1929

When Noel Salomon saw the article "A 1929 Profile" in the May issue of the MAGAZINE, it sent him scurrying for a picture that he had kept these many years which includes, along with Gordon Moore, Mort Smith, Mase Ingram, John Howland, Rex Stollmeyer, Jim Latham, Don Simpson, Walt Wilson, Porter Kier, Norman Sparhawk, and Noel. We are indebted to Noel - both for his good memory and for finding the picture. Incidentally, he has written that he would be glad to supply a copy of the picture to anyone who would like one (see cut, p. 65).

Continuing a listing of those '29ers who have worked in the 200th Anniversary Development Program, we find, in the September issue of The Capital D newsheet, Bob Beadel and Carter Strickland, Co-Chairmen of the Syracuse, N. Y., area, Judge Jim Hodson, Seattle area chairman, Johnny Quebman, Attleboro chairman of the Southeastern Massachusetts area, and Dr. Art D'Elia, Cape Cod area chairman.

We hear that John Moxon's son John '61 is a member of the varsity wrestling team, a gymnast, and a member of Phi Kappa Psi. Also that he has decided to major in French, principally as a result of his year's experience in Albi, France, as an American Friends Society exchange student.

Charlie Shaeffer, of Weston, Conn., former manager of credit and collections at the General Electric Co., has been appointed manager, field warehousing, for the construction material sales operations of the chemical and metallurgical division, with headquarters in Bridgeport. Charlie joined GE in 1929, enrolled in the business training courses in Schenectady in 1933 and has moved up through various appointments to this most recent one. In his new capacity, he will be in charge of all phases of operation of the construction materials field warehouses located in seven major cities across the country.

Lt. Col. Don Simpson, who has been on active duty' with the U. S. Air Force for the past four years, working with the Judge Advocate General's office in Washington, has returned to Boston and has rejoined the faculty of Suffolk University Law School where he taught from 1945 to 1955.

Hal Hirsch, president and chairman of the White Stag Manufacturing Co., Portland, Ore., was in New York this past summer when trading began in the company's Class A shares on the American Stock Exchange. We had a nice phone conversation with him, but hope he — and other West-Coasters - will take time to visit with some of us Easterners one of these days.

Jack Blair's Blair, Spencer & Buckles firm has announced the opening, last June, of a European office under the direction of member Richard Spencer to engage in the practice of patent, trademark and patent antitrust law at 29 Rue Cambon, Paris 1, France.

Bob Carr, member of the College faculty since 1937 and professor of law and political science, has been named ninth president of Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. He succeeds William E. Stevenson, president since 1946, and will assume his new office on January 1, 1960. Bob's selection was announced by the Oberlin board of trustees, headed by Erwin N. Griswold, dean of the Harvard Law School. Last year he was on leave from the College to serve as general secretary of the American Association of University Professors. Before becoming director of the Great Issues course in 1958, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the study of civil liberties in England. In 1947, he became executive secretary of President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights. In addition to serving as vice president of the council of the AAUP from 1952 to 1954, he is a member of the national committee of the American Civil Liberties Union, and is the author of several books including "The Supreme Court and Judicial Review," "Federal Protection of Civil Rights," "Quest for a Sword," and "The House Committee on Un-American Activities."

Heard from Bob Monahan that after 110 legislative days in the New Hampshire General Court he, as one of the eight-member state executive committee, has helped shift the New Hampshire Draft Rockefeller Campaign from low to second gear. Nelse was in Hanover for the Holy Cross game and 1930's Fall Reunion and we hear there were several children around their picnic site in the Bema carrying signs which read "Who else but Nelse?"

Word has come in that Herb Bissell was elected a director of the Minneapolis Gas Co.; that Ed Chinlund has been elected treasurer of the Civic-Business Council, co-ordinating and fund-raising agency for the Better Business Bureau, the Chamber of Commerce and the Convention Bureau in Pittsburgh; that Ray Hedger, representing the Dartmouth Club of New York, won the individual low net event with 89-20-69 in the 24th annual Inter-College Club Golf Tournament at Sleepy Hollow last June; and that Charlie Gaynor's revue, "Lend an Ear," was at the Ogunquit Playhouse, Ogunquit, Me., this past summer and is now being revived on Broadway.

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