1930
These notes are being written quite ahead of the informal reunion in Woodstock, October 14-15, so that any account of the gathering will have to wait until the December issue, or be covered in a newsletter. We have just had the pleasure of taking our oldest son up to Hanover to begin his freshman year. Many things seem little changed since we matriculated, such as freshman beanies and the bartering and moving of secondhand furniture around the campus, while other aspects have changed greatly. It was interesting to note that our son is rooming about 35 feet from where his dad started in September of 1926. Among our classmates we saw only Bob Keene, Bob Pratt, and Charlie Widmayer; among other boys entering this year we saw Don Pratt and Dobbin Granger's son Dick.
Fran Horn, as president of the University of Rhode Island, had the honor and personal pleasure of conferring the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Laws on President Eisenhower on August 1, while the President was vacationing in the state. Part of Fran's citation said: "By your quiet dignity, your unquestioned i ntegrity, your deepfelt love of peace, and your wholehearted devotion to the welfare of all mankind, you have won the esteem and affection of the peoples of the world and you have become for them the embodiment of the noblest ideals of democracy."
As this issue hits the mails, it will be just about E-day. We hope you all will vote (or have voted) and that you will be pleased with the outcome of the elections. Nelson Rockefeller has campaigned from coast to coast for the Republican cause, and from the daily press, all must be fully aware of the extent of his hard work. Down in Penn-sylvania's 17th District, Herm Schneebeli has run for re-election to the House, after winning a by-election in April. We have read in the Gulf Oil Company's house organ a highly interesting account of that campaign and his subsequent activity upon reaching his seat in Washington. With no previous political experience Herm ("Say Shnay-Blee for Congress") won the Republican nomination over eight opponents, and the election. As a very junior Congressman he has worked hard and has been named a member of the Committees on Banking and Currency and on Public Works. He is reported as much in favor of letters to Congressmen, particularly if containing individual thoughts. If reelected, we expect he will be glad to hear from any of the individual thinkers in our class, even though not his own constituents.
John Sanders is reported to have taken a prominent part in the Republican gubernatorial primary in New Hampshire in which the incumbent, Wesley Powell, won the nomination over former governor Hugh Gregg for the second time by less than a thousand votes. If by now you think our political references run too Republican, let someone send in some Democratic news items related to our Class. We will use them.
Now let us recount several things that have occurred in the lives of classmates named William. In August, The Williams Manufacturing Company, Portsmouth, Ohio, announced the election of Bill Lucas as its president. He has been with this well-known manufacturer of women's shoes since 1932. Bill Fenton, Assistant Commissioner for the New York State Museum and Science Service, is on leave of absence to devote his time to the preparation of a general book about the Iroquois Indians of New York State. After his many years' efforts in the Indian Service, no one could be better qualified for this task.
Bill Swartchild is serving this year as president of the Chicago post of the American Ordnance Association. Bill has spent many years in the ordnance field, both as an artillery officer and as a civilian producer of equipment for the armed forces. Bill Fieldcamp, after many years on the Coast, has been moved to Cleveland where he now is assistant sales manager of the Eastern territory for Addressograph-Multigraph. His new home address is 3675 Traynham Road, Shaker Heights 22, Ohio. He writes that inasmuch as Manchester, N. H., is one of his ports of call, he hopes to get to Hanover again soon for the first time in many years.
In our own bailiwick, Judge Jack Keating recently acted as chairman of the North Stamford Old Settlers' Day and Jule and Ave Gould have just moved into a new house at 39 Hobson Avenue, Stamford, less than a stone's throw from their previous home. Kirt Meyer, still at Macy's, tells us his recently married son is working for the New Haven Register, after graduating from Allegheny College and serving his hitch in the Army.
Manuel Glass wrote for the Life Association News a very interesting story of his father's 50-year career in life insurance. Manny himself has been in the same field for over 25 years - and is a past president of the Hartford, Conn., chapter CLU and a former director and chairman of the board of the CLU Institute.
Win Stone was the August commencement speaker at the Bread Loaf Summer School of Middlebury College. Win is executive secretary of the Modern Language Association, has had a distinguished literary career and, you will remember, was a most effective moderator of the literary discussion panel which was an important and interesting part of our reunion last June.
Elizabeth W. Callaway, daughter of Heleneand Pete Callaway, and Linda A. Hobbs, daughter of Vera and Ranny Hobbs, are listed as debutantes of this social year. Ranny has taken a position with the Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1720 East 38th Street, indianapolis but has not yet moved his family westward from Darien.
Seen in the stands at the New Hampshire game September 24, were Dick Bowlen, Herb Chase, Pete Davis, Ed Brazil, Ed Jeremiah, Les Godwin, and Tom Dunnington and their respective wives.
Harry Dunning has been elected an executive vice president of the Scott Paper Co. All the distribution activities of the company, including retail, industrial and specialties sales, advertising, sales promotion and marketing research, in this country and abroad, will be under his direction. Harry was a vice president of the company before being promoted to the newly created position. Two executive vice presidents and an administrative vice president now compose a new executive committee for the Scott Paper Co.
Rollie Booma's son, Rollie Jr., recently was married to Miss Brenda Jane Bishop of Marblehead, and both bride and groom will attend Colorado College this year.
Horst Orbanowski has gained a considerable reputation as the skipper of his Atlantic Class boat "Ann" in racing on Long Island Sound out of Greenwich, and even though he may not sail home first in each regatta, we always find his name well up among the early finishers.
Our former secretary and assistant secretary, Dick and Gwen Bowlen, have moved from Detroit to 71 Greenwood Avenue, Keene, N. H. Dick has a new affiliation with Markem Machine Company and says the Bowlens are very happy to be back in New England. He tells us that Rog Ela's daughter Nancy won the light weight division and the sweepstakes of this year's 100-mile trail ride at Woodstock. This is a major event in the world of horsemanship in which she is an outstanding competitor each year.
Ted Childs is president of Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City, one of its older and larger private hospitals, and an officer of the Greater New York Hospital Association. In the past three years he has had a major hand in raising an additional $7,000,000 of endowment for the hospital, and in the building of a 14-story addition to the hospital's facilities, made possible thereby. He also supervised the arrangements for the hospitalization of General MacArthur earlier this year. Ted is tremendously in favor of the expansion program of the Dartmouth Medical School. He regards as most alarming, an approaching shortage of doctors for the next two or three decades. He has two daughters, who will both be attending Mount Holyoke this year.
Have a good Thanksgiving!
It looks like victory in November for Bob Monahan '29. Bob has secured both party nominations in his quest for the Senate seat of New Hampshire's Fifth District. He won the Republican nomination after a torrid campaign and the Democratic one by a write-in vote. In hiscampaign through the district, he rode in style in an ancient Packard driven by Dean Thaddeus Seymour. Bob has been State Representative from Hanover.
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