioned meeting, it was learned that daughter Nancy, Radcliffe graduate, and her husband, Paul Cintra Leite are the parents of a son born in San Paulo last August. Also that daughter Diana, Sweetbriar graduate, conducted a seminar there last September in the Department of Music and that she and her husband, Michael Benning, have both returned to the Free University in Berlin for further graduate work in music. Interestingly enough, Shep Stone, who has an honorary degree from the Free University, encouraged Diana to go there for graduate music study during which time she met her husband.
Does anyone know if the bespectacled gentleman greeting Nelson and Mrs. Rockefeller at Caracas, Venezuela, in the picture on page 2 of the "Long Island Newsday" of November to, is Tex Coles? (Thanks Ray and Dorothy Hedger for your sharp eyes and the clipping!)
A short note from Bob Monahan reminds us that Carter Strickland's son Seth scored one of those all-important touchdowns at Princeton on November 22 and also tells us that he, Bob, was reelected to the New Hampshire General Court in the November elections. Bob has authored "New Hampshire Enacts Ski Safety Legislation" in the current issue of the "Eastern Ski Annual."
Karl Rodi '30 with his wife Albertina and his two younger daughters, Margaret and Karla, photographed at their Beverly Hills, Calif., home by classmate Bob Keene '30.
Secretary, Center Rd., R.F.D. 6 Woodbridge, Conn.
Treasurer,2 Gateway Center, Pittsburgh 22, Pa.
Bequest Chairman,
