1929
Our thanks to Ellie Cavanagh for the clipping from "The Springfield Union," of Springfield, Mass., which tells us that Mike Ferrini was recently elected president of Perkins Machine and Gear Company of West Springfield. He succeeds John Oakley, a founder of the company and its president since 1940, who died January 21. Mike, who has been vice-president and treasurer of the company, continues in the latter post.
John Parker Jr. '54 - many of his dad's friends will be interested to hear - was recently married to the former Judith Anne Colwell of Stratham, N.H., who attended Hampton Academy and Westbrook Junior College. John prepared for Dartmouth at Exeter, studied, after graduation, at Columbia and has served two years with the Army. They are now living in Cuxhaven, Germany.
From Heidelberg, Germany, comes word from. Larry Lougee, in reply to our Christmas note, that he also heard from Jack and Sue Hubbard and is already planning to meet them at the Eisenhut in medieval Rothenburg on the evening of May 11 and he hopes that other '29ers will similarly get in touch with him if they are going to Europe during this next year and a half as he will be mandatorily retired in September, 1961. Here, also, is an interesting quote from his letter:
I'll have to tell you of a rather odd coincidence that happened to us not so long ago. We were headed for Italy with the children and stopped in at the PX snack bar on the autobahn near Augsburg for a sandwich. The children were all wearing their red 1929 hats from the 20th reunion. A young man seated at the next table seemed to pay particular attention to .the hats. At last he came over and said "Would those hats by any chance be from the 20th reunion of the Dartmouth Class of 1929?" The children piped up "Yes." "What a surprise," he said, "to see those hats in Germany. You see I baby-sat for the children of '29ers at that reunion - I'm Bill Cassell of the Class of 1953"!!! We had a real bull session with Bill and he recalled the tent, the beer, John Brown Cook's bag of tricks and so on. Bill is a sportswriter with the "Overseas Family" and we often see his byline.
Many problems will have to be resolved when we return to civilian life; where to obtain civilian employment, where to live and so on, but Mary and I have learned from the Army to take things as they come. We have thoroughly enjoyed mixing our legal profession with the Regular Army. Government service has taken us to far-away places but at each new station we have made new and lasting friends. It has been a wonderful opportunity for the children to travel and to learn how others live. We have memories stored up for rainy days and a host of colored movies to help us relive our travels. I will recommend to any young lawyer a career in one of the military services as most rewarding in the breadth of practice, the opportunity to travel and the living with healthy, normal American families.
Too late to get it in the items in last month's issue about Bart Stoodley's book, we have learned that the book is dedicated to
"Helen, Barry and Ronny," his wife and two sons; both boys are students at the Wellesley Junior High School. In addition, we are most pleased to hear that Bart has just been promoted from associate professor to professor.
From Hanover, comes word that Karl Michael's swimming squad is having another good season and that Bob Monahan, in a talk to the Hanover Rotary Club, discussed New Hampshire's controversial Commerce Reorganization Bill and mentioned that ever since his initial criticism of the bill, calling it "the spoils system at its worst," Governor Powell characterized him as his "Public Enemy Number One." Bob went on to say that he still felt the original bill was "illogical" and was "intended to build up a personal political machine."
From the Portland, Me., "Press-Herald," comes this lead sentence "Thomas L. Maynard of Portland, ex-school teacher, former state representative and now a mutual fund salesman, announced his candidacy Monday for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate." After a twenty-year career in teaching, Tom is now district manager for King Merritt and Company, Inc., specializing in mutual fund investment securities, in Portland. He may be opposed, in the June primaries, by Maine Representative Lucia Cormier of Rumford who has not yet announced her candidacy. One of them would, therefore, be the probable opponent for Senator Margaret Chase Smith, now in the Senate from Maine. Tom was a member of the 98th Legislature, served on the legislative Education Committee and was a member of the Governor's Committee on Aging and the Committee on Educational Television. He is, at present, on the Portland school committee, is a director of the Portland Children's Theater, and is a member of the Portland city Democratic committee and of York Lodge F and AM, Kennebunk. We were also pleased to learn that son Elliott is attending Washington and Lee University and daughter Nancy is at Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia.
Dr. Gordon B. Smith of Rutland, Vt., veteran of twelve years on the school board, has announced that he will run for another three-year term. He was president of the board in 1956. After graduating from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in 1932, Gordon interned in Stamford, Conn., and returned to Rutland to establish his practice in his home town. In the Army from 1942 to 1945, he served two years in Europe with a medical company, won five battle stars in France, Germany and Austria, and was discharged with the rank of captain. He has been treasurer of the Vermont State Medical Society, and is a past president of the medical staff of Rutland Hospital. He is a member of the Rutland Medical, American Medical, American Rheumatism, American Diabetes, and the American Geriatrics Associations and he belongs to Rutland Lodge No. 79, F & AM.
Governor Robert Meyner of New Jersey recently announced that he would nominate Superior Court Judge Walter L. Hetfield 3rd, for a new term, which will grant him tenure until the age of seventy. Superior Court judges serve seven years for their first term and, if reappointed, get tenure. Sonnie has been assignment judge for Union County since 1957 and is the third generation of jurists in a family that has been associated with the law profession for 75 years. A County Court judge before being elevated to the Superior Court, he has served in the chancery division, as well as the law division, since being made a Superior Court judge.
An editorial from "The News," Cleveland, Ohio, entitled "A Modest Oberlin Prexy Talks and Acts," follows:
President Robert K. Carr's first speech to the Oberlin College student body Thursday was whimsically modest in contemplating his elevation from a professor at one college to president of another ("as one teacher whose bluff has been called") and the problems of self-education he expects will flow over him ("it may be that never again will so many Oberlin people be so uncritical of me").
He flattered Oberlin students, that their reputation, at least at his Dartmouth, was one of keen minds unafraid of college work. He asked the student body to try to take a larger part in the college's operation ("students today possess a tremendous asset which they are not fully utilizing ... in evaluating present programs"). It was a sparkling inaugural.
At least in his first two weeks, President Carr is not merely a talker but a doer. He has raised the Oberlin College tuition to $1,150 a year and will proceed to use the revenue to raise all faculty salaries around eight or nine percent. If there is a more pleasantly animated spectacle than a brand new, still young college president pitching into his new post, we fail to recall what it might be.
Ned Grant '30 (standing) demonstrates a few stock show statistics to the Denver Club.
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