1943
Life with your class secretary is sounding like a travelogue. Ruth and I spent a week in Los Angeles in October attending a convention and since my return I have been constantly moving.
Desperate for news I have even resorted to telephoning various classmates while in their cities. Along with drip-dry suits I carry Bob Craig's '43 Directory, and the results of the calls are fun. Most people expect the worst anyway with a phone call, and when they find it's nothing more than your roving secretary asking for news, they relax and then try to remember who I am.
Talked to Dr. Cyrus Brown in Duluth about seven weeks ago, and only after convincing his secretary I wasn't a drug salesman cadgering business. Cy runs a busy and successful clinic in that important seaport now linked to the ocean.
Tonight in Minneapolis I talked to Marshall "Jerry" Souers - sole '43 in the city. Terry, like Bud Hall, came East from the lowa plains to attend Dartmouth (even met Hall on the same train), and is now settled in Minneapolis as manager of broadcast media and shows for General Mills. If the Bob Richards' Wheaties Sports Federation radio broadcasts heard on Eastern stations are typical of his shows, he can be proud of his achievement. Jerry is active in the very active Minneapolis Dartmouth Club where '43s are in short supply. Several weeks ago Jerry had a reunion with Howie Geer and Bud Hall (and D. J., bless her) in New York.
Enjoyed a fine letter from Robert Edwin Field — not to be confused with classmate Robert Eugene Field. In July 1959 Bob was made a partner in Price, Waterhouse and Co., an international firm of C.P.A.S, with whom Bob has been associated since taking a Tuck Master's in 1947. Bob comments on the number of college classes behind ours in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, but then his oldest son is fourteen, followed by a girl, nine, and another son, six. Time and tide -
Bus Mosbacher forwarded a letter from San Antonio's John Cook, associated with the Coleman and Co. insurance agency in the life department (the best in any business). While '43s are scarcer down there than a bashful Texan, John has seen Holden Waterbury, who terminated working in the Denver area. Leaving the cold and snow of Colorado, Holden is pioneering the sands and cactus of south Texas - San Antonio and Randolph Field. John regretted missing our reunion but found the distance too much to travel with his wife, Bette Ruth, sons Marty and Frank, and daughter, Nancy.
Missed talking to Milton Binswanger in Memphis this week. His teenage children, Richard, Lisa, or Barbara, must have been on the phone, and the airline wouldn't wait.
Gordon Carter, once a College Hall stalwart, sends a refreshing biography from France, where he is chief representative to Europe and North Africa for UNICEF. His own family of three daughters and one son have an international flavor of their own, having been born in various foreign countries. I'll send Gordon's card to Farmer Meade for newsletter publication. Thanks for writing, Gordon.
Every time I hear the Tetley Tea jingle on WOR, I stop for a cup of tea, mesmerized by the magic of Martin (Killer) Kane. I can see the effect of Sanborn House in your copy, Martin, if you will excuse the reference. Clever radio advertising.
The Holiday season will be on us by the time you read this issue, and I hope your families and you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy and full New Year.
Secretary, 1445 Cherry Lane Potts town, Penna.
Treasurer, 159 Willow St., Brooklyn 1, N. Y,
