1930

The material for this month's news seems to be more of a pot-pourri than usual, so sit back and you'll learn of some of the activities of our illustrious class. For instance, out in Hawaii, Bert Gross is busy tracking flies by making them radioactive; he does it by feeding them minute quantities of souped-up phosphorus.

On the esthetic side we have a letter from Ellie Gilbert which says, "I am in the throes of opening my own FM station to broadcast classical and semi-classical music eighteen hours a day. As you can imagine there are thousands of problems. Gradually we are finding the answers. We hope to be in operation by October first. We formed a corporation, Texas Fine Broadcasters, Inc., of which I am president. A lawyer friend is secretary-treasurer. The call letters are KRBE, the key to radio broadcasting excellence. Our location is 1400 Hermann Drive. Yes, that's the name of the building. Very swanky. We have a prestige location and will have a prestige medium. Right now publicity is being planned as is also the programming."

Gilly is still a soloist at Christ Cathedral and serves as song leader for the Kiwanis Club. He reports having a lot of fun singing the role of Wazir in "Kismet" a couple of months ago.

Meanwhile Sam Stayman has been in orbit in the world of bridge, playing in the Masters' Team contest in Chicago in August and in the regional tournament at Asbury Park in September. How he made out our source of information did not disclose.

And on the grim side we have Fred Scribner making headlines by disclosing that the Treasury is planning to tighten up the enforcement of the tax laws on dividends and interest. You'd better come clean this year, fellows!

Burt Sherwood, formerly with the National Life Insurance Company of Vermont, has just joined the trust department of the Seaboard Citizens National Bank in Norfolk, Va. June brought a new connection also to Pat Weaver with the announcement that he had been elected Chairman of McCann-Erickson Corporation (International), a division of McCann-Erickson Inc., the nation's second largest advertising agency. Pat will head a division that ranks as the largest advertising agency in Europe and Latin America, serving more than 500 accounts through 33 offices in eighteen countries. The 2,000 employees are mostly nationals of the countries in which they work. Total billings of $60,000,000 is more than most major agencies in this country control.

And not parenthetically we want to add that Mrs. Pat Weaver - the former Elizabeth Inglis of Hollywood fame — is the new tennis champion of Long Island's fashionable Creek Club. Our Locust Valley scout tells us that her efficiency on the courts is exceeded only by her acknowledged beauty and charm.

Congratulations to Charlie Rauch upon his recent election as Treasurer of the Connecticut Savings Bank in New Haven. The change was described by the bank as a step in better equipping management to cope with the future anticipated growth of the bank, whose deposits in the last two and a half years have increased from 20 to 133 million. Charlie joined the bank in 1952 as vice-president, a corporator, and a trustee of the bank.

For one of the most versatile men of the class we give you Bill Putnam, who with all his other activities has just taken on responsibility for teaching Greek at Thetford Academy.

Many of you must have seen the picture of Harry Condon in a recent New York Times feature article on mutual funds. Harry is an industry specialist for Massachusetts Investors Trust, just so long as it doesn't interfere with running reunions.

In the financial field also, Eggie Smith, executive vice president of Albert Trostel and Sons Co., has been named to the examining committee of policyowners of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. He is also director of the Northwestern National Insurance Co., Maysteel Co., Theresa State Bank and Badger Meter Co.

Up in Lebanon, N. H., Clarence Benson has just been named Treasurer of the Thermal Dynamics Co., which produces a plasma torch with a 30,000-degree flame.

The final item in the potpourri shows that some of us can still engage in vigorous outdoor sports. Once again Horst Orbanowski makes the headlines for winning his sixth straight race at the Larchmont Yacht Club.

Finally, another most successful reunion was staged at Woodstock over the Holy Cross weekend, the details of which will be reported in the Class Newsletter.

For those interested, here is where our classmates on the move are now located:

Col. Kelso G. Clow, Hg. 3rd Armored Division Trains APO 165, New York, N. Y.; Lee A. Eisler, R. D. #1, Coopersburg, Pa.; Alfred Kronengold, Life Insurance Agent, 630 Third Ave., New York 17, N. Y., and 66-33 Yellowstone Blvd., Forest Hills 75, N. Y.; Maurice M. Chait, 2138 Yale Ave., Camp Hill, Pa.; Alexander H. Hughes, 534 Hyde St., San Francisco 9, Calif.; Robert L. Barker, 299 Clarke Ave., Staten Island 6, N. Y.; Horace N. Drew, American Red Cross, APO 919, Box 364, San Francisco, Calif.; Dr. Winslow R. Hatch, Research Coordinator, Dept. Health, Education & Welfare, Washington 25, D. C., and 115 Churchill Road, McLean, Va.; Milton L. Patterson, Cargo Sales Dept., Pacific Alaska Division, PAA, International Airport, San Francisco, Calif., and 447 Van Buren St., Los Altos, Calif.; Paul F. Poehler, Jr., 65 Locust Ave., Lexington 73, Mass.; Thomas J. Kedian, 17 Shepard St., Cambridge 38, Mass.; Dr. John F. Birmingham, Jr., Supervisor, Sherwin Williams Co., 11541 South Champlain Ave., Chicago 28, Ill. and 2233 Mac Donald Lane, Flossman, 111.; Henry J. Odbert, 10610 Belfast Place, Bethesda 14, Md.; Raphael Avellar, River Road, Mystic, Conn.; Fred D. Moller, 820 Hillcrest Ave., Orange, Conn.; Richard W. Bowlen, 20900 Smallwood Drive, Birmingham, Mich.; William N. Fenton, 7 North Helderberg Parkway, Slingerlands, N. Y.; Hon. J. Frank McLaughlin, 3260 Pacific Heights, Honolulu, Hawaii; Howard Weinstein. 117 North Oxford St., Apt. 6-B, Hartford 6, Conn.; Evarts C. Fox, 2421 Strickler Road, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Harold E. Booma, P. O. Box 2377, Boston 7, Mass.; Edwin A. Frost, 201 W. Brookfield Drive, Nashville 5, Tenn.; William R. Geisinger, P. O. Box 271, Troy, Ohio; Pierre V. Heftier, 1265 Buckingham, Grosse Pointe 30, Mich.; Leonard S. Schmitz, Box 123, Wayne, Ill.; William B. Christe, Manufacturer, AA Patch Co., Inc., Holyoke, Mass., and 25 Woodbridge Terrace, South Hadley, Mass.; Randall M. Snow, Apt. C, 314 Ogle St., Costa Mesa, Calif.

The 1929 Alpha Tau Omega picture mentioned in the 1929 class column shows, front row,l to r, Mort Smith, Gordon Moore, Mason Ingram, John Howland, Noel Salomon; secondrow, Rex Stollmeyer, Jim Latham, Don Simpson, Walt Wilson, Porter Kier, and NormanSparhawk.

Secretary, 20900 Smallwood Drive Birmingham, Mich.

Treasurer, 30 Boxwood Dr., Stamford, Conn.