1940

We hope that you all had a most enjoyable summer and that you are now back in the groove with the children safely ensconced in school and the household somewhat quieter.

It is with deep regret that we report the death of two of our classmates during the summer. Chet Ferguson died on June 23 and Gerry Torborg passed away on July 12. Obituaries will be found in that section of this or a subsequent MAGAZINE. The sympathies of the entire class go out to their families.

During the summer word has come to us of the promotion of many classmates. Our eminent chairman, Hugh Schwarz was elected vice president and administrative assistant to the president of Minute Maid Corporation. At the present minute he is in South Africa on some sort of orange juice business. DaveLeake is now manager of field sales for McGraw-Hill Book Company and pretty much covers the country by air. Somehow he still finds time to sail his new boat and to manage a Little League baseball team. Jack McDonald is now with the Office Appliance Company of Chicago, who publish Office Appliances Magazine and Management & Business Automation. Bob Dingwall was recently elected to the board of directors of the Charles W. Hoyt Company advertising agency, of which he is a Vice President. Butch Heneage has been appointed manager of the San Francisco office of the Security Connecticut Life Insurance Company. BobArmstrong, ex McGraw-Hill, is now living in Benton Harbor, Mich., where he is public relations manager for Whirlpool Corp. DonFox, who left Minneapolis and the position of advertising and sales promotion director of Minneapolis Honeywell in 1956 to go to Detroit in the same capacity for the Edsel Division of the Ford Motor Company, has now returned to Minneapolis as assistant manager of the local office-of Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn.

George Sommets, freshman principal of Libertyville Fremont High School, has been named acting superintendent for the high school. He moved to Libertyville, Ill., in 1958 from Crivitz, Wis., where he was superintendent of the school district. Jack Ingersoll is now registrar at the University School, Shaker Heights, Ohio. Hugh Mullen has been appointed Vice President in charge of Operations for Buell Engineering Company of New York,- designers and manufacturers of air pollution and dust control equipment. He has spent his entire business career with Buell. Bob Clunie has gone on the faculty of the Falmouth (Me.) High School as a mathematics instructor and track coach. Roland Hillas has been appointed manager of the Allied American Agency which is part of the home office marketing operation of the American Mutual Liability Insurance Company in Wakefield, Mass. To accept his new position he has moved from Lexington, Ky., where he was western division sales manager for the same company.

Bob Bramley has finally taken the step and was married on June 9 to Mrs. Marjorie MacConnell Evans in Fairhaven, N. J. They are now living in Rumson and Bob is associated with the Stulz-Sickles Company in Elizabeth, N. J. We have only one birth to report and that is the arrival of Fred Fuld's son, Jonathan, on April 27. This is their third son. Fred is living in Miraleste, Calif.

Indirectly we learn that Dr. GeorgeSchneider and wife Lena are enjoying life in Lake Charles, La., where he has a fine practice and we presume four children, since one was due some time this summer but has not been confirmed.

We are rapidly coming to the conclusion that Jack O'Shea pretty much runs the town of Laconia, N. H. Almost every month we get some new clipping on his civic activities. Our most recent piece of intelligence is that he has been made vice president and campaign chairman of that city's United Fund Drive.

A letter from Al Rosenthal gives us much welcome news from Boston. He says that Perry Weston is living in Springfield, Mass., with his wife and three children and is production manager for a pump company in Warren, Mass. Lou Rose is editor of research reports for Avco in their new plant in Wilmington, Mass. He is still single and searching. Woody Cataldo is living in Woburn, Mass., and is in the real estate business, principally in the Waltham area. He has five children and one more expected. CharliePinderhughes is still a psychiatrist for the V.A. and he has four boys and one girl, the oldest of whom is thirteen.

Fred Eaton is manager of the West Palm Beach store of Sears, Roebuck. He lives in that city of the ever-shining sun (except last winter) with his wife and five children, age nine to two. Ben Bacon reports that he and Jean spent a week cruising in June with Bob and Didi Gensel on their cabin cruiser. Ben is still in the printing business in Derby, Conn.

Joe Armanini is doing very well at British Motor Car Distributors, Ltd. in San Francisco. He and Vickie are in the process of trying to adopt at least two -youngsters, since they have no children of their own.

Al Thorpe writes from Niagara Falls that he and George Bartlett are the only '40's in the area. They are both engaged in personnel work for the Hooker Chemical Company.

Harry Hoyt has brought us up to date on his family. He is regional manager for the group division of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in Detroit, Mich., where he has been for the last four years. He is living in Birmingham, with his wife and three children, age seventeen to twelve. He tells us that Dr. Bud Czerny has been made Chief of Staff of the hospital in Tucson, Ariz., where he has been practicing for several years.

On a trip to Europe last July, the only '4O we bumped into was Elmer Browne in his new house in Hertfordshire, England. When we saw him he was far from settled with plasterers, electricians, carpenters and painters all over the place, but by this time things should be operating in an orderly fashion. The Browne family will be in England for an indefinite period with MerckSharpe and Dohme, but he promises to be back for our big Twentieth Reunion in 1961.

Secretary, Hemphill, Noyes and Co. 15 Broad St., New York 5, N. Y.

Treasurer, 88 North Main St., Concord, N. H.

Hugh Mullen '40 has been appointed vice president in charge of operations for the Buell Engineering Co., designers and manufacturers of air pollution and dust control equipment. He was formerly director of purchasing and administrative assistant to the president. Mullen has spent his entire business career with Buell Engineering, joining their research and development staff in 1946, after five years of Army service. With his wife and seven children he resides in Port Washington, N. Y.