1944
We've got a quiet hero in Ryland Robbins. It had always seemed spectacular when one of our colleagues sent in notice of the birth of their fifth or sixth offspring. I now learn that when twins arrived at the home of Ryland and Jean five months ago, they took positions eight and nine in the line-up. And the eldest, Helene, is nine! No doubt where the championship lies now. Ryland is with the Sunshine Art Studios in Springfield, Mass.
Ess Hale, the pride of the Lawyers Coop Publishing Co. of Rochester, blew in town yesterday to recharge the battery of his local sales force and we had a pleasant evening with him at the home of John and Dottie Steele. He runs into Rock Davidson occasionally and brought us up to date on sportsman Joe Dwyer, friend and confidant of Pappy Hemingway, down in Cuba.
Luisa Smith kindly dropped me a note on the doings of husband, Don, vice president and account supervisor of Kenyon and Eckhart, Inc. "He's generally running all over this country and Canada worrying about the National Biscuit Company's cereal and dog food products. Between trips and meetings, Don can usually be found at home sweating over two acres of lawn, building something in the workshop, or tinkering with "Otto," his 12-cylinder 1947 Lincoln. Don's tennis game is still above par, but his golf is way above it. One of the game's greatest woodsmen. Our son, Dougie, 9, is currently taking a martini-inspired course in body building exercises from his father. (Don's the one with the martini!)"
Dr. Ward Weimar, Babylon, N. Y., is a member of the American Board of Surgery and now limits his practice to knife wielding. Pinky Corroon, V.P of Corroon and Reyn-olds (also V.P of American Equitable Assurance, Globe and Republic, Merchants & Manufacturers of N. Y., and New York Fire) took his studies on the laws of probability to Las Vegas on a recent trip to the coast. He feels the place may have possibilities and reports that the contests are "nothing like the games we used to have at the Psi U. House." The Tommy Douglas family will move to Arlington Heights, Ill., after January first. Tom's with the Imperial Brass Mfg. Co., Chicago. Major Fred Hickey is at Ft. Bliss, Tex., with the Missile Division of the Army Artillery Board.
Dr. Paul Livingston's good wife Liz reports that Paul is busy building his practice of Urology in Hayward, Calif., and when he isn't busy at that he is with his guns. A crack rifle and pistol shot, Paul has built up quite a gun collection and, of course, makes and loads his own ammunition.
In case you've been wondering, Stan "the man" Zarod did it again, and, as the newspapers put it, was an "Easy Victor" in re- taining his State Senate seat. Stan is still playing semi-pro ball and still hitting over .300 but I understand the legs aren't carrying him around the base paths as fleetingly as in days of yore.
Bill Harrison is back studying again at Purdue. Steve Flynn, commuting from Wilton, Conn., is Director of Sales Services for NBC-TV in New York. His competitor, John Callow of CBS, confines his interests to the radio end and, like Steve, also commutes from Connecticut.
Joe Vancisin's Yale team is reported to be one of the better ones in the East this year, but the feeling is that he'll be taking his lumps from the Big Green. I'm hoping to see Joe and his charges at the Dixie Tournament in Raleigh just before New Year's. Cincinnati and the wonderful "O" will also compete in the tournament.
Ed Seidman seems to have it made. He's a rancher out in Prescott, Ariz. The last of the big shoe men, Dick Tarlow, is executive vice president of the Brockton Footwear Sales, Inc. of Brockton, Mass.
Ginny Mottola reports that Charlie has become quite proficient with the poison paddles. "Charlie took up golf again after many years' layoff. That was three years ago when, if he had a good day, he broke a hundred. He has really stayed with it during the past years (understatement of the year) and shoots in the middle-to-upper 70's now. We have a number of silver bowls to prove it!" It would seem that we might be able to work up a respectable golf tournament at reunion this year. We can start Charlie Mottola, BobMeyers, Bird Partridge, Max Edwards and Fritz Witzel at scratch handicaps.
With our more learned colleagues - DickBradley is Assistant Professor of Physics at Cornell, and the Air Force's own Gene Callaghan is teaching Air Science III at Holy Cross. And speaking about learned colleagues, Wild Bill Saunders is vice president and sales manager of the Littlefield Lumber Co. Inc. in Cambridge, Mass. I believe TomBreen is our only resident of Africa now. He's secretary of the International Trust Co. of Liberia and resides in Monrovia (sounds like something the Russians named after Marilyn). Bill Fead is plant manager of the Hudson Pulp and Paper Corp. in Plainfield, N. J., and Jack Jenness, out of Huntington, L. I., is plant personnel manager for Continental Can Co.
I'm writing these notes in Scranton, Pa., several thousand rods away from my desk at home where I've got data on reunion in June. All I can recall is some ghastly misunderstanding between Phil Penberthy and the Central Committee in Hanover, the latter of whom dropped me a note last week naming the publicity person - me! Well, will get that straightened out and bring you up to date on reunion plans next month.
Robert L. Allen '45 has resigned his post as Assistant Secretary of Dartmouth College to set up and head a new public relations department for the Kendall Co., Boston.
Secretary, 1105 Center St., Milford, O.
Treasurer, Ballwood Rd., Old Greenwich, Conn.
