1950

In case you hadn't noticed, it's almost time for the little man in the red flannel threads and long white whiskers to hop down your chimney and go into his stocking stuffing act. For a break in the process of making out the inevitable lists, how about wandering over for a look at...

CUPID'S CORNER

On September 26 glad tidings were proclaimed for Jimmie Gregg and Miss Caro Cragg of Kenilworth, Ill., who will be married this month. The prospective bride went to Northwestern.

Also walking the last mile are Miss Meliss Armitage of Pasadena, Calif., and Leo Appel. She is a grad of Occidental College.

DIAPER DIGEST

Wes Field reveals that last March 4 an heir arrived in Baldwin, N. Y., and was named Bruce. Elder sister Deborah is going on three. Wes works at Chase Manhattan with the group handling the bank's business in Michigan, Indiana, and southwestern Ohio and has the position of assistant treasurer.

On November 5 Hugh and Jane Brower became parents of their first son, David Meacham, in Evanston, Ill. The Brower daughter, Mary, had her third birthday in July. Besides financial activities at Harris Trust in Chicago, Hugh is scribe for the local D. Club.

Congratulations and welcome aboard, kids!

GRAPEVINE REPORTS

Phil See is an assistant veep at National Shawmut Bank in Boston ... Jim and GinnyHutton have been back in Cincinnati for several years where they encounter occasional transient Indians and watch over two little girls; Marianne, four, and Sarah, three. Downtown Jim toils in the investment banking business ... Con Bohuslav analyzes operations with Permanente Services, Inc. ... CurtDunnavan is a registered representative for Smith, Barney & Co. in Minneapolis. ... Also in the Twin Cities, Tom Warner is vice prexv for Warner Holding ... New Yorker Ted Remsen is a partner at James H. Oliphant & Co.

Dave Hep worth is a senior accountant for Arthur Anderson in Boston .. . Harry Van Benschoten is a partner in the New York accountant firm of Pogson, Pelobet & C. ... King Kenny forsook the wide open Texas spaces for a job at Gulf Oil's home base in Pittsburgh ... Jim Cavanaugh's selling activities center around Manchester, N. H. ... Jim Gilmore continues with merchandising chores at William Y. Gilmore & Sons in Oak Park.

Fritz and Lucy Jewett have two children, Mary Elizabeth born August 13, 1954, and George Frederick III who turned three last July 31. Fritz is a director of Potlatch Forests, Inc., after duties as assistant mill manager and also as assistant secretary-treasurer. Main functions these days center around new product development and marketing.

Rocky Smyth consults on employee benefit plans for Provident Life & Accident Insurance Co. in Chattanooga ... Bill Christgau is now a special agent of the Equitable Life Assurance Society in New York ... Frank Harrington has been named training supervisor in the southwestern sales region for the Paul Revere Life and the Massachusetts Protective Association, Inc. Frank graduated from the Harvard B. School and the Life Insurance Marketing Institute of Purdue University where he received the award for outstanding achievement. The Harrington clan lives in Albuquerque.

Gerry Smith is working for the management consultant "firm of Cresap, McCormick & Paget based in New York, though Gerry lives in Wilmington ... Frank Moulton heads an interior decorator outfit, Moulton-Plourde in Flint, Mich. ... Neil O'Brien has "moved to the Far West" (Stoughton, Wis., which he claims is pretty far west for a New Englander!) and works as a senior development chemist for U. S. Rubber Co. ... Dan Schausten is back from the World's Fair in Belgium and works as assistant to the manager of New York's International Airport for the Port of New York Authority ... Larry Smith is secretary for Laurence R. Smith, Inc., in West Hartford.

Bob Oliver is assistant sales manager and national accounts representative for Intern ational Metal Products Co., Phoenix, Ariz.

... Larry Batty has moved to Schenectady where he works for G. E.'s silicone products department... John Standish sells for the H. W. Baker Linen Co. out of New York ... Dick McSorley has been reported giving talks about Alcoa for whom he is promotion manager in the Buffalo district... Bill Hawkins visited Chicago the third week in September for the Instrument Society of America show held here. When we saw him at the Consolidated Electrodynamics Corp. booth he was surrounded by all manner of electronic computers ... Monty Miller is a representative for Sikorski Aircraft.

Phil Pearson is a graduate student and teaching assistant in the botany department at Rutgers ... Pete Johnson is an instructor in geography at St. Lawrence University.

Saw a photo of Steve Hartigan running for the school committee in Lowell, Mass. If all eight of the kids shown belong to Steve, he ought to have the job strictly on the basis of proportional representation!

Congratulations to Clarke Bassett, named assistant to the general manager in the New York office of International Milling Co. ...

Also a tip of the topper to Ben Johnson who's been made general manager of the Head Ski Co. in Baltimore ... John Newby is vice president and general manager of Whetton Oil Co. in Needham, Mass Bill Lambert is warehouse superintendent for A & P Tea Co. in Huntington, W. Va.

Your 1950 Executive Committee met in New York before the Columbia game, primarily to discuss reunion plans. Deadline dates have precluded any report here, but you may already have some information via 50-50 in the meantime. As you know, the dates are June 17, 18, and 19, and you ought to plan to attend. Joel Leavitt and his gang are hard at work to get you the kind of weekend schedule you want, so feel free to write him at 58 Warwick St., Longmeadow, Mass. Publicity has not been heavy so far since the College only recently decided their schedule of events.

Happy holidays and daze. See you in 1960!

Japanese decor was authentic, even to theyoung ladies, Tazagasan and Sakosan, whenDr. Jerry Block '51 (l) was dinner host inKamakura to Dr. Marr Mullen '51 (r), whowas enjoying Air Force leave in Japan.

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