1953

The other day I heard a bell toll. It reminded me of the New England Town Crier who took his position on the Green one October afternoon and was heard to say:

Brock Brower received the appointment of Editor of the University of North Carolina Press on June 1 of this year and then in July was awarded a $5,000 grant by the Columbia Broadcasting System to permit him time to write for CBS Television. Brock has resigned his position with the University and plans to settle down in Delaware with wife Ann and infant son, Montgomery, while writing dramatic scripts for Playhouse 90 and fantasy comedies.

Dave Walker writes that "after graduating from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, I traveled pretty much around the world on a traveling grant from the Museum. I learned things from my visits to Burma and Japan which were applicable to my paintings, particularly in terms of form. (During the months of July and August, Dave had a highly successful display of his works at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The Christian Science Monitor stated at the time:

The Walker exhibits show a sensitive perception of color and a capacity to use it with feeling and with sensuousness. Whether Mr. Walker paints a subject of Cambridge or Waikiki, he translates the data of an urban or country view into similar loose, fragmentary, seemingly tentative delineations. He relaxes the hold on nature, he keeps the link tenuous. There are human figures, but they are simplified and sometimes almost transparent; there are plants, but the shapes of flower, leaf, stalk are either broadly or abbreviatedly indicated, mere wisps of the tangible.

"During the past year, I've been assisting in the Fine Arts Department of Tufts University. I plan to try to go abroad again in about a year and eventually live in California or New York City."

The lure of Hanover brings back another '53 classmate in the person of John Springer who has joined the Mary Hitchcock Hospital as a Resident in Hospital Administration. John is enrolled in the graduate program in hospital administration at the University of Michigan. Following his residency in Hanover, he will be eligible for his Master's degree from the University.

News of the business world includes the name of George Krall who recently graduated from General Electric's management training program in Lynn, Mass., and then returned to his production responsibilities with the Turbine Division of GE in Rutland, Vt. The president of the International Corp., a world-wide equipment leasing concern with headquarters in Baltimore, recently announced the election of Bill McCarthy to the Board of Directors. Bill is associated with the Baltimore law firm of Venable. Baetjer and Howard. John Morris has joined the public relations firm of Howard Chase Associates, Inc. with headquarters in New York. Since graduation, John has had the broad experience of being a reporter on the Plainfield, N. J., Courier News, a newsman in the Connecticut bureau of the Associated Press, a member of the public relations staff of Rockefeller Center in New York, an instructor in the Great Issues Course at Dartmouth, and also news editor of Medical Economics, a national magazine for physicians. Jim Decker is now with the Virginia Council of Highway Investigation and Research in Charlottesville, Va., where he is concentrating on highway traffic engineering and safety research. He attended the Bureau of Highway Traffic School at Yale University and is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Institute of Traffic Engineers. The Hartford, Conn., welldressed set is patronizing Al Collins' new menswear shop bearing his name on South Main St. opposite the Town Hall.

The Town Crier pauses to ring his festive bell and then announces that Ed Fowler and Ruth Houston of Middletown, N. Y., are engaged. Ruth graduated from Wesley Junior College, Dover, Del., and the Mandl School for Medical Assistants. Ed is associated with the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Philadelphia.

A special honorary announcement is heralded by all with a Wah-Hoo-Wah and it goes to Art Thomas who left by ship Sept. 25 for England, the winner of a grant from the Rotary Foundation to study at the University of London's School of Economics. Art plans to do graduate research in law. He already holds his law degree from Yale and has been associated with the law firm of Gumbart, Corbin, Cooper and Tyler in New Haven for several years.

New Orleans is noted for its "Birth of the Blues" but more recently it lays claim to the birth of Stewart David Replogle on July 19. Congratulations to the Reps.

The bell tolls adjournment but not before everybody exchanges a warm greeting of "HAPPY THANKSGIVING."

Secretary 1050 Parker, Detroit 14, Mich.

Treasurer, 1404 Potato Point Rd., Appleton, Wis.