1936
The Poetry Society of America honored Samuel French Morse at the group's 49th annual dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on January 22. Sam was a co-winner of The Arthur Davison Ficke Memorial Award for his sonnet sequence "The City Spring." At last year's meeting the Society honored Robert Frost '96. Sam is an associate professor of English at Mt. Holyoke College and lives in South Hadley with his wife and son.
One of the few top officials of the U. S. Government to witness the last atomic explosion before suspension in Las Vegas was Mat Marks. Mat's work may take him to any part of the world. However, his headquarters are in the Treasury Building in Washington, D. C., where he is the U. S. Treasury Officer on the Coordinating Board of the National Security Council. This is the group that prepares policies for discussion and approval by President Eisenhower and the Council. Mat is a graduate of the National War College, lives in Falls Church, Va., with his beautiful Belgian wife and their son, Ramon who is 10 years old. He sees his old roommates DonMacNeary and Henry Mascarello every year when he travels north to Hanover for an extended summer vacation of browsing, studying and visiting at the College.
Many of you have served on your local school boards. So you can appreciate the work that Don Sutherland has done - and has yet to do - in Danvers, Mass. His school board is reported by the local paper to have unanimously approved a 46-acre site for a new high school and possibly a new elementary school in the same location. Last September when my wife, children and I were attending the Topsfield (Mass.) Fair we had lunch at a busy tent restaurant on the fairgrounds. We found Don Sutherland managing the finances and Virginia, his wife, supervising and working in the kitchen with two or three of their children dispensing the food and cleaning the tables. Don told me then how many thousands of meals they served throughout the week of the fair. It was the Maple Street Congregational Church Tent; in case any of you are on the fairgrounds next fall and want to get a good meal. I'm not promising that the Sutherlands will be there but I'll bet they'll be nominated by the ladies' aid society.
"The Disenchanted," a drama by BuddSchulberg and Harvey Breit, is enjoying success on Broadway, as probably most of you know. The central episode of both the book of the same name, which Budd published in 1950, and the play is reminiscent of a trip that the novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald made in 1939 to the Dartmouth Winter Carnival to gather material for a movie script. Budd was Fitzgerald's collaborator on that script for a Hollywood studio and accompanied him, in fact invited him, back to the alma mater on the fateful trip. Fitzgerald was about at the end of the line, as his glamorous career had almost destroyed him, by that time. He died a year later at the age of 44. Jason Robards Jr. has been acclaimed for his performance as Manley Halliday, the disenchanted.
John C. Sevey has been advanced to the position of investment secretary of the Massachusetts Mutual Inc. Co. in Springfield. John began with Massachusetts Mutual in 1935. An associate of the Life Officer Management Association Institute he is a specialist in common stocks, municipal and utility bonds. John is active in civic work, especially the United Fund appeals and the Y. M. C. A. He and his wife, the former Mildred Barker of West Springfield, and two daughters live at 23 Alderbrook Lane, West Springfield, Mass.
A judgeship in the Stratford (Conn.) town court has been given to Thomas B. Coughlin by governor Abe Ribicoff. Tom is a member of his own law firm in Bridgeport, is a graduate of Yale Law School and a former F.B.I, agent. - Monroe Greenbaum, president of the Lion Match Co., has been winter vacationing at Grossinger's famous hostelry in the Catskill Mountains according to the New York Times - Johnny S. Sullivan, vice president of the National Shawmut Bank of Boston, is running for election to the school board in his home town, Andover, Mass. - Milt Johnston, who has just been made assistant general manager of the Foodtainer Division of the Diamond-Gardner Corp., is moving to New York from Middletown, Ohio. Milt recently graduated from the advance management course at Harvard Business School. - George Conklin, vice president of the Guardian Life Insurance Co., writes that he's been skiing, "learning all over again" on the New England hills now that his son is in Dartmouth. - Physicist Dean Worcester has been keeping in shape on the ski trails - Walt Mertz and his family were in Miami, so was Ed Nilsson - I have a snapshot of Raphael Hillyer standing in front of Santa Sophia in Istanbul where he is on tour with the Juilliard String Quartet - Bob Tyler has just been made vice president of the Athol (Mass.) Manufacturing Co., makers of coated fabrics and artificial leather. Bob has been with this company for 22 years. He is married to the former Bertha Harper of St. Joseph, La., and they have two children.
The vice-president and treasurer of the Schorer Co. of Hartford, Conn., a firm that manufactures special machinery, is a fellow named Brint Schorer. Twenty years ago he used to tumble in the Harvard Stadium and the Yale Bowl when the Big Green cheer leaders were in town. Brint now has two sons in college. One son, Brint Jr., is in Boston University and is on the ski team there. Of son David, who is a freshman in Dartmouth, Brint writes:
I am proud of David as he was in the top fourth of his class the first term - his Dad went on Pro! He just bought a ski outfit and writes in his first letter since he returned from vacation that he loves skiing. As you know I have quite a reputation for loving Dartmouth and particularly her sports, but I have nothing on that son of mine. He loves his courses, his profs., his room, his fellow students, and Dartmouth.
I have seen Bob Keller this fall, and saw Howie Rogers who is very busy protecting moving money in New Britain. I am looking forward to the freshman's Dad's weekend on February 27, 28 and March 1, and hope to see the other '36 fathers there.
We still live in the same house, have the same '57 cars - Buick (46,000) and Austen-Healey (35,000 miles). I was on the special gifts campaign last spring as a worker, so I'm division leader on the last drive now.
Incidentally, one of the two classmates who are in the picture on the cover of our 1936 Aegis, shown sitting on the senior fence, is Brint Shorer. I'll bet Brint doesn't remember that. I've asked half a dozen classmates if they can identify the second senior on the cover, but to no avail. My guess is Bill Frick or Roger. Watson. What's your guess?
William J. Minsch Jr. '36 is division counselin the office of general counsel of the AtomicEnergy Commission. He first joined the Commission in 1948 as on attorney with the NewYork operations office.
Secretary, 16 Hickory Lane Darien, Conn.
Treasurer, 753 Upper Blvd., Ridgewood, N. J.
