1931

To plunge immediately into the Change of Status and/or Stratum department, Lindsey Hall, metal merchant of note, has been appointed manager of Alcoa's Chattanooga sales office, transferring from their Chicago office. His new address will be 310 Green Gorge Road, Signal Mountain, Tenn. Doug Morris again makes news, this time by leaving his post as senior vice president at Lambert & Feasley to join Warwick (Jack Warwick to you) & Legler as vice president of the drug divisions of this advertising agency. And this next item is in the nature of a Correction of Status, for Bill Steck tells me that I introduced an unnecessarily alien note into the Steck household at sometime this past year by referring to his wife as Mary. Actually it has been Betty since 1935, and who should know this better than Bill - and who am I to challenge the word of a husband who is also a lawyer. As a further conciliatory gesture towards Betty Steck's husband, let me report that his offices have been recently expanded from the 12th to the nth floor in the Terminal Tower Building, Cleveland.

Ernie (Jantzen) Moore, continuing in his role as our champion New England correspondent, reports several recent and dandy class encounters: A New Year's visit with Edand Peg Brummer, both of whom Ernie reported as looking wonderful after an extended vacation. It could be assumed - both erroneously and feloniously - that the Brummers were recharging their respective batteries in anticipation of their all-out project as reunion chairmen for our fast approaching Thumping 30th. The Moores tied up with Hank and Allie Johnson before the Dartmouth-B.C. hockey game, which Ernie described as "a real whizzer" (hockey game or get-together?); a lovely evening in New York with Red and Zor Gristede, in addition to some stay-fit bowling with Red and Charlie Schneider; a phone chat with Dutch Holland (phoning that Million Dollar Round Table bird dog is really asking for it!),; and a visit with Dr. Hugh Neely, whom Ernie reports as looking great and playing golf "Thursdays and Sundays twelve months a year." (Editorial note: Revolting!)

An exciting but not altogether unexpectedannouncement last month from the First National Bank of Chicago revealed that Gale Freeman has been elected president of this world's biggest bank under one roof. In connection with his elevation to the presidency, several feature articles contained such mellow insights into Gale's qualifications as "Enough warmth to melt a banker's heart," "Freeman who will turn a youthful looking fifty next week," "A slender man - no paunch - with a full head of wavy brown hair and bankers gray shaggy eyebrows." Gale explained his first connection with the bank in this way, "After completing a law degree at Harvard in 1934, I walked the streets looking for a job and this was the one I found." He progressed from the legal department to other of the bank's activities, becoming a vice president in 1951. For service to the government during World War 11, as vice chairman of the Air Force Price Adjustment Board for the Midwest, he was honored with the Medal for Exceptional Service. He is currently a trustee of-Northwestern University, of Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital, of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, is a former president of the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago, and is a director of the Container Corporation of America, Borg-Warner Corporation and the Chicago and North Western Railway.

Information from and about the Saul Sherman family revealed that Buck was recently elected president of the medical staff of the Stamford Hospital, his wife Ruth has completed the requirements for her Master's degree in Education, and son Stephen, a semifinalist in the National Merit Scholarships, has been accepted in the incoming freshman class at the College.

Ken Sampson has been honored with the presentation to him of a handsomely engraved scroll from the Brockton School Committee commemorating his twelve years of service on the board. An impressive statistic in Ken's record of committee service was that he attended every meeting and subcommittee meeting held during his twelve years of office.

Plan ahead—to reune in June for our Thumping 30th!

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