1940

While most of us are getting over the effects of the holidays and worrying about the bills still to be paid, Hugh Dryfoos is busily planning for Christmas, 1959! He is about to launch his Christmas ornament sales campaign for the next Yuletide and to start the machines turning to make the decorations that you and I will be purchasing many months from now.

Scott Dillingham writes from Warsaw, N. Y., that he is still selling textbooks for Macmillan. He is residing with his wife, two children and a foolish beagle. During the gubernatorial campaign, he worked hard at the local level to get out the votes for Nelson Rockefeller, a successful endeavor which he regrets will not excuse him from state income taxes. In calling on his clientele, he saw Jim Malaney in Buffalo between history classes.

Bill Sinclair says that he spent two wonderful weeks last August at Bob Austin's West-Wind Village on Lake Winnepocket in Webster, N. H. He cannot wait to get back there next summer at the same time as Dr. Bill Huffman who will come east from Cleveland. It seems that more and more classmates are availing themselves of the Austin hospitality and their enthusiasm is contagious.

Dick Funkhouser has been working for over a year on the merger of several of his family's companies with the Ruberoid Company. The formal agreement was signed in October and the deal was finalized in January. From here on Dick will be on the Ruberoid payroll, but still based in Hagerstown, Md., we presume. He says that he hopes he never has to go through a merger again with all the headaches it entails, and he is already looking forward to trips to Lake Fairlee next summer where his four children will be in camp.

Bob Dingwall is a vice president of Charles W. Hoyt advertising agency. He is living in New York with his wife and has been spending some of his limited leisure time working on the capital gifts campaign. This endeavor has brought him into contact with various classmates. He reports that Frank Orenstein is in the research department of the advertising firm of McCann-Erickson, that Tuffy Reeves is knocking himself out with great success producing package television shows, and that Dr. Alan Johnson has dedicated himself to medical research at New York University-Bellevue Medical Center in New York. Frank and Alan are living in New York while Tuffy makes his home in Great Neck, Long Island.

Bob Reid is sales manager of the needle division of the Torrington Company in Connecticut. He is also in charge of the company's development program in Europe, which has necessitated a great deal of travel away from home in Litchfield, Conn.

Fred Eaton and extensive family have moved from Atlanta to West Palm Beach. From personnel work for Sears Roebuck, he has gone over to the management of that company's large new store. This may be a promotion, but it also leaves the Eatons wide open as a target for visiting firemen in the Palm Beach area. As soon as Fred's new address has been received, it will be forwarded to classmates upon request!

Bud and Louise Hewitt have returned from their honeymoon trip to Williamsburg, Va.; while Joe and Joyce Adams, having travelled the marriage road slightly farther, report that they are on the ragged edge of having their fifth child; and Ron Woodbury, still more advanced, is working on getting his son into Dartmouth.

Turk Lake will be going to Hanover in February to interview applicants for employment with Procter & Gamble. He is taking his family with him and plans to combine business with pleasure by taking to the slopes for a few days.

From the Laconia, N. H., paper:

The manger at the Christmas creche on the library lawn proved the only warm spot that a shivering dog could find Christmas Eve. The dog was found nestled in the hay among the artificial figures and animals paying homage to the Christ Child, police said. The dog was identified as a full-blooded boxer, belonging to Atty. Stephen S. Jewett. It is believed to have sought shelter from the severe cold, saving itself a long trudge home. The boxer is an inveterate follower of its master - who chose to remain indoors that night - and remains on guard outside his office door every day, and accompanies him, when allowed, on most trips about the city.

And now to close on a very serious note.It has been announced by the HopkinsCenter Building Committee that the largeGarden Court in the center of the group ofbuildings is under consideration as a memorial to those who gave their lives in thearmed services between 1939 and 1948. Asone of the three classes who suffered themost in the number of men lost (31) wehave a great interest in this project. It indeed appears a fitting memorial - under theopen sky and framed by flowers and trees.We feel certain that all members of theclass will applaud this undertaking.

Attending the December wedding of Louise Palette and Robert W. Hewitt '40 in New York were: (standing, left to right) Lincoln H. Weld '21; Stuart L. May '41; William Kramer; Alan Hewitt '34, brother of the groom; J. Steele Brown '41; Louise Palette, the bride; Robert W. Hewitt '40, the groom; John E. Moore '23; Thomas A. Hession '27; Dr. Leonard B. Gutner '38; kneeling in front are Aldan O. Markson '51 and Richard C. Woodman '38.

Secretary, Hemphill, Noyes and Co. 15 Broad St., New York 5, N. Y.

Treasurer, 88 North Main St., Concord, N. H