1921
Business comes and business goes, but Harry goes on forever. For a long time it was tough going. And in more ways than simply business. Here is a story which should please Dave Bowen and Joe Folger, Ray Kelsey and Stan Lawrence, Hoy Schulting and Dick Hill,El Harper and Abe Weld. It's about HarryGarland. During the long time that the Keith Company of Brockton was on the skids, Harry remained faithful. Finally the Company discontinued entirely the manufacturing end of their business, and in 1951, after 28 years, Harry severed his connection. Good men are rare. The National Bank of Plymouth County snapped him up for their main office in Brockton and gave him the title of Credit Manager and Loan Officer. And now the sad second chapter. Badly crippled with arthritis for twenty years, Alice, Harry's wife, could not circulate in society, and Harry did not care to. Finally in 1955 Alice died.' Through an amazing coincidence a year or so later, Harry met a high school classmate whom he had not seen in forty years, a widow with no children, who had been living and working, unbeknownst to him in Concord, N. H., and (Doug Storer will accept this without even a BION) Harry and Mary were married. Happy together, they have with them Harry's children, Burton and Joyce, Boston commuters and both still single.
Businessmen come and businessmen go, but Gene goes on forever. This might be phrased: Gene McCabe retires. But he does not. Now nominally retired, Gene, former Vice President of the Eastern Marketing Division for Tidewater Oil Company, who since 1955 has been engaged in market development, is thinking of keeping busy as an oil-marketing consultant specializing in the purchasing and sale of oil distributing companies.
Diplomats come and diplomats go, but Ellis goes on forever. But not quite. It is true that as these 1921 classnotes head for Crosby, Ellis Briggs may be heading for Greece. What is certain is that Clare Booth Luce is replacing Ellis. Ellis is not likely to forget that all roads lead not to Athens but to Hanover where he owns a house with a view and a nearness to Baker Library and to woodcock country not without appeal to a literary hunter thinking in terms of shots heard round the world.
And Ellis is not the only 1921 house owner, Mac McMacken has bought the Gil Holden place on Cube Mountain with a stunning view of Moosilauke and ten acres of blueberry pasture from which through the culinary deftness of Roxy as magician, pies will emerge flakily crusted for her writer-husband, a future axe man cutting brush. The house has a large pine-panelled living room, some hundred-year-old hand-hewn beams overhead, and a fields tone fireplace. For the time being Roxy teaches mentally retarded adolescents at a special school in Havre de Grace.
Children may come, and children may go, but grandchildren go on forever. Frank Foster is especially grandfather conscious. His daughter Natalie, married to Buzz Giles '58, a graduate student at Tuck now being interviewed by big business through Don Cameron's office, will probably have made Frank a joyous grandpappy by the time you read this. David, a sales trainee with Bridgeport Brass in Providence, married to Glennroy Hope Webber of. Coventry, R. I., expects to make his father a grandfather next September. Still another of Frank's sons, Phil, Wisconsin State Agent in Milwaukee for the Providence, Washington Insurance Co., married to Nancy Brown of Providence, hopes for a baby also in September. Frank has a special interest in this marriage, for it was he, Father Frank, laid low in Mary Hitchcock in January 1956 with an appendectomy, who introduced Phil to the registered nurse taking care of him, and - you guessed it — the registered nurse 'is now Frank's daughter-in-law.
Red Kerlin being the man he was, 1921 will never forget him and will always remember Rowene. She refuses to retreat from life; on the contrary, she insists on keeping herself so busy that she has little time to worry about what she herself calls "a bleak future." She will not allow herself "to keep on being angry with the inheritance tax people and the laws so terribly unfair to widows and semi-orphans." Rowene gave in to her friends' urging that she take the captaincy of the 135-member Women's Golf Club. At her first meeting she had to ask for a raise in dues. "What a hassle!" Rowene exclaims. "I was shaking with exhaustion when the two-hour session was over, but I got the raise."
Looking the best he has for months, Abe Weld spent a night recently at the Hanover Inn.
Because his right shoulder started to lame up, Charley Johnson found that his bowling was dropping off about ten points. In keeping with his early vow never to become a hasbeen and a detriment to his bowling team, Charley has withdrawn. But he has no regrets. Unfearful of a rickety shoulder, his camera retains its skill; and its click has a music sweeter than the metallic clang of bowling bowls. For some years Charley has not been working for the Bird stationery outfit in Boston, owned and operated by the family of Roger Bird. When Charley became so exhausted that he simply had to ask for a vacation, Joe Leavitt '25 wanted him to take only a couple of months, but the months have somehow dragged on into years. With Al Googins '19, always a welcome friend at 1921 parties, Charley enjoyed his annual ten-day winter visit at Newfound Lake in February.
Werner Janssen conducted a symphony concert in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, recently. Cape Payson of Crescent City expects to be checked out this spring as cured from the throat trouble dating back to 1954, the same malady plaguing Bill Cunningham '19 except that Bill's is worse and also Al Dunn, Cape's roommate at Dartmouth. Luckily Cape has one voice chord left; and with scar tissue to bounce the sound off, he does pretty well with his loud whisper. He and Arlene (and here's hats off to Arlene as a letter writer) were glad to see at Christmas time Bob and Polly Mayo returning from the Virgin Islands. The Payson children are flourishing. Joe is with Lockheed on space research in Lompoc. Linda, who has a yachtsman as husband and two children, winters in North Miami Beach and summers on Long Island. Married to a state educational supervisor, Joan lives in Palatka, a mere 22 miles from her parents. Though only a college freshman at the time of the Korean War, the husband of daughter Frances, a medical corpsman, has received the Navy Cross. Badly wounded on his second patrol, he narrowly escaped death, lost his right arm, and saved most of his badly wounded men.
The sympathy of 1921 goes out to Mary Noyes, widow o£ Hank Noyes. Her daughter Polly was killed in a car accident near South Egremont, Mass., February 9. Mary may be reached at Kenwood Station, Oneida, N. Y.
Ex Exnicios announces the marriage of his daughter, Joan Wheeler, to Henry Norman Shadid, son of Namy Shadid. Joan was educated at Madeira, Foxcroft, and George Washington University; and her husband, a Marine veteran of World War II and the Korean War, was graduated from Catholic University.
Selectman Dolph Alger, returning to the political scene in Middleboro, is running for town manager. Should Dolph be called a political realist or a humorist? In explanation as to why he is back in the political fight again, he said in a public statement, "Of course my decision to run has been further strengthened by the fact that my opponent has joined with my supporters in urging my candidacy. I certainly wouldn't want to disappoint him."
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