1940

Bill Grimshaw gets top billing this month because of his long absence from this column. He is an important building contractor in Tulsa, Okla., having been ranked in the November issue of Architectural Forum as the 98th in the country from the standpoint of size. Bill and his wife are off for a vacation in Jamaica and a respite from their four children.

Dr. Lewis Lambert and family have made their move from Hanover to Sacramento, Calif. He has joined a group of anesthesiologists who serve a number of hospitals in the area. Not only will the Hitchcock Clinic miss him, but also the Hanover Fire Department which he served as assistant chief and doctor.

Pete Lamson has been admitted to partnership in the insurance firm of Fred C. Church & Co. of Lowell, Mass. He has been associated with that organization since 1942 and has headed their life insurance department since 1946. He, Lucy, and their three children live in Westford. Pete is president of the Lowell Day Nursery, chairman of the Greater Lowell Boy Scout Council, and a director of the Lowell Boys Club.

Hank Rosen continues to pursue strenuous outdoor activities. On a recent short trip of two months' duration, he visited North Africa and Europe and fitted in some mountain climbing. Having skied every slope deserving the name in the East, he now plans to test his resilient legs on the European ski runs. How he fits all of this in and still maintains a successful business making shoes and slippers is hard to see. The explanation probably lies in what he calls his "state of single blessedness."

Howie Wriggins is now Chief of the Foreign Affairs Division of the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress. His section supplies background information to Congress. The years 1955-1957 were spent in Ceylon making a case study of the problems of a newly independent country, both economic and political. This work was accomplished under a Rockefeller Foundation grant. Howie is now looking for a publisher for this treatise. Prior to Ceylon, he taught political science at Vassar College. Now the family, consisting of wife Sally, daughters Diana (9) and Jennifer (10), and son Christopher (7), are all living in Chevy Chase, Md„ about two blocks from John and Bitsy English.

Harry Howard is a vice president and director of Butterick Co., Inc. in New York City, publishers of fashion magazines and manufacturers of paper patterns. He, Lenore and their four children have recently moved to Hillsdale, N. J., from Englewood.

Stu MacPhail reports from Minneapolis that Dick Gray has his own manufacturing business and that he hopes to bring out a new door closure soon which will bring the world to his doorstep; that Bob Brooks, also in business for himself, is a retailer in the do-it-yourself field; and that Hal Wonsonis supplementing his successful insurance business with teaching.

John Faunce, who has been with the Aetna Life since 1946, has just been appointed a staff assistant in the secretary's office. His former assignment was superintendent in the casualty agent department. He is also an instructor at the Hartford College of Insurance and lives in nearby Simsbury.

Joe and Joyce Adams produced their fifth offspring, a boy, on January 18.

Tom Todd is head of the family printing firm of Thomas Todd Co., located in Boston and specializing in high quality printing. He has served on the school committee in Littleton for the past five years and is now its chairman. As in other communities, the job of keeping up with the increase in school age population is a real one, which in Littleton is projected at 100% in the next six years. Tom is also treasurer of the Horn Book, a magazine about children's books, and secretary of the American Congregational Association which runs a theological library and an office building. His children number three, all boys aged five through nine.

We met Bill Hall for the first time since 1938. He looks much the same except for his distinguished grey hair. He was in town for a convention of lumber dealers and seemed to be a big wheel in the organization from the conspicuous Committee badge that he was sporting. His lumber and hardware business in Bristol, R. I., appears to be thriving. He recently saw Bob and Lily Graham in Barrington and was introduced to their new son.

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

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