1939
We spent some time in Florida during the windy, cloudy March weather. While weekending in Palm Beach we ran into class of '41's Gus Broberg on the beach. Gus is a lawyer and part time traffic judge, and he filled us in on our fellow thirty-niners in the vicinity. The information was sparse. Not many of us there. Armed with the remains of a hogshead of gin, we went on an expedition. Visited Whit Cushing's art studio. Smelled of paint, naturally. Loaded with pictures. Whit works about 14 hours a day and still looks like New England, only transplanted. We learned that if he does a portrait and if the subject sits on her hands so he doesn't have to paint them, he knocks off about $150.00. Thought you might like to know this just in case.
Phoned Fuzzy Valier that evening in West Palm. Hogshead now kaput. Conversation probably brilliant. Fuzzy has five kids and runs, among other things, a beer distributorship with his brother. Everything seemed adequate. Retired.
Back in the great American midwest we played off-the-cuff host the other night (at someone else's house, albeit) to Louisa and John Egbert who had wandered up to Dayton from their home in Glendale (suburban Cincinnati), Ohio, to taste the gourmet delights of one of our chop houses. John seems to have reluctantly forsaken local politics for the more dignified pursuits of law practice with one of the reputable Cincinnati firms. Suggestively baptized with the squeezings from the above mentioned hogshead he entered into many altercations. John is on the Glendale Board of Education, and we might as well go on record right now to Eddie Chamberlain that he can relax on his admissions requirements, because we have it all taken care of at the secondary school level - John and I, that is.
From Middlebury College we learn that Chuck Grant will head the new teacher training program designed to interest and equip students in elementary and secondary school teaching. Chuck holds a degree from Pennsylvania, and a doctorate from Columbia. He taught at Kent School five years prior to Middlebury, was a captain in the Army Air Force during World War II, and is assistant professor of history at Middlebury.
The Lexington, Mass., "Minute Man" informs us that Gardner Ferguson is a candidate for re-election to his fourth term from precinct four and that he attended all of the meetings last year. The "Minute Man," however, fails to tell us what Mr. Ferguson is a candidate for. We feel, though, that he is capable, deserving of re-election, and that all of our Lexington readers should get behind him with support up to the hilt. He is a banker, has lived in Lexington for 35 years, has a wife and two children, and belongs to two column inches of clubs and organizations.
Bob Wehmeyer of Ft. Wayne, Ind., has been promoted to superintendent of agencies by the Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. Bob did graduate work at Harvard after graduation from Dartmouth. He has been with Lincoln since 1955. Dick Jackson's picture hit the Times on March 6. His eyes were piercing, his jaw squared, Grim Determination exuding all over the place. Occasion: He was named a vice president of J. M. Mathes, Inc. and director of its radio and television department. Dave Smith resigned as Air Force Assistant Secretary after nearly five years. The President regretfully accepted the resignation and thanked him for his "fine service and valued contribution to the Cordiner report and to the reserve activities of the Air Force." There are no particulars on his current plans, but we suggest, if time hangs heavy, that he read "From the Terrace." It's quite something.
A quick note from J. Vincens signed Johannes XXIV (papal lenten season had him scratching) with following tidbits: "Fred Doll is proprietor of Post and Paddock Restaurant and Bay Harbor Hotel - very swanky - Fred can't afford to eat there - on island, North Miami Beach, Fla. This advice from Jack Haverfield who sells intaglios for the Intaglio Co. Saw Ed Oppenheim at Dartmouth Club. He is vice president of Oppenheim & Co. of Oklahoma City, dealers in high grade bonds. Was in town covering market on convertible municipals."
Jack Coulson sent us the Joseph Kaselow column from the March 15 Herald-Trib featuring Toro's vice president in charge of sales and advertising, Bob Gibson. Gib's picture looked like Jackson's. They must use the same photographer - maybe the same face. Anyhow, the article convinced me that it is tough getting action shots of lawn mowers chewing up grass in Minnesota in the winter. It also carried the conviction that Toro management, in a highly competitive field, seems to be doing an exceptional job.
Kent Blatchford of Winnetka, Ill., has been made western advertising manager of Banking magazine. He resigned from ConoverMast Publications to take on the new job. He is married, has three sons and a daughter, was a navy pilot in World War II on the USS Ticonderoga and Hancock. And to add another sentimental detail, Kent, when I checked into Pensacola in 1942 as a cadet, the mailbox assigned to me in a "splintertown" barracks had your name on it. (It takes a memory to write this stuff.)
Dr. Paul Guilfoil Jr. is a physician at the VA Center, Wadsworth, Kan. He lives at 1127 Vilas St., Leavenworth. Austin Igleheart lives at 9120 Petersburg Rd., Evansville 11, Ind. Dick Morgan at 142 Pilgrim Dr., Warwick, R. I. Dick Ordway at 2012 Woodmont Dr. SE, Decatur, Ala. Bill Ormsbee, 85 Standley St., Beverly, Mass. Ralph Sperry, 320 Warner Hill Rd., Southport, Conn. Lt. Col. Arnold Alexander in theory can be reached at 45089, DSE, C & GSC, Fort Leavenworth, Kan., but I'd still recommend a stamp. Art Adler is vice president of Helene Curtis Industries, Inc. of Chicago. He lives at 2385 Egandale Rd., Highland Park, Ill.
Letters and old freshman themes are always welcome.
Gina and Diz de Sieyes '40, Joyce and Elmer Browne '40, Sally and Bert MacMannis '39 giveevidence that St. Croix, Virgin Islands, is a wonderful vacation spot.
Secretary, 1908 Coolidge Dr. Dayton 19, Ohio
Class Agent, 70 Pine St., New York 5, N. Y.
