1933
John Meek sends his regrets at not being able to make the annual Boston Association Dinner which conflicts with a trip to New Mexico. We'll miss him but give him A for being smart on his arrangement of his itinerary. He reports on the January meeting of the Alumni Council, a joint one with the Trustees and combining a celebration for exceeding the $17 million goal on the Capital Gifts Campaign. '33's Council members - Jack and Laura Masten, Page and Marge Worthington and Don D'Arcy (Muggs was in Arizona visiting Susan at school there and overseeing the erection of a small tepee we hear tell the DArcys are building there) - were in Hanover for the "doins." John says that Jack Masten, who has had to miss the last two years' meetings because of his illness, was in fine spirits and had a very good time. He had another pleasant experience with a surprise visit from Ed Foley and his son Jake, a sophomore at the Pingry School in New Jersey, both of whom were up to take a good look at the College. John and Jean had another touch of '33 a few weeks back when they "had a number of freshmen down to the house including the following '33 sons: Bill King from Richmond, Va.; Johnny Hicks, Palatine, Ill.; Bruce Coffey, Pasadena, Calif. Also, we had Chet Birch, son of Chet Birch '34, who is Johnny Hicks' roommate. Somehow the sons of golfing fathers got together - Hunter and Chet were both captains of the golf team in their respective senior years."
"How are ya fixed for" shoes? There's no need of any '33er or his kinfolk going barefoot as long as we have Max Field. Max is executive vice-president of the New England Shoe and Leather Association and is a national authority in the field. Our attention was called to him most recently in the January issue of "Leather and Shoes" in which his annual forecast was a feature article. In it are contained some interesting statements about this basic four billion dollar industry, which, in New England alone, is the fourth largest and accounts for 34.5% of total national shoe production. Max forecasts i960 output of 630 million pairs of shoes in the U. S. of which 217 million pairs will be made in New England. He figures that the predicted population increase for 1960 of 3.1 million will account for an additional 10-11 million pairs of shoes alone and that the total dollar value of retail shoe sales in this year will be $4.4 billion dollars. Exclusive of hides exported, this production will require in the neighborhood of 22 million hides. So, we shouldn't be without shoes and steaks this year. We've asked Max to use his good offices in having the prices on both reduced, with particular emphasis on steaks, so that they will show up as regularly at home as they do on those expense accounts, which Uncle Sam is threatening to watch so closely this year.
When Max isn't busy traveling or keeping tabs on shoes, he can be found with his fam ily in Swampscott, Mass., where he and Ruth live with their daughters, Jane (Brandeis '58) and Sally and son Richard. He has been president and a director of the Boston Trade Association Executives; a member of the Defense Orientation Conference in Washington; head of the Community Fund and Red Cross drives in the Boston shoe sector and active in many other civic pursuits. His hobbies are golf and photography.
Had a nice note from Larry Reeves indicating that he and Johnny Monagan (beg pardon - the Honorable) were busy making arrangements for a 1933 get-together at the University Club in Washington on February 16, which, thanks to them, comes during the annual tour of duty of yours truly at the Pentagon.
Another obliging and welcome correspondent is Dick Jackson who has just returned from a pleasant tour of the Caribbean with Helen visiting Key West, San Juan and Guantanamo Bay. We'll let Dick talk, "At Key West, I was fortunate in catching a sailfish in my first crack at this sort of deep-sea fishing. At San Juan, we met the lady mayor of the City of San Juan, who is a delightful person, and a number of Puerto Ricans who, while still holding onto the Spanish culture on which they were bred, are enthusiastic Americans and, I think, should be of great service to us (if we will use them) in bettering our relations with all our Latin American friends." This trip was followed by a week's tour of Naval Air Training Centers throughout the Gulf of Mexico. Dick speaks most enthusiastically of the exciting air programs being conducted and reports that the local brass are quite proud of "the youngsters flying and maintaining our hot jets." He had a chance for a quick visit to the famous King Ranch run by Mr. Robert Kleberg and was quite impressed by the racing stable and the Santa Gertrudis cattle, a cross breed of shorthorn and Brahma stocks, which weigh as high as 2900 pounds on the hoof.
Charlie Webster, who has been controller of the National Biscuit Co. since 1948, has recently been elected vice president for finance. Charlie joined Nabisco in 1933 as a clerk at the company's sales branch in Newton, Mass., his home town. Later he became assistant cashier there and then went on to serve as office manager - at a number of Nabisco sales and production units. In 1940 he was appointed an auditor and the following year was assigned to the company's general offices in New York City. He has remained in New York ever since and was named assistant controller in 1946.
Page Worthington, who serves on the Coordinating Council of Fund Raising Campaigns, Goodwill Industries, Baltimore Council of Social Agencies and the Heart Association, has another civic activity to his credit as the result of his recent election to the board of directors of the Baltimore Y.M.C.A. This news came from another source, but Page, in response to my inquiry for his new address (1215 Boyce Ave., Ruxton 4, Md.). had written earlier saying that "Ole Dad," Marge and Chuck ("our number two son") attended the Penn game and spent some pleasant moments with Bud and KathyKing. Says he and Marge ran into D'Arcy on a New York-Boston flight on their way to the Cornell game in Hanover and had expected to see the D'Arcys the next day at the game, but "their plans were fouled by bad weather, etc." Sorry, Page, that's not the way we heard it. Foul weather did enter the picture by way of forcing Don's daughter Jenifer and her husband to land at Providence, instead of Boston, on a flight from Toronto. Don and Muggs offered to meet the plane limousine bringing them to Boston "at the Howard Johnson's where Route One crosses Route 128," a circumferential highway that skirts Boston. It seems that these two routes meet twice and at each intersection of the two, there is a Howard Johnson. You guessed it, the D'Arcys went to one H.J. and daughter and husband went to the other. One H.J. is north east of Boston and the other south west, with about forty miles between. A merry chase and criss-crossing ensued with each couple finally giving up and taking off separately for Dover, N. H. The original rendezvous was scheduled for somewhere around 11:00 Friday night and the D'Arcys (very happy at this point) hit the sack at 8:00 Saturday morning with the younger generation arriving a couple of hours later. Lest anyone think this misunderstanding couldn't happen, you'd readily understand why if you lived around here. So sympathies to '33's modern Paul Reveres.
New addresses:
Leslie M. Huntley, Apt. 8, 8010 Owensmouth Ave., Canoga Park, Calif.; Edward P. Staudt, 321 Woodland Road, Morningside, Washington 23, D. C.; Walter L. Snead, C. L. Dietz & Co., 220 Virginia Ave., Indianapolis, Ind., and 7303 North Audubon Road, Indianapolis 26.
Secretary, 80 Mooreland Rd. Melrose 76, Mass.
Treasurer, Young and Rubicam, Inc. 2 Park Ave., New York 16, N.Y.
