1951
Pardon me if I'm brief and to the point this month, chums. It's a frantic fall and I'm home for one afternoon between a trip to check on the Senate race in West Virginia and a rush to climb aboard Lyndon Johnson's campaign train for a whistle-stopper South.
So let's begin with a good letter from Nathan Jacobsen, a prosperous Maplewood, N. J., lawyer who writes in to bring us up-to-date. The years for Nat have seen a four-year hitch in the Air Force, law school and practice with his late father, and the most recent census discloses wife Leila and two little girls as additions to the Jacobsen household. These days he's up to his ears in civic and temple affairs, and is having a little fun doing the law work for the Maplewood Lacrosse Club ("each year my salary is doubled so that now it's two times nothing").
Nat has heard that Julian Goldberg was married last winter in Louisville and concludes from a picture of the bride that she "will be an asset to our tenth reunion."
Foremost among other vital statistics is the birth on September 21, of Peter Adams Ellis to Susie and Dick Ellis of Wethersfield, Conn. He's the fourth little Ellis and, if memory serves me, they're all boys. One more for a basketball team, Dicker?
Lucy and Sam Chu are also pretty pleased about maternity events of late, for little Elaine Grace, their first, came along late in August. Sam has recently left his position at Bucknell ("we had wonderful visits from Jerry and Shirley Staton and Fritz and Eleanor Lord there") and moved to Pittsburgh to become an associate professor at Pitt. You'll find the Chus in their new home at 1015 Elizabeth Street.
And apparently Santa Claus will bring more than toys this Christmas. Youngster number three is due at the new home of the Bill Blodgetts in Janesville, Wis., about then - Bill's secretary-treasurer of the family's rye and buckwheat flour mill. And there should also be jingle bells on the crib for Joe Caldwell and his bride of last January at their new home in Manlius outside Syracuse, where Joe's in the lumber business.
Bob Closser and Ann (ex-Bradford Jr.) are expecting their third next April, and are pulling for a daughter to join their two boys. Bob's with Sherwood & Co (solvents and chemicals) of Kansas City, has his hands full teaching a Sunday school class of high school freshmen ("co-ed - romance is ever present and discipline is a real problem"), and is looking forward to jaunts to the Colorado slopes this winter with the Kansas City Ski Club.
WITH THE MEDICS: Don Clark who has taken his three-daughter harem back to New London, N. H., for private practice in internal medicine, after two years with the Navy in Key West, remark?: "Unfortunately, the Colby Jr. girls appear to be just kids now, though some of them are well-proportioned." ... Peter Dallman, doing pediatrics in Princeton, N. J., remarks that five-month-old Tommy "enjoys the academic setting and football games, but is unable to comment on either yet." The Dallmans made it back to Hanover for the medical convocation and nice visits with the Al Holts and Jim Cavanaghs ... and Cavanagh himself reports from the Plain that the Penn game was just great. Jim (three sons) is a surgical resident at Mary Hitchcock.
Pete Crowe, now at Meyer Memorial Hospital in Buffalo, figures he's "stuck in perennial surgical residency and bachelorhood, and both are wearing a bit thin by now," but passes the time golfing and flying and is looking for an inexpensive plane.... AaronRausen reports a stimulating time in his hematology research at Children's Hospital in Boston.... Jack Jacoby says likewise of his work, as a Harvard Research Fellow working on a cure for the heart attack at nearby Peter Bent Brigham.... Dick Kahn's also in Boston, in psychiatric residency, and has heard that Bob Sirkin is being married in October to "a lovely Canadian nurse named Wendy." ... Bill Jamieson has completed the military orientation course for the Army at Ft. Sam Houston.
OUR BANKERS PROSPER: Joe "Moose" Baiter is loan officer in charge of revolving check-credit accounts for the First National Bank of Boston and will be only too happy to look after your dough for you. Moose mentions that he's traveled in Latin America for the bank and is happily settled with Louise and a son and daughter in Westwood, Mass. From other financial circles, John Cook reports that he's currently assistant to the vice president of the Grace National Bank of New York.
From Hawaii, Bill Monahan tells of: "one wife named Momo; one son, 6, named Daniel; one daughter, 4, named Peggy; one champion Dalmatian named Kiko." Bill, who is supervisor for the Punahou Schools' Junior High and working on his doctorate in education at the University of California, mentions that Bill Brandfass was out that way on his honeymoon recently.
It was good to hear from Art Moulton, who got his A.B. degree from Rutgers, that he put in two years in the Marine Corps, took his LL.B. at Seton Hall, and is currently selling cotton goods for Deering Milliken in New York City — and the father of four daughters.... Ted and Ellie Davidson report a son and a daughter from Wilmette, Ill., where Ted's a shoring engineer for Patent Scaffold Co. of Chicago.... Andy Jones writes that he's a day laborer for an excavating firm in Salina, Kan., and is having fun replacing the clutch and transmission in his '54 Ford.... Hank Moyer has joined in forming the new insurance firm of Hirschfeld, Stern, Moyer and Ross in New York City.
And that does it — be back after election.
Secretary, 3632 Warren St., N.W. Washington 8, D. C.
Treasurer, 21534 Ellacott Pkwy., Warrensville Heights Cleveland 28, Ohio
