1950
Somehow the lack of hills around here makes the prospect of snow less attractive than elsewhere we've been and thought about a few fast runs on the boards. The fact that the white fluffy is good only for tossing around on a shovel is discouraging to all but the fuel oil dealers and muffler peddlers. Being neither, we'll invite your attention at...
THE HITCHING POST
On December 29 in Kenilworth, Ill., a few miles north of the Windy City, Jim Gregg married Caro Cragg. On hand to help direct traffic was Hugh Blower. The couple left the ceremony under an arch of crossed hockey sticks en route to Mexico. They'll live in Winnetka (175 Sheridan Road) whence Jimmie will commute to his tasks as steel buyer for U. S. Gypsum. Caro went to Northwestern.
RATTLE PRATTLE
Good news from the Philadelphia area was sent by Tom and Cynthia Ringe. On November 12 the Ringe younger set doubled with the arrival of Katie and Beth joining Tommy Jr. and Kirven. Welcome aboard, gals!
MISCELLANEOUS MUTTERINGS
Bob Karnan is a promotion co-ordinator with ABC-TV, Inc., in Los Angeles. . . . Rather prominent in a number of articles on the television industry has been the name of Don Hyatt who doubles in brass as director of Special Projects at NBC Television in New York and also as producer-director of "Project 20." After the very popular and critically acclaimed "Victory at Sea" series on which Don worked, he's been turning out such gems as "Meet Mr. Lincoln" and "Life in the Thirties." Imagine most of you have seen some of his work. Good, what? ... West Coast Injuns who have been wondering how Schlitz, Plymouth, and Philip Morris have been able to attain such voluminous sales records in the area need scratch their pates no more for it was all revealed and is hereby relayed to you; Dick Ribble has been used in some of their commercials! Gad zooks! He and Nan are both real estate brokers for any of the Fifty flashes moving into the region. Rib's NBC film production chores did not keep him from cornering Frank Gilroy for lunch to learn that Frank is father to twin boys writing screenplays for MGM (latest effort: "The Bull Halsey Story") and headed East this summer... for reunion perhaps? . . . Two more classmates involved with behind the evil-eye activities are George Johnson who's been working on films in New York and Dick Hollands who is another NBC-TV worker in Manhattan. Dick was admitted to the New York bar last fall and leaves Liz in Larchmont daily to cope with heirs Christopher, Steve, and Peter.
Tack Morton resigned his post as English teacher in a South Portland, Me., high school to go into lobster fishing with the Benson Lobster Company. He and his wife have a daughter and live at Shore Acres, Cape Elizabeth.
Tom Green is a physicist with Boeing Airplane Company in Seattle. . . . John Marson is assistant purchasing agent for the John Oster Company in Milwaukee. . . . Nev Chamberlain is a partner in the real estate firm of Currier & Chamberlain, Inc., Hingham, Mass. . . . Ben Johnson runs the Head Ski outfit in Baltimore and reports a nice fringe benefit: Squaw Valley! Brooks Boyce went to cheer the Badgers in the Rose Bowl and expects to be on hand for the Triumphant Tenth in Tune. It'll be an improvement!
On the subject of law Earle Putnam is a trial lawyer for the NLRB in Washington. . . . Doug Mann is an associate in the legal firm of Butzel, Levin, Winston & Quint in Detroit. . . . In September David C. Pendleton opened a Rome, N. Y., law office. Admitted to the bar in 1957. Stretch followed his American University training with O'Shea, Griffin, Jones and McLaughlin and last year was the city's assistant corporation counsel. . . . Don Hannigan was made assistant counsel in the law department of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance where he's worked since graduation. From 1951 through 1958 he was in the New York group field office as a claims rep. supervisor of group claims, and district service manager, and while there got his barrister's sheepskin from St. Johns. He has been in the training division of the group pension department back at home base since 1958 when he was admitted to the New York bar. Last May he passed the Massachusetts bar and now is a member of American Bar Association. He and his wife live in Westfield, Mass., with three daughters. . . . Clarke Nash has a new post as contracts lawyer with AMF in Washington where he also teaches at George Washington. Clarke and Sandy had a nice present from the Easter bunny a year ago, their first child, Martha Ann, bom March 29.
Jim Farmer's five youngsters will be a grand group at Lake Morey next June when they vacation there at reunion time. Jim hopes other clans will also be on hand, even if they can't muster quite as many troops!
Two wayward wanderers waft wonderful words from Wayzata, Minn. Say Jack and Lura Brodie: "We're newly ensconced at 13709 Wood Lane and trying to teach Ken and Nina Rothchild to buy G. E. lamps and forsake their evil bulb snatching!" Also just moved to the Minneapolis suburb Duke Duffy can be cornered at 3528 Rainbow Drive where he, Val, their son, and a large (what other kind are there?) Great Dane named Jonathan hang out. George switched to Cream of Wheat, bought a couple of policies from Northwestern National Life, and avidly reads the Minneapolis Star and Tribune since becoming an account executive at B. B. D. & O. in December. Presume we all get hot cereal for breakfast when the Duke arrives in Hanover next June 17!
Dick Leonard has been made assistant headmaster for the Searing School in Gotham.... Also roving East Side, West Side, is Dave Grinnell whose new sales post is with Becker & Becker Associates, industrial designers (phone PLaza 9-1678). The Grinnell griddle now fries an extra pancake for Suzanne who has been on the scene since last fall.
Charlie Wilkinson was promoted to senior underwriter at Massachusetts Mutual Life last November. He and Barb have three youngsters in Longmeadow, just outside of Springfield. . . .Ed Myers is the northern Illinois factory representative for the Mcculloch Corp. We'll have to pry into this a bit and learn what the wares are, though. . . . Cal Sia's third heir, Mike, just passed the yearling stage. Cal thoroughly enjoys his private practice of pediatrics in which he's been working for a year-and-a-half in Honolulu. ...Just east of Cal, about 5000 miles, Dick Tobin has joined a Seaford, Del., surgeon in practice. Dick, Judith (also a medic from Columbia), and five children will reside at 517 Hickory Lane. Maybe they can get together with the local cleric and his helpmeet, Jim and Biz Birney, who have about four youngsters, rent a Greyhound bus, and leave the driving to someone else on their return to Hanover for reunion.
Dick Frey has been appointed assistant vice president of Chicago's Lake Shore National Bank, managing the business development department. Dick joined the bank in July 1955, and has been an assistant cashier. Last August he married the former Mary Johnson of Oak Park, Ill., a Vassar alumna. In addition to his banking work, Dick also boasts a law degree from the Kent College of Law in Chicago. During the Korean War, he served in the Navy as a navigator.
Congratulations are in order for ... ... John Brotherhood elevated to vice president at the Hartford National Bank in November. Previously he'd been assistant veep for the public relations and advertising department there. John, his wife, and four little ones hang their hats at 24 Woodruff Rd., West Hartford.
... Frank Harrington elected assistant vice president of The Paul Revere Life Insurance Company and The Massachusetts Proctective Association Inc. in Worcester. He'll direct personnel activities for both firms for whom he has been southwestern sales region training supervisor in Albuquerque. He and Sally will bring two youngsters back to home base from New Mexico. A third child arrives in April, just in time to tend beer kegs for the tenth in June!
Hey, gotta scoot. Let us hear from you regarding your plans for getting back to The Plain!
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