1939
The 200 th Anniversary Campaign, though not yet officially over, rather astounded us as far as '39 was concerned. Apparently, in our division, we had fewer give more than has happened since the RAF won the Battle of Britain. On behalf of Junie the Head we congratulate the givers and remind the recalcitrant that there are a few more shopping days 'til Xmas. Over The Top and all that stuff.
As a harbinger of the crisp days of autumn zip soon to bless us from Madison Ave. (or, albeit, possibly Pleasantville) we had a dinner interrupted recently by a phone call from Bert MacMannis who was visiting Dayton to check up on the McCall Corp. who print a few dozen copies of Reader's Digest every month. Bert is advertising manager of RD, and came out here to put fresh ink on the presses, having just sold a non-alcoholic, non-nicotinic, non-drug, what-else-is-there ad. We were unable to swap sea stories since he apparently upset the offset, but until his next visit and a full report, go forth, all of you, and become unforgettable characters.
Two classmates are now trustees as well as alumni of their respective preparatory schools. Richard Wyman Jr., president of Wyman's Garden Centers and director of the Framingham National Bank, a third generation alumnus of Hebron Academy, Hebron, Me., is now a trustee. Concurrently, John F. Treadway, selectman of Williamstown, Mass. (and when I last saw him, the Conrad Hilton of the Williamstown Inn), has been appointed trustee of Williston Academy. Paul Winship, who has been teaching at the Holderness School, Plymouth, N. H., for the past couple years, announces he is deserting country life which he proclaims "fine for a few months a year" and moving to exurbian Connecticut. He will be assistant to the headmaster at Westminster School in charge of alumni and development. Undoubtedly the familiar aroma of a collection campaign is already co-mingling with the smell of nutmeg. In any event, Windy, Susan, and all five zephyrs (my own corn) are living at Eno Farm, Simsbury, Conn.
Winding up our prep school side of the news, we have just read in the June '59 "Bulletin" published by Browne & Nichols School (Cambridge, Mass.) a series of confessions by their substitute soccer coach, SamPowers. Sam's avocation at the school is teaching Latin and Greek. There's a bit of Patrick Dennis in his prose and a lot of Washington Senators in his scores.
During the summer we had some correspondence with Everett M. "Steve" Stevens, secretary of the class of 1901 who lives at Deep River, Conn. Steve writes a little better than I, but then he should. He's more mature. He sent a clipping from the Essex, Conn., paper showing Corny Miller looking like Gaylord Ravenal in act two. Corny was running for governor of the 51st State of Confusion along with seven other candidates labeled State of Ecstasy, Frustration, Chaos, etc. They must have a lot of fun around there. Steve also sees a lot of Welles Bates and sent a clipping of his daughter, Carolyn, who just graduated from the MacDuffie School for Girls and enters Hood College this fall.
A scoop from an unknown source reports Herb Hirschland has been elected vice president of the commercial development division of Metal & Thermit Corp. (New York, symb. MT on nyse pd divds since 1911.)
Rodger Harrison writes that he is forsaking the Kudner Agency, Inc. on August 3 "for what, of course, is a fabulous opportunity!" with Doherty, Clifford, Steers & Shenfield, Inc. (They'll have to pay, Rodg,-no more space on door.) Anyhow, he included a tearsheet from the July 13 "Advertising Age" showing an advertisement of Chilton Publications depicting a sales brain storming at the Norton Co. in which our own Bob Cushman as Sales Manager, Grinding Wheels, was grinding more than wheels; was, in fact, chomping mandibles over what trade magazine advertising could do what with competition growing, and all that. Anyhow, Cush, you looked good. And for those of you who read trade or business publications, Yours Truly had an article published in the August 17 "Purchasing Magazine" sans byline titled "Ali Baba and the 40 Value Analysts" which we thought quite clever - full of Sanborn House allegory. Exeunt.
Henry Giovsky, one of the ten outstanding young men of greater Boston in 1954, a former Massachusetts State Representative and State Senator and currently a practicing attorney, has been appointed to the board of directors at Bomarc Laboratories, Inc.
Here's an interesting address change about which we know nothing. Vandegrift Lee has moved from Johannesburg, Union of South Africa to 76 Ludlow Drive, Chappaqua, N. Y., c/o Walter Mahoney. Jud Foster, having been lost to the annals of the Alumni Records Office for several years has turned up a 16821 Griggs Ave., Detroit 31, Mich. Dr. Win. Fairweather of the Akron Clinic, 513 West Market, lives at 3061 Martadale Dr., Akron 13, Ohio. Bill Hyde is still out in the Pacific Northwest working for the West Coast Grocery Co. and living at 11419 Gravelly Lake Dr., S. W., Tacoma 99, Wash.
Jack Parkhurst, still at Indianapolis 8, Ind., has moved to RR 14. Box 707; Dave Smith to 1693 31st St. N. W., Washington 7, D. C.; Richard L. White to 731 So. Berendo St., Los Angeles 5, Calif. And here's one long lost: Major Douglas Gordon Alexander Younger (my erstwhile freshman roommate known as Pete or GubGub) living at 1098 A Cameron Rd., Baltimore 13, Md. (Your turn to write.)
Only other news worth reporting is that Dan Dyer is partly responsible for the huge silver bowl award made each year to the outstanding "Sugar Man of the Year." In this case a Mr. Greene is the lucky recipient. We won't go into the complications as explained by the Bronxville Review Press & Reporter, but suffice to say that Danny Boy is anti-Sucaryl, is a wheel in the sugar market, and chairman of the Community Fund solicitation for Bronxville, Eastchester, Tuckahoe and parts of Yonkers. And if you don't like these news blurbs gleaned from third hand sources, send in some originals on yourselves - or each other - lest we succumb next month to my freshman themes.
Bill Lansberg '38 (r), head of Baker Library's acquisitions division, shown at a luncheon for members of Congress given by the American Library Association during their Washington conference in June. Senator Styles Bridges '35h of New Hampshire is standing at the left. Lansberg is 1959 executive director of National Library Week in the state.
Dartmouth alumni attending the ninth annual International Design Conference at Aspen, Colo., in June were: (1 to r) John Scotford '38, Hanover; Martin Bruse '46, Denver; Dick Durrance '39, Aspen; Jerry Schnitzer '40, New York and Hollywood; Mark Lansburgh '49, Santa Barbara; and Hienz Moore '23, Omaha.
Secretary, 1908 Coolidge Dr. Dayton 19, Ohio
Treasurer, 15 Meridan PL, Huntington Station, N. Y.
