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I can't agree with the author of last month's Feeney profile that just about anyone standing at the Inn corner in the early '40s would know "Chub" Feeney. Whether it is "Chub" or "Chuck" has become something of a cause fatale among Dartmouth men, and indeed one learned alumnus, if memory serves, wrote the editor of this MAGAZINE on the subject. I can't recall the final decision. Personally, I knew "Chuck" Feeney, and in those days he was pretty well known by that name around the Inn corner and across from the Inn corner, but since this column is written with posterity in mind, I must have some help on the matter. Please let me have a few thousand words on the subject — or even from the subject. Mean-while, congratulations to Charles S. Feeney for deserved accolades as a professional sports executive.
Arrival of Federal income tax forms in the mail reminded me that Don McCorkindale was recently elected for a two-year term as president of the Holyoke Taxpayers' Association - a group dedicated to promote efficiency, economy, and honesty in government, particularly in the local community. Plenty of room for that platform everywhere, Don. With a varied background in community activities including a chairmanship of the Holyoke Republican committee and membership in the Holyoke Industrial Association, Don is general manager of Chase and Cooledge, local industrial suppliers. Don had a year's teaching at the Fessenden School and later worked in Boston for another industrial supply business. His wife, Louise, and he have a son, David, three.
August Associates, a San Francisco real estate firm, recently announced that Jim Adams would manage its new San Carlos, Calif., branch office, now under construction. Before joining August Associates in 1957, he had been a sub-division sales manager for Oddstad Homes in Redwood City, Calif. Jim is married to the former Clarisse Davis of Spring-field, Mass., and he served both in World War II and the Korean War as a lieutenant commander in the Navy. The Adams have two children, Peter and Suzanne.
Northern New England's loss is Southern California's gain as the irrepressible Kelly Coffin takes Jane, Tristram, and David and heads for Los Angeles, where he will manage Connecticut Mutual Life's largest and most successful agency. Kelly leaves a very active career in Rutland community affairs, presently president of its Chamber of Commerce, and certainly an outstanding member of this class. I know how hard he worked on our behalf, especially the last reunion. The Los Angelinos are in for something when Mr. Coffin gets to town, and he may be just the thing they've been waiting for. All of us wish Jane and him health and happiness in the new venture. And stay awake on the Freeways!
Jack Behringer is another one moving to new fields. On December 1, 1959 he resigned as president of Diamond Hoosier Containers, which he founded in 1954 and merged this past May with Diamond National Corp. of New York. Jack plans moving to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., soon, but requests his address be kept temporarily at 702 Riley Road, New Castle, Ind. Keep us posted. Jack.
Our peripatetic Dr. Craig made a house call on Dick Kimber, now living at 3185 Colony Lane, Plymouth Meeting, Penna. - a suburb of Philadelphia and not far from my home. Publicity manager for an automatic timing controls company, Dick married an English gal, Pat, and is the father of three potential Dartmouth men - Robert, nine, Charles, seven-and-a-half, and David, four. I'd like to see Dick sometime when traveling down the Germantown Pike. Bob Craig also visited Jim Ewing at the University of Pennsylvania, where as a member of the psychiatry department he is doing important work in numerous fields of central nervous system research.
Don Crance has made his Economics major pay off with a citation by his employer, Lederle Laboratories of American Cyanamid Co., for outstanding performance during 1959. At a national meeting in Florida, top company officials presented the award to Don, who as a district manager supervises the distribution of new technical information on drugs to physicians. Don has been associated with Lederle since 1947 and makes his home in Topsfield, Mass., with wife Rat and children, Stephanie, Wendy, Deborah and Peter
New products division: Robert Ewing Behringer born October 20, 1959 to Glenn and Joan Behringer, 37 Beatrice Circle, Belmont, Mass Daniel M. Craig born November 16, 1959 to Robert and Gene Craig in Chicago. ... Congratulations to the parents!
Bill Wolf, still living in Mt. Wolf, Penna., is making a solid reputation in the retail lumber business as president of the Wolf Supply Company, York, Penna. His firm has locations in Gettysburg, Wrightsville, Mt. Wolf, and York, and if hopping around to these places weren't enough, he has managed extensive activities in trade associations, banking, and community affairs. His wife, Cornelia, and he have four children, Thomas, Andrew, Cornelia, and Henry. The Wolfs were at the reunion, but I must have missed talking to them.
Word has filtered through from Dorothy Kilgallen that Bud Clarke is helping revive jazz in Summit. This local combo is studded with doctors, lawyers, and business men and produces really good music. Their theme song: "At the Summit." Bud participates when he can break free from a busy medical practice and active family of wife, Diane, and sons Frederic, Charles, and Christopher. Ruth and I enjoyed being neighbors with the Clarkes on the top floor of Richardson last June.
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