1932
If April is the cruelest month, as the poet says, October must be the kindest, bringing as it does a three-month accumulation of news items for the MAGAZINE.
From Cleveland Chuck Hall writes that their elder son Jerry was graduated from the University of the South and is entering Bexley Hall Divinity School at Kenyon this fall. Their son Tom still has another year of high school. Lee and Chuck have kept in touch with Mrs. Tommy Wollaeger and were expecting her to visit them with her family during the summer. Chuck says that his firm, Cleveland Hardware and Forging, has been merged with H. K. Porter, and as assistant sales manager he is finding it hard to get used to working for a big corporation. Come next February, he and Lee are planning a Caribbean cruise.
Al Childs writes from Dalton, Mass., that one of his daughters was graduated from Becker Secretarial School in Worcester last June, and in the following month immediately proceeded to get married. Attending the wedding were Ruth and Jim Ballou of our class, Ida and Ted Childs '30 and Joan and Henry Williams '40.
A card from Bill Davis in Maplewood, N. J., furnishes both a bit of wry philosophy and some news of his son Bill. Asked what he was doing to get rid of all the money he takes from Pope & Gray, Bill says, "Many years ago I developed the technique of spending more money than I earn, and the older I grow the easier it is to follow this procedure." He continues, "Our son goes to Harvard this fall. With Jim North's son in Yale, and one of Howard Elliot's in Princeton, it looks as though the latter is the only one with a chance to carry on tradition."
Martin Mutterperl writes from New York that his elder son Donald enters Dartmouth as a freshman this year. Martin and Muriel are now relaxing for the next four years until their younger son Bill will be ready to make his pitch for entry.
The unwelcome news of Bob Riddell's death over a year ago in Evanston, Ill., came during the summer, and your correspondent applied to Bob Ackerberg for whatever details he could obtain locally. The results of Bob's inquiries appear in the In Memoriam section of the MAGAZINE. He also very kindly added a bit of information about himself, as follows: "After sixteen years in government service, I made the break to private practice in 1957 and specialize in labor law. I have two daughters who are storming the citadels of higher learning, Joan being a sophomore at Ohio Wesleyan, and Susan a senior in junior high school. My other superior officers are a wife, Gerry, who participates in singing with local groups, and a small dog who occasionally shows great patience. I understand that John Wright and I are afflicted with an inability to control the golf ball, having grooved swings in which the groove changes with each swing."
Mike Cardozo, who has a sympathetic eye for your correspondent's news gathering problem, has sent some clippings from the Washington Post concerning Representative TomCurtis's battle in the House to bring the issue of home rule for the District of Columbia out of committee and into debate. In his speech on the House floor Tom accused the House District Committee leaders of nonfeasance and misfeasance and of making decisions for the House instead of presenting information for deliberation and debate. Close on the heels of Mike's contribution came an article from Parade concerning our fighting Congressman from Missouri. The gist of this was that a young St. Louis Airman, Johnny Rumphorst, was turned down for special language training at Yale because his father was a naturalized citizen from Germany and the Air Force considered it expedient to declare Johnny a security risk rather than spend money investigating his German relatives. Tom Curtis's fight to have the Air Force reverse itself in this case carried him through a bitter verbal battle with Air Force Secretary Douglas and finally an appeal to the President. Having won his fight for young Rumphorst, Tom said, "Round 2 in this battle will be to make the Air Force change its overall policy so this can't happen to other young Americans born of naturalized citizens."
From New York City we hear that Myron Isaacs has been elected President of the Hamilton-Madison House, 50 Madison Street, on the Lower East Side. He has been in the forefront in the fight against juvenile delin-uency for several years. In 1957 he was elected to the Board of Trustees of the 62-year-old settlement house and in 1959 was chosen its vice president. A New Yorker by birth, Myron served twelve years with the Securities and Exchange Commission, where he was associate general counsel. In 1955 he went into private law practice and is now a partner in the firm of McGoldrick, Dannett, Horowitz and Golub.
From San Francisco Carl Ward has sent us a clipping announcing that Dick Clark, vice president and account executive with Gerth, Brown, Clark & Elkus, has resigned in order to open his own agency. His firm, the Richard T. Clark Company, will be associated with North Baker Company for the mutual servicing of both agencies' accounts. Carl, who is president of the D. A. A. of Northern California and Nevada and works for the Paul Revere Life Insurance Company in San Francisco, unfortunately gives us no news of himself except to say that he wishes he were nearer to Hanover so he could get back once or twice a year.
One final reminder of our fall reunion in Hanover on the Holy Cross game weekend, October 14-16. Bonnie Oaks, our rallying point, is on the shore of Lake Morey, just off Route 5 about 18 miles north of Norwich. Hope to see you all there with your families for dinner Friday night.
Secretary, 341 West End Rd. S. Orange, N. J.
Treasurer, Valley Bank and Trust Co., 1351 Main St. Springfield 3, Mass.
