1940
A letter from Korea announced that MajorBud Condit is attached to the 43rd Surgical Mobile Army Hospital. He is on a thirteen-month tour of duty, which will terminate with his return to the States in August. His duties are varied and keep him hopping. He is executive officer, adjutant, registrar, personnel officer, etc., of this 60-bed hospital located some 22 miles north of Seoul. The primary mission of the unit is to support the 7th Division and to give primary medical care to the First Corps, the Turkish Brigade, and other troops in the area. Besides a very busy work schedule, the existence is rather dreary. However, a bright spot was presented last December when Bud managed a twelve-day rest and recuperation trip to Japan and Okinawa. The contact with civilization was a welcome respite and he is looking forward to another short stay in Japan some time in April.
Gary Allen and his clan were much in evidence in the Manchester, N. H„ papers in early February. Gary, as an early ski tutor of Penny Pitou, was on the committee to welcome home the world's number one downhill woman's skier on her return from European competition. Three days later the papers showed a picture of young Tommy Allen, who took a first place in the Belknap County junior giant slalom event in the fifth and sixth grade group. Ike Weed's family was also well represented in this same picture for Teyck Weed took first in the grade three and four group and Joan Weed first in the seventh and eighth grade group.
Three members of the class have been made directors of important companies: Dick Funkhouser, who was elected a vice president of Ruberoid Company recently, was subsequently made a director of that corporation; Tom Nichols was made a director of the First National Bank of Peterborough, N. H.; and William R. Read Jr. was elected a director of the Torrington Company, of which he is a vice president.
The Class of 1940 continues active in the field of public service. Tom Braden, the editor and publisher of the Oceanside (Calif.) Blade-Tribune, was named to a four-year term on the State Board of Education by Governor Brown. Joe Sudarsky is a candidate for reelection for councilman in Hartford. Conn. In Springfield, Mass., Fred Pillsbury, prominent local attorney, was elected chairman of the new Board of Police Commissioners of that city. Although we are not familiar with the developments prior to the appointment of the new board, it would appear from the newspaper accounts that all was not well within the police force, for the job of the commissioners was "to restore confidence in and respect for the police department."
A long letter from Cliff Holmes states that he moved his family from Texas in June, 1957 to Chelmsford, Mass. He sold his music business in Texas and joined Raytheon in Waltham. He is working as a technical writer at the company's missile systems division writing handbooks for use by the Navy in handling, testing and maintenance of the Sparrow III, air-to-air missile. This missile is just now being deployed to the fleet with two of the newest types of fighter planes. In Chelmsford, the Holmes family purchased a 25-acre farm and Cliff is getting plenty of exercise trying to reclaim part of the land as useful tillage. Nancy and Eddy, who are both in high school, have started a full scale goat dairy. The family is the only steady customer, but demand seems to be sufficient from this source and both of the kids (no pun intended) have become real dairy experts. Cliff states proudly that the dairy is operating at a profit with no subsidies. Nancy is a junior in high school and has completed her early application for admission to Wellesley, which has put Cliff and Christine on notice that fund raising is now a family affair of the first importance. Christine has again begun to give a few music lessons and is teaching school on a full time basis at Westford Academy in the adjacent town. The superintendent there is none other than Lloyd Blanchard. Their two other children are ten-year-old Stacy, and Joe, a third-grader.
Lew Chesley, after being transferred from Rochester, N. Y., to Syracuse to Schenectady, is now back in Rochester. He is in sales with Taylor Instrument Company and thoroughly enjoying it. His family consists of one wife and two daughters, which keep him on the defensive.
Cec Moore is still busy with Pan American World Airways, worldwide sales activity headquartered in the Chrysler Building in New York. Wife Nell, sons John, twelve, David, eleven and daughter Joanne, nine, are leading a healthy and happy suburban existence. Cec has recently been elected Commodore of the Centerport Yacht Club and he is still active racing sail boats both summer and winter on Long Island Sound.
Bill Mercer was transferred from the Western Electric Company, which is the manufacturing unit of the Bell System, to New England Telephone and Telegraph last April as general plant supervisor. Effective March i, 1959. he became general plant manager for the state area of Massachusetts. Bill, Mona and their four boys recently moved into larger quarters in Wellesley, Mass., due to the need for more storage space as well as a room for Bill to hide.
Bud Smith has passed the Michigan State Board exams for professional engineers, a significant milestone.
Scott Rogers says that he is finally beginning to see the daylight in his new position in California and that the children seem to have adjusted very well to their new surroundings. Scott and Louise have seen John and Betty Crandell, also newly moved to California. Now that things are becoming more normal, he hopes to get together with Braden, Breech, Jacoby, et cetera.
Bob Austin reports that the family was blessed with the addition of a daughter, Lisa, last November 29, making a total of three girls and one boy. Another o£ his recent acquisitions is a 1907 Stevens-Duryea automobile, which needs a lot of work. If any classmates are mechanically inclined Bob could use their help to get the car ready for the 1961 reunion. At a dinner in Boston in conjunction with the Capital Gifts Campaign, Bob saw George Cutter, Howie Stockwell, Tack Fitzgerald, Maurice Williamson, Al Rosenthal, Larry Cate, Ron Woodbury, Charlie Tucker, Copper Nye and Joe Burnett. At another college function in Boston, the annual alumni gathering, Don Rainie spent a pleasant evening with Chet Brett, Al Rosenthal, Stet Whitcher and Gordon Wentworth.
Recently Class Chairman Hugh Schwarz was in New York on business from Florida and he, Elmer Browne, Jack Little and yours truly had lunch together, at which time we discussed preliminary plans for 1961 Class reunion. Although it is still two years off, we hope that all are making tentative plans to be on hand in Hanover at that time.
Arthur W. Ostrander '40 is the new vice president for sales of the General Metals Corp. of Oakland, Calif. He was formerly sales manager of the Company's subsidiary enterprise, Engine and Machinery Co., and will continue to hold this position also.
Secretary, Hemphill, Noyes and Co. 15 Broad St., New York 5, N. Y.
Class Agent, 524 E. 89th St., New York 28, N. Y.
