1919

A card from Ed and Bea Martin indicates that they are enjoying themselves in gay Paree, among other places on the Continent, and will miss the Woodstock-Hanover party for the first time. Recent address changes include that of Louis Apteker to 219 Holt Road, Andover, Mass.; Tracy Kohl, Sedona, Ariz.; Charles McE. Singleton, 114 West 10 Street, Kansas City, Mo., and Oscar B. Lewis, Thetford Hill, Vt., where Oscar and Nan are taking things easy in their retirement.

The National Art Materials Trade Association chose Mose Robinson to receive its 1959 Art Award as "The American who has done the most to further art in the U.S." Pat Leonhard got a nice writeup in a Philadelphia magazine as follows:

E. R. Leonhard, president of Bristol-located Paterson Parchment Paper Company, directs his attention these days to his company's rising sales and profit curve. During World War I, however, his interest in ascent was aeronautical, for he was one of the first licensed pilots on Naval Aviation balloons. Following his aviation stint and graduation from Dartmouth in 1920 Leonhard, an economics major, joined Paterson's accounting department. He subsequently became traffic and service manager, a salesman, assistant sales manager, and vice president in charge of sales. He was elected president of the company in 1953. Under his administration, sales and earnings of the company, the leading manufacturer of specialty papers, have soared to record heights (last year's volume: $12 million). The wide variety of vegetable parchments produced by the company is used in packaging, in business and industrial applications, and in greeting cards. Leonhard is responsible for Paterson's continuing program of product and market diversification. A golf enthusiast, he is a member of the Huntington Valley Country Club and the Pine Valley Golf Club. At the same time, he says, "I'm really not a golfer; I just play golf." A member of the board of directors of the Bucks County United Services Federation, he is also a vestryman of St. John's Episcopal Church in Huntington Valley. He lives in Rydal with his wife, Alma. Both daughters are married. Leonhard also holds membership in the Canadian Club in New York and the Paper Club of New York.

Ken Huntington did some pinch hitting on the birthday cards during August and part of September when your Secretary had a session with the medicos and finally a surgeon. For the benefit of the doctors in the class, who would be the only ones to understand the following, my trouble was "Acute radiculitis, cervical seven right, secondary to osteo-arthritis" and the surgery was "Cervical hemilaminectomy right cervical five-sixseven, foraminotomy and decompression right six and seven nerve roots" - all of which did not come under the head of fun.

Don Finlayson, of Ithaca, N. Y., writes in a nice letter:

My warm thanks to both you and Ken Huntington for the 1919 birthday card. I'm glad to learn you are much improved due to your operation. Perhaps, like me, you need a hospitalization to teach you to relax - and what a rewarding way of life it turns out to be, especially if one has grandsons handy to supply the stimulaready to hand over to them. I have been very fortunate in my recovery from coronary thrombosis - in fact I'm held up by my friends as model to encourage those now going through the first stages of the same disease. Summer in Maine was restful. College reopened this week amid some confusion due to our having been moved to new quarters on September 10. One new duty pleases me, having been selected by the student body of our College of Architecture to be faculty advisor to their newly formed Student Council. This will take up the slack gained when I gave up advisorship of the Cornell swimming teams. Some years ago I handed the advisorship of DKE over to a Deke who joined the administration, but I still enjoy acting as advisor to my own fraternity of Alpha Phi Delta which I joined here at Cornell. I do mean Alpha Phi Delta, not Alpha Delta Phi, which happens to be my son's fraternity. Best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery.

What happened to all my sources of news during the last few months - did reunion tire everybody out so that they can't keep your secretary, with a pain in the neck, advised on what 1919 is doing? Let's get back in the groove - true, sometimes I miss a letter, due to my slap-happy filing system. However, that's the way it is.

Murray Hawkins, who was East but couldn't make reunion due to business engagements in Canada writes:

Thanks for the birthday greeting which arrived on schedule and the sentiments expressed on it are most desirable. I was able to relax and enjoy it thoroughly. Of course I have gotten to the stage where one of the happiest things on my birthday is to be with my grandchildren, which is a far cry from forty years ago. It was certainly nice to see you and the others who were able to make it when I was there at the Dartmouth Club last June, and as it worked out, it was impossible for me to get down to Hanover from Montreal. From what Eddie Seward tells me of the weather, it is fortunate I did not try.

It looks as though Dan Featherston will have to make a report on the October 9-11 weekend as these notes have to be in before October 5. In case Dan does not show up on October 9, your secretary will try to give the report on who was there. Expected as of now are Stu and Dot Russell; my old friends Brenda and Donald Millar, Brown '19, a trustee of Brown, and a recent recipient of an LL.D. from his Alma Mater; Fat and Hon Jackson; Teto and Shirley Webster; Fred and Gert Daley; Rock and Alice Earle Hayes; Harry and Lil Colwell; Nick and Dot Sandoe; Marie Drane; Paul Halloran; Jack and Hester McCrillis; Casey and Toni Bevan; Oscar and Nan Lewis; Cottie and Kitty Larmon, Cottie being the new president of the Class; Ken and Marge Huntington; Bob Proctor; Lou and Harriett Munro; Ray and Florence Legg; Ray and Pearl Adams; possibly Greif and Vera Raible; likewise Dick and Spike Dudensing; maybe Max and Helen Norton; plus many who will check in for luncheon at the Hanover Inn on October 10, including the Ed Warnke's if they can find a place to stay; and last but far from least Chet and Emily Gale. Your Secretary hopes at this writing that they can find somewhere to park, because the October 12 weekend is rough around Hanover and Woodstock.

John Fornacca '19 (left), past commander of the American Legion in Italy, receives a 50-star flag presented to the Legion by R. P. Spater, TWA representative in Italy, shown next to him. Others at the presentation were Carmine Casolini, Adjutant of the American Legion in Italy, and James D. Zellerbach (r), U. S. Ambassador to Italy.

Secretary, 1273 North Avenue New Rochelle, N. Y.

Treasurer, 184 Summer St., Springfield, Vt.