1941

It won't be long now before it will be time to dust the crumbs out of the picnic basket, clean up the beach umbrella and scrape the barnacles off the runabout that has been enjoying her peaceful winter slumber in the back yard. Boating fans like to rush the season a little by taking in the annual boat shows. At the "big one" in New York recently Bill Danforth was on hand displaying his company's collection of nautical anchors. Bill's company makes anchors from two and a half pounds to ten tons weight for all types and sizes of marine craft. It also maintains a permanent exhibit at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, which exhibit traces the development of anchors from the first crude rocks to the anchors of today.

I recently had the pleasure of having lunch with Doug Bridge. As Assistant Secretary of the Albany Felt Co. in Albany, N. Y., Doug is busily engaged managing the foreign department, keeping stockholders happy and supervising the credit aspects of his company's business. Two of Doug's regular customers are Russ Garfield and Lew Johnstone. Russ leaves his car at Doug's company garage when he takes western trips on behalf of the Ashuelot Paper Co. Lew's duties as director of purchases for the Champion Paper and Fibre Co. of Hamilton, Ohio, recently brought him to Albany to make a tour of Doug's plant.

Lew's accomplishments for his company recently merited him another promotion to that of the head of the recently formed pulp marketing department. His ascent up the ladder is meteoric. He joined, his company's general purchasing department in 1955, was named assistant director of purchases in 1956 and director of purchases in 1957. In his new capacity Lew will be charged with the development of his company's participations in the world-wide pulp and paper trade.

Doug also reported briefly on Don Hanks and Al Van Wie. Don is farming in nearby Salem, N. Y., and Al is in the insurance business in Troy. He is also doing some teaching at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Dr. Frank Munsey recently forwarded to me a "ditty" about the doings of the Munsey family. Frank is practicing pediatrics in Rockford, Ill. It must be nice for the Mrs. to just have to roll the "old man" out of bed when the four boys are bothered with a winter cold. The last one arrived at about Christmas time. Frank must have been psychic when he chose his specialty. He was in New York recently for a pediatric meeting. Last May he piled the gang in the car for an eastern trip, taking in Cape Cod and gorging himself with lobster, shrimp and clams.

Carr Wilson's mother recently wrote to me a very nice note about Carr's achievements in sunny California. Datex Corp. of Monrovia, Calif., has formed an Electronic Products Development Section. Carr, senior development engineer for this company, has been placed in charge of the new section. As head of this section, he will be responsible for the development of electronic digital data-handling equipment, including the application of transistors and new design techniques to data handling. Carr has had vast experience in the electronic instrumentation field. Prior to his Datex assignment he was with the systems division of G. M. Gianini as senior project engineer on specialized airborne servo systems. Prior to that he was with the Hycon Mfg. Co. of Pasadena, Calif., where Carr still lives. He is the father of a twelve-year-old daughter and two small boys.

Jack Orton was recently appointed Manager of Product Cost Accounting for the Large Motor and Generator Department of General Electric. Jack joined General Electric in July, 1946, on the Business Training Course, working in the Customer Billing Division until 1950, when he was assigned to the Traveling Audit Staff. In 1953, he was appointed Manager of Budgets and Measurements, in which capacity he continued until his present appointment. Jack, Anne and their two sons live in Scotia, N. Y.

The screen play for the Ernest Hemingway novel, "The Old Man and the Sea," was written by Peter Viertel at Mr. Hemingway's request. As part of his conditioning for the assignment, Pete had to live for a while in a primitive Cuban fishing shack and to spend an equal amount of time handling a native fishing dory, single-handed, against the turbulent currents and under the blazing 120 degree summer sun of the Gulf Stream. He surprised everyone by surviving this ordeal to return to New York to complete the script.

John J. Orton '41 has recently been made manager of product cost accounting for the Large Motor and Generator Department of the General Electric Co. in Schenectady.

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