1937

We would like to start off our column this month with word of a signal and most unusual honor bestowed on James H. Gray, who was named Georgia "Citizen of the Year" by the Georgia Association of County Commissioners. The award was presented to Jim in Atlanta a few weeks ago in the presence of Sen. Richard B. Russell, Lt. Gov. Garland Byrd and a number of other distinguished Georgians. While Jim is a native of Springfield, Mass., he has been editor and publisher of the Albany (Ga.) Herald for a dozen years or so. He presently is President of the Albany Rotary Club and a former president of the Albany Chamber of Commerce. The following words, written by a former editor of the Albany Herald, indicate the esteem in which Jim is held in his adopted state: "... no 'to-the-manner-born Georgian' is in more complete sympathy with the Southern ideal of forward-looking citizenship than the editor and publisher of this newspaper. He believes that the Southern people must find required solutions of problems which others are powerless to solve for us, though unfortunately there are many who, prolific of ideas but barren of the ability to make them work, will continue to trouble our waters and thereby intensify our difficulties. We can use more Jimmy Grays in the South. The one we had the good fortune to acquire half tempts me to wonder at times if blood is always as much thicker than water as the old saying seems to assume." Our congratulations to you, Jim.

We have word of several changes here and there. Will Brown (J. Willcox, that is) is reported to have resigned his post as Assistant Forester for the Society for the Protection of N. H. Forests. We hear that Will has a political career as his next target, but we have no details as.to his plans. Bud Butterworth has won a promotion at Hartford College to the rank of Associate Professor in English. After Dartmouth, Bud earned his MA. at Middlebury. He taught English and Latin at Kent School before joining the faculty at Hartford College. Many of you may have seen the children's book which Bud wrote in 1956, entitled "The Enormous Egg." We understand that he has another book already accepted and due to be published soon.

About the time we go to press, Fred Laughton will be moving his household from Natick, Mass., to Dixfield, Me. Fred has resigned from Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. to accept a position on the engineering staff of the Oxford Paper Company in Rumford, Me. Here is another man abandoning the suburban life for a more rural one, and looking forward to it. Bill Newburger has been promoted to the post of merchandise manager of the accessories division, G. Fox & Co., Hartford, Conn. Bill has been affiliated with this sizable department store in a variety of capacities for over twenty years. Dick Kraybill, who hit this column back in January when he was named editor of "Banking" magazine, was written up at some length in his local newspaper a few weeks ago. It seems that Dick was running for reelection to the board of education in his home town of Shrewsbury, N. J. We haven't heard from Dick as to the outcome of the election, but with his broad educational background as well as his teaching experience, he ought to make a fine addition to the board of education. A phone call from Mutt Ray confirms the rumor we had heard that he had left Underwood Corporation and is now Administrative Assistant to the President, Royal-McBee Corp. Not the least of the good features of his new position is that Mutt can now abandon the rugged life of a New York Central commuter, in favor of an easy fifteen-minute drive from home to office. Ah, me, some guys are real lucky.

Once again my little cache of news items is completely depleted. Dig out that blank questionnaire which was tucked in with Rog Allen's recent Mint Bag. Both Rog and I will be glad for any and all news items bits of gossip, idle chatter, or anything else you care to send our way.

Jim Gray '37, publisher of the Albany, Ga., Herald, show speaking at the dinner at which he was honored as Geogia's Citizen of the Year by the State's Association of County Commissioners. Inspecting his award certificate is Senator Richard B Russell of Georgia

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