1939

We made notes during a phone conversation with Jocko Vincens while briefly visiting New York the other day. Though a moonlighter with several avocations, he does manage to get around. And he does see people. For instance, in his role as a well-paid official of the New York Dartmouth Club, he saw Dick Durrance who was in town making a movie. Doubtless using the borax slide in Gimbel's basement. Then there was Don Bridge, currently sales manager for a hardware firm in either North or South Carolina. (Notice his reportorial accuracy.) Then he saw Henry Conkle, up from the same mountainous home of the candlewick bedspread. And Bruce Learned, with clipped moustache, living near Claremont, N. H. - better tell the Alumni Office just where. We have you in Pennsylvania. Also Herb Hirschland and Curt Anderson.

Then he told me about Moreau Brown being National Secretary of Beta Theta Pi. Browny had just sent me a card from Mackinac Island, but had failed to note why he was there. Beta Theta Pi, Jocko went on to explain, is a Greek letter national college fraternity pledged to enhancement of fellowship and other things, and to think one of our Very Own is its National Secretary!

Then Classmate Vincens charged into an unintelligible account of an annual summer orgy at a place called Gilgo Beach where met the Literary and Weenie Dunking Society comprising such austere class officers asRodg Harrison and Jack Coulson. Wives were present. Also Jack Haverfield, Walt Darby, Hugh McLaren, and — just back from Spain - Fred Doll. We are vague as to its purpose or outcome, but it happened.

Up New Hampshire way former Governor Hugh Gregg is making plans to hit the comeback trail. By the time you read this, the results will be known. But, in the planning stage our Class was in there pitching. According to the Manchester (Morning) Union Leader of June 16, attorney Fred Upton was appointed one of four co-chairmen to organize the Merrimack County "Gregg for Governor" campaign. Fred is a partner in the firm of Upton, Sanders and Upton. He is a member of the Concord, N. H., Board of Education, Navy veteran, married to Jean Thornton of Sewickley, Penna., and owner of five kids. (Jean, did you cross on the Britannic the summer of '39?) Then, later, on August 17, the Laconia (N. H.) Citizen reported that Bill Green, Manchester attorney and former Assistant Attorney General of the State of New Hampshire, had been appointed by the former governor as state vice-chairman of the "Gregg for Governor" campaign. This column eagerly endorses Gregg and hopes he made it.

Don Wheaton Jr. with the chemicals department of New York's Empire Trust Co., was made, on June 17, i960, a vice president of that formidable institution.

Col. Jim Feeley is now at Room 235, Marine Corps Air Station, Administration Bldg., Cherry Point, N. C. A year ago he was in the Far East. Prior to that he was in the office of the Naval Attache in the American Embassy at Oslo.

Columbia University has announced the creation of a new International Fellows Program designed to turn out a new type of scholar who, whether a doctor, lawyer or engineer, also commands a thorough knowledge of world affairs. The director of this program is Dave Smith. Dave has said he became convinced of the necessity of such a program while traveling on inspection trips as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force from 1954 to 1959. Ready to start this fall, the program is supported by funds from a group of foundations. Fifty fellows for the program have been named, chosen on the basis of undergraduate achievement, promise of leadership and interest in world affairs.

Creative director for Depicto Films, Inc. of West 54th St., New York, O'Brien Boldt lives at 178 Sherwood Place, Englewood, N. J. Col. Bob Loughry is now at 552nd AEW & C Wing, McClellan AFB, Calif.

We talked on the phone with Skip Morse the other day. He is Director of Purchases, Union Bag-Camp Paper, and he came up with a good idea. Why doesn't our Class publish a directory of classmates' businesses and occupations? Maybe we could help each other. For instance, if you need a lot of bags, you can call Skip. If Dick Durrance wants Bridgette Bardot for a location movie in Cuba he can write Jack Bowie, American Consul, NATO International Staff, c/o American Embassy, Paris, France. But, dispensing with levity, we would like to hear your opinion of the project - especially from Coulson, who would have to finance it.

The Ford Foundation Fund for the Advancement of Education has sprung for some money to try a televised course in American history at the University of New Hampshire managed by Dave Long, of the University's history department. If it proves successful, our kids can go through four years of college in their sacks.

Tom Foote of Easton, Penna., has been promoted to general sales manager of the General Crushed Stone Co. They have 48 quarries and plants in New York, Delaware, Virginia and Pennsylvania. He was formerly purchasing agent and assistant to the vice-president. He has four kids and probably an asphalt driveway.

Dick Brooks was in Dayton over Labor Day supervising a Jackson Twins float in a Boy Scout sponsored parade of some sort. We missed the whole thing - including Dick - because we were at Warner Kiefaber's mooching on his pool and quinine water. But when we returned, our garage door was plastered with Jackson Twins posters suitably and snidely autographed with digs at our defunct loyalty to the scouting program. And your poor planning caused you to miss a good party, too, oh Richard. Happy Thanksgiving.

Secretary, 1908 Coolidge Drive Dayton 19, Ohio

Treasurer, 15 Meridian PL, Huntington Station, N. Y.